Nancy meeting you here: a tetchy Taiwan trip
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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The visit of America’s speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi has Chinese tempers flaring. We ask what the trip suggests about American policy and what it means for Taiwan. Crowdfunding is making a real difference in the war in Ukraine—but its effects vary between the two sides. And a close listen to a young pianist’s prizewinning Rachmaninoff-concerto performance.
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| 1:23.8 | The Kaluche Orchestra, a Ukrainian folk rap group, won this year's Eurovision contest. |
| 1:29.2 | But instead of displaying their trophy, they auction it off to buy drones for Ukraine's army, just one of many examples of crowdfunding in this war. And only the most accomplished pianists |
| 1:37.9 | tackle the works of Rachmaninoff, and only the more daring of those would pick piano concerto |
| 1:43.1 | number three. Yet an 18-year-old Korean virtuoso has found new deaths in it during the prize-winning recent performance. |
| 1:56.0 | But first... |
| 2:06.2 | After weeks of Will-She, won't she, the Speaker of America's House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, second in line to the presidency, arrived in Taiwan yesterday. |
| 2:11.8 | Today she met with President Tsai Ying Wen. |
| 2:14.7 | Today our delegation, which I'm very proud, came to Taiwan to make unequivocally clear. |
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