From Tiananmen to Tibet and Taiwan Nancy Pelosi has a long history of confronting China


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Taiwan visit caps Nancy Pelosi's long history of confronting Beijing As Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi disregarded China's fiery warnings and landed in Taiwan to support its government and to meet with human rights activists. This is only the newest of her long history of criticising the communist party-led Chinese government, during her career in the US Congress. Visit to Tiananmen Square in 1991 Ms Pelosi had only been in Congress for two years when the Chinese government [cracked down on student-led pro-democracy demonstrations on June 4, 1989, killing thousands of protesters.](/news/2014-06-04/how-the-tiananmen-square-massacre-unfolded/5496454) Two years later, the...