Welcome to Tisky Sour, four big stories tonight. Taiwan and Nancy Pelosi. The Rishi

Sunat campaign going up in flames to trust having her first big blooper of the leadership

race so far, looking pretty bad for her, although she will be our next Prime Minister unfortunately,

and then we have a pretty impressive opening speech, an Australian senator.

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has caused a diplomatic rout by taking a trip to Taiwan. The

visit is controversial, as the international status of Taiwan is disputed. China sees Taiwan

as a breakaway province, a position which has some historical merit, seeing as the

polity was founded by the losing side in the Chinese civil war. For its part though,

Taiwan is defensive of its autonomy, and the island has grown into a successful and wealthy

democracy. So why has Nancy Pelosi decided to visit Taiwan despite these sensitivities?

Well, the US Congresswoman has a history as a bit of a China hawk, and this trip can be

seen as part of a more than 30 year long campaign to provoke or stand up to China's leaders.

For example, in 1991, two years after the protests in Massacre at Tiananmen Square, Pelosi

was part of a US delegation that unfurled a banner commemorating the deceased demonstrators.

This was a newsreel from the time.

The three US Congress members, part of a human rights delegation, said they couldn't

leave China without visiting Tiananmen Square to pay their respects to pro-democracy activists

slain there two years ago. We've been told for two days now that there's freedom of speech

in China. The lawmakers unfurled a small, hand-painted memorial banner.

There it is, a memory which still burns bright, and it is a cause which we'll never know.

As they laid three white flowers at the foot of the monument to martyrs,

Beijing police moved in. They ordered the Congress members to stop the ceremony and

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