American President Joe Biden plans to speak tomorrow by phone with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping for the first time in four months, and the two are expected to discuss many bilateral and international issues, AP reported, quoted by BTA.

One of the topics of their conversation tomorrow is Nancy Pelosi's possible visit to Taiwan.

If that happens, Beijing has warned it will react strongly over its claims to the island.  

China's foreign ministry declined to comment on tomorrow's conversation.

However, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian reiterated China's warnings about Pelosi's possible visit to Taiwan.

"If the U.S. persists in advancing its own way, challenging what is important to China, it will certainly receive a firm response," Zhao told reporters at a briefing, adding that the U.S. should bear responsibility for the consequences. .

Pelosi's office has yet to announce when, if at all, she will make the visit to Taiwan.

The timing is extremely inopportune for such a visit due to heightened tensions between Beijing and Washington over the trade war, human rights and Taiwan.

China again with sharp warnings to the US if Pelosi sets foot in Taiwan

Biden does not have the power to ban a similar visit to Taiwan by the speaker of the US House of Representatives, but China's authoritarian communist government has chosen to ignore the separation of powers in the US, saying that Congress is subordinate to the administration of the US president.

From Beijing's perspective, the fact that both institutions are controlled by the Democratic Party reinforces the idea that somehow Pelosi is acting with Biden's support.

Biden told reporters last week that U.S. military officials thought it was "not a good idea" for Pelosi to visit Taiwan at this time.


The Speaker of the House of Representatives will visit Taiwan in August.

She was originally scheduled to be there in April, but that was postponed due to her positive test for COVID-19.

Pelosi will be the most senior elected US representative to visit Taiwan since Republican Newt Gingrich traveled there in 1997, when he was speaker of the House of Representatives.

Now Gingrich and other Republicans, who are usually highly critical of Pelosi, have encouraged her visit to Taiwan, saying China has no right to tell Americans where they can travel.