'No need to be so provocative, to jeopardize U.S. relations with a country of 1.4 billion people, the world's largest exporter, and holder of a trillion dollars in U.S. debt,' argues codepink's marcywinograd. 'Surely the speaker has a Zoom account.'
"A trip to Taiwan by the most powerful member of Congress undermines that long-standing U.S. policy and increases the risk of another war."As U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi departs Friday for an Asian trip that may include a stop in Taiwan, anti-war voices are sounding the alarm over a visit they say would needlessly provoke China during a time of already heightened global tensions from Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
In a joint statement with Jim Carpenter, with whom she co-chairs the foreign policy team at Progressive Democrats of America, Winograd noted that"since 1979, the United States—to keep the peace—has recognized the government in Beijing as the only legitimate Chinese government." "A trip to Taiwan by the most powerful member of Congress undermines that long-standing U.S. policy and increases the risk of another war," they added."Chinese officials have warned of serious consequences should Pelosi make the trip and the Pentagon is
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