Beijing has crushed the political freedoms of Hong Kongers. It persists in trying to erase Tibetan culture. It is perpetrating genocide against the Uyghurs.…
When the U.S. Air Force carrier SPAR19 took off from the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur Tuesday with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi aboard, the plane didn’t head strait north to Taiwan. Instead, it veered away in an arc over the island of Borneo, and instead of transiting the Taiwan Strait, the aircraft carried Pelosi and her small congressional delegation up the east coast of Taiwan, landing at the island nation’s capital Taipei shortly before 11 p.m. Tuesday evening.
Taiwan’s brave and brilliant president Tsai Ing-wen didn’t think it was reckless, and neither did Taiwan’s leading opposition party, and neither did the people of Taiwan, who have kept cooler heads than most about everything even though it’s their own beloved, hard-won and flourishing democracy that Beijing is constantly threatening to invade and overthrow.Article content
Expressing the typical Republican sentiment, here’s Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse: “Speaker Pelosi should go to Taiwan, and President Biden should make it abundantly clear to Chairman Xi that there’s not a damn thing the Chinese Communist party can do about it. No more feebleness and self-deterrence.”Article content
Straight away the Kremlin weighed in, blasting Washington’s “aggressive policy” as “undermining regional stability and international security.” Venezuelan caudillo Nicolas Maduro’s foreign ministry called Pelosi’s visit “a direct provocation that seriously threatens China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
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