China's UN envoy said that such a visit by Nancy Pelosi should not be compared to the last time a US House speaker visited the island claimed by Beijing in 1997.
House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi will visit Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea and Japan in an upcoming Asia-Pacific region tour amid heightened tensions between the US and China over Taiwan.
The private rhetoric suggested a possible military response, the Financial Times cited several people familiar with the situation as saying.
The US House of Representatives passes the Covid-19 Hate Crimes Act with a strong bipartisan vote of 364 to 62, weeks after it cleared the Senate with nearly unanimous support.
Democrats use their remaining hours of arguments in the impeachment trial to lay out the physical and mental harm caused by the attack, discuss Trump’s lack of action as it unfolded and do a final presentation on the legal issues involved.
Nancy Pelosi, an 80-year-old lawmaker from California, has faced a scare when a handful of fellow Democrats defected and voted "present" during the floor vote.
Both Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and Communications Director Fahrettin Altun took exception with Nancy Pelosi's suggestion that Turkey was not a fully democratic state.
By a vote of 388-5, the House passed the measure, which was unanimously approved on Tuesday by the Senate. It now goes to President Donald Trump for signing into law.
Pelosi receives 220 votes for speaker while US Republican Representative Kevin McCarthy gets 192 votes. She will serve as speaker for second time.
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