House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will arrive in Taiwan today, according to news media reports, defying threats of Chinese retaliation to make the highest-level U.S. visit in 25 years.
CNN and The Wall Street Journal reported that Pelosi will go ahead with the controversial trip. Pelosi's office declined to comment on the reports Monday.
China views Taiwan as part of its territory, though Taiwan sees itself as a sovereign country. The United States has long embraced a murky middle ground that seeks to support Taiwan without infuriating Beijing.
President Joe Biden said the United States would come to Taiwan’s defense militarily if China invaded to take over the self-ruled island.
China warned of unspecified "consequences" for visiting Taiwan as tensions escalate between Beijing and Washington.
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She already arrived apparently
Trade you nervous Nancy+ LeBron (China) James for some shrimp fried rice and four spring rolls plus four fortune cookies!! Bahaaaaaaa 😛
Haha, she’s already there. I saw her come off the plane on Taiwanese news already.
Bit late.. she’s already landed!
“What ever you say Nanc!”
Who said that?
Who’s really president?
Why, did all the good insider trading leads dry up back here in the states?
Investment Investigation
had to take the routing number for off shore bank accounts and sign some papers. All on the backs of tax payers to make herself personally wealthy.
Any chance we can leave her there? Just keep her. Please!
au moment où elle rend visite à Taiwan , elle n’est plus une personne privée, elle représente l’Amérique!
Sending 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏.
The US just pissed off AL Qaeda and China in less that 24hrs🤣🤣🤣🤣
We make a lot of friends around the world these days.
@B. N US is not about making friends but about showing their strength.
There may be some in this world that think they are in charge of things then there are those that show who is really in charge of things.
If it works for you.
We have our difference as parties but we are still Americans …. USA!!!
As bloated as our government is, you would think they would have people in dedicated positions to deal with foreign governments.
We could call them “diplomats”.
There is a time in the ‘free world’ were you have to show your guts and USA have just done that.
@Richen Richen I think you misspelled “greed”.
Are you saying your Pretendsident doesn’t have the guts to do his job?
@Richen Richen US doesn’t have guts anymore
The Chinese with thier empty threats 😂
“Their” honey. Learn how to properly spell then comment
@Mqmq Lu 😅
@Mqmq Lu It’s funny that you criticize my spelling when you made a grammar mistake in your comment. Oh the irony. Who cares honey, it’s the Internet?
Welcome to Taiwan 🇹🇼!
Dark day for the world as the witch plays games
Well seems USA will now fight to the last Taiwanesse for freedom and $, our risk all to a world war for chips, ver sad worl today
Middle of he night!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m glad she went but to arrive in the middle of the night is a win for China. Even an inch of deviation due to their rhetoric is a win for China.
Long live America. From India.
I hope Pelosi is at least sober. Embarrassing to watch her slur her words. I believe her husband has court appearance for DUI tomorrow.
I feel sad for this alcoholic couple. They both need rehab help.
Pelosi must be really strong
Urgent: In a precedent, the first of its kind, the veteran American policy that managed to break the blockade of Taiwan, Nancy Peulsi, announces that it supports democracy in Taiwan, in reference to “Taiwan independence.” So far, the Chinese Foreign Ministry refused to comment, but it was rejecting any separatist ideas.