【Comprehensive Report from Global Network Reporter Zhao Youping】The island’s media has intensively hyped that US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may arrive in Taiwan tonight. Taiwan ETtoday News Cloud reported on August 2 that Pelosi will arrive at Songshan Airport at 10:20 tonight. It is reported that she will stay overnight at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Taipei Xinyi District or the Marriott Hotel in Taipei Zhongshan District. According to the report, in response to this, the Grand Hyatt Hotel stated earlier on the 2nd that it “did not receive relevant information”.
Taiwan ETtoday News Cloud Report Screenshot
According to the ETtoday news cloud report, the Grand Hyatt Hotel said that Grand Hyatt is also very concerned about Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, but “I have not received any information until now, and I have confirmed with the business and said that I have not seen the list. If you receive a VIP stay, you will definitely need to know the VIP related information, and the security guard will be ready, but everything is normal in the hall at present.” In addition, the Marriott Hotel in Dazhi, Zhongshan District, Taipei, has not answered the phone as of the time of publication.
Presidential Suite at Grand Hyatt Taipei. Figure from ETtoday News Cloud
Taipei Marriott Hotel. Photo from ETtoday News Cloud
The report quoted news that 40 people in Pelosi and his party will be scattered in different hotels in Taipei City, and the Taiwan foreign affairs department claimed that “everything is kept secret.”
ETtoday news cloud said that Grand Hyatt Taipei is a five-star hotel in Xinyi District, Taipei. It has a history of more than 30 years since its opening in 1990, and has the largest number of 850 rooms and suites in Taiwan. In March of this year, former US Secretary of State Pompeo visited Taiwan and chose to stay at the Grand Hyatt Taipei. In addition, the Taipei Marriott Hotel once hosted the then US Deputy Secretary of State Clutch and the then US Secretary of State Azar in 2020. The hotel maintains privacy and will not encounter ordinary passengers, and its location is only separated by a river from Songshan Airport. It is only a 15-minute drive from the AIT Office in Neihu, and is “the favorite of American officials visiting Taiwan.”
The Chinese side has spoken out intensively in recent days regarding Pelosi’s possible visit to Taiwan.
At the regular press conference of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on August 1, a reporter asked: “You mentioned that ‘the Chinese military will never sit idly by’, can you explain in detail what this refers to? What might happen when Losey visits Taiwan?” Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said that Pelosi’s identity determines that her visit to Taiwan must be highly sensitive. No matter when or how she goes to Taiwan, she will seriously violate the one-China principle and the three Sino-US joint communiqués, seriously undermine Sino-US relations, and will definitely have bad political impact. If House Speaker Pelosi visits Taiwan, China will take firm and strong countermeasures to defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity. As for what measures, if she dares to go, let us wait and see.
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