‘Reckless’ Pelosi Why did the speaker go, and what damage has her visit caused?

Roy Blunt lived up to his surname when he said last week: “So I’m about to use four words in a row that I haven’t used in this way before, and those four words are: ‘Speaker Pelosi was right.’”

The Republican senator was praising Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, the first by a speaker of the US House of Representatives in a quarter of a century.

But not everyone was so sure. In enraging China, which claims the self-governing