‘Hoopla and yellow journalism’: Taiwanese Americans bemoan media fearmongering over Pelosi visit

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'The narrative is, still, you need the US to come in and save Taiwan.'

But to Taiwanese Americans who have spent a lifetime grappling with the island’s strange geopolitical status, the hyperbolic tenor of the debate over Pelosi’s visit is indicative of how little most Americans know or care about the people of Taiwan.

The United States has long maintained a stance of “strategic ambiguity” regarding Taiwan. That policy, established in the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act, does not officially take a position on the status of Taiwan but offers it “substantial but non-diplomatic relations”, including military support. US officials rarely visit Taiwan – the last high-ranking official to step foot on the island was then House Speaker Newt Gingrich in 1997.

Drun warned that China would use Pelosi’s visit to “shift the blame of any escalation or actions they take against Taiwan on to the United States, for supposedly violating the [‘One China’ principle]”.Others hope that the Biden administration might be able to help create a new paradigm for the debate around Taiwan’s future.Albert Wu, a Taiwanese American historian based in Taipei, believes Pelosi’s visit is a “huge deal symbolically”.

Still, Wu is wary of how supporters of Taiwanese independence have shown a willingness to ally with certain American politicians based on their hawkishness towards China.

 

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