President Joe Biden says he expects to have a phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping soon. The status of Taiwan is among the most sensitive issues in U.S.-China relations, which were already at their lowest point in decades when Secretary of State Antony Blinken postponed a planned trip to Beijing last month over a Chinese surveillance balloon that was detected and shot down over U.S. “So even though this is a totally long-standing practice, I still anticipate that the PRC is going to have some kind of overstated response to what normally would not be that big of a deal,' he said, using an acronym to refer to the People’s Republic of China. “Things that used to be very small are now very big,” he said. policy of recognizing Beijing as the sole legal government of China, while maintaining unofficial relations with Taipei. says visits by high-level Taiwanese officials, including Tsai, are routine and in keeping with the long-standing U.S. Then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., with Tsai in Taipei in August.

Taiwan said this week there was no sign of any changes to China’s usual military deployment in the area, which includes sending warplanes toward the island almost daily.

When Nancy Pelosi, McCarthy’s predecessor, visited Taiwan last August, China responded with unprecedented live-fire military exercises that surrounded the island. “We are firmly opposed to this and will take measures to resolutely fight back,” she added, without saying what those measures might be. House Speaker McCarthy, it will be another provocation that seriously violates the one-China principle, undermines China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and undermines peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait,” the spokesperson, Zhu Fenglian, said Wednesday at a regular news briefing. A spokesperson for China’s Taiwan Affairs Office objected to any such meeting, which Beijing would view as an expression of support for Taiwan's independence.

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