Serious US senator arrives in Taiwan, defying angry Beijing

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https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/e...rs-set-to-visit-taiwan-defying-beijings-anger

TAIPEI (REUTERS, AFP) – A US senator who sits on the Senate’s Commerce and Armed Services Committees arrived in Taiwan on Thursday (Aug 25), the third such visit this month and defying pressure from Beijing for such trips not to take place.

China, which claims Taiwan as its own territory against the strong objections of the democratically-elected government in Taipei, launched military drills near the island after US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited in early August.

Senator Marsha Blackburn arrived in Taiwan’s capital Taipei on Thursday aboard a US military aircraft, live television footage from the downtown Songshan airport showed.

Taiwan’s official Central News Agency said she was due to meet President Tsai Ing-wen on Friday.

Blackburn, a Republican from Tennessee, earlier in August voiced support for Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan.

“We must stand with Taiwan, and I applaud Pelosi for not backing down to Biden or the CCP,” Blackburn said in a Twitter post at the time, referring to China’s ruling Communist Party.

Pelosi’s visit infuriated China, which responded with test launches of ballistic missiles over Taipei for the first time, and by ditching some lines of dialogue with Washington, including theatre military talks and on climate change.

She was followed around a week later by five other US lawmakers, with China’s military responding by carrying out more exercises near Taiwan.

Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb also arrived on the island on Sunday for an "economic development trip".

The United States has no formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan but is bound by law to provide the island with the means to defend itself.

China has never ruled out using force to bring Taiwan under its control.

Taiwan’s government says the People’s Republic of China has never ruled the island and so has no right to claim it, and that only its 23 million people can decide their future.

anyone else also wish that usa and china just hurry up go to war?

 

[mudhatter]

tiong noses have been rubbed in the sand by yanks way too many times.



tiongs lost face but too powerless to do anything abt it.

this proves that tiongkok is not only weaker, but orders of magnitude weaker, than russkies militarily

russkies issued one warning and no western countries dared to send troops (flying their national flags) to ukraine - a foreign country

tiongs issued lots and lots of warning
only one western country yankees sent politicians repeatedly, giving no face to tiongkok.

sorry, there is no question of G2 or russkies becoming junior partners to tiongs or some such nonsense

let's be clear abt that

tiongs are the biggest failure in human history
such a failure has never been witnessed

not even ceca virus - a smaller ceca country - could be smashed pulverized crushed decimated by tiongs. a first in the entire history of humanity and a massive failure.

 

[Sanitizer]

The liberals are bent on getting China into war with Taiwan.

 

[ChristJohnny]

At the end of the day ... whoever has most $$$ or Military can do whatever they want.

Remember the Gulf War ... it is an illegal war as UN did not approve it. Yet USA invaded Iraq anyway. No give a fuck. You can protest ... what else can you do? Nothing.

So today might be USA, tomorrow may be China's turn ... it is anyone guess.

Race and IQ

 

[realDonaldTrump]

China no balls to attack Taiwan. Just kpkb like 泼妇骂街