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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been criticized on social media for comments she made about her “Contact” with China Which I spoke about during a press conference on Thursday.
Pelosi said she has always had a special relationship with China because of her childhood memory.
“When I was a little girl I was told on the beach if I dig a hole deep enough we’d get to China, so we always felt connected there,” Pelosi said.
Pelosi made the comment during a trip to the Indo-Pacific.
Nancy Pelosi’s lands in Taiwan amid Chinese threats, military activity
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi D-Calif.
(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
“We are really led by idiots,” said Clay Travis, founder of Outkick.
“lol what?” , said Benny Johnson of Turning Point USA.
One Twitter user said: “Make sure we look stupid to the rest of the world.
Pelosi’s Taiwan Trip: 4 American Wars in the East of the Island
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, front, center left, and her congressional delegation pose for a photo with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, center right, before a breakfast meeting at the Prime Minister’s official residence in Tokyo.
(Kyodo News via The Associated Press)
Another Twitter user said: “Are you telling me this person was our best choice to visit Taiwan?”
Pelosi made the trip to the Indo-Pacific last week and stop in taiwan On Tuesday, despite multiple threats from China, which advised her not to visit the island.
US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi (left) shakes hands with Hiroyuki Hosoda, the speaker of Japan’s House of Representatives, during a meeting in Tokyo.
(Photo by Kazuhiro Nogi/Afp/AFP via Getty Images)
“Our visit is one of several congressional delegations to Taiwan – and it is in no way inconsistent with longstanding US policy, guided by the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979, the US-China Joint Statements and the Six Affirmations,” Pelosi said in a statement. The United States continues to oppose unilateral efforts to change the status quo.”
Timothy HJ Nerozzi of Fox News contributed to this report.
