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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s plans to travel to Taiwan has created a stir in both Beijing and Washington. Susan Shirk, chair of the 21st Century China Center at UC San Diego and a former member of the Clinton administration, and Daniel Blumenthal, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a former senior director in the Defense Department under George W. Bush, join Amna Nawaz to discuss.