https://www.skynews.com.au/world-new...c63961c575199d
Not that I don't trust the US media
Oh, and to answer a question someone asked in another thread: Taiwan has NEVER been part of the PRC.
https://www.skynews.com.au/world-new...c63961c575199d
Not that I don't trust the US media
Oh, and to answer a question someone asked in another thread: Taiwan has NEVER been part of the PRC.
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Edumnd Burke
Taiwan has been part of a lot of countries, to include Imperial China.
It's splitting hairs that it has never belonged to the PRC, but hairs are real, to the tune of millions of people in an autonomous country.
The last military force to take Taiwan by force is called the United States Marine Corps. So they can f- off and die as far as my "unbiased" opinion is concerned.
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Edumnd Burke
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/05/11157...s-pelosi-visit
To hear NPR tell it, the US may as well throw in the towel now
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Edumnd Burke
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Edumnd Burke
I have to ask - why did Pelosi go to Taiwan? She's allowed to go, of course, but what good was ever going to come of it? No good could ever come of it, of course, and there was a high risk that bad could come of it. And of all times to provoke China, don't do it when jelly-spine Joe Biden is President!
Now we have China encircling Taiwan with military units and firing weapons in all directions. Are you happy, Nancy? Are you somehow going to get some insider trading out of this, Nancy?
Here's a suggestion. We tell China "instead of your military encircling Taiwan and firing off weapons, here's Nancy Pelosi's address, feel free to send as many assets as you want to encircle her house and they can fire off as many weapons as they want. Even experimental weapons. Knock yourself out."
End result - China gets to blow off some steam and look tough, Taiwan remains safe and keeps making semiconductor chips, and if something unexpected happens at Nancy Pelosi's address - oh well, we're never going to run short of corrupt politicians.
Ecclesiastes 10:2 - A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but a foolish man's heart directs him to the left.
Wise men don't need advice, and fools won't take it - Ben Franklin
"It's not how you start, it's how you finish."
There was no reason. Of course, Pelosi, among others, would have you believe it symbolic to have the Speaker of the House show up. Nothing her going to Taiwan may have helped, if anything at all, was worth what it has cost. Fact is, there's no reason to taunt China if we are not prepared to go the whole hog. This could have caused a shooting war that Biden is in no way prepared to handle.
Nancy arranged this on her own. That's how she should have been left to handle it. I wouldn't miss her.
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Edumnd Burke
If the freedom of speech is taken away
then dumb and silent we may be led,
like sheep to the slaughter.
George Washington (1732-1799) First President of the USA.