Taiwan-China Cross-Strait Tensions

Taiwan’s Foreign and National Defense Committee Chair on Speaker McCarthy

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Wang Ting-yu, DPP Legislator and Convener of the Foreign and National Defense Committee at Taiwan’s Legislature, speaks exclusively to Taiwan Talks on the impact another U.S. House Speaker visit to Taiwan in less than a year, following alleged reports that the Pentagon is preparing for Kevin McCarthy’s visit in the spring. Wang details how there is no room for China to interfere in how Taiwan and the U.S. conducts its normal affairs. He also touches upon how China has been using the visit of former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as an excuse to conduct military exercises around the Taiwan Strait, including the large-scale de facto blockade it has been preparing for months in the waters surrounding Taiwan. Wang explains how China is trying to create a ‘new norm’ in Asia with its intimidation campaign of countries in the region. From sending PLA fighter jets into South Korea’s ADIZ upon the new of a visit to Seoul by U.S. Defense Secretary Llyod Austin, to the joint exercises with Russia near Japan’s airspace, to the daily incursions of war planes and ships around Taiwan.