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Graham leads US delegation to Taiwan
thehill ^ | 04/15/22 9:01 AM ET | BY SARAKSHI RAI

Posted on 04/17/2022 12:50:08 PM PDT by RandFan

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is leading a a six-member group of U.S. lawmakers on a two-day visit to Taiwan on Thursday, a visit that has sparked anger from Beijing.

Graham along with Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, and Sens. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) and Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) landed in Taiwan’s Songshan Airport in Taipei on Friday.

Graham tweeted that the people of Taiwan are “great allies of the United States” and called Taiwan “a beacon of freedom in a troubled region.”

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian in Beijing denounced the visit on Thursday, saying “China is firmly opposed to any form of official exchanges between the U.S. and Taiwan.”

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: baghdadbob; emptythreat; emptythreats; randpaulsucks; vladtheimploder
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1 posted on 04/17/2022 12:50:08 PM PDT by RandFan
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A test EMP would be interesting


2 posted on 04/17/2022 12:51:41 PM PDT by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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To: RandFan

Save some missiles for the Taiwanese.


3 posted on 04/17/2022 12:51:58 PM PDT by Sawdring
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To: RandFan

Ladyboys convention?


4 posted on 04/17/2022 12:52:07 PM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: Sawdring

Linda talks a lot. This trip is right up his ally.


5 posted on 04/17/2022 12:53:21 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: RandFan

This is the worst thing that could happen. He’ll release his inner ghost of John McCain.


6 posted on 04/17/2022 12:54:16 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
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To: RandFan

If we can’t get in the Ukraine v Russia war, damn it, we’ll help get a Chinamen war going!...


7 posted on 04/17/2022 12:54:52 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Macho MAGA Man

McCain and this fag would go to war with Narnia if possible.


8 posted on 04/17/2022 12:55:44 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: RandFan

what could go wrong...

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Don’t forget graham was in the US delegation that led the congressional junket to Ukraine (along with sen no name)


9 posted on 04/17/2022 12:59:42 PM PDT by thinden (buckle up)
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To: RandFan

If the visit by that clutch of back-bench globalist slime isn’t a preliminary death knell for Taiwan, I’d be surprised...


10 posted on 04/17/2022 1:00:25 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: RandFan

yay - more warring for other countries.

I think half the pols have financial interest and the rest just like to watch shit burn. Probably a mix of both for a chosen few.


11 posted on 04/17/2022 1:07:11 PM PDT by Pollard (PureBlood -- https://youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Exactly - whenever McCain and Grahmn showed up you can pretty much bet war and conflict soon to follow. Same with Victoria Nuland. I these people are sent out there it’s not to make peace.


12 posted on 04/17/2022 1:11:00 PM PDT by caww ( )
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Graham leads US delegation to Taiwan

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Weren’t Graham and McCain part of a chickenhawk delegation to Ukraine a few years before the !@#$ hit the fan over there?


13 posted on 04/17/2022 1:16:34 PM PDT by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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They were also in Iran/Iraq... There is a photo of McCain with the ‘caliph’ of ISIS (Or ISIL, as Obama liked to call them) standing right behind him.


14 posted on 04/17/2022 1:18:21 PM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: SuperLuminal

The mess this Ukraine thing has set off isn’t a patch on what would happen should China try something with Taiwan. That is the really big peril for the global economy. Ukraine and Europe, to the extent it is affected, would matter nothing vs the disaster waiting for the entire East Asian trade. That’s everything from Japan to Indonesia.

The trouble with China isn’t that it can be provoked, but that its been openly slavering for total power in East Asia for many years, and more so lately. The only thing keeping it away is cost-benefit analysis.


15 posted on 04/17/2022 1:22:31 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: RandFan

It less than funny that the same GOP Senators rattling sabers over the inviolability of the borders of other countries have worked to keep ours open for 30 years.

Bush League Republicans = Assistant Democrat

They are assisting Democrats to a permanent majority.


16 posted on 04/17/2022 1:25:09 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: SuperLuminal

Right. The equivalent of the Mob Kiss.


17 posted on 04/17/2022 1:27:57 PM PDT by rlmorel (Democrats running things is termite infestation, and the exterminator won't be here for 3 years.)
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To: RandFan

Another small country aggravating a powerful neighbor in the false belief that the United States will cover their bets.

Ukraine, Taiwan, and Israel, all doomed by State Department intrigue, making false promises that if they fight Russia, China, or Iran that we will come to the rescue.

Not going to happen.


18 posted on 04/17/2022 1:28:20 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Love's redeeming work is done)
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To: RandFan

Linda is smelling the air and testing the waters for the war he’s been waiting on in great anticipation for decades.


19 posted on 04/17/2022 1:31:10 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: RandFan

They never sound tough in places we have real interests.


20 posted on 04/17/2022 1:35:48 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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