House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband was sentenced to five days in jail yesterday and fined $6,800 after pleading guilty to causing injury by driving drunk in Napa County, California. However, 82-year-old Paul Pelosi will avoid further jail time after a judge credited him with the four days he spent in jail after his arrest and […]
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USA: On Friday in the House of Representatives the Biden program for Climate and Health
On Friday, the House of Representatives will vote to approve US President Joe Biden’s climate and health plan, as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced on Wednesday. In a letter to Democratic lawmakers, Pelosi called the $430 billion climate, tax and health care program, also known as the “De-Inflation Act,” “life-changing legislation” for Americans. It is […]
Xi Jinping’s Bet on Taiwan – What’s Behind China’s Unprecedented Escalation
Chinese President Xi Jinping may not have been able to stop Nancy Pelosi from visiting Taiwan, but he has ordered his country’s military to take a much more aggressive step, according to security experts: a blockade vital to seizing Taiwan by force. China’s military planners have long discussed a blockade of Taiwan, but until now […]
Pyongyang decried Pelosi’s visit to South Korea
The Pyongyang regime today decried US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to South Korea, decrying her claims of “deterrence” of North Korea during talks with officials in Seoul. The speaker of the US House of Representatives and her South Korean counterpart Kim Jin-pyo pledged on Thursday to achieve the denuclearization of North Korea, during Pelosi’s […]
Pelosi is gone, the damage remains
Of Costa Rapti What is the real America after all? The country whose leader just last week spoke for two and a half hours with his Chinese counterpart, clearly anxious to keep channels open? Or the country whose third-ranking statesman touched Beijing’s most sensitive “red line” just 24 hours later by visiting Taiwan? The country […]
China sanctions Pelosi for visit to Taiwan
China has decided to impose sanctions on US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her immediate family in retaliation for her “vicious” and “provocative” actions, the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced today. “Despite China’s serious concerns and strong objection, Pelosi insisted on visiting Taiwan, strongly interfering in China’s internal affairs, undermining China’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity, […]
N. Pelosi: The US ‘will not allow’ China to isolate Taiwan
The US “will not allow” China to isolate Taiwan, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in Tokyo today after a visit to the island that angered Beijing. Ms Pelosi, 82, who is making Japan – the last stop on her Asia tour – her first visit since 2015, traveled to Taiwan on Tuesday and Wednesday. Beijing […]
Nancy Pelosi in Japan
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Japan today, the last stop on her Asia tour that included a visit to Taiwan that drew China’s ire. AFP reporters saw the plane carrying Pelosi land at Yokota Air Base, near Tokyo, from South Korea. Beijing, which considers the self-governing island of Taiwan part of its territory, […]
Stoltenberg: Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan is no reason for China to overreact
China should not overreact to US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said today. “Nancy Pelosi’s visit is not a reason for China to overreact or threaten Taiwan or use threatening rhetoric,” Stoltenberg told Reuters. China fired multiple missiles near Taiwan on Thursday at its largest military training ground […]
Government: EU in line for ‘One China Policy’ – Concern in Europe for ‘ignition’
By Niki Zorba With bated breath, the whole planet is watching the developments between China and Taiwan, and the military high schools that the Chinese army starts around Taiwan today in a show of force after Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the island, a visit that “ignited” the fuse in Sino-American relations. The Greek government’s position […]