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Indonesia calls for de-escalation after Pelosi’s Taiwan visit
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Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi being welcomed upon her arrival at Sungshan Airport in Taipei on Aug. 2, 2022. (AFP/Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
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ndonesia has called on the United States and China to de-escalate tensions in the Indo-Pacific following US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s controversial visit to Taiwan, which has angered Beijing.
“Indonesia is deeply concerned with the increasing rivalry among major powers. If not managed well, it may lead to open conflict and disrupt peace and stability, including in the Taiwan strait,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday. “Indonesia calls on all parties to refrain from provocative actions that may worsen the situation.”
Jakarta, seen as a de facto leader of ASEAN, said the world was “in dire need of wisdom and responsibility from all leaders to ensure that peace and stability are maintained”, adding that it continued to “respect the One China policy”.
Pelosi left Taiwan on Wednesday after pledging solidarity and hailing its democracy, leaving a trail of Chinese anger over her brief visit to the self-ruled island that Beijing claims as its own, Reuters reported.
China demonstrated its outrage over the highest-level US visit to the island in 25 years with a burst of military activity in surrounding waters, summoning the US ambassador in Beijing and halting several agricultural imports from Taiwan.
Some of China's planned military exercises were to take place within Taiwan's 12-nautical-mile sea and air territory, according to Taiwan's defense ministry, an unprecedented move a senior defense official described to reporters as "amounting to a sea and air blockade of Taiwan".
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