- Other Media news -The visit on Sunday was the first House of Representatives delegation to visit China since 2019. The COVID-19 pandemic ended formal House visits in 2020, and relations rapidly deteriorated due to disagreement over the origins of the coronavirus that had spread all over the world, Reuters reported. This "ice-breaking" trip will further bilateral ties, Premier Li told the lawmakers, according to a pool report organized by the US embassy in China. In 2022, then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi led a delegation of Democratic members of the House to Taiwan as part of a wider Asia tour. A year later, US lawmakers angered Beijing again when Michael McCaul, then chairman of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, visited Taiwan.