Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis

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SteelBird

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Pelosi will depart for Asia on Friday US time which should be Saturday Asia time. Has she departed yet? and her destination in Taiwan is still uncertain because she doesn't talk about it. Will she really come to Taiwan or is it just a bargain chip for Biden-Xi's phone call?
 

ZeEa5KPul

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China is a signatory of the CTBT so a nuclear test would be breaking international law.
Oh, no. Anyway...
Testing a nuclear device in international waters at short notice could also lead to human casualties, not to mention the massive international outrage.
China will announce an exclusion zone. They violate it, they take their lives into their own hands. The massive outrage is the point - it's to demonstrate to everyone what the wages of American malfeasance are.
The best outcome would be to come to some agreement with Taiwanese authorities to rescind the invitation, bypassing America and undermining their whole narrative. There is the option of heavy economic and political pressure, maybe throw them a carrot or two if they agree. Perhaps some of the tariffs on products from Taiwan.
Quite aside from the fact that they're a pack of separatist traitors who shouldn't be negotiated with (to say the least), there's some urgency to all this. Whatever China's going to do, it has to be ready to do in a few days.
 

Suetham

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Pelosi will depart for Asia on Friday US time which should be Saturday Asia time. Has she departed yet? and her destination in Taiwan is still uncertain because she doesn't talk about it. Will she really come to Taiwan or is it just a bargain chip for Biden-Xi's phone call?
It looks like her plane was in Alaska and will be heading to Japan and apparently later on to Taiwan.
 

zgx09t

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Pelosi will depart for Asia on Friday US time which should be Saturday Asia time. Has she departed yet? and her destination in Taiwan is still uncertain because she doesn't talk about it. Will she really come to Taiwan or is it just a bargain chip for Biden-Xi's phone call?

Never heard of a US career politician laying down his/her life intentionally for freedom or democracy, as they all use to claim, at home or abroad, in the entire history.

 

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I am against deliberately killing Pelosi because that will most likely give the Biden administration great public support in declaring war on China. However, this is the perfect time for the PLAAF to assert itself over the island's skies. It must do so before or after Pelosi's trip.

And if the ROCAF dares to fire upon the PLAAF, then forceful reunification must begin at once. Then, it will be a tougher sell for the American public to declare war, as armed conflict over Taiwan would be clearly caused by unpopular Pelosi's trip, and not because a US senior official was killed.
 

Abominable

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Planes got shot down lots of times during the cold war, and there was never a war between America and the USSR. This would be like the U2 incident.

In the aftermath of the plane being shot down, assuming Biden wants to go to war he'll need approval from the Senate to do so. Assuming nothing else happens after the shooting, is the Senate really going to vote for nuclear war? No, they'll try and find a political solution first.

As long as standard protocols were followed no international body is going to find China in the wrong as all relevant bodies recognise Taiwan to be Chinese territory.

The only way I see America getting involved is if this escalates into a reunification war, then America will be sending in all the military support it can, but even that is going to be limited thanks to Ukraine.

Never heard of a US career politician laying down his/her life intentionally for freedom or democracy, as they all use to claim, at home or abroad, in the entire history.

Exactly. Pelosi is never going to get on that plane no matter what Americans say publically. American politicians are cowards, a few MAGA hippies protesting in the Capitol was a life or death experience for them.
 
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