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US House Speaker Pelosi lands in Taiwan

02 Aug 2022 11:06pm
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lands in Taiwan on Tuesday evening. - AFP file pic
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lands in Taiwan on Tuesday evening. - AFP file pic
TAIPEI - US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi landed in Taiwan on Tuesday evening, defying days of increasingly stark warnings from China that have sent tensions between the world's two superpowers soaring.

Live television images showed the 82-year-old lawmaker, who flew in on a US military aircraft into Taipei's Songshan Airport, being greeted on arrival by Taiwan's foreign minister Joseph Wu. -AFP

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