Posted on 08/02/2022 4:24:19 AM PDT by FarCenter
HONG KONG/TAIPEI - China has slapped a ban on thousands of Taiwanese food imports, from fruit and vegetables to cookies and baby food, ahead of an expected visit to the island by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi later Tuesday.
The unconfirmed trip by the highest-ranking U.S. official in a quarter century -- and China's reaction to it -- have sent regional tensions soaring and plunged Sino-U. S. relations into the deep freeze, as fears grow over a possible military response by Beijing.
China, which claims Taiwan as its own territory, has repeatedly warned against Pelosi's trip, while Washington on Monday said it would not be intimidated by Beijing's "saber-rattling."
It was not clear when China's customs agency imposed the sweeping ban on food and beverages from neighboring Taiwan, but local media reported that the freeze happened on the eve of Pelosi's contentious visit.
"The ban is clearly an underhanded attempt to punish Taiwan for U.S. actions," said Chen Kuan-ting, CEO of the Taiwan NextGen Foundation think tank. "China continues to use economic manipulation to try to coerce Taiwan's political relationships and behavior. This is yet more proof of China's heavy-handed approach to try to dictate the China-Taiwan relationship."
The Chinese customs agency website showed products from at least 50 categories of imports -- including vegetables, cookies, cakes, drinks and fresh seafood - were now listed as "suspended" on Tuesday, even though their registrations appeared to remain valid, with some slated to expire only in 2027.
Currently, more than 2,000 individual items are suspended, or about two-thirds of some 3,228 items registered as food imports from Taiwan, according to a Nikkei Asia review. It was unclear if all the suspensions were made at the same time.
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Pelosi’s trip is just the excuse.
Think January 6.
Nice of our Deep State to provide their ChiCom masters with one.
And our Deep State is aiding and abetting.
The Biden admin is attempting to cook up another distraction from the recession (It’s not a recession-recession screams the MSM cheerleaders) for the mid-term.
false flag created by the regime and the CCP to take tiawan
I still need to know if it’s her ‘place’ as the Speaker of the House to do foreign policy??
Caught a few minutes of Hannity's radio show yesterday and he had Newt on who is the highest ranking US official to visit Taiwan. He was speaker same as Nancy but he didn't really say why he went. He and Hannity mostly talked tough neocon stuff.
Xi is imposing sanctions so as to punish his own people. Where have I seen that before?
Nana Piglosi - The Evil Witch Of The West
No longer content to stir up noxious clouds of excrement and keep people at each other's throats here in the U.S.A., America's Commie Queen
brings her Old Bag Clown Show to the Far east to rip the scabs off long festering conflict between China and Taiwan.
Correct, china is starving due to bad harvests. So shutting off imports of food will further starve the people. This gives them propaganda fonder to convince the chinese people that Taiwan is the Bad Guy here and needs to be punished.
I predict she (not Xi) will chicken out.
Please watch this outstanding 2021 computer simulation of a South China Sea escalation of naval contacts ending with a USN carrier being sunk. It’s really superbly done, and will give you a feel for all the players in motion below, upon, and above the ocean on both sides.
“USA vs China: To Sink a Carrier”
886,551 views Premiered Jul 8, 2021
HypOps simulates a hypothetical clash between the United States and the People’s Liberation Army in the South China Sea. A FONOP gone bad leads to a JH-7 shootdown by an Arleigh Burke class destroyer. Tensions continues to escalate, with air battles erupting between American F/A-18 and Chinese J-11 and J16 fighter aircraft with BVR AIM-120 AMRAAMS versus Chinese PL-15 and PL-12 missiles. Hostilities will escalate to the point where China will launch YJ-83s, YJ-18s, YJ-12s and even DF-21D ant-ship ballistic cruise missiles against the AEGIS missile defense systems. Just how much will it take to sink an American carrier strike group?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJXWJ-Px5tU&t=01s&ab_channel=HypOps
I will argue that the intent of the import ban is not starvation of People on the mainland.
The intent is purely economic, punishment to Taiwan food merchants that supply the various prepared foods and fresh vegetables to the mainland.
In point of fact, Taiwan is in reality China. There is free flow of people and trade between the mainland and the island. Paradoxically, Taiwan also exists as a self governing entity with it’s own trade all over the world, a military, and a free population.
In recent time, many Taiwan factories on the mainland have quietly closed and gone elsewhere. Elsewhere includes the USA. Those ties are severed.
Chairman Mao would absolutely approve.Using mass starvation as a weapon against opponents was one of his favorite hobbies.
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Mao would be aghast at the extremes the CCP is going today. They are out Maoing Mao.
The mass starvation during Mao’s time was not a “weapon against opponents”, but rather a miscalculation and an act of hubris and of face saving.
Like his campaign to to make steel - which turned out utterly worthless pot metal, it was all about showing Stain that Mao’s brand of communism was faithful to Marx and that China was a great Communist country and a productive ally.
So, Mao sold the entire grain crop to Russia to show how bountiful and productive China’s farms were. Leaving nothing for 38 million people to eat.
How would keeping food from being imported to China starve the Taiwanese
That’s funny. The PRC is having trouble feeding itself and it’s banning food imports...
Kabuki Theater.
If you feel like harassing ChiComm trolls on social media, refer to China as West Taiwan. That should also earn you a ban on Twitter and Fakebook.
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