Rep. Krishnamoorthi defends Taiwan visit with Speaker Pelosi; huddles with Amb. Emanuel in Japan

This photo taken on August 5, 2022, shows U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (front center), U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel (front left), U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (front right) and other visiting members of the U.S. Congress attending a plenary session of the Diet, the country’s parliament, at the National Diet building in Tokyo. (Photo by STR/JIJI Press/AFP via Getty Images)

Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., on Sunday defended his trip to Taiwan with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, which triggered China launching 11 ballistic missiles around the island and other antagonistic moves which could threaten the relationship between China and the U.S.

I talked with Krishnamoorthi, of Schaumburg, about the speaker’s controversial visit and how China used it as a pretext for more military activity in the Taiwan Straits over the island Beijing claims.