China warns US of 'Forceful Measures' if Nancy Pelosi Visits Taiwan

@HoraceGreenley No question they own Biden. I'm just surprised the CCP was so quiet about citizen Pompeo acting as unauthorized foreign diplomat. No one within the Biden administration had much to say about it either.

@BizSuitStacy The Chinese bought the Biden family

@graphite it's not just the leadership it's the United States itself

@graphite the United States doesn't have the power it once had. If China wants to take Taiwan, there's nothing in the United States can do about it.

@soar2newhighs I'm still not quite sure what's up with this.

@BizSuitStacy Don’t worry . From the news items on this that I read, even the WH didn’t know either what was/is going on.
Supposedly Biden and Xi are to meet some time in the not too distant future. And if Pelosi’s visit goes through it might make for a very awkward situation for Biden.

@4meAndyou There is more going on here than meets the eye. China absolutely owns the Biden family, and ultimately, the dems. The dots aren't lining up.

@soar2newhighs China has been flying their jets near Taiwan lately. Not something they did during Trump's tenure...only Biden's.

@BizSuitStacy I’m guessing here, but Biden did say we’re committed to defending Taiwan. Yet the WH apparently walked his comments back ( I believe he espoused it more than once) , citing our stance (current and perhaps past administrations since 79) of ambiguity toward Taiwan. Yet we have much going on with and in Taiwan
And as you post, the Chinese have flown “ near”, not over Taiwan or violated
It was a great tour of duty 73-74!their airspace .

@DffrntDrmmr I served there. Don’t want to see the Island invaded. But if it is will Biden back up his statements regarding a U.S. commitment to defend Taiwan?

@soar2newhighs It does sound like they might have plans to do so.

That was a bold statement by him — but not in a good way. I think that to China it was a provocation (the administration's retraction matters little). I suspect they're now more resolved than they were to seize control of Taiwan at some point. I doubt the US could win that one mission in the long run, and certainly could not force China to surrender in an all-out war (an unlikely war, anyway).

@FreestyleArt Yeah...this doesn't really add up.

@cherokeepatti They do own Joe. Still find this situation odd.

@RocktheHouse Perhaps had Mao and his forces followed Chiang Kai Shek to Formosa his forces might have defeated him there and we wouldn’t today have the issue. But he didn’t nor did any of his successors from 1979 to present ever attempt it. Why?
I was there mid 70s and it would not have been in China’s best interests to have attacked.
Though not spoken of much, the U.S. is still very much involved with Taiwan.
As for Crimea / Donbass vs. Taiwan we were not to my knowledge a military force in those regions. We were in Taiwan. When Crimea and Georgia were under attack by Russia, we did nothing. The same when China took Islands claimed by the Philippines with whom we had and still do a treaty which means we’d defend them if attacked. The administration came up with some bogus reason why we didn’t ( the seized islands it’s alleged we’re not part of the treaty. Yes they were a part of Philippine sovereignty. ) Simple, the administration was leery of China and failed its commitment .So now we’re at a point where Biden has said we’ll defend Taiwan, yet the specter of China invading looms.