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2022-07-24 China-Japan-Koreas
PLA warplane can ‘accompany’ Pelosi’s plane if she visits Taiwan
[internet deleted article cache]
China seems to be threatening Pelosi's life.

By Hu Xijin
Hu Xijin
Global Times commentator
@HuXijin_GT
Hu Xijin is the former editor-in-chief of the Global Times. Previously he worked as a reporter in the People's Daily and covered the Bosnian war in the 1990s.


An exclusive report in the Financial Times on Tuesday quoted multiple sources as saying Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the US House of Representatives, will visit Taiwan in August amid her trip to Japan, Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia.

If Pelosi, a fellow Democrat with US President Joe Biden, visits Taiwan, no one will believe it is because Biden "cannot control her". People are more likely to believe that her visit is part of Washington's tactic of "good cop/bad cop."

As the Speaker of the House, Pelosi is second in the US presidential line of succession according to the US Constitution. Her visit to Taiwan is not only an escalation of US support for "Taiwan independence," but a major incident. It was reported in April that Pelosi would make the visit, but the planned trip to Asia was canceled because she tested positive for COVID-19 then.

It has been proven that the US will not be reasonable on the Taiwan question, and the only way for China to respond to Washington's provocation is to use resolute countermeasures to make it clear the cost of playing the Taiwan card, which is the only language the US understands.

Although then-Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich visited Taiwan in 1997, the travel was seen more as an outward manifestation of the US domestic political bad blood, since Gingrich was a Republican, opposite of then-president Bill Clinton. Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, if takes place, however, would be a blatant challenge to China by the US as a whole.

I believe that China's countermeasures will be overwhelming, and we will not accept this crude advance of US support for "Taiwan independence," but will clearly tell the US that they are making a subversive mistake.

As a media personality who has long been watching the situation in the Taiwan Straits, I suggest that China take firm action this time to make sure that Pelosi's visit to Taiwan is scuttled, either she abandons the planned visit out of fear or that her visit becomes a risky trip, leaving both her and the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authority in Taiwan, who will host her, in a state of panic and with a keen sense of loss.

When it was reported in April that Pelosi was going to visit Taiwan, I wrote an article advocating that the Chinese mainland should establish a no-fly zone over Taiwan, or the People's Liberation Army (PLA) warplanes should fly over the island. Today, I would like to reiterate the above advocacy.

I would further suggest that PLA warplanes could "escort" Pelosi's plane at an appropriate distance, enter the island at the same time as she does, skim over her landing site, and then fly over the island and return to the Chinese mainland. There would be low probability of causing a direct military confrontation by doing so, and once PLA warplanes fly in and cross the island, it would be an even more landmark precedent than Pelosi's visit to Taiwan. In that case, we would probably have to thank Pelosi instead for creating the opportunity for PLA warplanes to fly over the island, opening up a whole new space for PLA warplanes to exercise sovereignty over the Taiwan island.

The Chinese mainland must be brave enough to take this step of flying warplanes over the island, which, unlike warplanes flight around Taiwan, can truly reflect China's sovereignty over the territory, and is more substantial than any visit to Taiwan by senior foreign officials. Using Pelosi's visit to Taiwan to complete this leap is most likely to make it a peaceful transition.

Of course, in order for PLA warplanes to fly over the island of Taiwan, we must be fully prepared for military confrontation, and I believe such preparations by the PLA have been ongoing. We have no intention of seeing a war break out in the Taiwan Straits now, but we are undoubtedly the party that is least afraid of a war in the Straits breaking out right now. PLA warplanes will sooner or later fly over the island. If the Taiwan military dare to fire at PLA warplanes, the response will be a resolute action of shooting down the Taiwanese warplanes or striking its military bases. If the US and the island of Taiwan want an all-out war, then the time will come to liberate Taiwan. I advise both the US and the island not to have any illusions.

Let Pelosi and the Biden administration as well as the Taiwan authorities make their choice.

The author is a commentator with the Global Times. opinion@globaltimes.com.cn

Posted by 3dc 2022-07-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ]  Top
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#1 The author is an idiot mouthpiece of the CCP.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-07-24 01:54||   2022-07-24 01:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Taiwan has an election coming up next spring and they say anybody overseas from Taiwan that wants to vote has to be in Taiwan without any exit for six months before the election.

Lots of people from Taiwan who live in California might put voting in Taiwan's critical election over voting in California Elections this November.

One wonders if the reason Pelosi wants to go to Taiwan is to convince them to let the people from Taiwan in CA vote in the November elections before going to Taiwan for a half year.
Posted by 3dc 2022-07-24 01:54||   2022-07-24 01:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Do Taiwanese-Americans in California traditionally vote Democrat, 3dc? Is the Democratic Party’s hold on California so tenuous that this particular group will tilt the election?
Posted by trailing wife 2022-07-24 04:44||   2022-07-24 04:44|| Front Page Top

#4 Visit Taiwan escorted by two fully loaded Raptors. Tell the pilots, if a PLA plane even so much as shows up on radar, lock on it briefly. Later, you can call it a reflex reaction of the pilot, 'he's been reprimanded' an' all that.

Meet the leaders, wave and smile. Come back and win your election. Two problems solved for the next four years at least.

But that advice is not fit for a Pelosi, only someone like DJT could pull it off.
Posted by Dron66046 2022-07-24 05:36||   2022-07-24 05:36|| Front Page Top

#5 With Biden, it's more likely the plane would immediately surrender and the chinese would steal it and parade it around. Pelosi would be given back immediately cause nobody stand to be near it for more than 5 seconds.
Posted by Silentbrick 2022-07-24 07:05||   2022-07-24 07:05|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm totally supporting her martyrdom at Commie hands. Irony
Posted by Frank G 2022-07-24 09:47||   2022-07-24 09:47|| Front Page Top

#7 Not to worry. Brooms are far more maneuverable than anything the CCP has in inventory.
Posted by Anomalous Sources 2022-07-24 13:20||   2022-07-24 13:20|| Front Page Top

#8 ^ Snark O' The Day candidate
Posted by Frank G 2022-07-24 14:07||   2022-07-24 14:07|| Front Page Top

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