USA: After their meeting in Taipei on August 3, US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen attend a joint press conference. “I am pleased with our delegation. Introducing every congressional delegate who has traveled to Taiwan, despite Beijing’s protests and Pentagon warnings, Pelosi remarked, “We are almost like a unit. Pelosi did not introduce her son, Paul Pelosi Jr., who was one of the group.
Republicans, many of whom supported Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, are now criticizing her for "secretly" taking a son on a trip that was promoted as a means to counter China's growing influence. went.
An "exclusive" article in the British tabloid Daily Mail claimed that Paul Jr. was one of the top investors in Borax Technologies, a Beijing-based telecommunications company. This article was posted by RNC Research, a Republican National Committee Twitter account whose mission is "to expose the lies, hypocrisy, and far-left policies of Joe Biden and the Democrats". According to documents submitted by Borks to the US Securities and Exchange Commission in June 2021, Paul Jr. Purchased 700,000 shares of Brox Technologies through the "Employee Benefit Plan". But in the SEC filing dated May 2, 2022, his name is not included in the company's 10 large shareholders.
Pelosi's deputy chief of staff Drew Hamill claimed in an email to the South China Morning Post that Republicans were "desperate to divert attention from an apparent investigation into the former defeated president." On Wednesday, FBI agents issued a search warrant at the Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida to search for missing classified documents owned by former President Donald Trump, some of which were allegedly linked to nuclear secrets.
Paul Jr. Borks owned less than 057 percent when it issued 700,000 shares as compensation in 2021, according to Hamill, who elaborates on the matter. Borqs successfully reversed its stock.
The number of actual shares today is 43,750, or 700k divided by 16. Since its founding in 2007, Borqs Technologies has been creating software and solutions for the "Internet of Things" and describes itself as a "global leader" in this field. According to the company's official website, the company maintains "research and development centers" in China, India, the United States and South Korea. The business introduced BeSmartTrack, a mobile smart tracking solution, in Taiwan in August 2020.
Paul, 53, describes himself on his official website as a "capitalist, lawyer and banker" who hopes to "change corporate governance" with a "fundamental, common-sense approach". Paul was not included in the delegation that Pelosi's office announced on July 31. When a reporter asked Pelosi, 82, if her son was a member of the delegation during a news conference at the US Capitol on Wednesday, she replied in the affirmative. She replied, "Yes, he was, and his job was to escort me. Usually, we invited partners. Not everyone could attend. But I invited them. And I was glad to see them there."
Throughout the trip, which also included stops in Malaysia, Singapore, Japan and South Korea, Paul was photographed with his mother along with senior officials and heads of state. Pelosi denied claims that his son had engaged in any business deals, saying, "No, he didn't. He clearly didn't.
The Daily Mail report was covered by Chinese media on Friday, and according to publicly available data from Weibo, articles under the trending topic "Pelosi secretly brought her son during a trip to Taiwan" garnered 440 million times Has been read. The article in Chinese state tabloid Global Times, which was shared by 55 other media outlet accounts on Weibo, said that Pelosi's son Paul Pelosi Jr. is "neither an official nor an adviser, but he has been involved with taxpayers' money." Tagged along with Asia."
"Per a decade-old policy, spouses and adult children are allowed to travel on congressional delegations for representation purposes at no cost to the taxpayer," Hamill claimed, adding that spouses and adult children were never used. Not mentioned in the press release. Beijing issued vague sanctions against Pelosi and her close family members last week in response to the visit.
Republican Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana recently criticized Pelosi for not inviting any Republican members of the House to join him in Taiwan. He told Fox News that Kevin McCarthy, the top House Republican, would have been present "if he really wanted to show strength from the United States." "The Pelosi Show was about him." Pelosi invited Texas Representative Michael McCall, the senior Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, but had to decline because of personal obligations, he told NBC News.
Republican Senators Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Richard Burr of North Carolina, Robert Portman of Ohio and with Republican Representative Ronny Jackson of Texas, were part of a delegation to Taiwan in April that was led by Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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