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The U.S. is led by morons who only promote war and instability around the world in order to keep their donors happy and ensure Washington’s hegemony across the globe.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., was praised as being heroic for meeting with Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif. Mike Pompeo, the former secretary of state under Donald Trump who has been promoting every foreign conflict on social media, tweeted, “this is a badge of honor. Reagan would be proud.”
(Sing it! “I'm a yankee doodle dandy,
A yankee doodle do or die;
A real live nephew of my uncle sam,
Born on the fourth of july.”)
U.S. chest-pounding for weaklings like Pompeo and McCarthy is more important that peace and the mainstream news media, desperate for ratings, promotes it. China warned McCarthy not to meet with Tsai, and the California rep said Beijing can’t tell him what to do. How brave!
Once again, the rest of the world pays for U.S. hubris. China declared Monday that it is “ready to fight” for Taiwan after conducting another major drill.
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“The theater’s troops are ready to fight at all times and can fight at any time to resolutely smash any form of ‘Taiwan independence’ and foreign interference attempts,” the Chinese military said, according to The Associated Press. The report said the “combat readiness patrols” was named Joint Sword.
Tsai’s visit to the U.S. stirred tensions between the U.S. and China and resulted in new strains in the already frayed relationship.
The U.S. downplayed the visit, which was Tsai’s seventh transit through the U.S. while she has been in office. John Kirby, the White House’s national security spokesperson, called the visit an “uneventful transit.”
“The trip is not so much a ‘transit,’ but an attempt to seek breakthroughs and propagate ‘Taiwan independence,’” Mao Ning, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, said. “The issue is not about China overreacting, but the U.S. egregiously conniving at and supporting ‘Taiwan independence’ separatists.”
Beijing has long declared Taiwan as part of its territory under its “One China Principle.” The U.S. has historically pursued a policy toward the matter as one of “strategic ambiguity,” which means it will aid Taiwan’s defenses but will not promise to come to the island’s defenses in the event of an attack.
Beijing said Taiwan belongs to mainland China and no outside force will be able to stop it if it takes action against Taiwan. China sees Taiwan as part of its territory and will “unify” the renegade island—separated by the Taiwan Strait—with force if needed. Taiwan, which is home to about 24 million, has been governed independently since 1949.
Taiwan, formerly called Formosa by the Portuguese, which means the “Beautiful Isle,” has a history of foreign conquers that included the Spanish, the Dutch East India Company, Japan… and of course the Chinese Qing Dynasty is all ancient history when it comes to ramping up the “hate China” campaign spread by Washington and the mainstream media.
China carried out three days of live-fire drills near Taiwan that simulated strikes on Taiwan and encirclement of the island, according to Al Jazeera. The report, citing state media, said dozens of planes had practiced an “aerial blockade.”
Xu Xueyuan, China’s Chargé d’Affaires said in a press conference, “No matter [whether] it is Taiwan leaders coming to the United States or the US leaders visiting Taiwan, [it] could lead to another serious, serious, serious confrontation in the China-US relationship.”
TRENDPOST: McCarthy proves our point that there is no difference between Republicans and Democrats in Washington. The establishment parties do nothing but provoke foreign entanglements.
McCarthy tried to act as though he was heroic by meeting with Tsai on a hilltop in Simi Valley and said he would not allow China to dictate who he meets with.
“China can’t tell me where or when to go, and none of that discussion ever happened. If the president happens to be in America, then I’m going to meet with her,” he said.
Once, again, we forecast that the U.S. will not intervene when China retakes Taiwan and will use the conflict in hopes to weaken Beijing through a long, bloody process… like we’re seeing play out in Ukraine.
TREND FORECAST: Despite these grandstanding visits and vows of support, we forecast that just as Beijing has clamped down on Hong Kong protests and taken full control, so, too, will they take control of Taiwan when they are ready.
Despite condemnations when they do so, there will be no military forces from other nations that will challenge Communist China’s military might. Indeed, America, with the largest military in the world, has not won a war since World War II and cannot even win against third-world nations, such as Afghanistan, after invading that nation some 20 years ago.
The Ukraine invasion showed that the U.S. is willing to offer support by exporting military equipment and level sanctions, but it does not want to fight China in a war that it would lose.
We have noted several times where U.S. President Joe Biden said American troops would spring to the defense of the island, but that will not happen. Washington would do all it can to form a Pacific NATO, like it is doing now, and provide Taiwan with more weapons than they have soldiers to fire them.
In April, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin slipped and said the U.S.’s goal in Ukraine is to see a weakened Russia. The same would be true if China invaded Taiwan.
Should war break out between China and Taiwan, we forecast the Taiwanese military will not aggressively fight back, since doing so would result in millions of deaths and mass destruction.
"Hero" is a word much abused these days. At a minimum, a hero must take risks. What risk did McCarthy take by going to a meeting in Simi Valley CA?
more proof of the moronic idiots in govt jobs. always looking for self pats on the back. besides causing more climate change by flying to taiwan, what was the reason ? its not an ally. how much is mccarthy invested in those companies in taiwan. or did he offer his fighting services. lol