Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Wednesday criticized US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, calling it “absolute nonsense”.

“Those who play with fire will not end well and those who offend China must be punished,” the chancellor said in an interview with Chinese state broadcaster “CCTV”, where he attended a ministerial meeting in Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh. Foreign Affairs of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

Wang also accused the US of “violating China’s sovereignty under the guise of democracy”. In addition, he assured that Taiwan, despite being supported by Washington, “would not change the international consensus that there is only one China in the world”.

The Chancellor also predicted that “the historical trend of the reunification of mainland China and Taiwan will not be reversed.

Cambodia’s capital is also home to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who will also attend the meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. However, bilateral meetings are not planned.

Pelosi has already traveled from Taiwan, where she is with the island’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, second only to US presidential successor after Vice President Kamala Harris.

The congress leader’s visit has escalated tensions in the region as Chinese troops are deployed in areas closest to the island, which have an autonomous government and have no official relations with the United States.