Taiwan tensions reveal challenges for U.S. navy as Chinese threat grows
U.S. officials told Reuters this week they did not want to escalate matters with unnecessarily provocative deployments before House Speaker Pelosi - a staunch China critic and the third most senior U.S. politician - landed in Taipei on Tuesday on a U.S. Air Force plane. "We can't control Pelosi's travel, but we can control how we react," one defence official said.