According to several media reports, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is set to lead a delegation to Taiwan next month despite repeated warnings from China that the visit will escalate tension between Washington and Beijing.
Pelosi’s visit would mark the first time in 25 years that a sitting House speaker visited the island since Newt Gingrich made the trip in 1997. She was set to travel to Taiwan in April but canceled the trip after testing positive for Covid-19.
Responding to the news of Pelosi’s planned trip, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian delivered a stern warning. He said if Pelosi goes through with the visit, China will “take strong and resolute measures to safeguard its sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
Zhao said that because Congress is part of the US government, it should follow the One China policy. Washington severed diplomatic relations with Taipei in 1979 and typically sent former officials to represent US interests. But in recent years, Congressional delegations have become increasingly more common.
China has been responding to high-level US visits to Taiwan with military activity near the island. Earlier this month, Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), a proponent of giving the president war powers to intervene if China attacks the island, traveled to Taiwan and met with President Tsai Ing-wen. Beijing responded by flying warplanes over the median line that separates the Taiwan Strait.
The revelation of Pelosi’s planned trip comes as the US has stepped up its military activity in the South China Sea. The US sailed warships into the disputed waters to challenge China’s claims last week after warning Beijing that it would intervene if China attacked Philippine vessels in the area.
While China always denounces US military activity in the region, the steps Washington is taking to increase ties with Taiwan appear to be more provocative toward Beijing. Back in January, China’s ambassador to the US warned that Washington’s support for “independence forces” on the island could lead to war between the two powers.
Now would be a smart time for China to massively arm Russia for use in Ukraine, since the US is clearly China’s enemy yet the US needs Chinese trade more than China needs American consumers.
I hope they keep her.
would be too nice to come true.
Perhaps China will institute a no fly zone along with a shipping blockade right after Pelosi lands in Taiwan. Pelosi would have to swim back.
One can only hope.
WW3 started by 82 year old relic who talks like she has rocks in her mouth. Priceless.
WWIII was started in 2019 by China when they released the lab virus Covid19 on humanity.
Please tell us about the 6 American bio labs in Ukraine.
Self explanatory, we are the world standard in militrary forces and develop our own bioweapons as well as how to stop them. I’ve yet to see any evidence of Putins claims regardless but it wouldn’t surprise me. I think the people running our country wanted that war and should have known they’d get it eventually when they overthrew an elected government in 2014 and replaced it with a puppet regime as Victoria Nuland was caught red handed talking about feeding the protestors we planted and said F the EU after Putin made it clear in 2008 that it was a red line for him.
You contradict yourself in your post.
Kudos to Putin, he says, Russia first, like any good president like Trump did, right?
I wish we in the west had a statesman of Putin’s caliber. Like him or not, credit where credit is due, he serves the Russian people’s interests like a statesman.
Biden is a senile old man.
I’m not a fan of Biden. Putin is not a good man or anyone I hope our president aspires to be. Intelligent, strategic, organized he is, but cunning and decent, he is not. Absolute power corrupts all, and he has absolute power.
He no longer has the mental capability to be intelligent, strategic or organized.
He was elected by the people, he is very popular, he is accountable to the Duma the Russian parliament. He is the Russian president, not ours. He has been demonized since the day he became president he is accountable to the Russian people not to us. He has done nothing Biden has not done. How do you know he is not a good man? What has he done?
His speeches and policies are very well researched, and I can’t say the same for anyone of our last presidents, not a single SOTU speech comes close to Putin. SOTU speeches are nothing but empty campaign speeches. We don’t even have decent press conference anymore. Putin is a statesman, like it or not.
Credit where credit is due.
You are free to admire Putin if you choose to. I will say, i don’t know him or Joe Biden. I know what they want me to know.
I don’t have to admire him, I am objective, you are wearing blinders and you appear to be very confused.
What are we doing in Ukraine, a non NATO member we had no valid agreement, no military obligations, nothing. What are we doing in Ukraine, what business is Ukraine to NATO? What has Russia done to the USA?
Do you know? I know, we had no business on another continent thousands of miles away.
You make a lot of presumtions about me that are false. I don’t care to discuss it with you but I am aware of all of these things. I openly criticized our government for meddling in Ukraines election in 2014 and consider that election in 2016 blowback for it.
You know a lot, but you don’t come to a logical conclusion based on the facts you know.
In Ukraine in 2014 the CIA organized and paid for the Obama/Biden regime change. Which started the civil war in Ukraine, with some 14 000 casualties many Russian speaking civilians, women and children.
Did we have any business there? I don’t think so.
I agree. I’m not global scholar, but Putin made it clear it was a red line in Budapest in 2008. Our own scholars and Henry Kissinger warned them against over expanding NATO and defferred to years of studies done after the formation of NATO on the consequences of sparking greater conflict by doing so.
