WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi launched a political career being tough on China. As a new congresswoman, she dared to unfurl a pro-democracy banner in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square during a 1991 visit with other U.S. lawmakers shortly after the student massacre. More than 30 years later, Pelosi’s interest in traveling to Taiwan presents a powerful diplomatic capstone. But it’s also sounding grave warnings at the highest levels in Washington and Beijing. President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping are scheduled to talk Thursday as the potential trip looms. Whether Pelosi stays or goes will be a defining foreign policy and human rights moment in her role as speaker.
Pelosi to Taiwan would be career capstone, despite warnings
