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US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi denied that the military warned her not to make a trip to Taiwan after concerns from the Biden administration that her visit could cause a firestorm with China in a press conference on Wednesday. Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan on August 2-3 angered China, which called the trip a threat to Chinese sovereignty, and triggered a week of live-fire exercises by the People’s Liberation Army in the waters around the island. autonomous. In July, President Joe Biden said the military believed Pelosi’s unconfirmed trip was “not a good idea” as China ratcheted up threats of a...
