A billboard welcoming US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in Taipei. File photoBEJING, Aug 17China highly appreciates Russian President Vladimir Putin's remarks that US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan was a carefully planned provocation, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said at a briefing on Wednesday. Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed participants and guests X The Moscow Conference on International Security said that Pelosi's visit to Taiwan was not just a trip of an individual irresponsible politician, but a brazen demonstration of disrespect for the sovereignty of other countries, a carefully planned provocation. According to him, the United States once again deliberately tried to add fuel to the fire and stir up the situation in the Asia-Pacific region.The confrontation between China and the United States will lead to a crisis in the economy, according to the Foreign Ministry «China highly appreciates the position expressed by Russian President Vladimir Putin,» the diplomat said when asked to comment on the Russian leader's statements. He also noted that since Pelosi visited Taiwan, more than 170 countries expressed a fair opinion, reaffirmed their adherence to the «one China» principle, and supported China's efforts to protect its state sovereignty and territorial integrity.» President Putin's recent remarks that you mentioned are the embodiment of a high level of strategic cooperation between China and a manifestation of the consistent and firm mutual support of the two countries on issues affecting the fundamental interests of each of the parties,» he said.Chinese Defense Minister Calls Pelosi's Trip to Taiwan a FarceWang Wenbin emphasized that China is ready to continue to work together with the international community to jointly uphold the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, and peace and stability in the region and around the world. Pelosi's visit to Taiwan took place on 2- August 3, the first visit by a speaker of the US House of Representatives to Taiwan since 1997, became the highest-ranking US official to visit the island in 25 years. Official relations between the PRC central government and its island province broke off in 1949 after the defeated in a civil war with the Communist Party of China, the Kuomintang forces led by Chiang Kai-shek moved to Taiwan. Business and informal contacts between the island and mainland China resumed in the late 1980s. Since the early 1990s, the parties began to contact through non-governmental organizations — the Beijing Association for the Development of Relations across the Taiwan Strait and the Taipei Cross-Strait Exchange Foundation. : China does not believe Biden did not coordinate Pelosi's visit to Taiwan
