Encouraged by threats from the regime, many Chinese are disappointed that their military failed to prevent Pelosi’s daring trip to Taiwan.
One of China’s many and very loud warnings against Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan is that the United States was “playing with fire”. Regardless of the occasion of the visit, which has turned into a battle between the two superpowers, Beijing has expressed its threats in the most belligerent tone and mobilized its army. Since nothing unites more than a common enemy, the Communist Party regime has fueled nationalist desires for the recovery of this island which it considers part of its territory but which is “de facto” independent and has its own democratically elected government. . All this to scare Pelosi into not taking the journey she’s finally made, which is a resounding failure of China’s intimidating rhetoric.
Despite threats that “there would be consequences,” the US House of Representatives delegation plane flew in and out of Taiwan without any problems. Nancy Pelosi not only met with her president, Tsai Ing-wen, but also with Chinese dissidents, which was a new addition to her long history of clashes with Beijing. In addition to denouncing the repression in Xinjiang and Tibet, his 1991 video in Tiananmen Square is famous. During an official visit along with two other congressmen, he starred in an infamous incident in front of the television cameras by unfurling a banner in honor of the victims of the massacre by which the regime quelled the massive student protests that called for democracy two years earlier. While the police arrested the journalists who recorded the scene, the congressmen left quietly thanks to their diplomatic immunity.
Victorious after this new duel with Beijing, Pelosi is already in South Korea and will end her Asian tour in Japan. From there, he will reflect on this crisis after bolstering his political figure and, incidentally, promoting the Biden administration in light of November’s partial parliamentary elections, as David Alandete pointed out from Washington on Tuesday.
In an effort to save face, Beijing’s first retaliation will be to conduct live ammunition military maneuvers around Taiwan until Sunday, which for the first time encompasses the east coast and looks like a blockade suspected in the case of an invasion. Strangely enough, these maneuvers don’t start until today, Thursday, after Pelosi has left the island. Similarly, the Chinese authorities have imposed one of their usual economic boycotts in the event of a crisis, suspending imports of several Taiwanese citrus fruits and fish and banning the export of sand to the island.
Despite the tension over the maneuvers, which could lead to an accident, Pelosi’s visit will not unleash World War III, as one might fear after reading Chinese propaganda. A good proof of the generated expectation is that both the Weibo social network, the most popular in China, and the Flightradar24 aircraft tracking portal, crashed several times on Tuesday, commenting on Pelosi’s flight to Taiwan. When Chinese internet users realized it was inevitable, excitement gave way to outrage, anger and more resigned humor.
After Pelosi’s departure, protests may be staged by the Communist Party in front of the US embassy in Beijing, as happened for Japan in 2005 and 2012 over the disputed Senkaku Islands (Diaoyu, in Mandarin), but tensions will ease after Pelosi’s departure. a couple of days. As everything indicates that Pelosi will have to swallow Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan, that sense of defeat is already spreading among many Chinese because the state press had told them the military would not stand idly by. Tempers were so high that the official media had even dusted off Mao’s speeches that the “American imperialists” called “paper tigers.”
Encouraged by these bolder-than-usual proclamations, many Chinese felt it was time to teach the White House a military lesson by preventing Pelosi’s trip. But they are disappointed because they think their government’s response has stuck with words. And it is that fueling such burning feelings as nationalism does indeed play with fire and may burn President Xi Jinping, who intended to show strength for the United States before he would remain in power in the fall. As even Mao knew, nothing burns hotter than a “paper tiger.”
Source: La Verdad
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