House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) landed in Taipei, Taiwan, late Tuesday evening local time.
TAIPEI, Taiwan — US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lands in Taiwan despite China's threat of 'serious consequences.'The Biden administration opposed her trip out of fear it would further destabilize the U.S. relationship with China at a time when the U.S. is suffering from high prices of goods, supply-chain disruptions, and pursuing a green energy agenda, all of which the administration hopes it can work with China on as midterm elections loom.
Pelosi first planned to take the trip in April but postponed it after contracting Chinese coronavirus – a disease the Taiwanese government attempted to alert the World Health Organization about in December 2019 but was. She brought with her a delegation of Democrat lawmakers, although she had also invited at least one Republican member, Rep. Michael McCaul , ranking member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, who declined to go.
The trip sparked fury from Beijing, which warned of consequences. Chinese propagandist Hu Xijin threatened that China could shoot down her plane in a tweet, which he later deleted after Twitter locked his account.Republicans urged Pelosi to take the trip and not back down to Biden or allow Beijing to veto the travel of American officials.
Also with her on the trip are Reps. Gregory Meeks, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee; Mark Takano, chair of the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs; Suzan DelBene, vice chair of the House Ways and Means Committee; Raja Krishnamoorthi, member of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and chair of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform; and Andy Kim, member of the Armed Services Committee and Foreign Affairs Committee.
The trip also caps Pelosi’s career as an opponent of the Chinese Communist Party as she nears retirement, but could help distract from a string of bad press after her husband Paul Pelosi was recently arrested for drunk driving and for his stock purchases seemingly timed with congressional action.
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