Lawmakers Respond to Zawahiri Killing

Good morning. Defying threats by the Chinese government, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has landed in Taiwan, becoming the highest-ranking American official to visit the self-governing island in more than two decades. She’s getting a warm welcome:

 

“We cannot stand by as the CCP proceeds to threaten Taiwan—and democracy itself,” Pelosi wrote in a Washington Post opinion piece published as she landed Tuesday. “Indeed, we take this trip at a time when the world faces a choice between autocracy and democracy.”

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