China announced Friday that it will halt cooperation with the United States in a number of areas in response to the visit of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan, which includes the suspension of military and climate dialogues.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Beijing will take new countermeasures against Washington, including suspending climate talks, in response to Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, hours after it announced sanctions against the US House Speaker.

The statement explained that the measures include canceling future phone calls and meetings between Chinese and US defense leaders, the future dates of which have not been announced, and canceling annual naval meetings within the framework of the China-US military naval consultation mechanism.

China has also suspended cooperation on repatriation of illegal immigrants, legal assistance in criminal matters and combating cross-border crimes, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a press briefing today.

And it suspended its anti-drug cooperation with the United States, which has already soured in recent years. The United States blamed China for its failure to prevent synthetic opioids from reaching the United States as Beijing and Washington disagreed on how to address the problem.

China’s Foreign Ministry also said it would suspend climate change talks, a key area of ​​cooperation despite rising tensions in recent years.

The moves come after Beijing announced that unspecified sanctions would be imposed on Nancy Pelosi and her immediate family over her visit to Taiwan, and after she pledged during her meeting with Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen this week of continued US support for the self-ruled island, and while it intensified exercises. Military and incursions of warplanes across the island.

Earlier on Friday, China’s Foreign Ministry condemned Pelosi for what it called her “evil and provocative actions,” saying her trip to Taiwan amounted to “serious interference in China’s internal affairs.”

“US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has insisted on visiting Taiwan in ignoring China’s serious concerns and resolute opposition, earnestly interfering in China’s internal affairs, seriously undermining China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and seriously trampling on the The one-China principle is a serious threat to peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait. “In response to Pelosi’s evil and provocative actions, China has decided to impose sanctions on Pelosi and her immediate family,” she added.

This step means severing diplomatic relations with the United States as part of countermeasures aimed at responding to Pelosi’s visit, which Beijing considered a challenge to it and an infringement on its sovereignty.

During her Asia-Pacific tour, August 2-3, US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan, becoming the first high-ranking US politician to visit the island in a quarter of a century.

On its part, China has repeatedly warned the US side against this visit, and said that China’s response will be firm. The level of tension in the Taiwan Strait has risen sharply as a result of this visit.

It is worth noting that the official relations between the central government of the People’s Republic of China and the island of Taiwan were severed in 1949, after the defeat of the Kuomintang forces led by Chiang Kai-shek in a civil war with the Chinese Communist Party, and the defeated forces moved to Taiwan.

Later, commercial and informal contacts between the island and the Chinese mainland resumed, in the late 1980s, when, in the early 1990s, the two sides began to communicate through non-governmental organizations such as the Beijing Association for the Development of Relations Across the Taiwan Strait and the Taipei Cross-Straits Exchange Foundation.