I also understand that Putin offered a deal that the US and Ukraine refused to consider prior to the build up of forces about annexing Crimea and Donbas that may have prevented the war if agreed upon.
I have no doubt, they are provoking and want, a great war with Russia. HRC, is a sworn enemy of Putin and her personal grudges against him that led to the Magnistky Act have had a ripple affect that have hurt people all around the globe and sparked conficts and in my opinion led to the presidency of DJT and a civil war in our own government and citizenry.
I don’t like any of it, or them. So don’t assume that about me. Not every American is an idiot, like in the song. I don’t hate Russia, or Russians. I don’t want a war with you. I don’t want a war with China. But..I think it doesn’t matter what I or we think. They are going to have their war, whether we like it or not.
The red line, secure borders is a more than justified, Russia has been invaded and devastated by invaders many times, in the 2d WW they lost 27 million people including millions of civilians, women and children.
Americans never experienced that, but opposed nuclear weapons on Cuba as does Putin now, opposing nuclear missiles on their border. Why did our government not respect that need?
They moved NATO to the Russian border, funded, armed and trained the Ukraine army, and used the Ukraine territory for NATO/Ukraine military exercises.
Think Russia and Mexico did that on the Mexican border, now put yourself in the shoes of the Russian people.
That is the context in which you must judge the Russian response. There are more details we can’t go in here.
The fact is that the USA had turned Ukraine in a de facto NATO member.
The US started the war with provocations making it a defensive war for Russia.
We, the people, don’t want war, only the war profiteers want war, that is why Biden avoids any hint of negotiations, he will go on killing Ukrainians until there are no Ukrainians left if no one stops him.
The people always lose.
You live in a fantasy world. Go worship autocrat terds, I don’t care. You won’t convince me to like them. Adios.
“I know what they want me to know…”?
Please, provide evidence if you have any. I for one do not like to be governed by morons and a senile president, I voted for him and must say I never before regretted my vote as I do this one.
I will never again vote for the lesser of two evil.
I will vote for character and integrity, only a few politicians have it, and they get silenced by the establishment, the corporate proxies.
You better find a new place to vote pal, because there aren’t any of those guys in this plutocracy in 2022.
I can stay home, nothing lost. I am realistic, I think. I live in a deep red one party state, to vote is really a waste of time.
The evidence has been deleted.https://usrtk.org/biohazards/evidence-missing-in-covid-origin-investigation-who-open-to-probe-ecohealth-president-on-board/
Who and why was it deleted? Victoria Nuland has spilled the beans already.
And who was going to buy all their cheap plastic shit if they wiped us out?
They are making weapons now. so they don’t need our recycled material anymore becuase they are done selling us cheap electronics and plastics.
https://fas.org/blogs/security/2021/07/china-is-building-a-second-nuclear-missile-silo-field/
Xi Jinpin wants to take over the world and flush the USA down the toilet. I judge men on actions, not words. Look at thier actions over the past 10 years.
We are doing a pretty good job of flushing ourselves down that toilet. I would argue that the presidents since Clinton had/have the qualifications to be honey dippers, men who pump septic tanks. They were all full of sh*t and now have us in deep sh*t.
You won’t hear any argument from me, but is that going to protect you when bombs and bullets start flying? Your team was chosen when you stayed here and didn’t leave the country. I think either way, were doomed. AI, big tech and big data are going to take over the planet and destroy the economy that created a strong middle class in the US and kept our economy strong relative to the rest of the world. WWIII or not, that’s rapidly changing, and you are correct that the catalyst are our own internal plutocratic forces.
No other nation invaded the USA, but the US industry left the nation for greener pastures. Don’t blame China, they did not come to the US,
THE US WENT TO CHINA. Not the other way around.
Yeah, well, again, I’m under no illusions here. Corporate greed certainly was the primary impetus for business moving there. But their state corruption, lack of human rights and fair pay, and environmental laws are what made it a profitable place to go. So again, will a world dominated by China be better for me than the one I’ve endured here for my life almost 50 years. Most definitely not. So, I have to root for our bad guys, to win, unfortunately it’s my best option at the moment since I don’t have the power to over throw our goverment and root out corporate influence and corruption.
Your government does not care about you, it is part of the corporate elite, they only care for themselves. They give S**t about you. Your government does not care about you. Wake up.
Our best option is peace, not war with China. China is not invading the US, we are getting set to invade China, don’t you get it?
I think this conversation isn’t getting far. I already know these things. WE are not getting ready to invade China. I do think we may spark a greater war over Taiwan. I think Xi Jinpin is much larger part of our issues than you believe and does not want peace. Someone is going to lose in that war, all of us that aren’t rich.
