China wouldn't really shoot down speaker polose's plane, would it? Probably not polite. Why take the risk? I think of it this way, i know t's not a perfect parallel. But no, why even take that risk in south china sea? And or you're trying to do a subtle signal, tat like, hay, i'm going to visit tiwan. I'm not here to be probocinat towards, you china. If ch China and tiwan were to go to war, what would that look like? Most people hav sort of come out to in terms of war games as china would very likely win. The lot depends on
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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