Track China’s response to Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan visit. Moneycontrol’s News Blog will keep you updated through the day.
– Amid China’s warnings, House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Taipei on Tuesday for a visit to Taiwan that pushed the friction between Washington and Beijing to a new level.
– Most of Pelosi’s planned meetings, including with President Tsai Ing-wen, were scheduled for Wednesday, a person familiar with her itinerary said.
– Pelosi has spent more than three decades in the Congress and has been a vocal opponent of China.
– In 1991, she raised a flag in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square to honour the victims of the violent crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.
– She is second in line for the presidency after Vice-President Kamala Harris, and would be the most senior US politician to travel to the island since her predecessor Newt Gingrich in 1997.
– She has led House Democrats for 19 years and previously served as the House Democratic Whip.