Let me put it this way, you can wage war without firing a bullet. China has been waging war without bullets on us for many years now. Their energy has not been directed at starting a hot war with the US, rather an internal war within our government, and people. Which they have already accomplished.
Jackie, the Chinese invested in their people, education health, they lifted some 700 million of their people out of poverty, they used their money to build high speed trains and what did we do? We could have done the same. We wasted the nations wealth on wars, we waged economical warfare, destabilizing societies to do regime changes, putting proxies in power to serve our interests not the people. In Venezuela and Cuba it did not work out, so we have waged the war of sanctions on Cuba for 60 years and Venezuela for several years now, they still elected Maduro and reelected Chavez before that. what has Cuba and Venezuela done to us? Do you know? I don’t. The USA is pariah hegemon, a monster.
In case you have not noticed, the nations corporate elite has been shrinking the working middle class here at home. Many were pushed into poverty where minimum wages have not been increased for year, $7.25 and not even a dime more. $15.00 increase over a 10 year period would break the back of the American industry.
Actions speak louder than words. There is much, much more of course.
I’m not sure why you think I haven’t noticed. What I don’t understand is why that would make you root for China and against yourself. Think China has better plans for you in a world they dominate?
The Chinese don’t care about me why should I care about them? They have done nothing to me, they want to left alone, and so do I. I do not want war with China, what for?
Looking and the only thing I see is the US ratcheting up the tensions. Just because China is becoming better or best in the world in economic clout, no reason to get your hackles up with the bs about “they want to take over the world”.
Wau, our morons don’t compare to Xi Jinpin or Putin.
Both of them have real accomplishments to show. Biden does name calling and sign checks for Zelensky, that is all he does. He is a bellicose senile old man. To say it in plain old English. He should have retired, why didn’t he? He did not even do well in the primaries, and look at the miserable people he picked for his administration. They are idiots, zeros.
The USA is flushing itself down the toilet, it needs no help, not from Russia or China.
Real accomplisments? Like suppressing disaddents, dominating most of the wealth of their lands from their people just like our rich do to an even greater degree, murdering people that get in the way. Corrupting honest people or coercing them through blackmail. You have an interesting definition of accomplishments.
What is a disaddent?
I think China unleashed Covid19 to wipe out open societies or at least sicken and weaken them to destroy their economy, figuring that his closed authoritarian system and alliance with Russia would give him a huge advantage. Along with thier control over manufacturing protective equipment. Looking at a global map 2 years after the release, he appears to be winning. NATO countries are swimming in Covid and have exhausted billions on vaccines and have ecomies on the brink of depression. Meanwhile, they aligned with Russia and have started the first war in Europe in 80 years.
I’m no fan of Pelosi, or the US military plutocratic armed forces, but if my option is living in a world dominated by them or Xi Jinping and Putin, sorry I’m backing the US all the way. It’s a tale of two bad choices in a world going bad Maybe they are all villians, but you have no choice but to pick a team. It’s their world, and were just living in it.
F One China.
Kissinger is no dove, but even Kissinger is calling for us to stop these endless confrontations.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/kissinger-warns-biden-against-endless-confrontation-with-china/ar-AAZL2VS
A war over Taiwan would be diastaerous for the world, would result in massive inflation (you think it’s bad now? lol) in the west, millions of deaths on both sides, and Taiwan being reduced to rubble. Why on earth would disrupt the status quo and One China policy that has kept peace for 7 decades and opt for the horrible alternative?
Because they are morons, Kissinger’s light-bulb is still burning, he believes in realpolitik, Biden/Blinken/Nuland/Sullivan and the Kagan clan don’t even know what it is.
A country with clowns such as Biden, Pelosi, Scott, or Gingrich representing it on the world stage must not feel embarrassment or shame. In my mind, none of them is qualified enough to take out my trash. Why would we trust them to lead us to total destruction is beyond my brain capacity. That’s it. I must not be smart enough to understand the wisdom behind trusting them. Erase, erase, erase…
They’re just water boys for the Deep State, putting it politely. The percentage of the the population that votes is complicit in the criminality and the shame.
That is why I will not vote again. My vote does not count, the system is rigged against me, the citizen.
I do trust them,
they will lead us to total destruction, and they do it intentionally.
The questions is WHY, even morons do have some brain, these people have more money than they can ever use. What motivates them?
Our history with Taiwan shows that we’ve used them like a pawn and we still are.
And the people do not want war with China, only the Americans want a another war, Biden needs one like another hole in the head.
Senile geriatric white politicians controlled by puppet master POS obama.
He continues to work for the destruction of America.
What business does she have in Taiwan? We are sick and tired of all the senile Democrats. She should retire, she is not needed in congress. Nothing gets accomplished anyway. Now in July 2022 they still palaver around Jan. 06, 2021 without any result. They can just as well go home and we could use the money saved to repair a few bridges.