Pelosi’s Taiwan Trip Gives Rise to Needless Tension, China’s Increased Military Spending, Analysts Say

Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan leads to an unnecessary escalation in relations between Washington and Beijing and gives China an excuse to further increase its military spending, professor at the University of Tokyo and expert with the Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research Kazuto Suzuki stated. “Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan is definitely increasing unnecessarily tension between the United States and China. There were already some actions for increasing surveillance of Chinese activities around Taiwan in the U.S. bases in Japan, and the number of aircrafts in Kadena Airbase in Okinawa is increasing to be…