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Caitlin Johnstone
Title: China Is Issuing The Same "Red Line" Warnings About Taiwan That Russia Issued AboutUkraine
Published: 2022-07-28
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INZHea7wd0s
Title: China Is Issuing The Same "Red Line" Warnings About Taiwan That Russia Issued AboutUkraine
Published: 2022-07-28
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INZHea7wd0s
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china is issuing the same red line warnings about taiwan that russia issued about ukraine 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 has invited a small group of lawmakers on her official trip to taiwan including2/12
the top democrat and republican on the house foreign affairs committee nbc news reports this trip which beijing perceives as an as an egregious transgression of washington's long-standing 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 ap reports quote while u.s officials say3/12
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 in uncertainty the military would increase its movement of forces and assets to the indo-pacific region they declined to provide details but4/12
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 end quote 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 language5/12
that russia was using in the lead-up to its invasion of ukraine we have repeatedly made clear our firm opposition to speaker pelosi's potential visit to taiwan if the u.s side insists on making the visit and challenges china's red line it will be met with resolute countermeasures china's foreign ministry spokesperson charlie zhang said wednesday the u.s must assume full responsibility for any serious consequence arising thereof china6/12
has been using the same language since news first broke about pelosi's planned trip with chinese state media global times saying last week that quote 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 on7/12
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 lies 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 killed thousands and which could easily have been prevented with a few low-cost concessions8/12
was it worth it of course not failing to learn from history is one thing failing to learn even from the last five months is quite another pelosi and whoever is 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 game9/12
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 communist china is winning the political pressure is on the side of escalation with even progressive10/12
democrats supporting pelosi's move and calls for de-escalation and dayton 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 flash points 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 no11/12
ordinary person over what amounts to nothing more than petty egoic chest pounding 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