Another US congressional delegation arrived in Taiwan on Wednesday as the parade of US officials visiting the island continues despite warnings and unprecedented military exercises from Beijing.
The delegation consists of a bipartisan group of House lawmakers that is being led by Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-FL). The visit is the sixth time a US delegation traveled to the island since the beginning of August when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) made the trip.
Murphy is joined in Taiwan by fellow Democrat Rep. Kaiali’i Kahele (HI) and Republican Reps. Scott Franklin (FL), Kat Cammack (FL), Joe Wilson (SC), Andy Barr (KY), Darrell Issa (CA), and Claudia Tenney (NY).
According to The South China Morning Post, unlike the previous US delegations, Murphy’s group did not travel to Taiwan on a military plane. They arrived on a commercial flight from South Korea.
Taiwan’s Foreign Ministry said that the delegation will “will meet with President Tsai Ing-wen; visit William Koo, secretary general of the National Security Council; and have a banquet with Foreign Minister Joseph Wu.”
The delegation is sure to anger Beijing since it views the US visits to Taiwan as Washington moving away from the one-China policy. In response to Pelosi, who was the first House Speaker to visit Taiwan since 1997, China launched its largest-ever military exercises around the island, and Beijing has kept up the military pressure as the US delegations continue.
China previously rarely crossed the median line, an unofficial barrier that separates the Taiwan Strait. But since Pelosi’s visit, that has changed. According to Japan Times, China flew 302 sorties across the median line in August. Between 1954 and August 2020, China flew across the barrier only four times. Between September 2020 and Pelosi’s visit, Chinese warplanes made the flight 23 times.
The uptick in Chinese flights after August 2020 was in response to the Trump administration sending the highest-level cabinet officials to Taiwan since Washington severed diplomatic relations with Taipei in 1979.
Looking at the number of women in the now six delegations that have now splatted onto Taiwan makes me tempted to agree with Ann Coulter that giving women the vote was an experiment. It’s horrible that women representatives lack all spine; feel they must “man up” and out-testosterone the males.
Stupidity is not gender specific.
Condoliza Rice, Victoria Nuland, Hillary Clinton, Valery Jarret… There are scores more “war war war” women. The Ukraine war to. large extent a woman’s war, along with Libya. Biden crime family has many of theservice preps advising him. Ukraine war is the Obama, Nuland, Clinton Pitt humanitarian disaster. Didn’t Clinton recently remark that it would be good if it went on for a long time. Lots of dead Ukrainians & Russians how nice for that evil witch. How did a good ole antiwar country boy end up sticking us with such a person…?????
Playing with fire, at the expense of people that probably do not matter to these congressional visitors.
How long will China remain calmed by the burden of US debts to it. US government is obviously pushing for a way to stave of collapse by seizing Chinese assets.
It’s like a rite of passage now. Don’t be left out.
I already told a Dem cult member to go put up Taiwan flags. They can be destroyed, their people killed, but hoist the flag for performative support.
Wow…! the whole congress is now the US Secretaries of State…!
As Gerald Celente says, “when all else fails, they take you to war”. Looks as if the U.S is doing everything they can to initiate a Global conflict. Russia, now China. Well, they may eventually get their wish but probably won’t like the outcome as those unintended consequences always pop up.
Well, as long as weapons makers are happy. Who cares?!