Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan trip puts US analysts and Democrats on edge

Experts and officials raise concern over timing of trip even as Republicans hail House speaker

Typically a plane crash is big news, whereas a plane taking off or landing is not news at all.

But the sight on Tuesday of Nancy Pelosi's US military aircraft touching down at Taipei Songshan airport in Taiwan - smoothly and without incident - was certainly news, and cause for a collective sigh of relief.