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Opinion Nancy Pelosi: Why I’m leading a congressional delegation to Taiwan

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August 2, 2022 at 10:52 a.m. EDT
Televisions broadcast news reports on US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan in Taipei, Taiwan, on Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022. The White House sought to dial back rising tensions with China over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s expected visit to Taiwan, insisting the trip doesn’t signal a change in US posture toward the island and urging Beijing to refrain from an aggressive response. (Lam Yik Fei/Bloomberg)
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Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat from California, is speaker of the House of Representatives.

Some 43 years ago, the United States Congress overwhelmingly passed — and President Jimmy Carter signed into law — the Taiwan Relations Act, one of the most important pillars of U.S. foreign policy in the Asia Pacific.