Chinese naval drils near the Straits of Taiwan
Tyler Durden – Zero Hedge Feb 24, 2022
The influential former editor and current commentator for China’s state-run English daily Global Times issued a shocking comment hours into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Hu Xijin weighed in on Thursday’s PLA fighter jet breach of Taiwan’s air defense identification zone by saying “Get used to it. There may be more PLA aircraft fly[ing] there tomorrow.”
Get used to it. There may be more PLA aircraft fly there tomorrow. https://t.co/viU4vlEye5
— Hu Xijin 胡锡进 (@HuXijin_GT) February 24, 2022
While the prominent state-linked English language pundit is known for trolling the West and denouncing Washington policy in Taiwan and the South China Sea broadly, he also typically echoes the thinking of top CCP officials in Beijing.
Did he just warn the West that China is about to move on Taiwan – at a “perfect storm” moment that all eyes are on the war in Ukraine? Did Putin just set the example for near-term Chinese military action?
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Taiwan was quick to issue official statement vehemently condemning Russia’s early morning launch of war on Ukraine. Foreign ministry spokeswoman Joanne Ou denounced the attack on Ukraine’s sovereignty, at a tense moment that Beijing continues to eye Taiwan as its own territory.
“Ukrainian cities like Kyiv has been attacked by gunfire, leading to fears of a full-scale war between Russia and Ukraine,” she said. “We call on all sides to respect Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and oppose the use of violence or coercion to change the status quo.”
At the same time China’s initial reaction noticeably failed to condemn the invasion, with the Chinese foreign ministry calling for all sides to “exercise restraint” – while ultimately castigating the United States for “fueling fire” in the build-up of tensions.
According to a review of a lengthy press briefing in Beijing, the ministry spokesperson refused over and over again to acknowledge an “invasion” of a sovereign country by Russia:
In a Ministry of Foreign Affairs briefing that went on for more than 90 minutes, spokesperson and Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs Hua Chunying dodged more than 11 questions regarding Russia’s actions in Ukraine. They included repeated inquiries on whether Beijing would consider Russia’s acts an invasion and whether they violated Ukraine’s territorial integrity.
Hua added that China would begin importing Russian wheat, a move that could ease the impact of Western sanctions on Russia.
She called the conflict “very complicated” while urging that the legitimate “security concerns of all parties” must be addressed – which is a clear acknowledgement that China takes of utmost seriousness Moscow’s rejection of NATO expansion.
According to the exchange with reporters:
After questions from multiple media on whether China considered Russia’s moves an invasion, Hua asked reporters, “Why are you obsessed with this question?”
“You can ask the US side. They keep fueling fires… You can ask them if they have any plans to put out the fire.”
Meanwhile on Thursday as the world’s attention is fully on Ukraine and Putin’s “shock and awe” war unfolding there, Taiwan’s air force scrambled fighters to warn away nine Chinese PLA aircraft that breached its air defense identification zone.
2020: China takes Hong Kong. The West does nothing.
2021: The Taliban are handed Afghanistan by the West.
2022: Russia takes Ukraine.
The West is in retreat.
And everyone with half a brain knows that Taiwan is next on the menu.— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) February 24, 2022
While Chinese aircraft entering the area off the island’s south is nothing new, and has occurred on a weekly basis for more than the past year, it’s led to speculation that China could take a page out of Putin’s playbook and mount its own rapid overwhelming attack. This after the Communist Party takeover of Hong Kong via its local puppets has already long been a done deal.
Tyler Durden coming to you from his Langley basement office.
The West “looks after” everything in the world except its own cities–they can “go to the Devil”, and do. In Britain there is even a lot of concern about the countryside still being civilised and free of Boluba, Mbuti, Ngugi,, Ahmed, Muhammed etc. Why aren’t our women in the kebabs, we would like to know.
Planetary evolution at work. We all saw how, under GW Bush, the USA became an exceptional nation with the power to create its own reality, and now Russia too has become an exceptional nation with the power to create its own reality, with the possibility that China will also become an exceptional nation.
How long until other countries join the list of exceptional nations, that is the question, but one thing is certain, Britain will never become exceptional with Billy Bunter at the helm and Liz Truss in the crows nest.
@Carl Jones…LMAO..Good one sir!!
Or mommies’ basement.
The three leaders of Ukraine since the Maidan revolt have been Jews……Yats, Poroshenko and Zelensky.
The Jew Nuland was a large part of the Maidan revolt, as well as Jew Pyatt and Jew Blinken. It is difficult to find what percentage of Ukraine’s population is Jewish today. It might be as small as under 1 percent up to maybe 3-5 percent(?). It is sad that the vast majority in Ukraine will suffer from war because of Jews.
@ Lewis
Further to our observation of newsreaders and comedians collapsing while often advocating for the jab etc, we discussed if for some reason they were being targeted for some undiscernible purpose in the overall game – rather than just affording us schadenfreude via some divine retribution. Here’s another one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-hvetQw6sw
I will just put some pure speculation out there:
1/They are “our side” hitting back with “their weapons”
2/ It is advertising for the string pullers microwave weaponry.
