Posted on 08/02/2022 7:35:24 AM PDT by FarCenter
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected to arrive on the island of Taiwan on Tuesday night according to foreign media reports, with rising concerns and opposition over her trip within the island and increasing military activities by the Chinese mainland, the Taiwan authorities and the US military in the region. Analysts from both sides of the Taiwan Straits said this risky move will totally change the situation in the region, while the mainland will more actively dominate and speed up the reunification process with comprehensive measures including military and political actions, and these actions will let the US and the secessionist Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities feel the pain.
There are many options on the table for China to speed up the reunification process. These could include striking Taiwan military targets, just as the PLA did in the previous Taiwan Straits crisis, pushing new legislation for national reunification, sending military aircraft and vessels to enter the island's "airspace" and "water areas" controlled by the Taiwan authorities and ending the tacit cease-fire with the Taiwan military.
Whether Pelosi can make her trip to Taiwan happen or not, there is no reason for China to be nervous, because such a political show will not change the overwhelming advantages, especially the military one, held by the mainland against the Taiwan authorities and the US in the region. Nor will the trip provide any possibility of "Taiwan independence," and it cannot change the unshakable hard fact that Taiwan is part of China, said experts, noting that what China needs to do is to use this incident to maximize its advantage and keep pushing the reunification process.
Hua Chunying, a spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said at a routine press conference on Tuesday that "it was the US who takes the provocative action first and has caused the escalation of Taiwan Straits tension. The US should and must take full responsibility for this."
Military preparations
Both of aircraft carriers of the PLA Navy have reportedly moved out from their homeports respectively amid Pelosi's possible visit to the island of Taiwan, which media reported could happen on Tuesday evening.
The aircraft carrier Liaoning on Sunday embarked on a voyage from its homeport in Qingdao, East China's Shandong Province, and the aircraft carrier Shandong on Monday set out from its homeport in Sanya, South China's Hainan Province, accompanied by a Type 075 amphibious assault ship, media on the island of Taiwan reported on Tuesday.
If Nancy cancels her visit it is a Green Light for china to invade.
If this report is in any way accurate the PRC is citing her visit as a reason they need to focus more intently on “reunification”.
China doesn’t want to invade.
China wants to maintain the status quo, since that is the most advantageous to China.
The sun rising is just as much reason for them. DPRK does the same thing.
The smart play for china would be to wait until peelosi is back in sanfransicko and the carrier group has just pulled into port. Then invade, if that is the plan.
OMG! Isn’t she THERE YET?
The media and Demoncrats have been milking this story forever already!
I’m SICK of it, and Pelosi.
The two active PLAN aircraft carriers are not to be mistaken for a real aircraft carrier. The are only good for fleet defense - due to limited loads, range, fuel of its unproven J10 & J15 planes.
the third carrier is 5 years away from activation according to the PLAN.
Speed up? How fast has this process been going for the last 75 years?
The future of the world is in the hands of Nutty Nancy.
Personally I think we should hand Taiwan about 10 nukes and let them tell China, “Yeah sure you can probably “reunify” us if you really want too, but which ten of your major population centers are you willing to throw away to do so?”
Agreed. Not only do they not want to invade, invading is the last thing they want to do.
She landed landed last night, in the dark, with the 89th Airlift Wing’s 757.
Don't blame foreign tyrants. Blame feckless and stupid Americans.
PLA carriers: juicy missile magnets.
CC
torpedoes work well and are harder to avoid.
We could likely park a Los Angeles or Seawolf class nearby and pick them off if needed.
CC
China wanted Biden elected and Trump gone. Now they are upset that he really is a doddering fool?
Why don’t they just tell us everything they know about him? He could be gone in a week.
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