Nancy Pelosi has arrived in Taiwan despite China threatening the US with consequences and deploying tanks and warplanes on the border with the disputed territory.
The US House of Representatives speaker arrived in Malaysia this morning and the US military plane carrying the third-most senior figure in the government and the Congressional delegation has now landed in Taiwan.
A Taiwanese fighter aircraft reportedly went into "alert mode" after Speaker Pelosi's USAF C-40C aircraft entered the Taiwanese Air Defense Identification Zone.