In a press conference after her congressional delegation's trip across Asia, the House speaker was adamant that China couldn't be allowed to 'isolate Taiwan.'
China, which claims the island as its own, saw the high-profile move as being inconsistent with the U.S.'s informal relations with Taiwan.around the island in nearly three decades. On August 5, the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced sanctions against Pelosi and her immediate family for what it called an"egregious provocation," although what exactly the measures would entail wasn't immediately clear.across Asia.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi speaks about her recent trip to Asia during a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on August 10, 2022. Pelosi dismissed China’s sanctions on her and her family as being “of no relevance whatsoever.”"We didn't go there to talk about China. We went there to praise Taiwan. And we went there to show our friendship to say: 'China cannot isolate Taiwan.' So that's what it was about.
Her No. 2 position in the presidential line of succession, however, added an additional, sensitive element to what was otherwise a common demonstration of the
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