Gregory Meeks, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, was among the delegation on the list.
China believes that visits by US officials to Taiwan send an encouraging signal to supporters of independence on the island. Washington has no official diplomatic ties with Taiwan, but is required by law to provide the island with the means to defend itself.
A visit by Pelosi would be a significant, if not unprecedented, gesture of US support for Taiwan. Republican Newt Gingrich was the last House Speaker to visit Taiwan in 1997.
Chinese President Xi Jinping warned his US counterpart Joe Biden on Thursday that Washington must abide by the one-China principle and that “those who play with fire will perish for it.”
Biden told Xi that the US policy on Taiwan had not changed and that Washington firmly opposes unilateral efforts to change the status quo or undermine peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.