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2022-08-04 China-Japan-Koreas
Pelosi Leaves Taiwan; PRC Uptempos Military Ops
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — After a trip that drew China’s wrath, a defiant Nancy Pelosi concluded her visit to Taiwan on Wednesday with a pledge that the American commitment to democracy on the self-governing island and elsewhere "remains ironclad."

Pelosi received a euphoric welcome as the first U.S. House speaker to visit in more than 25 years, and China swiftly responded by announcing multiple military exercises nearby.

The speaker’s departure for South Korea came just a day before China was scheduled to launch its largest maneuvers aimed at Taiwan in more than a quarter of a century.

Before leaving, a calm but resolute Pelosi repeated previous remarks about the world facing "a choice between democracy and autocracy."

"America’s determination to preserve democracy, here in Taiwan and around the world, remains ironclad," she said in a short speech during a meeting with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen.

Courtesy of Skidmark:
27 Chinese warplanes enter Taiwan's air defence as Taipei says it 'won't shy away from a fight': President Xi sends forces to surround island 'as part of his plan to secure his unification legacy'

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • 27 Chinese fighter jets, including 16 Russian-made Su-30s, have flown into Taiwan's air defence zone today

  • Comes amid huge air-and-sea war games that Beijing has declared in response to Pelosi visiting the island

  • Taiwan's generals have defied Beijing's threats, saying they will 'not shy away from a fight' with China

  • Expert told MailOnline that Xi's fury comes ahead of autumn's Party Congress where he will establish autocracy, with Taiwan 'reunification' his hoped-for legacy

Update:



Related: US, Indonesia, Australia, Japan and Singapore launch huge joint military drills with 5,000 soldiers on Sumatra amid rising maritime threat from China during Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan
Posted by Lord Garth 2022-08-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11140 views ]  Top

#1 China launches its biggest ever live-fire military drill just 12 miles off Taiwan: ‘Beijing “miscalculation” could spark WAR’ with missiles shot OVER the island for the first time 'in rehearsal for an invasion'
Posted by Skidmark 2022-08-04 06:53||   2022-08-04 06:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Won't be much Chinese shipping if things get hot.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-08-04 07:16||   2022-08-04 07:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Seoul says Pelosi DMZ visit sends clear message to North
Posted by Skidmark 2022-08-04 08:09||   2022-08-04 08:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Nancy Pelosi prepares to visit DMZ with North Korea after being SNUBBED by South's President Yoon who 'had dinner with actors instead of greeting US House Speaker' as it's revealed Taiwan trip left 'fuming White House scrambling for a plan'
Posted by Skidmark 2022-08-04 08:10||   2022-08-04 08:10|| Front Page Top

#5 Ignoring all the saber rattling, tough talk and photo ops, I still can find no logical reasoning for her to even go on trips like this.

She supposedly does not initiate foreign policy, but what do I know.

Still seems like a kabuki, but that requires song (歌), dance (舞), and skill (伎).
Posted by Mullah Richard 2022-08-04 09:09||   2022-08-04 09:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Also, Kabuki is Japanese, so you'd figure Chinese would hate it.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-08-04 09:12||   2022-08-04 09:12|| Front Page Top

#7 Media mask for husband's DWI courthouse business.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-08-04 09:13||   2022-08-04 09:13|| Front Page Top

#8 I still can find no logical reasoning for her to even go on trips like this.

Remember 'Queen' Nancy's triumphant walks with a ceremonial gavel when she was elected speaker? Vanity. Narcissism. Nancy seems to live in a world where she is Prime Minister For Life™ in a parliamentary US government ...or at least she seems to act like it.
Posted by magpie 2022-08-04 09:31||   2022-08-04 09:31|| Front Page Top

#9 
Posted by Bobby 2022-08-04 09:57||   2022-08-04 09:57|| Front Page Top

#10 Basking in the last moments of great power? Après moi, le déluge?
Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-08-04 12:29||   2022-08-04 12:29|| Front Page Top

#11 
I wonder what this staged mini-drama event got for viewers? An how much Chinese $$$$ got funneled into (D) campaigns and pockets came from it?
Posted by NN2N1 2022-08-04 12:39||   2022-08-04 12:39|| Front Page Top

#12 I still can't believe Nancy would do anything that Xi Jinping didn't want her to do. So, yeah, kabuki even if kabuki is Japanese and the Chinese hate it.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-08-04 13:22||   2022-08-04 13:22|| Front Page Top

#13 Wasn't it during the George W. Bush presidency that Speaker Pelosi paid a call to Syrian president Bashir al Assad? This is Pay Attention To Meeeeeeeee!!!!!! stuff.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-08-04 13:39||   2022-08-04 13:39|| Front Page Top

#14 
Posted by Frank G 2022-08-04 13:43||   2022-08-04 13:43|| Front Page Top

#15  seems like a kabuki, but that requires song (歌), dance (舞), and skill (伎)

Nancy Pelosi Can Dance!
Posted by Skidmark 2022-08-04 15:41||   2022-08-04 15:41|| Front Page Top

#16 [Pelosi head on dancing AOC, in mirror]
Posted by Angolunter Platypus1778 2022-08-04 17:34||   2022-08-04 17:34|| Front Page Top

#17 Confucius screech opera: "Pooh shit
In the Strait! Nancy pitches a fit!"
Cue chop-socky talkie in
Chinese and Hokkien:
Biden dismissed? Or just quit?
["It big hit!"]
Posted by Angolunter Platypus1778 2022-08-04 17:38||   2022-08-04 17:38|| Front Page Top

#18 Let’s see, she is second in line after the Vice President who is not a natural American. Biteone dies of COVID, Camala is not eligible to be president.. Viola.. President Pillousy…
Posted by Papa Cooky 2022-08-04 19:48||   2022-08-04 19:48|| Front Page Top

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