Nancy Pelosi in Taiwan: US House Speaker Arrives in Taiwan Defying Chinese Warnings; Watch Video
China sees official American contact with Taiwan as encouragement to make the island’s decades-old de facto independence permanent.
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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US Democrat Nancy Pelosi leaves the plane at the airport in Taiwan
The trip is the first by such a senior US official in decadeshttps://t.co/vSY0rSrunhpic.twitter.com/JeWGgzdEZ2
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