Caitlyn Johnstone – Medium.com July 28, 2022
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has continued to pour gasoline on the foreign policy dumpster fire that is her planned visit to Taiwan next month, now reportedly encouraging other members of congress to come along for the ride.
“Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has invited a small group of lawmakers on her official trip to Taiwan, including the top Democrat and Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee,” NBC News reports.
This trip, which Beijing perceives as an egregious transgression of Washington’s longstanding one-China policy, is already so incendiary that the Pentagon is now planning to send in fighter jets and other war machinery to protect Pelosi’s plane in case of attacks by the Chinese military.
While already waging a war on Russia, the US empire is also really trying to start a war with China:
The US military is considering sending *fighter jets* to accompany a top US official as she meets with secessionists in China's province of Taiwan, who are armed with US weapons. https://t.co/WV1azGMEdR
— Benjamin Norton (@BenjaminNorton) July 27, 2022
AP reports:
While U.S. officials say they have little fear that Beijing would attack the U.S. House speaker’s plane, they are aware that a mishap, misstep or misunderstanding could endanger her safety. So the Pentagon is developing plans for any contingency.
Officials told The Associated Press that if Pelosi goes to Taiwan — still an uncertainty — the military would increase its movement of forces and assets in the Indo-Pacific region. They declined to provide details, but said that fighter jets, ships, surveillance assets and other military systems would likely be used to provide overlapping rings of protection for her flight to Taiwan and any time on the ground there.
This risk alone would be reason enough to cancel the trip, but adding to the concern is the fact that the Chinese government has begun warning against it using the same “red line” language that Russia was using in the lead-up to its invasion of Ukraine.
“We have repeatedly made clear our our firm opposition to Speaker Pelosi’s potential visit to Taiwan. If the US side insists on making the visit and challenges China’s red line, it will be met with resolute countermeasures,” China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijiang said Wednesday. “The U.S. must assume full responsibility for any serious consequence arising thereof.”
“We have repeatedly made clear our firm opposition to speaker Pelosi’s…visit to Taiwan. If the US insists on…challenging china’s red line, it will be met with resolute countermeasures. The US must ensure full responsibility for any serious consequence arising thereof.” pic.twitter.com/1gV59GwRtF
— Fiorella Isabel (@FiorellaIsabelM) July 27, 2022
China has been using this same language since news first broke about Pelosi’s planned trip, with Chinese state media Global Times saying last week that “visiting Taiwan is definitely a red line that Pelosi must never cross.”
During the lead-up to the invasion of Ukraine, Russia was issuing similar warnings using the same phrase. Putin warned over and over again that the west was taking Moscow’s “red lines” on Ukrainian neutrality too lightly, and Washington brazenly dismissed those warnings while continuing to float the possibility of future NATO membership for Ukraine.
“I don’t accept anybody’s red lines,” President Biden told the press in December of last year when asked about the warnings.
Weeks later Putin made good on his threat, launching a horrific war that has killed thousands and which could easily have been prevented with a few low-cost concessions.
“This is that red line that I talked about multiple times,” Putin said. “They have crossed it.”
Was it worth it?
Of course not.
Joe Biden Tells Vladimir Putin Where to Shove His ‘Red Lines’ https://t.co/upLip4Sz9r
— Hal Sparks (@HalSparks) December 8, 2021
Failing to learn from history is one thing; failing to learn even from the last five months is quite another. Pelosi and whoever’s orchestrating her trip should abort those plans immediately, because the dangers that are being toyed with here are not worth the moral victory of being able to say that China didn’t make you swerve in the stupidest game of “chicken” that has ever been played.
And that’s exactly what’s happening here. China’s “red line” warnings make it clear that Pelosi landing in Taiwan will at best kick up brinkmanship between the two nations another notch, while Republicans are aggressively pushing the narrative that if the trip doesn’t happen it will mean that “Communist China is winning.” The political pressure is on the side of escalation, with even progressive Democrats supporting Pelosi’s move and calls for de-escalation and detente becoming increasingly relegated to the sidelines.
We shouldn’t have to deal with this. We shouldn’t be watching a whole new country added to the potential flashpoints for nuclear armageddon just because some octogenarian in congress is too old to care if her plane gets shot down. We shouldn’t be risking another deadly conflict which stands to benefit no ordinary person over what amounts to nothing more than petty egoic chest-pounding.
