Pelosi says US will 'not allow' China to isolate Taiwan

TOKYO - United States House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said today that the US will "not allow" China to isolate Taiwan, after her visit to the self-ruled island infuriated Beijing. "They may try to keep Taiwan from visiting or participating in other places, but they will not isolate Taiwan by preventing us from travelling there," she told reporters in Tokyo. "We had high-level visits, senators in the spring, the bi-partisan way, continuing visits, and we will not allow them to isolate Taiwan." Pelosi is on the final leg of an Asian tour that included a stop in Taiwan as she defied…