US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi landed in Taiwan on Tuesday evening, defying days of increasingly stark warnings from China that have sent tensions between the world’s two superpowers soaring. China sees official American contact with Taiwan as encouragement to make the island’s decades-old de facto independence permanent.

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