Despite earnest counsel from many quarters against going to Taiwan, including threatening warnings of dire consequences from Beijing, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, insisted on making the trip. She landed in Taipei in pitch-black conditions near midnight on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Her plane landed on the little-used Songshan Airport close to the Taipei city center. The runway and other lights on the ground were lowered just in case.<\/p>\n
Her flight path from Malaysia took an exaggerated circular route over Indonesia and then around the east coast of the Philippines and landed in Taipei from the east. Thus she completely avoided China\u2019s airspace over the South China Sea and the Chinese coastline.<\/p>\n
Her flight took significantly longer than if she had simply flown directly by line of sight from Kuala Lumpur to Taipei.<\/p>\n
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