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What To Know About Pelosi’s Taiwan Trip​

Q: Why is China against the trip?
A: Chinese leaders are concerned about the negative impact of excessive air travel on the planet.

Q: Why do the trip now?
A: Words cannot describe the beauty of Taipei in August.

Q: What does Pelosi hope to accomplish with her visit?
A: Foster a better understanding of how her semiconductor stocks are performing.

Q: How is China responding?
A: With a total bloodbath of harsh rhetoric that the U.S. will never recover from.

Q: Are the Chinese reading too much into U.S. policy?
A: Yes, they need to understand that the majority of American lawmakers don’t even know what Taiwan is.

Q: What is Pelosi’s message to the Taiwanese people?
A: She sincerely hopes they vote Democrat in the midterms.

Q: Will escalating tensions affect the Little League World Series team Taipei is sending to Williamsport this year?
A: Lord, we hope not. Have you seen how well Liao Kuan-shu is pitching?

Q: How has President Biden responded?
A: Biden took serious issue with Pelosi’s plan to visit Taipei’s Ming Fu restaurant, which he has long maintained doesn’t deserve its Michelin star.

Q: Does Taiwan even want Pelosi to come?
A: Who gives a **** what Taiwan thinks? This is about us and China.

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What To Know About Pelosi’s Taiwan Trip

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan has led to heightened tensions between China and the U.S. over the island’s political status. The Onion tells you everything you need to know about Pelosi visiting Taiwan.
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Taiwan has now become an almost forgotten casualty of China’s big drive into Africa over the past two decades. Most African countries switched recognition after China edged Taiwan out of its permanent seat on the UN Security Council in 1971. Quite a few holdouts remained on Taiwan’s side, but they steadily abandoned it.
https://issafrica.org/iss-today/taiwan-has-lost-all-its-friends-in-africa-except-eswatini
More recently, in 1998 the democratic new South Africa – which had rather surprisingly held out for several years – eventually switched recognition from Taipei to Beijing. Liberia did so in 2002, Senegal in 2005, Chad in 2006 and Malawi in 2008.
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Sri Lanka’s recent dealings with China offer a cautionary tale for many African countries. The way the island nation has ceded control of the strategic port of Hambantota highlights the issue of ‘debt-trap diplomacy’. It poses the question of whether developing countries are naively mortgaging their resources and strategic assets to China.
https://issafrica.org/iss-today/taiwan-has-lost-all-its-friends-in-africa-except-eswatini
Given Africa’s huge reliance on China as a source of funding, there is concern that African states will suffer a similar fate to Sri Lanka – and unwittingly become pawns in China’s global strategic agenda.
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China- A New Wave Of Colonialism In Africa

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Paulsie said:
You mean all the western goods actually made in China?

Or perhaps you mean Huawei or Honor?
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Well .............. Apple i phones are made in China - but China is also their biggest market
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Which got me to thinking ............... I wonder if Nancy P has an iphone?
 
Paulsie said:
Regardless of what one thinks of China, the fact is that Pelosis visit will be regarded as a slap across a Chinese face.
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Hey boet ........... have you had a look at that aunty - even a good picture?
If she visited me at my home - I would consider it a slap in the face ..........

But yeah, its an FU to China for sure
 
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