This go to to Taiwan underscores the excessive stage of bipartisan help for US-Taiwan relations and Taiwan is honest in its welcome to Pelosi and her delegation.

Speaker Pelosi’s op-ed within the Washington Publish illustrates why this journey to Taiwan is so essential and lays clear the motivation behind it.

She emphasises that her go to to Taiwan was to honour her dedication to democracy, particularly as Taiwan was ranked by Freedom Home as one of many world’s freest democracies.

Within the piece, she additionally notes that Taiwan is a pacesetter in lots of areas, such because the response to the Covid-19 pandemic, help for environmental conservation and local weather motion, promotion of peace and safety, financial dynamism, innovation and expertise.

Within the face of China’s rising risk to Taiwan, Pelosi clearly states that the USA should reaffirm its dedication to Taiwan underneath the Taiwan Relations Act and by no means permit any non-peaceful means to find out Taiwan’s future.

In no unsure phrases, Speaker Pelosi spells out that the USA should stand with Taiwan, the “Island of Resilience,” to advance the widespread pursuits of each side in order that the freedoms of Taiwan and all democratic societies are revered.

In current days, Taiwan has strongly protested and condemned China’s irrational and internationally unjustifiable threats towards Taiwan primarily based on its opposition to Pelosi’s go to.

China is trying to strain the worldwide group to desert its help for Taiwan by campaigns of high-intensity intimidation and retaliation to imagined slights.

Nevertheless, we are able to see that the extra strain China places on Taiwan, the stronger the worldwide group’s concern is over cross-strait safety and the stronger its help is for Taiwan.

Help from MEPs and G7

Certainly, on 3 August, the overseas ministers of the G7 international locations issued a joint assertion reiterating their help for a rules-based worldwide order and peace within the Taiwan Strait, and arguing that China’s army workout routines and financial coercion towards Taiwan have created pointless stress and threat within the area.

Likewise, within the days since Pelosi’s go to, over 30 MEPs have spoken out in help of Pelosi and Taiwan, together with the vice-president of the European Parliament Nicola Beer, who just lately accomplished a go to of her personal to Taiwan in July, and pressured that Europe mustn’t ever be late to behave with regard to Taiwan.

Michael Gahler, spokesman on overseas affairs for the European Folks’s Get together, said that parliamentarians from the democratic world ought to go to Taiwan frequently to precise their help for a democratic society and authorities in Taiwan and, extra importantly, not settle for the intimidation of communist regimes.

Equally, Reinhard Bütikofer, chair of the parliament’s delegation for relations with China, additionally emphasised that democracies ought to unite their efforts towards the Chinese language risk and known as for the EU’s Taiwan coverage to be extra attentive to Chinese language actions and to cooperate totally with the US.

The Republic of China (Taiwan) is an unbiased, sovereign nation. Taiwan has by no means been a part of the Folks’s Republic of China.

China’s frequent use of army power and financial coercion towards Taiwan will not be solely a risk to this island state’s safety, but additionally to the steadiness of the Indo-Pacific area as an entire.

Taiwan will proceed to strengthen its self-defence capabilities and financial resilience, and can assert its sovereignty and safety, whereas on the identical time enhancing cooperation with like-minded international locations to defend a rules-based worldwide order.

As Pelosi stated, Taiwan is an “island of resilience”. That can proceed to be the case. Taiwan will proceed striving to be a stabilising power for regional safety and proceed to carry aloft the torch of freedom and democracy, as a beacon, on the frontline towards authoritarianism.