Video: China issued Navigation Warning! From 8:00 to 21:00 on July 30, the waters near Yiqi Island, Pingtan, Fujian carried out live-fire training missions, all ships were prohibited from entering 中國航行警告！ 7月30日8时至21时 ，福建平潭一岐屿附近水域执行实弹射击训练任务，禁止一切船舶进入
Nancy Palosi has a long history of racist attitudes towards Chinese, Chinese Americans and China in the name of homeland security and enacted new laws mirroring the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act 南希佩洛西長期以來以國土安全的名義對中國人、華裔美國人和中國採取種族主義態度，並不停用1882年排華法案的模式立法針對中國和中國人包括美藉華人.
Asia Times: Open letter to Nancy Pelosi “If you step over the red line China has laid down, it can’t back down and not react’ 亞洲時報：致南希佩洛西的公開信“如果你越過中國設定的紅線，它就不能退縮而不反應” by George Koo 7-29-22
Dear Nancy,
In 1991, you were a member of the congressional party invited to Beijing as guests of the Chinese government. There you held a well-planned “impromptu” press conference in Tiananmen Square, where you unfurled a banner proclaiming “Human Rights in China.”
A group of Western journalists patiently waited for you to break off from your official host and show up.
That was just simply brilliant. The show-and-tell established your credentials as a human-rights advocate.
As a newly elected member of the US House of Representatives, the publicity certainly didn’t hurt your chances of getting re-elected.
Of course, the Chinese government probably regarded your breach of protocol as rude and uncouth, but hey, that was their problem.
Now rumors have it that you are planning to visit Taiwan in August. A lot has changed since your trip to China more than 30 years ago.
The Taiwanese media are all in a tizzy, asking each other, “Who invited Nancy Pelosi? After all, Taiwan isn’t some American offshore possession that Nancy can come and go as she pleases.”
To paraphrase one of the commentators, “Doesn’t she understand that we can’t stand the excitement and tension of her visit?”
He added, “Most people of Taiwan like the relations with mainland China just the way they are. Peaceful, stable, quiet, and we sell a lot of our stuff across the Taiwan Strait, to the tune of more than US$100 billion in surplus every year.”
Some say that you are planning to visit Taiwan to encourage the Taipei government to start a fight with the mainland.
The people of Taiwan have seen how the US has been helping Ukraine in its fight with Russia, and they don’t want any part of that setup.
Before the Ukraine war, around 60% of the people if Taiwan were sure that American troops would join a fight in their defense. Now that number has fallen to around 30%.
Maybe the publicity of a visit by you to Taiwan, daring the People’s Republic of China to respond, will help your Democratic party in the midterm election this November.
However, you are now the Speaker of the House, and two steps away from the presidency. Like it or not, your actions represent the official position of our country.
If you step over the red line China has laid down, it can’t back down and not react. We don’t know what its response would be, but it would be dangerous – potentially explosive, in fact.
As a loyal American, I humbly ask for your careful consideration for the sake of world peace and your personal safety.
Best personal regards,
George Koo
The writer of this letter is a retired business consultant who resides in California and is deeply worried about the future of America.
Demonstration at Pelosi’s office 90 7th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 (between Market and Mission St) against her Taiwan visit – Monday, Aug. 1, at 11 am in San Francisco!
Pivot To Peace has called for a demonstration at Nancy Pelosi’s office, 90 7th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 (between Market and Mission Streets), on Monday, Aug. 1, at 11 am, to protest her proposed visit to Taiwan in August. Please see my original email below explaining the situation. This demo has been endorsed by Jodie Evans of Code Pink as well as the ANSWER Coalition. This is the first announcement of the demo and we are seeking other endorsements. If your organization would like to endorse, please email me at mikevfp69@gmail.com, and we will include your organization in our list of endorsers, thanks very much. Please circulate this announcement far and wide.
Nancy Pelosi’s coming Taiwan visit may trigger a war with China.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s announced plans to visit Taiwan in August risks triggering a war with China. Starting with President Richard Nixon’s visit to China and the resulting Shanghai Communique, for fifty years, the United States, China, the government of Taiwan, an overwhelming majority of the world’s nations, and the United Nations have all officially agreed that there is only “One China,” that Taiwan island is a province of China, and that the issues between them should be settled by the Chinese themselves. This has been the bedrock foundation of peace between the US, Taiwan, and mainland China all these decades. This “One China policy” would be blatantly violated by the visit of such a high profile American official such as Pelosi, who is third in the line of succession to the presidency of the United States. Both the United States and China recognize the seriousness of this proposed trip; the US is talking about moving aircraft carriers to the region to provide security, and Chinese sources are talking about having China’s own aircraft escort Pelosi’s plane. The US and Chinese militaries have been holding rival military exercises and playing games of “chicken” with each other for years, but now there are warnings from prominent persons in both nations that this trip risks a serious and possibly deadly clash. Chinese spokesman Zhao Lijian said China was “seriously prepared” and “If the U.S. side is bent on going its own way, China will take strong measures to resolutely respond and counteract…. The United States should be held responsible for any serious consequences.” A former top Obama White House China expert, Evan Medeiros, recently said, “The Taiwan issue… could spark war—including nuclear war—between the two largest economies in the world.” Pelosi herself said, “… maybe the (US) military was afraid our plane would get shot down or something like that by the Chinese.”
