U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defied China's warnings and arrived in Taiwan on Tuesday night for a meeting with President Tsai Ing-wen the following day, triggering immediate backlash from Beijing, which regards the self-ruled island as its own.A plane carrying Pelosi, the first holder of the powerful congressional post to visit Taiwan since Newt Gingrich in 1997, touched down at the Taipei Songshan Airport late Tuesday amid heightening cross-strait tension.She is the third highest-ranking U.S. official after President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.A U.S. congressional delega…READ FULL ARTICLE
