Posted on 07/30/2022 11:07:12 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
China said it was conducting military exercises Saturday off its coast opposite Taiwan after warning Speaker Nancy Pelosi of the U.S. House of Representatives to scrap possible plans to visit the island democracy, which Beijing claims as part of its territory.
The ruling Communist Party’s military wing, the People’s Liberation Army, was conducting “live-fire exercises” near the Pingtan islands off Fujian province from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., the official Xinhua News Agency said. The Maritime Safety Administration warned ships to avoid the area.
Such exercises usually involve artillery. The one-sentence announcement gave no indication whether Saturday’s exercise also might include missiles, fighter planes or other weapons.
Pelosi, who would be the highest-ranking American elected official to visit Taiwan since 1997, has yet to confirm whether she will go. President Xi Jinping warned his U.S. counterpart, Joe Biden, in a phone call Thursday against “external interference” in Beijing’s dealings with the island.
China says Taiwan has no right to conduct foreign relations. It sees visits by American officials as encouragement for the island to make its decades-old de facto independence official.
The Ministry of Defense warned Washington this week not to allow Pelosi, who is Biden’s equal in rank as leader of one of three branches of government, to visit Taiwan. A spokesman said the PLA would take unspecified “strong measures” to stop pro-independence activity.
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Pelosi has no official duties that would take her to Taiwan. The Chinese have been pretty relaxed about Trump people going there in the very recent past. They would have a lot to lose in a military confrontation with the US. Ditto us vs them. Do the Chinese know about something the Deep State is doing in Taiwan? Have they just been emboldened by our Afghanistan humiliation and our current enmeshment in the Ukraine mess? Does the Deep State want war with China? Why else would they be shipping their Speaker of the House into danger on a 21st century Lusitania?
Steny Hoyer
Oh Please, Pelosi is safer on that plane than she is in the passenger seat of her husband’s car.
And they have to cross 100 miles of ocean defended by several nuclear US attack and unknown number of tawainese diesel electric subs.
Booze for 10. She’s the only passenger on the flight.
China would invade, but it would not be a large cross-strait landing. It would be the insertion of special ops units for clandestine action, sabotage and mayhem. They may stay there as a headache for the Taiwanese, or be extricated once they’ve done what they had set out to do. Then, China would initiate a full air and sea blockade, and wait for nature to take its course.
Oh, cool. Maybe she can watch those exercises from an AWACS.
Sure. Hollywood is just jam-packed with Edgar Cayce types.
Do you know of China’s ability to refuel in the air?
Do you know if the airwing on their lastest carrier have finished quals?
Projecting power is a difficult thing.
5.56mm
It would really be a shame if they did....
You know.....
The thing!
Every world war we’ve been placed in, have been by Democrat residents. Wilson, Roosevelt, now Biden.
And these frigging Bolsheviks call Republicans warmongers.
The blockade could be followed up by a biological attack further “justifying” the blockade.
I think Nancy will go to Taiwan, after all she’s got way too much invested in it and after all she’s the girl who no priest can say no communion too. But I’ll bet what she does is show upstairs in the dead of night all stealthy flown in on some private aircraft with a photo op and then come back here and basically stick her tongue out at the Chinese
If the US were smart, which we are not we would start a brain drain out of Taiwan.
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