Germany Promises to Stand With Taiwan if Communist China Invades

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock warned Beijing against escalating tensions in the Taiwan Strait at the 10th Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in New York on Monday (August 1). She said she wouldn’t accept international law being infringed, nor would she accept larger countries violating international law to oppress their smaller neighbors, including Communist China.

Given Russia’s brutal war against Ukraine, she added, it must be made clear that the international community will never accept such behavior. After reports of U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s potential visit to Taiwan in early August, tensions between the U.S. and China have heated up again. China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Defense has repeatedly stated that Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan would be a gross interference in China’s internal affairs, seriously undermining it’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, recklessly trampling on the one-China principle, severely threatening the peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait, and badly undermining China-US relations.

Communist Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said at a press conference on August 1 that Communist China would take action, and the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) would not do nothing. According to Zhao, PLA will take resolute responses and strong countermeasures to defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Later on August 1, anonymous sources inside Taiwan told the media that Pelosi would arrive on Tuesday evening (August 2) and meet with President Tsai Ing-wen the next morning before moving on to the Legislative Yuan.

Pelosi, 82, is ranked third in the U.S. presidential order. Among the known countries announced for her trip to Asia are Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, and South Korea. If her visit to Taiwan takes place this time, it will be the country’s highest-ranking U.S. political figure’s visit in decades.

In April, it was also reported that Pelosi intended to visit Taiwan for the 43rd anniversary of the “Taiwan Relations Act” legislation. But before the trip, she tested positive for Covid-19, so the trip was postponed at the time.