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US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Did Nancy Pelosi accelerate Chinese-Russian military cooperation with her Taiwan visit?

China had warned of ‘serious consequences’ in the lead-up to the visit but has avoided any significant military escalation so far

The exercises will take place in multiple zones around Taiwan. Photo: Héctor Retamal/AFP/Getty Images

China begins major Taiwan military drills after Pelosi visit

Pelosi left Taiwan Wednesday after a trip that defied a series of stark threats from Beijing, which views the self-ruled island as its territory.

Speaker of the U.S. House Of Representatives Nancy Pelosi  arrives at the Legislative Yuan, Taiwan’s house of parliament, on August 03, 2022 in Taipei, Taiwan. Pelosi arrived in Taiwan on Tuesday as part of a tour of Asia aimed at reassuring allies in the region, as China made it clear that her visit to Taiwan would be seen in a negative light. (Photo by Annabelle Chih/Getty Images)

Can the US actually defend Taiwan?

China’s President Xi Jinping warned the US that it was ‘playing with fire’ over the speaker of the house of representatives Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan

A pro-China supporter steps on a defaced photo of US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi during a protest against her visit to Taiwan outside the Consulate General of the United States on August 03, 2022 in Hong Kong, China. (Photo by Anthony Kwan/Getty Images)

Why Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan puts the White House in delicate straits of diplomacy with China

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Taiwan on August 2 2022 – a highly controversial trip that has been strongly opposed by China.

United States President Donald Trump.  (Qassem Soleimani)

The Democrats have a cunning plan to get Trump re-elected

The bid to impeach the president failed, Iowa was a disaster and Adam Schiff is a PR nightmare

US President Donald Trump. (Reuters)

The whistle-blower, impeachment and Trump phone call: What we know

This is what we know about the affair launched by a complaint from a mysterious whistle-blower in the US intelligence community

US President Donald Trump (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

Trump walks out on Democrats as impeachment talk heats up

A livid Trump abruptly shut down a White House meeting with Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer

US President Donald Trump delivers a State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the US Capitol. Democrat lawmakers dressed in suffragette white. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Democrat women in solidarity at Trump address

The women in white sat en bloc Tuesday in unmistakable defiance of President Donald Trump while he delivered his State of the Union address

“I think it’d be very hard to deal if they do violence, I mean, if it’s another Tiananmen Square,” United States President Donald Trump told reporters in New Jersey on Sunday. (Zach Gibson/Bloomberg/Getty)

Trumps delays State of the Union speech until government shutdown ends

President Trump backed down late on Wednesday in a spat with Democrats over his State of the Union address

US President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable discussion on border security at the White House. (Zach Gibson/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

US government shutdown breaks record as eyes remain on Trump

The partial shutdown has reached a 24-day impasse, and the question in the air is will the president declare a national emergency?

US President Donald Trump (Kevin Dietsch/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Stop holding Americans ‘hostage’ over shutdown, Pelosi tells Trump

The political impasse over Trump’s border wall demand has kept key government agencies closed for the past 18 days

‘I’m proud to be the nominee of the House Democratic caucus once again for speaker of the House,’ Pelosi told reporters as votes were being counted. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters)

Nancy Pelosi: Former US House speaker set to reclaim gavel

Keeping Donald Trump in check will be among the California Democrat’s top challenges as she presides over the House of Representatives

Trump has made Iran a favourite target since his rapprochement with nuclear-armed North Korea. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

US govt lurches to shutdown as Trump, Democrats spar over wall

Fears of a shutdown — which could send thousands of federal employees home without pay just before Christmas — helped send US stocks tumbling

US President Donald Trump speaks next to Vice President Mike Pence while meeting with Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi at the White House in Washington, US, December 11 2018. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

Trump, Pelosi, Schumer openly spar over border wall

US president repeats threat to shut down the government if Democrats don’t agree to fund wall on southern border

‘I’m proud to be the nominee of the House Democratic caucus once again for speaker of the House,’ Pelosi told reporters as votes were being counted. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters)

Democrats nominate Pelosi to reclaim US House speaker role

​Nancy Pelosi is seeking to reclaim the gavel that she first wielded a dozen years ago when she became the first female speaker of the House

China paying ‘close attention’ to Africa famine

China has said it was paying "close attention" to a disastrous famine in the Horn of Africa after top US House Democrat urged it to do more.

Top US democrat under fire over ‘torture’ briefings

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has come under fire over whether she has long known about harsh interrogation tactics used in Bush’s ”war on terror”.

Obama faces Republican rancour as economy reels

Barack Obama enters his first full week in office on Monday battling to win over Republicans hostile to his plan to haul the US out of recession.

US Congress gets its own YouTube sites

The US Congress is launching official YouTube channels where members of the House and Senate can create videos of floor speeches or hearings.

Bush appeasement slur angers Democrats

United States President George Bush used a visit to Israel on Thursday to denounce Democratic party offers to negotiate with America’s enemies in the Middle East as comparable to…