Propagandist warns China could down Nancy Pelosi’s plane during Taiwan trip

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  1. Steve N

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    So you’re Biden and you have to make the call whether Pelosi goes to Taiwan or not, what call do you make? Do you take this threat as a bluff or take it seriously? If Pelosi’s plane is forced to stay clear of Taiwan by China, then what? I’m thinking the CCP calculated Biden is going to back off, now what excuse will Biden/Pelosi use in order to save face?

     
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    I’m guessing a columnist doesn’t make a Chinese policy anymore than they do in the US.
     
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    My guess is that Pelosi will say there were never any plans to go to Taiwan, and any rumors to the contrary are false, and this whole thing is over nothing.
     
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    A columnist for the CCP, they write what they’re told to write.
     
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    :roflol: What are they so scared of?
     
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    She won’t go, but I’m sure her husband wants her to.
     
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    For that buffer of deniability when she does fly in, or get escorted by a carrier strike group, and they don't do s$%t.
    That plane goes down, China's got a civil war on their hands.
     
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    Civil war?
    I think Biden should handle like Trump did Rocket man when he was bragging about his red button. Trump quickly reminded him he has a much bigger red button, so **** before you cross a line, we both know you don't want too. What's disturbing is on their call this week they reminded Biden that when you play with fire sometimes you get burned. What do we do? Talk about removing their tariffs. Here we go again another Russia/Ukraine situation. I swear these bad actors have zero concern with this administration.
     
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    If Taiwan invited us over, it's not an invasion.
    Controlling a population that size that's got a taste of capitalism is no easy task.
    Xi does so with the illusion of freedom. The Chinese population didn't like the covid lockdowns either and this would be the straw that breaks the camel's back.

    Civil War is China's nightmare scenario, and shooting down a bacon of invited freedom would ignite it.

    Dick wagging is a failed tactic.
     
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    Ha
     
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    China's only purpose now is to invite jingoism. They will do nothing meaningful so to speak. They can sanction US congressional members but I doubt any of them will lose sleep over a Chinese sanction. Lol...
     
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    Civil War? Oh no, I'll push the ante much further than that for Xi and his goons in the CCP. They've stated in both public and private channels they don't want NK refugees. So if they were to shoot at a aircraft carrying a US politician, my first response would be to order an invasion into North Korea, prompting the refugees that they've wanted to avoid so badly.

    While the refugee crisis occupies the Chinese, I would then invade the Chinese mainland itself to topple the Communist government. If all goes well, we'll have a stranglehold and incorporate several valuable Asian assets, including Hong Kong and therefore an entire new market within US control. It'll turn out that targeting that one US politician was more than the red dragon could chew.
     
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    Any actual impactful protest in China is impossible, many cities don't have a single square foot on the street not covered by AI equipped facial recognition CCTV.

    If the Chinese wanted to revolt, which by and large they do not, they would be promptly hauled off to some shithole prison camp and nobody outside their immediate family would ever hear about it.
     
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    India controls much of our IT infrastructure, they could probably affect many things, talk about a national security risk

    until a 911 type event happens though, people will not do anything
     
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    That's pretty crazy. Glad that you're not running the Pentagon, although they could probably do worse.
     
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    Crazy? It's ambitious, but not crazy. We could unify the Koreas under Southern Rule(their unification is but inevitable, the goal is for it to unify under the South and we should've long pushed for it.). Hong Kong is practically begging to be a US State. If we could attain a military victory in mainland China, we could theoretically have them sign a peace treaty that accepts a smaller China, alongside a US-Asian State, and again the markets that would be afforded to us would expand our economy greatly.

    For far too long, we fought for 'who we are' and for the 'international community' which basically benefited everybody but the US. This time, a military campaign for our benefit and for the benefit of future generations of Americans is worth it.
     
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    China threatened to down the plane, not the columnist.
     
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    I don’t think Biden nor Nancy has the balls to do this anyway
     
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    China would nuke us long before any of that happened, but you do dream big.
     
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    Yeah? Are you absolutely sure about that? Sounds like a columnist below!

    "If US fighter jets escort Pelosi's plane into Taiwan, it is invasion," Hu Xijing, who writes for the state-run Global Times, tweeted in response to a CNN article saying that Pelosi plans to depart for Asia on Friday. "The [Chinese Army] has the right to forcibly dispel Pelosi's plane and the US fighter jets, including firing warning shots and making tactical movement of obstruction.
     
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    There's nothing like needlessly provoking China to take America's eye off of the Biden administration's countless other failures.
     
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    US has nukes too. They are also the only country in history to actually use them.
     
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    I’m guessing you don’t know what “state-run” means. You should look it up
     
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    Doesn’t mean his opinion is an official statement from the country anymore than PBS does for the US.
     
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    That was a state media commentator. You know what that means right? That’s as good as a Whitehouse press secretary
     
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