https://www.scmp.com/rss/523359/feed The latest news and top stories on Nancy Pelosi, the first woman to be the Speaker of the US House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011 and again from 2019 to 2023. She led House Democrats for two decades. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com William Zheng William Zheng Beijing has built military capacity and strengthened political resolve but needs to project a more credible deterrence as it steps up unification with Taiwan over the next five years, according to a mainland Chinese policy adviser. Li Yihu, dean of the Taiwan Research Institute at Peking University, said the reunification process would enter an “accelerated phase” in the next five years and the mainland needed to do more to communicate an understanding of what he said was the inevitability of... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3345400/whats-one-big-thing-missing-beijings-taiwan-deterrence-strategy?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3345400/whats-one-big-thing-missing-beijings-taiwan-deterrence-strategy?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 04 Mar 2026 10:00:20 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press US President Donald Trump did not bring much holiday cheer Tuesday when bestowing ceremonial pardons on two Thanksgiving turkeys, dispensing more insults than goodwill at the traditional White House ritual. He joked about sending the turkeys to an infamous prison in El Salvador that has been used to house migrants deported from the United States. He said the birds should be named Chuck and Nancy – after Democratic stalwarts Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi – but “I would never pardon those... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3334147/trump-pardons-turkeys-and-roasts-foes-thanksgiving-ceremony?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3334147/trump-pardons-turkeys-and-roasts-foes-thanksgiving-ceremony?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 25 Nov 2025 20:17:54 +0000 Jeffie Lam Jeffie Lam Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee was in no mood for messing about. Pointing her index finger at reporters one October morning inside Hong Kong’s legislature, she sternly signalled for them to get out of her way. “Don’t block my way to the meeting,” she said. “Move away.” Her demeanour seemed to hark back to an Ip of an earlier era – the fiery, hardline security minister who spearheaded national security legislation in 2003 – while others read it as a hint that the veteran politician was about to bid a... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3333761/hong-kongs-comeback-queen-regina-ip-reflects-50-year-career-public-service?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3333761/hong-kongs-comeback-queen-regina-ip-reflects-50-year-career-public-service?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 23 Nov 2025 01:00:18 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse It used to be a political match made in Maga heaven. But US President Donald Trump fell out with hard-right lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene on Monday, saying she had “lost her way” after a series of critical comments. The firebrand Republican congresswoman from Georgia was previously a diehard pro-Trump supporter but has emerged as an unlikely - and rare - dissenting voice on a host of issues. In recent months Greene, 51, has broken ranks with the 79-year-old president on issues ranging from... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3332262/trump-says-marjorie-taylor-greene-has-lost-her-way-after-criticism?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3332262/trump-says-marjorie-taylor-greene-has-lost-her-way-after-criticism?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 11 Nov 2025 01:22:44 +0000 Reuters Reuters Nancy Pelosi, the first woman to serve as the powerful speaker of the US House of Representatives, said on Thursday that she would not run for re-election to Congress in 2026, ending the four-decade career of a Democratic figure often vilified by the right. The 85-year-old congresswoman, first elected in 1987, made her announcement two days after voters in California overwhelmingly approved “Proposition 50”, a state redistricting effort aimed at flipping five House seats to Democrats in next... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3331832/nancy-pelosi-first-female-speaker-us-house-announces-retirement-wont-seek-re-election?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3331832/nancy-pelosi-first-female-speaker-us-house-announces-retirement-wont-seek-re-election?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 06 Nov 2025 14:43:05 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg California voters have approved a ballot measure intended to shift as many as five congressional seats to Democrats from Republicans, handing Governor Gavin Newsom a major political victory in his fight against President Donald Trump. The victory for Proposition 50 was called by the Associated Press within a minute of polls closing. Newsom championed the controversial ballot measure as a way to neutralise a Trump-backed initiative in Texas in which the state redrew congressional districts to... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3331585/california-votes-redraw-congressional-map-triumph-newsom-against-trump?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3331585/california-votes-redraw-congressional-map-triumph-newsom-against-trump?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 05 Nov 2025 05:05:03 +0000 Alex Lo Alex Lo Long after the Tiananmen Square incident in 1989, Westerners and, secretly, even some within China, were thinking that if the communist country was going to follow the decline and fall of the Soviet Union, the crackdown would have been the trigger. But history is full of surprises. Nowadays, some prominent intellectuals in the Anglo-American world are fretting over whether their own countries are looking a lot like the late Soviets. The historical parallels they have drawn are plausible. Even... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3323932/historys-latest-surprising-twist-just-who-really-are-late-soviets-now?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3323932/historys-latest-surprising-twist-just-who-really-are-late-soviets-now?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 02 Sep 2025 00:00:14 +0000 Zhao Ziwen Zhao Ziwen Beijing condemned a visit by two US Republican senators to Taiwan on Friday, saying it sent a “seriously wrong signal” to “separatist forces”. The visit by Roger Wicker and Deb Fischer comes at a sensitive time, with the two countries locked in trade talks and discussions about a possible meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping. “China has always firmly opposed any form of official exchanges between the United States and Taiwan,” Guo Jiakun, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman, said. He... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3323710/beijing-says-us-senators-visit-taiwan-will-embolden-separatist-forces?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3323710/beijing-says-us-senators-visit-taiwan-will-embolden-separatist-forces?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:19:47 +0000 Amber Wang Amber Wang China is on a mission to turn its military into a modern fighting force. In the second of this four-part series, we look at how its massive defence industry can support China’s military goals, and during wartime could be further bolstered by the civilian manufacturing sector. In the northeastern city of Shenyang, the future of China’s defence manufacturing capacity is rapidly taking shape – an enormous new aviation industrial complex that will eventually occupy an area about the size of 600... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3322933/china-bets-military-industrial-might-outproduce-and-outlast-rivals-us?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3322933/china-bets-military-industrial-might-outproduce-and-outlast-rivals-us?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 23 Aug 2025 22:00:18 +0000