More U.S. Politicians Set To Visit Taiwan

FILE PHOTO: Flags of Taiwan and U.S. are placed for a meeting in Taipei © Reuters/Tyrone Siu  

Reuters: More U.S. lawmakers set to visit Taiwan, defying angry Beijing 

TAIPEI (Reuters) -Another group of U.S. lawmakers will arrive in Taiwan on Thursday evening, Taiwan's official Central News Agency reported, the third such visit this month and defying pressure from Beijing for these trips not to take place. 

China, which claims Taiwan as its own territory against the strong objections of the democratically-elected government in Taipei, launched military drills near the island after U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi came in early August. 

The Central News Agency did not name the lawmakers who were coming on Thursday, saying only that they would arrive on a U.S. military aircraft at Taipei's downtown Songshan airport and would meet Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen on Friday.

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WNU Editor: No details have been released on who are these US lawmakers. This follows a recent trip by Indiana's governor .... Indiana Republican governor is latest US official to visit Taiwan (CNN). 

The response from China on all of these visits has been predictable .... US governor’s visit to Taiwan a toxic trend of US politicians exploiting cross-Straits tension; China to perfect normalized measures, prepare to take actions any time (Global Times). More here .... China makes serious démarches over U.S. official's visit to Taiwan region (CGTN).