Nancy Pelosi will visit Taiwan on Sunday, the first mission of a US Speaker since that of 1997 by Newt Gingrich

The Taiwanese and Japanese media reported that US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will visit Taiwan on Sunday 10 April: Japan’s Fuji News Network (Fnn), for example, cited sources close to the dossier that Pelosi will lead a delegation to Japan on Friday ( April 8) to meet Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Sunday (April 10) for talks on the coordination of the response of the two countries to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

According to Fnn, Pelosi, who says she is concerned about a “change in the status quo by force” by China during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, will be the first Speaker to travel to Taipei since Newt Gingrich’s 1997 meeting with former president Lee Teng-hui: the move is bound to create a tough reaction from China.