Posted on 08/02/2022 7:58:33 AM PDT by Morgana
Speaker Nancy Pelosi landed in Taiwan on Tuesday amid warnings from a furious Beijing that any U.S. politician visiting the island nation will 'come to no good end' if they 'play with fire.'
Her Air Force plane - with its distinctive blue and white colors and American flag on the tail - touched down in Taipei at 10:45 pm local time.
The Chinese, meanwhile, backed up their words with a shore of force.
As the speaker's Air Force C40 approached Taipei, Chinese Air Force Su-35 fighter jets were crossing the Taiwan Straits, local media outlets reported.
And chilling footage shared on Chinese social network Weibo appears to show amphibious tanks on the coast of Fujian along the Taiwan Strait. Further footage shows military equipment on the move in the city of Xiamen.
But Taiwan gave Pelosi a warm welcome. The island's tallest building, TAIPEI 101, lit up with a welcome message for Speaker Pelosi and supporters held welcome signs out of the hotel she will reportedly stay in.
Pelosi is the highest-ranking U.S. elected official to visit Taiwan since 1997. The White House is aware of her location.
'The speaker's flying aboard a military aircraft so we'll know,' spokesman John Kirby said at Monday's press briefing when asked how the White House would know if Pelosi touched down in Taiwain.
The speaker's Air Force jet left the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday morning, according to flight-tracking website Flightradar24. The site later crashed after 300,000 people tried to chart Pelosi's journey.
Beijing earlier warned that the United States will 'pay the price' if Pelosi visits Taiwan while Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi said on Tuesday that those U.S. politicians who 'play with fire' on the Taiwan issue will 'come to no good end'.
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Chinese tanks flood beaches opposite island
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Chilling scenes of tanks flooding on to Mainland beaches? Like there is a tank that can fire shells over 100 miles?
Is there a biologist that can attest to NP’s sex? Maybe if someone bribes enough Mainland biologists, they can find one willing to so testify?
Pelosi pulled almost exactly the same kind of crap in the eighties - empty gestures directed at the PRC - and rode the wave all the way to fabulous wealth and the speakership.
She’s just returning to form in her party’s hour of need.
Give her a rainbow banner and cement her feet to the beach facing china.
Never remove her. Like a scarecrow.
Crazy old demented biatch trying to pick a fight with the RED Chinese as she heads out the door.
Just posted this on another Nancy thread:
If Nancy went to Beijing to pick up her payoff from China for her hard work over the past three years or so, a few suspicious eyebrows might be raised. If she picks it up in Taiwan, under cover of a manufactured outrage by the Chinese for a distraction, the media will make sure she's praised as a "brave official," rather than a bagwoman. Easy peasy.
I wonder what percent "The Big Guy" gets.
What are all those tanks going to do to Taiwan..lol
After 15 years of very personal experience with China, I’m glad someone is willing to personally flip them off. Too bad it’s Pelosi.
China is like a trailer park full of shiny new cars - still a 3rd world mindset and the typical communist show and tell way of life. North Korea is a miniature version of the mainland.
Taiwan is the REAL China. The CCP destroyed the mainland.
And then there’s just plain stupidity!
If tits were brains she would be a genius.
But she is not a genius. This whole ply by Biden and the Chicoms is false flag Kabuki theater to assure that the Dems have a chance at keeping OCngress after Nov. 3rd. The Chicoms want the Dems in control of Congress and you can see why.President Trump had the Chicooms by the short hars and the Chicoms do not want him back.
So here is all this kabuki theater where nancy retirns as the conquering heroine to accolades from her fellow false patriot followers.
Huzzah! I say!( sarc.)
I am very torn over this whole idea.
While I do believe we should have free travel for our “diplomats” and China can suck it, I also wonder if this trip has something to do with her families recent investments in computer chips.
In the end, it does not seem like the best idea to me because I see no upside for our nation other than perhaps it will reinforce the idea that we need to get the hell out of China and stop doing business with them.
i bet she will run up a very high bar tab...
China needs to punish Pelosi, not Americans. They can have her.
Welly, if you believe anything Pelosi does is brave, or politically smart, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you. Nothing you’re watching is good for America. These people are bought and paid for corporate units, completely removed for people like us.
Half silicone, half floppy wrinkled skin. Can’t un-see that pathetic abomination. Lunch just became a no-go.
Hope they have tall snorkels.
Probably prearrange between Nancy’s handlers and the Chinese government.
The US press will tell us how brave nancyp is.
And the China press gets to claim how the China government stood up to the US.
Agree.
I have to look at the Helen Thomas pic to clear my eyes from that disgusting display. That requires an intergalactic trans-spacial hurl warning.
It think that we are all being so played!
China and the democrats are in bed with one another.
So I think this entire show is staged in order to make the democrats look tough in time for the midterms.
We are just being manipulated.
What’s her angle, really? What’s in it for her? There’s gotta be something…
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