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FT: China threatens US with a military response if House Speaker flies to Taiwan

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Oleksiy Yarmolenko
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Chinese authorities have privately issued a military warning to US President Joe Bidenʼs administration over a possible visit by the House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, to Taiwan. The US believes that these threats are much more serious than before.

This is reported by the Financial Times with reference to its own sources.

Six interlocutors of the publication, who are familiar with Chinaʼs warning, said that they are "much stronger than the threats that Beijing has made in the past."

China publicly threatened the USA with "decisive measures", but in the States they emphasize that in private conversations the Chinese allow even a military response.

The White House does not yet know whether China is making a real threat or teetering on the brink of war in an attempt to force Pelosi to cancel the trip.