The US will cease to exist if former President Donald Trump returns to the White House, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned New York Magazine on Monday. “Don’t even think of that,” Pelosi implored the reporter who asked her about the possibility of Trump becoming president again. “Don’t think of …
Read More »Pelosi is spared jail time
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-California) husband has dodged further jail time after pleading guilty to drunk driving in an incident that left two cars totaled and the other driver injured. Paul Pelosi was ordered on Tuesday in affluent Napa, California, to serve five days in jail and three years …
Read More »Xi asked Biden to prevent Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan – WaPo
Chinese President Xi Jinping asked US President Joe Biden to prevent House Speaker Nancy Pelosi from visiting Taiwan earlier this month, the Washington Post reported on Saturday. Although Biden insisted that Pelosi was entitled to travel as she wished, his officials were reportedly concerned about antagonizing China. Xi and Biden …
Read More »China ‘highly appreciates’ Putin’s stance on Pelosi’s Taiwan trip
China “highly appreciates” Russian President Vladimir Putin’s critical remarks about US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “provocative” visit to Taiwan, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said on Wednesday. Wang noted that Putin’s position reflected the high-level strategic cooperation between China and Russia and was a manifestation of the “consistent and …
Read More »Pelosi’s son who joined her on Taiwan trip holds Chinese tech stake – media
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s son Paul Pelosi Jr. is the second-largest investor in Chinese telecom firm Borqs Technologies, a recent Daily Mail report has revealed. The younger Pelosi did not publicly disclose his stake in the $22 billion firm before accompanying his mother on the taxpayer-funded trip to Taiwan. Upon …
Read More »China reveals why it thinks US sent Pelosi to Taiwan
Beijing has suggested that US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-California) Taiwan visit may have been part of a ploy by Washington aimed at creating a pretext to deploy more of its military to the region. In a statement made during his visit to Bangladesh and published on Sunday, Chinese Foreign …
Read More »China sanctions Pelosi
Beijing has decided to sanction Nancy Pelosi and her immediate family over her trip to Taiwan this week, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced on Friday. The US House speaker’s trip to Taiwan was an “egregious provocation” and because of this, “China decides to adopt sanctions on Pelosi and her …
Read More »Pelosi comments on Taiwan ‘isolation’
Washington will not allow China to “isolate” Taiwan, Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi has said, amid the flare-up of tensions in the region. China has staged a military drill around the Taiwanese coast in response to Pelosi’s visit to the self-governing island, which Beijing said was …
Read More »Pelosi’s Taiwan visit has shown China diplomacy doesn’t work – now all bets are off
In March of this year, Chinese President Xi Jinping chastised US President Joe Biden on Ukraine, noting that “it took two hands to clap” (a reference to the role played by the US in fomenting the Russia-Ukraine crisis), and declaring “He who tied the bell to the Tiger must take it …
Read More »Pelosi addresses Taiwan parliament
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi held a meeting with the deputy speaker and members of Taiwan’s parliament in Taipei on Wednesday morning, amid fierce protests and promises of “resolute countermeasures” from Beijing. “We come in friendship to Taiwan, we come in peace to the region,” the third most senior official …
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