Pelosi’s ‘reckless’ Taiwan visit deepens US-China rupture – why did she go?

The speaker insisted she was promoting democracy but critics suggest a last hurrah before she loses the gavel in November

Roy Blunt lived up his surname when he said this week: So I'm about to use four words in a row that I haven't used in this way before, and those four words are: Speaker Pelosi was right.'"

The Republican senator was praising Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, the first by a speaker of the US House of Representatives in a quarter of a century.