Posted on 08/20/2022 6:42:40 AM PDT by Salman
Just days before House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was expected to visit Taiwan, Chinese President Xi Jinping had a request of President Biden: Find a way to keep Pelosi from visiting.
Xi’s request in a July 28 call with Biden, described by a senior White House official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive conversation, followed myriad warnings Chinese officials made to U.S. counterparts of what China might do in retaliation for Pelosi’s visit to the self-governing island that Beijing considers part of its territory.
But Biden told Xi he could not oblige, explaining that Congress was an independent branch of government and that Pelosi (D-Calif.), as with other members of Congress, would make her own decisions about foreign trips, the official said. Biden also warned Xi against taking provocative and coercive actions if the House speaker were to travel to Taiwan, the official said.
Even as they defended Pelosi’s right to visit, however, top U.S. officials harbored deep concerns about the trip, according to several senior administration and White House officials, most of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to talk candidly. The United States had seen indications over the last several months that China was considering unprecedented military activity across the Taiwan Strait, and officials had seen signs that China would use Pelosi’s visit as a pretext to act, the senior officials said.
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So much for that Chinese gathered hoard of blackmail material on BidenIdiot....../s
Blackmail wouldn’t work because Biden is an expendable front for whoever the hell is running things.
” senior White House official who spoke on the condition of anonymity”
BS. Who here believes this tripe, let alone coming from the Compost?
So Brave Joe stood up the ChiComs. Absolute BS.
Nancy Pelosi is just as beholden to the CCP as Joe Biden. Why didn’t the Central Committee of the People’s Republic of China contact her directly?
Perhaps they did, and told her to go ahead anyway, playing both ends against the middle, after giving Joe the opposite advice.
Kabuki theater.
Pelosi will always do and break any rule she wants to because she can without any consequences. She should have been gone decades ago.
This absolutely proves that Biden is not a bought and paid for puppet of the Chinese! /s
Does anyone believe that President Biden said that to Xi Jinping when President Biden tried so hard to discourage the trip by Pelosi?
Beat the paywall: https://archive.ph/iM4XU
Biden should have told Xi the truth: the trip was just a cover for business deals for Pelosi’s son, that the Taiwanese were making to buy influence with Pelosi and thereby Congress. If China outbid them, she’d drop Taiwan like a flaming wok.
Kabuki Theater BS in an election year to make the Rats look tough on China.
It's a front page featured story.
The real story (and this is significant) is that this is now the official narrative.
Yep. Our press gets their marching orders from the DNC.
Not I. Tagline still applies.
They needed to give Hunter another Billion.
Not clear to me under what legal authority Biden (or any President) could have done so.
The point is the impression they are hoping this story will make.
Isn’t that obvious?
And who didn’t see this coming?
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