[ad_1] BEIJING — When news broke that U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi might lead a delegation of lawmakers to Taiwan earlier this summer, it was met with a furious response by some of China's most well-known opinion makers. "If US fighter jets escort Pelosi's plane into Taiwan, it is invasion," wrote Hu Xijin, former editor-in-chief of the Communist Party-linked Global Times newspaper, in a tweet on July 29.