STIRRING STRIFE? This photo taken on Friday, Aug. 5, 2022, shows US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (front center), US Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel (front left), US Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (front right) and other visiting members of the US Congress attending a plenary session of the Diet, the country’s parliament, at the National Diet building in Tokyo. AFP PHOTO
BEIJING: The political nature of Tsai Ing-wen and the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities were exposed by the clumsy performance of the visit to China's Taiwan region by Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the US House of Representatives, according to experts on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.