The following report is by Mediate:
A commentator for the Global Times, a media project of the Chinese Communist Party, issued a threat to the United States on Thursday night, intimating that China would not hesitate to engage U.S. forces stationed in Taiwan if the Chinese launched an invasion of the island nation.
Hu Xijin, formerly the editor-in-chief of the Global Times, reacted to a Wall Street Journal report about U.S. troops traveling to Taiwan by calling it “illegal” and suggesting that the Chinese would treat them as enemy combatants.
It’s illegal for these US soldiers to go to Taiwan and Chinese mainland won’t take any responsibility for their safety. If we take military action when necessary, they’ll be wiped out together with the resisting Taiwan troops. They can also be eliminated first as the invading army.
Tweeted Hu.
The U.S. is sending between 100 and 200 troops to join the 30 already stationed there in the next few months, according to the Journal. They will be tasked with training Taiwanese forces in various defense systems and tactics in an effort to prepare the island for a potential Chinese invasion.
Fears that the Chinese will seek to annex Taiwan — which the Chinese Communist Party has never accepted to be an independent entity from the mainland — have proliferated over the last year in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
In a speech before the 20th Party Congress last October, Chinese leader Xi Jinping declared that “solving the Taiwan question and realizing the complete reunification of the Motherland is the unswerving historical task of the Party.” He also said that while China would pursue peaceful reunification, he would not take war off the table.
“We will never promise to renounce the use of force, and we reserve the option of taking all measures necessary,” said Xi, who clarified that his warning was directed at “outside forces” such as the United States as well as the “separatists seeking ‘Taiwan independence.’”
Hu’s comments represent an escalation from — if not a discontinuation of — Xi’s rhetoric, and would seem to reflect a continued willingness of Xi’s government to issue direct threats. When then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan last July, Hu fantasized about Chinese fighter jets shooting down her plane.
If the U.S. military sends fighter jets to escort Pelosi to Taiwan, then the move would take the vile nature of such a visit to another level, and would constitute aggression. Our fighter jets should deploy all obstructive tactics. If those are still ineffective, I think it is okay too to shoot down Pelosi’s plane.
Said Hu at the time
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AUTHOR COMMENTARY
But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by.
Luke 21:9
I am certainly no fan of China, but what this chap said is correct – that the U.S. has no reason to be in Taiwan, as they have no business meddling everywhere else around the world, especially as the homeland is falling apart and dead. Putin correctly pointed this out recently as well in a speech:
We’ll see how it all plays out, but I have told readers before to just assume that China will go after Taiwan, even if it never materializes, but I do think it will. China, just like other nations, are in the midst of a currency crisis and struggling economy, and history has shown that when this happens countries go to war to spur growth and sustain the economy. This is why America starts so many wars: it’s the business of the banks, corporations, stakeholders, and politicians.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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