New in PJ Media:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Ketel One) has left Taiwan, but tensions are still high. According to Newsweek, “Nicholas Burns, the top American envoy in Beijing, received a late-night summons followed by a dressing-down from a senior Chinese diplomat over Washington’s failure to block the House speaker’s plans.” Xie Feng, a vice foreign minister for the People’s Republic, “lodged stern representations and strong protests” with Burns.
According to the Chinese propaganda organ Xinhua, “Xie said the U.S. government must be held accountable.” As far as Pelosi herself is concerned, however, all this saber-rattling has a simple explanation: her critics, she claimed Wednesday, are just sexist. Of course! How could we ever have thought that every last detail of life didn’t fit into the Left’s worldview, in which everything, literally everything, is either racist, sexist, or both?
Xinhua’s report added that Xie “said the U.S. government has indulged rather than restrained Pelosi’s willful act, leading to the escalation of tensions across the Taiwan Strait and seriously undermined the China-U.S. relations.” Newsweek noted that “the Chinese military began to mobilize after Pelosi, the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit Taiwan in 25 years, landed on Tuesday, with China announcing plans to conduct military exercises around the island that prompted concerns among Taiwanese officials.”
The Chinese Communists are ratcheting up tensions over Pelosi’s visit because they claim Taiwan as their own, and Pelosi, contradicting the appalled appeasers among Biden’s handlers, declared in Taipei that she was there to make it “unequivocally clear” that the U.S. would “not abandon” Taiwan. “We are proud of our enduring friendship,” said the vodka-soaked speaker. “Now more than ever, America’s solidarity with Taiwan is crucial and that is the message we are bringing here today.”
The ChiComs have also chosen Pelosi’s Taiwan junket as a pretext for their rage because they see that they can. Old Joe Biden’s president act is wearing thin, America is crippled by misrule, corruption, and division, and Xi Jinping would have to be deaf, dumb, and blind not to see now as a time to take advantage. And so, Newsweek reported, “the Chinese military announced live-fire exercises and missile tests in six locations around the island, including in zones overlapping Taiwan’s territorial sea and airspace, to be held Thursday through Sunday.” Pelosi’s trip gives them an excuse to encroach on Taiwanese maritime territory and airspace, and what is President Double COVID going to do? What can he do?
The ChiComs want him to act. Xinhua said: “Noting that the U.S. side shall pay the price for its own mistakes, Xie urged the U.S. to immediately address its wrongdoings, take practical measures to undo the adverse effects caused by Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan.” In other words, shoot them some concessions, a few billion, maybe, or practical steps to abandon Taiwan, and all this tension will go away.
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Westman says
Finally! Thanks to Pelosi, a fluid definition of woman – it’s a person who thinks that all adverse events surrounding it happen because it thinks it is a woman. (/sarc)
Her ego must have more capacity than her ice cream freezer. Maybe she is trying to make a few splashes before being ushered off the stage. She certainly sees retirement looming ahead.
With insider training wealth, unending ice cream, seen and done the exeptional, the wielding of power is about all that’s left. Would you imagine how powerful you would feel knowing your exploit has been on every media and China is throwing a fireworks tantrum, within visual range of Taiwan, firing off tens of millions of dollars of military expendables – because of YOU!
Then you poke Xi Jinping in the eye with – “People Are Angry That I Went to Taiwan Just Because I’m a Woman.” Chutzpah too.
mortimer says
But ‘what is a woman?’ is the question of this decade.
Westman exposes some of the deceitful ways this question is answered.
They try to answer it with circularity, which means restating the premise in different words.
Example of a circular argument: ‘It is legal because it is not unlawful’
The way out is ask for more information. For instance, ‘What element would falsify someone’s claim of being a woman?’
Corrupt old lush Nancy Pelosi is so rambling and incoherent in her speech makes a bookend to Senile Old Joe. The rumors of her being soaked in vodka are credible. Her husband Paul now seems ready to get off an offense that would put an average person in prison for two years.
Infidel says
I actually was all praise for her for undergoing this trip, but she managed to muck it up w/ this statement. The reason they didn’t say anything when the ‘men’ came was that Biden wasn’t the one ‘in charge’. Why not retroactively redefine those senators as women, and then this will be straightened out!
Walter Sieruk says
The Communist President Xi Jinping of Red China really has nothing to be angry or even upset about regarding Nancy Pelosi visiting Taiwan . This is because that corrupt mean old harpy has never done America any good , so there’s no reason that Pelosi will do any good Taiwan ,at all.
somehistory says
That’s pompous arrogant idiotic narcissism. Now she should be grilled like a steak and asked just what her trip accomplished…in the ways of good or helpful things.
Walter Sieruk says
That claim said by Pelosi is 100% balderdash. . A valid reason that she shouldn’t go to Taiwan is because she is terrible.
So, the President of Communist China really has nothing to complain or worry about in the matter of Nancy Pelosi visiting Taiwan.
The reason why this is so because. Pelosi has proven to be nothing but a cause and disaster for America so there no logical reason to think Pelosi’s visit would nothing but a death kiss to the Island of Taiwan.
DavidR says
Cosmologists now have to worry about what will happen after her death, leaving the Universe without a center.
tim gallagher says
That’s a brilliant comment, DavidR. Sums up narcissism perfectly. I’m glad Pelosi went to Taiwan. As an Australian, with the scum of the earth that run China being our worst nightmare in this part of the world, anything that shoves it up, and pisses off, the thugs in China is a good thing, but her comment about being a woman is beyond idiotic. I imagine she’s probably as senile as Biden.
somehistory says
and her puppet has made some new *declarations*…OT get ready for lockdowns, masks, yada, yada and remember that they have already played with this, killing off millions by next Jan.in a :scenario” of what if’s.
‘Biden administration declares monkeypox a public health emergency”
source: ABC News
“…gives Health Secretary Xavier Becerra significant flexibility to bend federal rules or waive requirements on government health programs like Medicaid, Medicare and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
“We are prepared to take our response to the next level,” Becerra said on a media call Thursday. “And I ask each American to take monkeypox seriously.””
GreekEmpress says
Sure. Play the misogyny card. Works like a charm every time
Make yourself the victim—guaranteed success.
gravenimage says
Pelosi: People Are Angry That I Went to Taiwan Just Because I’m a Woman
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Well, this is just stupid. China is threatening now because they have been emboldened by the general weakness of the West to threaten Taiwan–not because Pelosi is a woman. (Plus, isn’t saying that anti-trans?).
James Lincoln says
gravenimage says,
Pelosi using the “Just Because I’m a Woman” ruse (in this case) dilutes its effectiveness for the times when it is actually true.
James Hoagland says
People aren’t happy she went to Taiwan because she put her own self-interests above the welfare of the Taiwanese. People have, in the American Tradition the right to revolution, and the Kuomintang certainly had the right to resist and struggle against the communists. But why at the outset they did not declare independence of communist rule could only be understood if they always thought that they were the legitimate government of China. However they did not prevail in their civil war and now they are in a very precarious situation and the future does not bode well for the people living on Taiwan.
James Hoagland says
Many commentaries about the PRC could lead one to believe that they only “bluff”. Which is not at all accurate. What they do is measure the opposition and employ patience and then move. The plan seems to be to take over Taiwan this year. Probably island by island and the tactic will be by “swarming”- overwhelming. It is a slow death that tortures the soul but it was developed by Mao and used in the Korean conflict and is a key part of the PLA playbook.