At the same time, several key pieces in Asia have fallen into place for America to start a war there. President Yoon Suk-yeol was recently elected the new president of South Korea (by a thin margin and almost certainly with US and Korean CIA involvement), and he is a far right crazy of the John Bolton mode. Shinzo Abe, the immediate past prime minister of Japan was just assassinated, becoming a martyr whose death only strengthens his right wing party’s (the LDP) hand. They now have the votes, for the first time, to change Japan’s peace constitution and go to war. And President Tsai is a right winger in Taiwan who dances to America’s tune. Both the new leaders of Japan and South Korea are calling for their countries to participate in war if it should break out over Taiwan. And now the US has gotten NATO to name China as a threat and commit to support action against China.
The only piece not in place for war is Taiwan itself; polls show the majority of people just want to maintain the status quo, which was working for both sides, the mainland and Taiwan. Prior to the pandemic, trade and tourism both ways had been increasing continuously, and both sides benefited without either side having to give up anything. It was win-win and most people on both sides, and the mainland CPC government, would like to keep it that way. Also, Taiwan’s military is not ready for war, they have a draft but it only requires four months of service, then they just go into the reserve, which doesn’t even conduct regular training. Retired San Francisco judge Julie Tang, originally from Hong Kong and a cofounder of Pivot To Peace (https://peacepivot.org/ ) reported, “The loudest voice of opposition to her Taiwan trip is from Taiwan’s independent press. They are outraged. These folks understand how devastating it may mean to Taiwan.” But internal conditions in Taiwan are not likely to change in the foreseeable future, so this is as good as it gets for the US, if war is the goal. Biden, Blinken, Nuland, and company can’t get it any better. They didn’t learn from their defeat in Afghanistan, seem blind to their impending disaster in Ukraine, and they continue to press on China. So while a war is not certain, the possibility of it is increasing.
At the same time, the White House is wavering on Pelosi’s visit, and different voices from the establishment are saying conflicting things and giving conflicting signals. With the US establishment divided, this is a critical moment in which a large peace movement push for peace – peaceful demonstrations at congressional offices and the White House, letters to editors of local newspapers, and other peace actions – may make a critical difference in tipping the balance towards peace rather than a devastating, possibly nuclear war. I urge all peace organizations and leaders to step boldly forward at this critical moment in time. Now is the time to take action to pull our country and our world back from the brink of war.
Play with fire – get burned, China warns US. President Xi sent a blunt message on Taiwan in “candid” phone call with Biden. Those who play with fire will perish by it. It is hoped that the US will be clear-eyed about this. 玩火將被燒死，中國警告美國。 習主席在與拜登的“坦誠”電話中就台灣問題發出了直言不諱的信息。 玩火的人會因此而滅亡。 希望美方對此有所清醒.
Taiwan is a part of China and the 1.4 billion Chinese will not tolerate any challenges to the country’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity, President Xi Jinping told his US counterpart, Joe Biden, in a phone call on Thursday. Xi’s warning comes amid reports that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is preparing to visit the island next month, something Beijing has warned her against.
Xi “highlighted that the historical ins and outs of the Taiwan question are crystal clear, and so are the fact and status quo that both sides of the Taiwan Strait belong to one and the same China,” according to Beijing’s readout of Thursday’s call, also noting that Biden was the one who initiated it.
China is firmly opposed to Taiwanese separatism and will not tolerate “independence” for the island “in whatever form,” Xi told Biden, in the first direct call between the two leaders since March 18.
According to the readout, Xi also told Biden that the US approach to China as the primary rival, strategic competitor, and a security challenge “would be misperceiving China-US relations and misreading China’s development,” adding that US attempts at “decoupling or severing supply chains in defiance of underlying laws” would not help its economy, but “only make the world economy more vulnerable.”
China and the US need to “uphold the international system centering on the UN and the international order underpinned by international law,” said Xi, who also “reiterated China’s principled position” on the crisis in Ukraine.
The much shorter White House readout of the call did not mention Ukraine or the specifics of economic discussions, instead singling out the issues of “climate change and health security.” It did, however, say that the call was “part of the Biden Administration’s efforts to maintain and deepen lines of communication between the United States and the PRC and responsibly manage our differences and work together where our interests align.”
When it comes to Taiwan, Biden “underscored that the US policy has not changed and that the US strongly opposes unilateral efforts to change the status quo or undermine peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait,” according to the White House.
Tensions between China and the US have escalated in recent weeks, after reports that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) intended to take a congressional delegation to Taiwan in August.
Pelosi has neither confirmed nor denied the trip. Asked about it earlier this month, Biden said the US military thought it was “not a good idea right now.”
Since then, however, the Pentagon has reportedly developed a “contingency plan” to send additional ships and fighter jets to the region. Meanwhile, Chinese officials threatened the US with “unbearable consequences” should Pelosi go forward with her visit, and some pundits even advocated attacking Taiwan in response to such a “provocation.”
House Speaker Newt Gingrich visited Taiwan in 1997, but as government officials in Beijing have noted, he was opposition leader at the time, while Pelosi is from the same party as Biden.
Taiwan has been ruled by the nationalist Kuomintang, who found refuge on the island after losing the civil war to the Communists in 1949 and leaving the mainland with US help.
Nytimes backing away from advocating crisis over Taiwan caused by Pelosi visit. Bonnie Glaser, who wrote this NYT op-ed was the China-basher-in-chief at CSIS, the deep state think tank (she’s now at the German Marshall fund). 紐約時報放棄鼓吹佩洛西訪台引發的台灣危機。 寫這篇紐約時報專欄的邦妮·格拉澤（Bonnie Glaser）是深州智庫 CSIS（她現在在德國馬歇爾基金）的中國抨擊者。
If she, a hardcore ideologue, thinks it’s a bad idea, you can bet there’s a sizeable group of Ruling Imperial Elite who are opposed to her trip. 如果她，一個鐵桿理論家，認為這是一個壞主意，你可以打賭，反對她此行的統治帝國精英有相當大的群體.
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