Nancy polosi's visit is making a lot of people tense. Did she get approval for ifrom prisid byden? No. The opposite a well acton not even the opposite byden. What pelose heard was a lot of anger through the media about what us. Officials were thinking. White house officials, oh, why would we start another fight when we've got the russia hukrane thing going on and we don't want china to actually start helping russia in that fight.
China didn’t want Speaker Nancy Pelosi to visit Taiwan. Neither did the White House. Politico’s Alex Ward explains why she went anyway.
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan and Jon Ehrens, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard with help from Amanda Lewellyn, engineered by Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Noel King.
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