China just grabbed Taiwan by the throat politically, through a military stranglehold on outside access to the controversial island territory. Experts say it appears that Nancy Pelosi prodded the Pooh Bear into taking decisive action.
China seizes control
Xi Jinping may call what China is doing “military exercises” but they clearly show that “Beijing doesn’t need to invade Taiwan to control it.” All they have to do is “strangle the self-ruled island, cutting it off from the outside world.”
At least, that’s what CNN says that Chinese and American analysts tell them.
Things that the People’s Liberation Army are up to with their tanks, ships, planes and rockets have all been focused on “six zones that essentially encircled Taiwan.”
Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters: "Taiwan is part of China and that's been absolutely accepted by the whole of the int'l community since 1948, and if you don't know that, you're not reading enough. Go and read about it." pic.twitter.com/HSPvdedOU2
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China is obviously “restricting access to civilian ships and aircraft in the area.” Sure, you can sail through. If you don’t mind a little shrapnel in the air.
As related by professor Meng Xiangqing, with the PLA National Defense University, it’s no accident which locations were targeted by what forces.
Those “six areas were chosen to show how China could cut off Taiwan’s ports, attack its most important military installations, and sever access for foreign forces that may come to Taiwan’s aid.”
Connect the dots
It’s a big game of connect the dots, Meng explains. Only this isn’t a game and the Chinese aren’t playing. “Connect the six areas in a line, like a noose, with the knot of the noose right in the southwest direction.” Nancy Pelosi never dreamed her little publicity stunt would get this crazy.
China tried to warn her. And warn Joe. Apparently he didn’t hear a word the Pooh Bear had to say in that big teleconference. The one right before Nancy showed up uninvited to intentionally start world war. Anything to distract from her husband’s little car accident and DUI charges.
Even burned out acid rock musician Roger Waters knows Taiwan belongs to China. Doesn’t anyone learn anything in school? He asks. Hey wait! Didn’t you do a song or three about that? “We don’t need no education… we don’t need no thought control…” Well, maybe a little education can be a good thing.
Knowing history keeps it from being repeated. Like that Thucydides trap thing. That’s the one that says U.S. and China are playing the parts of Athens and Sparta. The trap is inevitable war. It really looks like Nancy Pelosi sprung that trap.
Since she stepped off the plane, China “flooded the seas and skies around Taiwan with ships and jets.” Experts counted “as many as 80 Chinese warplanes and vessels” up and down the Taiwan Straight. That’s the narrow waterway separating the Island from the mainland.
“On previous days, the PLA also fired rockets toward small, Taiwan-controlled islands near the mainland, and launched ballistic missiles farther afield, with some flying over Taiwan and falling in the ocean east of the island.” China really ticked off the Japanese with that move, because “five splashed down in Japan’s Exclusive Economic Zone — a message to one of Taiwan’s key supporters as well as the government in Taipei.“
