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© (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2022.Suspected drones over Taiwan, cyber attacks after Pelosi visit
By Yimou Lee TAIPEI©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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fallaffel
CCP must be happy to have a chance to distract it's people from the real estate crisis.
Yrral
The Whitehouse has no bearing on Pelosi , Pelosi serve nothing in Biden , Administration the Democrats house caucus, determine the fate of the speaker,she serve at the will of the Caucus Google AOC Pelosi
Designer 02
What did this visit achieve? Was it worth the possibility of starting WW3?
theFu
That control is an illusion and that the CCP needs to learn this.
Every month, different leaders of the world should visit Taiwan. Keep doing that over and over and over until the CCP gets the message. Freedom.
Taiwan should apply to join the UN. Let's get this started. Make America decide. Either it supports democracies or it doesn't.
Sh1mon M4sada
The CCP is writing checks on its own young population, much like Singapore did many moons ago with its totalitarian rule, ie you can have an opinion as long as it matches that of LKY. The CCP is damaging their young psychologically so the outlook is not great for China is a few years.
When you look at the antics of CCP officials like Wang Yi (who btw walked out of an ASEAN dinner just before it started just yesterday) and Zhao Lijian who attends press conferences with doctored images and barfs like wild wolfs just goes to show how damaged they are. They even think their hyper sensitivity is 'normal'.
Sh1mon M4sada
Look at the committees she is on. If the Whitehouse operates without consulting any of these committees, then USA is in a lot worse shape than anyone can imagine.
https://history.house.gov/People/Detail/19519
TokyoLiving
And this is just the beggining, world will see it..
UN supports ONE CHINA policy..
GBR48
Any military action would not be related to Pelosi or Taiwanese politics.
Beijing has bigger problems. The property sector is teetering (property is the primary asset of most Chinese) and could take local banks down with it. That would destabilise Chinese society. Covid Zero may also have caused some form of factional split in the CCP as it is causing seismic damage to the Chinese economy and replacing default loyalty with rebelliousness. Xi's reversion to Communist purity will not be everyone's cup of tea in the CCP high command.
For these reasons a limited conflict would be an option - all nationalist regimes use wars as distractions from severe economic destabilisation. It's a risk though, as they can only juggle so many plates, the US have better military toys and Russia won't help. China will happily play the long game with Taiwan, however annoyed they are at this sort of thing. It may even have helped Beijing, as Pelosi's visit keeps Chinese social media buzzing in a nationalist fervour, away from domestic issues, which are getting serious.
Yrral
Big trouble in Little China,if this get out of control, Pelosi may be removed as speaker,her support is really shaky among members,who open rebel against her ,it not that she is not doing enough,the party want a more progressive path