House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she strongly challenged Chinese leaders on human rights abuses during her trip to the country last week, pushing back on the notion that she has been less aggressive about the issue since she became speaker.
“We were very frank about human rights,” Pelosi told a Brookings Institution luncheon Friday afternoon. “They knew who they were meeting with.”
“There was no way that we would go to China and not talk about human rights,” she said.
Pelosi has come under criticism over reports that she ducked the human rights issue during her trip to China.
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