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Russian President Vladimir Putin laughed off U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan during the summer as an unnecessary provocation of China.
Speaking at the Valdai Discussion Club meeting in Moscow, he said, “Taiwan is part of the People’s Republic of China, and all visits to Taiwan by top officials are perceived as a provocation. “Why was it necessary to drag this granny to Taiwan, to provoke China into some kind of retaliatory action, at a time when [Washington] cannot sort out relations with Russia due to what’s happening in Ukraine?”
Calling her visit “total nonsense,” Putin said, “There’s nothing to it, no deeper idea, just total nonsense, arrogance, and a sense of impunity,” he said. (See “PELOSI PUSHES WAR, U.S. MEDIA PROMOTES IT” and “U.S. RAMPS UP TENSION WITH CHINA. PELOSI A FRONT FOR THE WAR MACHINE AND WHITE HOUSE.”)
Pelosi was the first U.S. House speaker in 25 years that would visit Taiwan. Her announcement prompted a dramatic escalation in the region that included a four-day Chinese military exercise around the island.
China never conducted a military drill so large.
Beijing deployed more than a 100 fighter jets and dozens of warships. Part of the exercises included the firing of ballistic missiles around the island. The Global Times, the state-run Chinese newspaper, said the drill on Sunday featured “island saturation attack drills and bomber deterrence flights in the Straits.”
Pelosi visited Taiwan after she visited Ukraine to praise Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s war effort against Russia and vow more U.S. support, sending a similar message to Taiwan. She said the U.S. will “not abandon” the island.
“They may try to keep Taiwan from visiting or participating in other places, but they will not isolate Taiwan by preventing us to travel there,” Pelosi said of China.
It’s All About Politics, Stupid
Putin is correct that there was no diplomatic reason for Pelosi to visit the island. But the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace noted that her trip came while Democrats faced tough challenges, including “persistent inflation to low approval ratings for Biden.”
Indeed, as Gerald Celente notes, “When all else fails, they take you to war.”
“Given broad public support for Taiwan, the House speaker may have reasoned that her visit would win over swing voters. Prior to Pelosi’s trip, a group of 25 GOP senators issued a statement praising the speaker’s decision to visit the island. Domestic pressures in both Washington and Beijing, therefore, appear to be creating a dynamic in which escalation is rewarded and restraint is criticized.”
TREND FORECAST: Putin’s comments about Pelosi’s visit shows that the Kremlin does not take the Biden administration’s provocation against China seriously. Indeed, as we have forecast there will be no military forces from other nations that will challenge Communist China’s military might.
Indeed, America, with the largest military in the world, has not won a war since World War II and cannot even win against third-world nations such as Afghanistan after invading that nation some 20 years ago.
Should war break out between China and Taiwan, we forecast the Taiwanese military will not aggressively fight back, since doing so would result in millions of deaths and mass destruction.
We have pointed to numerous articles that explain Taiwan is simply no match for the much larger and more deadly Chinese military. China spends 25 times the amount Taipei does on its defenses. China also has a hundred times as many ground-force troops as the island.