“The growing threat is from our side provoking war. Here comes the prewar marketing sales pitch.”
We aren’t provoking @#$%. If anything, China has been the source of any provocation; it’s been openly threatening its neighbors for years.
In any event, it is pretty much inevitable that the two biggest kids on the block — especially if they have little in common — are eventually going to fight. It has been that way for many thousands of years.
It is wise to prepare for it. If it does not come to pass...GREAT! But if it does, it’s best to be ready. Look at the Cold War: The US and the USSR prepared to fight each other (which made sense). Yet, they never actually came to direct blows. So, mutual preparation worked, and avoided war.
No. It is all us.
Remember Biden told us that a new world order is coming and the US must emerge on top?
So they are miring Russia in war with Ukraine before getting a war with China begun.
https://therealnews.com/nato-sets-its-crosshairs-on-china-nuclear-war-be-damned
The last gasps of our dying empire. Up next is China.
They have already built a large international empire.
Even Hillary used to talk about war with China.
We aren’t provoking @#$%. If anything, China has been the source of any provocation; it’s been openly threatening its neighbors for years.
Taiwan is not recognized as an independent state by China, the UN, or the United States. Taiwan's representatives were expelled from the United Nations fifty-one years ago as being unlawful. The US has adopted the one-China policy. We have no legal right to send a politician in an official government plane to visit anywhere in China without permission from the government of China.
If Nancy were to obtain a visa and take a commercial flight to visit as a tourist, engaging in no official political business, no problem.
The only countries who maintain diplomatic relations with Taiwan are Belize, Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), Haiti, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Saint Kttts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Tuvalu.
https://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/RES/2758(XXVI)
United Nations Proclamation 2758
2758 (XXVI). Restoration of the lawful rights of the People’s Republic of China in the United NationsThe General Assembly,
Recalling the principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Considering that the restoration of the lawful rights of the People’s Republic of China is essential both for the protection of the Charter of the United Nations and for the cause that the United Nations must serve under the Charter,
Recognizing that the representatives of the Government of the People’s Republic of China are the only lawful representatives of China to the United Nations and that the People’s Republic of China is one of the five permanent members of the Security Council,
Decides to restore all its rights to the People’s Republic of China and to recognize the representatives of its Government as the only legitimate representatives of China to the United Nations, and to expel forthwith the representatives of Chiang Kai-shek from the place which they unlawfully occupy at the United Nations and in all the organizations related to it.
1976th plenary meeting, 25 October 1971.