Taiwan visit caps Nancy Pelosi’s long history of confronting Beijing

    WASHINGTON -- More than 30 years ago, U.S. Representative Nancy Pelosi angered China's government by showing up in Tiananmen Square and unfurling a banner honoring dissidents killed in the 1989 protests. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOpgTzl0uq8 On Tuesday, as speaker of the House of Representatives, Pelosi disregarded China's fiery warnings and landed in Taiwan to support its government and meet with human rights activists. Pelosi's trip to Taiwan capped her decades as a leading U.S. critic of the Beijing government, especially on rights issues, and underscores the long history of the U.S. Congress taking a harder line than the White House in dealings ...

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