very well, thank you. how are you? and the glasses allowing deaf people to see real time conversations right before their eyes. hello and welcome to the programme. she knew it would antagonise beijing, but that hasn t stopped nancy pelosi, america s third highest ranking politician, from paying a high level visit to taiwan. she s just met the taiwanese president after addressing parliament and made it clear that the us would not abandon the island. china views taiwan as its own and the foreign ministry summoned the us ambassador in beijing to protest against pelosi s high profile trip. mark lobel has the latest. side by side with the taiwanese president america s third most powerful politician and actor provocation or a necessary show of support? nancy pelosi delayed high profile visit was never without risk, the anger of chinese has led to the us ambassador being summoned, nancy pelosi was handed an award for her strong ties to taiwan. ., , . , taiwan. today i am my delegati
of the us speaker s visit the biden distraction one stupid voice is triggering a crisis. we said that we oppose any you to lateral changes to the status quo from either side we do not support taiwan independence and we said as i said again yesterday we expect cross strait differences to be resolved by peaceful means. for these two resolved by peaceful means. for these two key resolved by peaceful means. for these two key trading partners not the trading blows but an immediate cause on goods as a result of speaker pelosi s visit bans on citrus fruits and some fish exports from taiwan while exports of sand blocked the other way. low level disapproval, awkwardness diplomacy and a threat of much worse. taiwan s status remains uncomfortable. mike lobel, bbc news. doctor oriana skylar mastro is centre fellow at the freeman spogli institute for international studies at stanford university and a non resident senior fellow at the american