The U.S. military is preparing a contingency plan for the possibility that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's planned trip to Taiwan could provoke Chinese aggression.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., together with other Democratic leaders, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 8, 2022., officially known as the Republic of China, is just off the coast of Asia's mainland. Taiwan has declared itself independent of the People's Republic of China and has claimed continuation of governance from pre-revolutionary China.
The United States does not have official relations with Taiwan but has been stepping up engagement with the island as China seeks to isolate it from global institutions. F/A-18 Hornet fighter jets are stationed on the deck of the US Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman, during a NATO vigilance activity NEPTUNE SHIELD 2022 on eastern Mediterranean Sea on May 23, 2022.
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