Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis

[Reclaimer]

Official or not, Pelosi's visit is an attempt at changing the status quo. I doubt anyone who wants peace is pleased with this, and definitely not Beijing.

 

[huemens]

In fact now China has made a very serious escalatory move. Cannot see the US taking this lying down:

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Onion is not a real newspaper. It is a satire/parody website.

 

[Sardaukar20]

Yesterday we saw this video here on the thread, and that's PHL-16

Well its even better if those were PHL-16s. That means that its not just a military exercise, but also an actual force deployment.

 

[Strangelove]

 

[bajingan]

Here is another reading of why Taiwan wasn't mentioned in the official trip schedule

Edit: Dont think that China would be pleased though if that is true. The English Vegetable would be doing a gigantic PR victory lap which would certainly greatly embarrass China. So I disagree with that point he made

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1553624399277801473

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1553627164200685570

So unofficial visit means she will be taking commercial plane not military plane i assume?

 

[Overbom]

So unofficial visit means she will be taking commercial plane not military plane i assume?

Maybe. Nobody knows though. Its just another viewpoint to consider.

Maybe in the end Pelosi will make an official or an unofficial visit or maybe she will do nothing. We can only speculate

 

[siegecrossbow]

With around 100K people stalking her flight on Flightaware I think she definitely has to do something, or it'll end up looking very bad in terms of optics.

 

[ACuriousPLAFan]

Pelosi's plane would be landing in Guam very soon for a second refueling stop.

 

[ficker22]

I think she definitely has to do something, or it'll end up looking very bad in terms of optics.

In terms of optics, she is already the worst

 

[ZeEa5KPul]

Calm your horses. Its just a different analysis. I think his overall idea is sound ("Taiwan not mentioned in the official trip schedule but then Pelosi will make an unofficial visit there")

However, the conclusion he draws from it that "Beijing will be pleased" is wrong.

Okay, the PLAAF will then make unofficial armed bomber flights over Taipei. Completely unofficial, not mentioned in any itinerary.