Pelosi departs Taiwan, concluding visit that infuriated China

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U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi left Taiwan on Wednesday after pledging solidarity and hailing its democracy, leaving a trail of Chinese anger over her brief visit to the self-ruled island that Beijing claims as its own.

“We are supporters of the status quo and the rest, and we don’t want anything to happen to Taiwan by force. So strength and one of the biggest sources of strength is democracy,” Pelosi said.

Pelosi, whose delegation made an unannounced but closely watched stop in Taiwan late on Tuesday after visits to Singapore and Malaysia, was scheduled to continue her Asian tour with stops in South Korea and Japan.