Nancy Pelosi wants to bookend her career on the world stage with a trip to Taiwan — whether the White House likes it or not
out of Tiananmen Square 31 years ago, the incident launched a surprising foreign policy approach that has pitted her against presidents of both parties and at times aligned her with conservatives.
“If you cannot stand up for human rights in China because of commercial interests, you lose all moral authority to speak out for it in any place,” Pelosi said in an interview this week. Pelosi has declined to publicly address her possible travel to Taiwan, citing security risks. But her allies say such a trip would be a legacy play for the 82-year-old, whose posture underscores the West’s evolution when it comes to the myriad national security and economic threats China poses, which Pelosi has warned about since her earliest days in Congress.
China’s grown more direct in its regional threats in recent days, stepping up its aggression in the South China Sea and its military provocations toward Taiwan. Against that backdrop, Pelosi’s potential trip has prompted deep concern from the Biden administration. Pelosi had only been in Congress for two years when the Chinese government in 1989 moved to suppress mass demonstrations in and around Beijing’s iconic Tiananmen Square, forcibly removing protesters and executing hundreds.of a resolution she helped lead to condemn China’s actions. She later clashed with then-President George H.W. Bush, who vetoed her bill aimed at shielding Chinese students studying abroad in the U.S.
At the same time, Pelosi helped lead a push to condition China’s trade status on its human-rights record. It was the first of several times throughout her career that she’d take on her own party on U.S.-China relations — including former President Bill Clinton, who resisted calls to downgrade China’s trade status and believed that expanding those ties would spur social progress in China.
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