Posted on 08/02/2022 12:39:06 PM PDT by FarCenter
The People's Liberation Army (PLA), on the night that US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi landed in Taiwan for her provocative visit that violates the US promise of opposing "Taiwan independence" secessionism, launched massive military drills around the island of Taiwan, including a long-range live fire drill in the Taiwan Straits and a live fire conventional missile drill to the east of the island, with analysts saying China is not merely targeting a visiting 82-year-old US politician, but is eyeing the anti-secession campaign against the secessionist Taiwan authorities and is to concretely speed up the reunification process.
The PLA will also conduct a series of live fire military drills from August 4 to 7 in six different areas that encircle the island of Taiwan from all directions, according to the Xinhua News Agency after Pelosi landed at the Taipei airport. Analysts said there are many options on the table for China to speed up the reunification process. Apart from military drills, the options could include striking Taiwan military targets, just as the PLA did in the previous Taiwan Straits crisis, pushing new legislation for national reunification, sending military aircraft and vessels to enter the island's "airspace" and "water areas" controlled by the Taiwan authorities and ending the tacit cease-fire with the Taiwan military.
Participating in the drills, J-20 stealth fighter jets took off from an airfield on Tuesday evening, with launchers of rockets and missiles also mobilizing under shades of the night, a report by China Central Television showed.
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Figures...Brandon breaks everything!
They will assert that since Taiwan is part of China, Taiwanese ADZ and territorial water boundaries are meaningless.
Taiwan is the hole in the dike, it CANNOT be allowed
to exist...others might get the idea.
Good. Torpedo their frigging navy.
Don’t EVER listen to Chicom lies.
They have been the biggest liars on the planet for 70 years.
Pelosi changed nothing. This is their plan. Do not take their crap.
They would take the Pescadores (old school name) first. From there, train artillery on the west coast of the main island to cover a landing.
Okinawa was the bloodiest battle of the Pacific War?
Do the battles in China or Burma not count?
This is another ratchet click toward China asserting an air and sea blockade around Taiwan.
Pelosi actually, unwittingly, helped the CCP by giving them an excuse to click the the ratchets tighter, and sooner.
And she helped build the war-fever up higher and hotter in China for when they are ready to go toe-to-toe against the USN.
The CCP is launching new nuclear subs about every month in gigantic facilities. We take years to launch one. That’s just one data point of many. They are already on a war-footing and are fast outstripping our military.
Pelosi just slapped them a last hard one to remind the CCP of their Taiwan mission. The Chinese are reminded every single day on state propaganda media (and it’s effective) of “The Century of Humiliation,” the “Gunboat Diplomacy” era, the Opium Wars, etc.
Pelosi just handed the CCP a gift and hardened Chinese anger and resolve. That’s all.
“Okinawa was the bloodiest battle of the Pacific War?”
Are China and Burma in the Pacific Ocean?
Were Burma and China battles?
Are we sure she didn't have the green light? I'm thinking about how much money her husband Paul has made in China.
Better send in the 82nd and 101st. Oh wait, will Zelensky allow any repositioning of American assets currently mobilized for his protection? Incredible, our regime has engendered the worst nuclear confrontation we’ve ever had with China and the worst since the Cuban Missile Crisis with the Russians. Simultaneously! Not since Hitler in the bunker have we seen such deft international moves.
Hong Kong was the hole in their dyke and they broke a treaty with the UK to fix that. But breaking the Hong Kong Treaty meant there is no chance of peaceful reunification with Taiwan as long as the CCP is in power; no one will take their word for anything again. I think that now Xi Jinping, like Vlad Putin, is lacking in patience due to his own ill health, and that may mean war will come soon.
Those poor Chinese dopes. They can’t stand five minutes against our newest weapon system, the LBGT Pronoun Initiative, not even counting the Neutralization of White Rage.
Only in your imagination. There isn't any nuclear confrontation with either country at the moment, merely grousing from Moscow and the usual propagandistic quacking out of Beijing.
If either side were making preparations for a genuine conflict, we'd know it from their order of battle visible from satellite and sigint, just as we knew beforehand that Russia was actually going to attack Ukraine.
The CCP has no chance against America. We will dazzle them with Pronouns. They won’t know what hit them...
Taiwan has some small islands right up against the mainland: it might explain the wierd ADIZ
“If either side were making preparations for a genuine conflict, “
You assume our media tells the truth. Not !
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