Posted on 03/29/2023 5:44:53 AM PDT by FarCenter
China vowed on Wednesday to "fight back" should Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen meet the US House Speaker during a trip to the United States.
Tsai left on Wednesday for the United States, from where she will head to Guatemala and Belize to shore up ties with diplomatic allies. On her way back to Taiwan she will stop in California, where US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy had said he would meet her.
China claims the democratic island as part of its territory to be retaken one day and, under its "One China" principle, no country may maintain official ties with both Beijing and Taipei.
Beijing warned Wednesday that it was "resolutely opposed" to any meeting between Tsai and McCarthy and vowed to take "resolute measures to fight back" if it goes ahead.
"If (Tsai) engages with US House Speaker McCarthy, it will be another provocation that seriously violates the One China principle, undermines China's sovereignty and territorial integrity, and undermines peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait," Taiwan Affairs Office spokesperson Zhu Fenglian said.
Tsai's trip follows Honduras's decision this month to open diplomatic relations with Beijing, leaving Belize and Guatemala among just 13 countries that have official ties with Taipei.
"External pressure will not hinder our determination to go global," Tsai told reporters at the airport before leaving. "We are calm and confident. We will not succumb and we will not provoke (others)."
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Belize, Eswatini, Guatemala, Haiti , Holy See (Vatican City) , Marshall Islands , Nauru , Palau , Paraguay , Saint Kitts and Nevis , Saint Lucia , Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Tuvalu
Two things are going on right now. China somehow got Jack Mau to return after he said he wouldn’t. He was the billionaire founder of Ant who disappeared for a year after signing over his entire fortune to the CCP. The Chinese coproducers with Honda and (I think Citroen) sold out their inventory of Chinese produced models at half the MSRP, around $17,000 US. This undercuts the price of every western car that would have been sold in China. Today, China is holding a conference attended by the CEO’s of Apple, a host of Taiwanese companies and practically every Fortune 100 company in an effort to restart the Chinese economy. If they fall for the pitch it will undercut the sanctions intended to stop China from attacking Taiwan. The Chinese are desperate and desperate men do stupid things. But I have to say they’re playing the hand they have very well. They make the US government’s attempts at keeping a lid on Chinese aggression look pathetic. (At latest count the Chinese have over 700 actual military ships. Taiwan is stupid to fall for this, but Taiwan’s former president is in China presumably making a deal.)
He should tell China to QUIT F-ING THREATENING US, and every time they do, they can expect we will do the opposite in the most embarrassing way possible.
More threats?
You’re stupid as a box of rocks.
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