House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat whose visit to Taiwan on Tuesday is heating up Sino-American relations, is a longtime critic of China and has been a forthright human rights advocate throughout her career.
Recall in 1991, when — as a representative of California's fifth district — Pelosi joined other U.S. representatives in Tiananmen Square and held up a banner that read: "To those who died for democracy in China" (see video).
