Vice President Kamala Harris addressed US troops in Japan on Wednesday and said the US will continue to operate in the Taiwan Strait “undaunted and unafraid.”
Harris made the comments after attending the funeral of Shinzo Abe, the former Japanese prime minister who was assassinated in July. Her trip came at a time of soaring tensions between the US and China over the issue of Taiwan.
“We will continue to fly, sail and operate, undaunted and unafraid, wherever and whenever international law allows,” Harris said, referring to the Taiwan Strait.
Harris also said that the US will continue to strengthen “unofficial ties” with Taipei and accused China of trying to change the status quo across the Taiwan Strait. “We anticipate continued aggressive behavior from Beijing, as it attempts to unilaterally undermine the status quo,” she said.
While the US is trying to put the blame on China for the current tensions, there has been a clear shift in US policy toward Taiwan. Most notably has been the rhetoric from President Biden, who recently said for the fourth time of his presidency that the US would defend Taiwan if China invades, breaking from the long-term policy of strategic ambiguity.
China has stepped up its military activity around Taiwan since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) visited the island at the beginning of August, which was just the beginning of an unprecedented series of US delegations traveling to Taipei.
Harris is now heading to South Korea, where she is expected to visit the demilitarized zone. Ahead of her visit, North Korea launched two ballistic missiles into the waters off its coast as US and South Korean warships are conducting drills in the region.
Let’s make both country ( Russian Federation & China) enemies and keep provoking America ways,
Don’t forget Mexico, Venezuela, Columbia, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Brasil, Bolivia, Chile, etc.
It is an insane behaviour. No green, no woke protests over an environmental calamity — damaging both pipelines to Germany.
Germany can return back to agriculture. So can UK. And without Germany, tourism dependent France, Italy, Greece, Croatia — will have empty hotels, empty museums and restaurants. With other big spenders like Chinese and Russians not coming — their economies will be way down.
And all Harris or Truss and alike can do — is show the imaginary muscle, in display of global laughingstock.
It is so embarrasing.
Truss’s plunging neck lines should be embarrassing to at least Londoners, or whatever remains of England.
Especially since she’s not that good-looking. She looks better than Boris Johnson, but that’s a pretty low bar.
The weaker they get, the tougher they talk. So sad to see Kamala hawking the kool aid. I suppose her place in the Biden gang’s Senilintocracy depends on fidelity to what’s written on her script. I have an inkling that were anything to happen to the Ole Boy, there would be policy whiplash from the turn in policy of the Democrat’s ship of state! AS in, out with its ole, in with the new……!!!!!! I could be entirely wrong, but as of now, that is my thinking… She strikes as a problem solver, not a problem maker, worse yet, exacerbater which her Tiwan Twit Talk was.
They appear oblivious to just how weak the West has become chasing Muslims around the world, while Russia and China were busy perfecting invisible stealth, top of the pack in air defenses, faster, lighter more nimble fighter jets, and currently unstoppable hypersonic missiles. But never mind how far behind they are, they have “Right” on their side they believe. What they have overwhelmingly on their side is blinkered hubris, which is instrumental to a great fall.
One thing that can be said about American women is they have balls.
True but……
They have internal balls…!
I saw a sign that says, “We’re not ovary acting”
I’m serious.
Lol…!
If and i sa y if the Americans go to war with China they will lose just as they did in Vietnam only this time the entire US fleet will be sent to the bottom of the sea , the Chinese have the ability to sink US ships hundreds of miles from China , so the USAs favorite weapon planes and bombs will not be of use because they will not be able to get close enough.
So does Iran. I’ve read it has as good of coastal defenses as any nation. Their last president mentioned the US should not send the B checker team against chess masters.
Awe gee, I had hopes she would cut out the dangerous China baiting, but no.
She is full on board this “Act & Talk tough” Shhhhh cause we’re sssooo WEAK. Hubris precedes a great fall…!!!!!!!!!! Can’t You see it coming…???????? I sure can.. The elephant in the phone booth now is, What will Russia do to answer this gargantuan attach on their livelihood. What will come of Russia asking the U.N. to investigate or look into the attack on their pipeline. Did Biden order this attack to be done…????? Are there any other serious suspects… who have the capability to execute such an attack..?????
I tend to agree MVGuy…
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She is like the person threatening another person who can take care of themselves, knowing full well that others are there to step between them. Big mouth. Comical.
Justin Raimondo’s Bizzaro’s world proven: “’We anticipate continued aggressive behavior from Beijing, as it attempts to unilaterally undermine the status quo,’ she said.” From Harris and: “Like you, the United States wants this war to end on just terms, on terms we all signed up for: that you cannot seize a nation’s territory by force. The only country standing in the way of that is Russia.” from Biden.
Sorry, who’s been undermining the status quo? It hasn’t been the geriatric memory lapse duo of Biden and Pelosi?
They do that until their vessel is struck by a Chinese missile…!
Or one of those undetectable soft plastic bat rays anchored to the bottom that release and glide upward when a selected ship’s sound signature is targeted. As I understand it, they’re filled with plastic explosives and don’t miss.
Her Presidential Campaign for 2024, showing “foreign policy” experience for political commercials is the reason for the trip. Plus our Public Servants love their paid vacations to nice locations around the world.
Clueless
They’re “unafraid” because as Andrei Martyanov continually states, “They have no idea what real war is.”
As far as North Korea goes, US bluster there means nothing, because Pentagon war games expect 50,000 US casualties in the first 90 days of a conflict there. The US would be forced to use nuclear weapons, triggering at least a conventional response from China, which the US would lose. China has made clear in the past that it will not accept a unilateral US attack on North Korea. Only if NK starts it will China stay out of it.