And the default explanation:
3/ It is pure coincidence that jabbed people pontificating about vaccines in front of the cameras are hit at that time when they would otherwise be fine going about their other tasks that might occupy 23 hours 50 minutes of the rest of the day.
I’m warming to 2/
Unlikely. Taiwan is openly backed by the US. If China were to attack, then the US (which has been pushing for war for years), would respond (it would have to anyway, or it’s credibility would collapse completely).
China is more likely to take the long view, gradually increasing pressure on Taipei until the government collapses. In the meantime China will continue to upgrade and expand its military.
The danger for China is that the US will stage a Gulf of Tonkin false flag in order to precipitate an early war.
I wonder how China sees this, and are they willing to make their move on Taiwan when they can see the impotence of Biden and the faggot infested US Military. The fall of the Ukraine in 72 hours could be very tempting for China to take advantage of this unique moment in history. The Taliban saw weak dick Biden correctly and made their move, and now the USA is out of their nation.
Politifact – “More than 15,000 transgender Americans” are “serving in the military today.”
Listening to the news blame Trump for the fall of Ukraine is very laughable, but Trump makes me nervous because once again he is bragging it wouldn’t have happened under his watch. I now understand why Trump made so many threats in his first term, he has a huge ego and doesn’t want to be seen in history as weak, he did not want to be the president when these nations fall. Trump doesn’t want war, and he sure doesn’t want to be forced into a corner and have to go to war to protect his legacy and ego.
Trump Spokesperson: Why Have Nuclear Weapons ‘If You’re Afraid To Use’ Them?
So it is logical that China may take Taiwan as a chess piece while the US and NATO are spinning their wheels in the mud outside of Ukraine. Once Taiwan falls, Guam is next on China’s shopping list. There is no way Guam can stand as US naval and air base if China is going to expand as a major military power. Guam is a major pivot point to project power in the Pacific. From Guam, bombers can reach Australia, Philippines, SE Asia, and North Korea – and all those nations are about to be swallowed by China and it’s sphere of influence. So how much longer under Biden will North and South Korea stay separated?
The point I am making is that the world geopolitical map is being rapidly redrawn, and the first two dominoes to fall were Afghanistan and Ukraine. Which nation will be withdrawn from the US hegemon next? Opportunity awaits the bold actor. Russia took Ukraine and there wasn’t a damn thing NATO could do about it. Jews are now crying big crocodile tears – just turn on any western news and hear them whine about Russia and Putin. I have zero sympathy for this loss and see Putin’s actions as righteous in face of a constantly meddling evil Jewish (Rothschild -Zionist) empire.
Jews are really pissed about the fall of Ukraine, on many sites (including this one) I am reading very delusional comments by saddened Jews at such a great loss (for them). But there is no sympathy for the Jew on the internet because the world has awakened to the Jew problem. For instance over at Goolag (Google) Jewtube (Youtube) wants to censor free speech – they actually want laws passed to end our first amendment! So this cry of freedom from the Jewish news sources lands on deaf ears, Jews do not want freedom in Amerika, so how can the Jews running the Ukraine want freedom over there?
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One more thing that I have been talking about for decades has come true (and no one noticed). It became obvious with the advent of GPS and cruise missiles that accuracy is so good, and missiles so fast, all of the invincible WW2 hardware is obsolete. Basically a million dollar missile can sink a billion dollar air craft carrier – and there ain’t anything you can do about it. With satellites and drones and airborne radar the enemy knows exactly where your big ship or tank is, and can direct a missile at it from many different platforms. Start a war, push the button, watch the ships sink. There is no more hunting ships with U-boats.
So I said many times when war comes the ships will be sunk in 30 minutes and that did come to pass with the Ukrainian navy – sunk to the bottom, glug, glug, glug, and there was nothing the Jew could do about it. The all powerful Jew and his machinations have failed in the Ukraine, the crybabies can now go to the wailing wall and complain to their god how they have been betrayed (by science over religion).
It’s a strange time, where the Jews’ Commie empires are more nationalist, and Yid-man is not sure how much to encourage them now. Fully Communist China would have been offered Taiwan like a fruit dessert, after feasting on the rest of China, like Russia being given most of the rest of Eurasia. (The Scum are not sure who to give India to either). It must be a strange life Jew bankers have, deciding what to do with 100 000 000 square kilometres of human habitation that’s really nothing to do with them.
IT WAS ALWAYS CHINESE
HEMISPHER : jew USA has nothing
lost there . its already suficient that
they nearly extinguished culture of
native Hawaians,Samoans,Marshallians
with their money greedy cocacola +
Macburger + holywood nonsense !
why post if u dont give a shit ?
There is also a secret Race War in China I was told about once, where the Han are killing or oppressing the other fifty tribes and are probably the ones taking Siberia. It would mean the new Nationalist China is really back to Tribal Warfare, one of life’s realities.
To Simon Smith-if I had to try to explain I might suggest that the careerist is advertising the jab but at a deep level knows that it is very unhealthy, thinks about having had it and the limbic system takes a break to attempt some healing of the body.