""The US and China don't have either the political space or really the relationships and the mechanisms to prevent an incident like that from becoming a full-blown crisis," says Danny Russel, a former diplomat who specialised in the Asia Pacific, now with the Asia Society Policy Institute.
"I think (the Pelosi visit) will lock in the hardest-line thinking in China, and really remove any place for advocacy of patience and caution," he told the BBC."
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I agree. It was a really dumb idea and has damaged all sorts of policies which depend upon cooperation to work. And she has risked a hot war just when we don't need it. She is just terrible at foreign policy. Time for her to step aside.
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