Apologies for the url being a screenshot, for some reason the lemmur app won’t let me paste in the URL box, so here’s the link to the article: https://www.democracynow.org/2022/8/1/headlines/house_speaker_pelosi_will_visit_taiwan_despite_warnings_from_china
US is feeling really ballsy lately. Would be hilarious if their response was to start meeting with leaders of seperatists in Hawaii, Texas, Puerto Rico, Alaska, even California lmao. Do you guys think they’re trying to force a confrontation while Russia is bogged down in Ukraine? Kinda seems like that is their goal. Bog down Russia as long as possible and while Russia is busy take advantage of US having all of Europe in a firm bloc? They are also trying to form a bloc I feel to slow down the insane amount of trade china does with Europe, but if they keep up the sanctions on Russia and China we may see some European countries go neutral or even side with china out of pure economic necessity. The US economy is collapsing and dollar hegemony in waning- even Saudi Arabia is now trading with china in yuan.
It does seem like this is more or less a solo venture, but I’m not sure why the army (etc.) are letting her do this
It’s been a while since the US has truly poked the dragon, I bet they are interested, like most of the world right now, how China will react. Will they be firm or wiggle away from the situation. Will they pull a US “the red line is actually a grey line” or will they actually treat it as a true red line. I think if China does nothing or something very minimal it opens up China to increased military button pushing by the US, but if they overreact, it could lead to a major conflict, it’s a fine balance. I’m incredibly interested (in a dark curiosity way) to see what the PLA does.