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Pelosi: a caged canary lost in the Pacific

3 August 2022

7:10 AM

3 August 2022

7:10 AM

Last night, US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was shipped into Taiwan like a little caged canary sent to assess the geopolitical tensions between America and China. While the Chinese government did not threaten to shoot down Pelosi’s plane, Hu Xijin, former chief editor of China’s Global Times, did in a deleted tweet.

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