Press TV – Aug 2, 2022
The Chinese military says it will launch “targeted military operations” in response to US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan amid soaring tensions between Washington and Beijing over the highly-controversial trip.
Wu Qian, a spokesman for the Chinese Defense Ministry, said on Tuesday that the targeted military operations would be aimed at defending China’s territorial integrity and countering foreign interference in Taiwan’s affairs.
“The Chinese People’s Liberation Army is on high alert and will launch a series of targeted military operations to counter this, resolutely defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity, and resolutely thwart external interference and ‘Taiwan independence’ separatist attempts,” Wu said in a statement.
The warning was made shortly after Pelosi arrived at Taipei’s International Airport as part of an Asia tour, bashed by Beijing as provocative.
It was unclear where the Chinese military would target, or when it would take such action.
The visit by the US House speaker, who is third in the line of succession to the presidency and a long-time critic of China, comes amid deteriorating relations between the US and China. Beijing has repeatedly warned the US government against formal ties with Taipei, which is the sovereign territory of China.
Under the “one China” policy, nearly all countries across the globe recognize Beijing’s sovereignty over Chinese Taipei, including the US, which nevertheless courts the secessionist government in Taipei, supports its anti-China stance, and supplies it with massive amounts of armaments.
China had warned earlier on Tuesday that the United States would “pay the price” if Pelosi visited Taiwan during her Asia trip. “The US side will bear the responsibility and pay the price for undermining China’s sovereign security interests,” China’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a regular press briefing in Beijing.
Media reports said earlier in the day that several Chinese planes and warships had flown and sailed close to the median line dividing the Taiwan Strait ahead of Pelosi’s visit. The American military also deployed four warships, including an aircraft carrier, near Taiwan.
China on Tuesday imposed new import bans on more than 100 Taiwanese products over Taipei’s role in Pelosi’s high-profile visit.
The Chinese military had flexed its muscle by holding live fire exercises just 80 miles from Taiwan on Saturday.
> the US House speaker, who is third in the line of succession to the presidency
It’s like you’ve got “royals”. I wonder who’s further down the list. If you look at britain, if someone were to do us all a favour and kill the “queen” and all those “below” it, there’d be some person no one has ever heard of “sitting” on the “throne”. But then, in a “country” that has unelected “leaders” right across the board, this should come as no surprise. Better the pedo you know…
We all know the US wants China (and Russia) to make a first strike so the US can accuse them of starting the war, but China could turn that back on the US. It could announce to the world it will side with Hawaii’s Freedom Movement for Independence, and it will send a Chinese delegation there as well as a naval fleet – just as the US has done with Taiwan, and though the sole delegate Pelosi was still a US delegation.
The US would soon launch strikes and start the war.
I thought The Speaker was 2nd in the hierarchy and The ‘Veep’ 3rd?
Has anybody realised yet how the Chinese “Targeted Military Operations” bears a remarkable similarity to Russia’s “Special Military Operations” as used in Ukraine?
Considering this, we might expect a similar taking out of Taiwan’s military infrastructure in addition to Naval and Air blockades as a starting point.
The Americans are so very far from home in a tub that is nineteen years old. 19 years takes its toll on a ship.
How do you say “I call” in Mandarin..
@ ATaff Nope, it’s the other way around. Though we certainly wouldn’t be any worse off if a bucket of lukewarm pig piss was 2nd in line and a broken clock 3rd, with a cigar-smoking roller-skating chimp as president.
What a completely senseless provocation to send that vile museum of treachery there. But since we are firmly in a hellish world of satanic inversion, thanks to the Jews, such an insulting disgrace makes perfect sense. They may as well send that reeking shit-stain on the fabric of humanity Pelosi to Beijing next so she can slap Xi across the face with a big rubber dong.
At this point, we can only hope China’s “targeted military operations” will include them sending hypersonic missiles screaming into those festering sewers of Washington DC, The City, Jew York, Lost Angeles, Basel, Tel Aviv, and Jewrusalem and turn them all into smouldering craters so the rest of us have a fighting chance to start over.
And, do you know what? Nothing will come of this as it’s just posturing on the world stage supported by the MSM.
Nothing to see here…
> I thought The Speaker was 2nd in the hierarchy and The ‘Veep’ 3rd?
Like it makes a difference which witch you shove in the blight house.
China threatening a country that just gave away @60 bil that they would “pay the price” should realize that Nancy would prolly LIKE that. They should be more grateful that she didn’t give Taiwan a few more fighter jets or yet another mighty hurl of luchre.
Then they’ll really look like amateurs!
Thesis (NATO/Ukraine) Antithesis (Soviet Russia/China) Synthesis (Great Reset/Agenda 2030/Whiteocide)
They’re all playing their scripted dialectical roles to institute global techno-Communism. But hey, the West fought & aided the victory of Judeo-Communism in WWII, so this is the world you get…Only chance the white race has left is ‘The Book of the Law’ & the A.A. (Army of Aiwass). Join today.
Demented old vodka soaked biddy starts WW3 , now lets see if them hypersonic missiles are as good as they say.
They would surely not be untargeted.
You do tealuse of course that Pelosi is a Catholic Jew….A Marrano as they used to be called in 15th century Spain.
Currently the USA resembles the USSR…where all the leaders are in their eighties!!!….WHAT AN ABSURD SITUATION.
Theyre more likely to do as they are told.
Did you see the cretinous corrupt crypto jew Biden issuing threats against pseudo terrorists….ITS A FARCE….
“Got political problems at home?”….no worries,bring a terrorist out of the closet and make dire announcements….
That Pelosi crone should be ROTTING IN PRISON…..
One thing is for sure at the mid terms…..this member of the living dead will be voted out….not that it makes any difference.
Confucius says a lot of Chinese sound and fury signifying absolutely nothing will only inspire contempt and red faces..
The idiots in Washington (and most of the commenters here) think that war is conducted only with bombs and guns. Well Russia has shown that USA and Europe are far more vulnerable to simple things like Gas and Oil. Should China decide to ‘accidentally’ disrupt the production of computer chips then 92% of the production used in USA and Europe will stop. A few little ‘accidental’ fires such as is happening to US food corporations and all you systems fail in a matter of months. Car production? try going back to non-computerised cars, it would take 20 years. Try running your power system without new computer chips or computerised equipment.
To destroy Intel and it’s dozen or so factories requires only a single factory to be ‘accidentally’ burned to the ground. That factory produces the ‘masks’ that every other machine uses to make the chips.
Morons, the lot of you.