American officials have long stressed that Pelosi’s choice to visit Taiwan was hers alone, and not official U.S. policy. Experts now say that misses the point.
Now, experts say it's becoming clear that this effort missed the point. That's because schisms in Washington are effectively meaningless to the rest of the world, which has learned to view American presidents and their top allies in Congress as interchangeable stand-ins for one another on foreign policy matters.
that Pelosi and a congressional delegation of five other House Democrats planned to spend Tuesday night in the capital, Taipei, and meet with Taiwanese leaders and members of the island's legislature on Wednesday. On Tuesday, China escalated this rhetoric with a series of actions, starting with the announcement of new tariffs on Taiwanese goods. Shortly afterward, Reuters reported that severala major Taiwanese media outlet reported that the island's own military would be on heightened alertGiven that Pelosi is traveling aboard a U.S. military aircraft for the entirety of her trip to Asia this week, the quickly escalating military tensions between China and Taiwan carry especially high risks.
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