The raging four-alarm dumpster fire that is America’s foreign policy under President Joe Biden may soon be burning hotter as Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s upcoming trip to Taiwan is on the brink of generating a major international crisis that could be the spark that ignites a major war with the communist nation.
Despite the Chinese regime’s expression of its extreme dissatisfaction with Madame Speaker’s visit to the disputed territory during her Asian tour next week, Pelosi and the administration have been defiant in the face of Beijing’s concerns, and on Friday, the rhetoric reached a stunning new level when a propaganda organ for the Xi Jinping government said that the provocative trip could lead to her plane being blown out of the sky.
On Friday, commentator Hu Xijin of the Global Times, a Chinese state media outlet kicked it up several notches.
“If US fighter jets escort Pelosi’s plane into Taiwan, it is invasion. The PLA has the right to forcibly dispel Pelosi’s plane and the US fighter jets, including firing warning shots and making tactical movement of obstruction,” Xijin wrote on Twitter. “If ineffective, then shoot them down.”-- excerpt, rest at link above --
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."