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https://www.newsweek.com/china-summ...1730456?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
As a U.S. plane carrying Nancy Pelosi and other members of Congress landed in Taipei on Tuesday night local time, Nicholas Burns, the top American envoy in Beijing, received a late-night summons followed by a dressing-down from a senior Chinese diplomat over Washington's failure to block the House speaker's plans.
Xie Feng, a vice foreign minister in Beijing, called in Ambassador Burns and "lodged stern representations and strong protests" over Pelosi's visit to the democratically governed island, China's official news service Xinhua said on Wednesday.
China views Taiwan as its own territory, but exercises no jurisdiction over the island or its people, who largely welcomed the California Democrat's stopover, making her the first serving speaker to set foot in Taipei in 25 years. Pelosi is a long-time critic of Beijing's human rights record, and said during an audience with President Tsai Ing-wen that "America made a bedrock promise to always stand with Taiwan."