WILL SHE OR WON’T SHE? The White House says the future of Taiwan dominated much of the two hour 20 minutes phone call between President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping, but neither side would reveal if the subject of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s not-so-secret plan to lead a congressional delegation to the island next month came up.
Both sides released separate readouts of how the call went, and they roughly correlated, agreeing the tone was “substantive, in-depth, and candid,” according to a senior Biden administration official, and a “candid communication and exchange,” according to China’s Foreign Ministry. Neither readout mentioned Pelosi, and the White House briefer refused to discuss Pelosi’s plans despite repeated questions on a background call for reporters.