If Pelosi does not go to Taiwan, Communist China is winning.
— Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) July 26, 2022
We shouldn’t have to hope that the world’s most powerful people don’t take some idiotic risks for no good reason which could hurt us all or even end up getting us all killed. We should not have systems in place which can allow the worst things imaginable to happen if the tyrants who rule over us don’t happen to make the wisest decision on any given day.
Our futures shouldn’t depend upon the better angels of the worst monsters. Those with power have far too much of it, and the ordinary people of this world have not nearly enough.
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Pelosi…
This nutter is going to strike confidence in the Taiwanese people by talking about America’s ‘rules-based-order’ and democracy.
These days Pelosi makes less sense than Biden. So go on Pelosi stop off in Taiwan, the Chinese just might lock you up.
Sounds like the ‘pres’ is planning to off her by shooting down the plane and blaming the chinese — which also gives an excuse to kick off the war there too.
.. do you really believe the war in ukraine??.. have you seen other than firemenutting out fires??
it’s all fake.. will you get over it or not??
subheading to article states that the war in Ukraine could have been avoided if a few concessions were made…
Yeah right. The Chabad screenplay for this war to exterminate Aryan Ukrainians & raze their cities/towns was probably produced years ago. The same transnational clique of Jews covertly govern NATO/Russia, so they go through the phony diplomatic motions & write these scripts for their visible puppets (Biden/Putin/Zelensky/Johnson etc) to recite to make it appear that they’re not all on the same Zionist-Communist team for the masses..
Nothing that the jew-controlled U.S. “government” does should surprise anyone at this point as it is indisputably the embodiment of pure Satanic evil. What I want to know is: What’s wrong with the Taiwanese “government” that they can’t publicly request that Pelosi not visit Taiwan? Instead they’re going to sit there mute while the Satanic U.S. “government” toys with the fate of their country (and potentially all of humanity)?
Speaking of ‘Red Lines’ this might be one. (no might about it)
At the very least it’s a message by the Pentagram(cia) that their ECM and radars are more than meets the eye. If they can send UAV(s) undetected straight into the Russian Navy Sevastopol H.Q. it makes one wonder what else they have up their sleeves.
They don’t cancel Russian Navy Day for no good reason..
Yes, yes, quite right. We all know that in the bankster NWO plans for the various bully-power spheres of influence, that Russia is gets a great hunk of the Ukraine, China gets Taiwan, and Israel gets Syria.
l suppose diplomatic success and the ability to force meaningful context geopolitically is a fools errand…
Especially when the ‘best’ politician you can field for the job is an incoherent corpse pickled in gin…
“China is a sleeping giant; let him sleep, for if he wakes, he will shake the World.”
Napoléon Bonaparte
If you check the comments section of the Daily Mail regarding Pelosi’s proposed visit….
AT LEAST 50% recognise what this is all about…..Its about the imminent election in the USA in which the imbecile Biden will get an absolute drubbing IF the election is not knobbled.
The pathetic imbecile Biden has appeared on nationwide television talking tough…..as he can barely remain upright.
The whole thing is so obviously a scam that even joe average might twig that he is being played by the politicians in conjunction with the disgusting media.
Remember….as suggested by Nico X…..there is a high likely hood that the top echelons of the Chinese power structure is being run by Chinese crypto jews.
Thus the movement of jews into China around the 1930’s had an objective.(one of whom was a NZ Jew Rewi Alley,a homosexual pedophile incidently….he spoke fluent Chinese and was an acquaintance of Chairman Meow.
As usual crypto jews will be found in finance and the media…..BUT these will difficult to identify unless you are a Chinese who may be able to spot “anomalies”…like the avoidance of Pork Chow Mein…unless during a severe economic downturn where such meals may have substitutes like the family cat or dog or at a push,a chinese peasant lightly cooked.(Chinese will eat anything with legs with the exception of furniture)
If only Pelosi’s trip was real….many Americans would only be too pleased to see the corrupt crone blown to smithereens…..
Bidens tough talk was comedy gold…..pure farce….Biden is a corrupt old prick….hes gotta go along with his corrupt son.
Surely Americans will ask questions about this bullshit Al Qaeda TRIPE….The Taliban may have even provided details of his exact location….just to get rid of him.
Needless to say the democratic free media WONT be telling Americans just how much of the billions of dollars of military equipment left behind has been revived……