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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…
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