Pelosi’s Proposed Taiwan Trip Wins Bipartisan Support

U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) holds her weekly press conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on July 21, 2022. Nathan Howard/Getty Images

U.S. Congress is rallying behind House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s potential trip to Taiwan in seemingly bipartisan unity as lawmakers on both sides urge her to visit the self-governing island democracy despite warnings from China.

The move has seen a rare intraparty rift emerging with President Joe Biden, who is wary about escalating tensions with China’s communist regime. Pelosi, the top congressional Democrat and the third in line to the presidency, would be the highest-ranking U.S. politician since 1997 to travel to the island of Taiwan, which China has claimed as its own in past decades.