Pelosi's Taiwan visit started something. Now Biden's billion dollar weapons deal.

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U.S. China relations haven’t been good for a while.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine provided some distraction, but China was always sitting there.

So, when earlier this month, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi became the highest-ranking US official in a quarter century to visit Taiwan it escalated the deteriorating relations between the U.S. and the PRC.

President Biden tried to distance himself from Pelosi’s provocation.

Now Biden is displaying provocation of his own: A billion dollar arms sale to Taiwan.

The sale would be the largest since a $2.4 billion arms deal including Harpoon missiles in October 2020, and the largest since President Joe Biden took office.

Since Pelosi’s trip liberal Senator Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, and Senator Marsha Blackburn, a Tennessee Republican, have also made high-profile trips there.

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen has welcomed the visits from the US lawmakers as an “active show of strong support of the US Congress,” adding they had “reinforced Taiwan’s determination to defend itself.”

Bipartisanship.