Restrictions on the US House speaker and family members come in response to her visit to Taiwan
Beijing has decided to sanction Nancy Pelosi and her immediate family over her trip to Taiwan this week, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced on Friday.
The US House speaker’s trip to Taiwan was an “egregious provocation” and because of this, “China decides to adopt sanctions on Pelosi and her immediate family members in accordance with relevant laws” of the country, the spokesperson said in a statement.
Pelosi traveled to the self-governed island “in disregard of China’s grave concerns and firm opposition,” the statement read.
Her visit “gravely undermines China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, seriously tramples on the one-China principle, and severely threatens peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait,” it added
Interesting, China waited until Trump was on his way out of office to sanction Pompeo/Bolton/Bannon… :thinkin-lenin:
I guess you’re hinting at the obvious, Dems are going to lose the midterms. But I imagine a part of the calculation also is how capable people in the executive vs legislative branch are or retaliating. Probably much easier within the executive branch since they actually implement sanctions and stuff. Pelosi might be able to whip her caucus into retaliatory sanctions, but the senate could block it, or Biden could just ignore her (and given that he allegedly hated this trip he just might).
If the Prisdent is Biden whats he going to do to stop Pelosi. Ask her not to go? He’s deeply unpopular he’s not going to threaten vetoing the few bills that reach his desk
