House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan this week is a significant moment in her long career of advocating for democracy and human rights in Asia while pressuring China and its government in Beijing.
Second in line to the presidency after Vice President Kamala Harris, Pelosi is the highest-ranking American official to visit Taiwan in 25 years, since then-Speaker Newt Gingrich's 1997 visit to the island.
"Everything is stormy," Derek Grossman, a senior defense analyst at the RAND Corporation, told ABC News. "And from China's perspective, they see this as yet another example of how the U.S. will not stop pushing Taiwan to think and act for itself, which is exactly what they don't want." The statement continued, "Our visit is one of several Congressional delegations to Taiwan - and it in no way contradicts longstanding United States policy, guided by the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979, U.S.-China Joint Communiques and the Six Assurances. The United States continues to oppose unilateral efforts to change the status quo.
Pelosi wrangled Democratic and Republican votes to override Bush's veto -- embarrassing Bush, who once served as a top U.S. representative to China. The international incident cemented Pelosi's position as a chief China critic. She "has been a strong advocate of human rights for a very long time," Glaser told ABC News.
Years later, her positions even led to one of her rare breaks with President Obama and his administration. "If freedom-loving people don't speak out against China's oppression of people in Tibet, we have lost all moral authority to speak out against any oppressed people," Pelosi said on a visit to India and the Dalai Lama's government-in-exile.
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