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’s bullshit. They don’t like it but they’re not going to be seen as not liking it. At most none of them want to be seen as being soft on China, a traitor, obstructing someone being hard on China during the new red scare, etc. They could seriously inconvenience and likely stop her by just refusing military planes or escorts at all for it. She could still get on a civilian airliner and go at that point but it would take the air out of her sails and without an escort or protection the PLA air force deploying chafe in front of her plane and ordering it to divert they may be able to force her away if they wished.