FANCY NANCY TO THE RESCUE: Saving America’s Image, Saving Taiwan’s Freedom

Taiwan Is Not Listed In Nancy’s Itinerary

When the corrupt Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, announced she was planning a trip to Taiwan she set off an international firestorm (pun intended). Even if she is only going to inspect chip factories* in advance of beefing up her stock portfolio, and not to talk with Taiwan officials, the fact that the current Speaker of the US House of Representative MAY visit Taiwan has the Chinese president seeing red (pun intended).

XI: “THOSE WHO PLAY WITH FIRE WILL PERISH”

After telling Pelosi not to go, Biden called Chinese President Xi Jinping, probably begging him not to shoot down her plane.  The White House refuses to release the transcript of the call because it would prove yet again that a weak president invites aggression from our enemies.  The Chinese Communist Party released theirs.  According to their transcript, Xi threatened Biden and America:

"Those who play with fire will perish by it. It is hoped that the US will be clear-eyed about this."

Xi’s threat followed last week’s threat by the Chinese Ministry of Defense spokesman who warned “If the United States goes ahead with this, the Chinese military will never watch and do nothing.  It will take strong measures to thwart any external interference and separatist plans for ‘Taiwan independence’ and resolutely defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity.”

He was referring to the long held delusion that Taiwan is actually a province of China.**

PELOSI TO THE RESCUE

China laughs at America.  They know we have an occupant in the White House who is a dementia patient and was put there via massive election fraud.  They know we have a wimpy Secretary of State (Blinken) because he sat quietly while being lectured by his Chinese counterpart on “human rights abuses.”  And they know America has a Secretary of Defense (Austin) who is preoccupied with turning the once mighty US military into some type of panty-waisted woke dystopia.

Pelosi just released the itinerary for her Asian trip.  It does not include a stop in Taiwan.  In a statement, she said she will be leading a congressional delegation to Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea & Japan this week to discuss trade, the Covid plandemic, climate change, security and “democratic governance.”

SHORT JUMP BETWEEN JAPAN & TAIWAN

Having flown between Tokyo and Taipei many, many times, this writer can tell you that it is a short flight between the two, barely 1,300 miles.

Now, Pelosi MUST go.  She can’t change her mind.  As second in line for the presidency, her very presence in Taiwan will prove that America still has a backbone.  Well, at least it will show that SOME American officials aren’t as lily-livered as Biden and his cabinet.

Nancy’s failure to visit Taiwan now, after China’s threats, will embolden China.  China has been making plans to invade Taiwan since Biden entered the White House.  The only thing holding them back is the possibility that America might take military action against them.  Her presence will deter them.

Pelosi MUST visit Taiwan.  America’s honor depends upon it.  And Taiwan’s freedom depends upon it, as well.

*Having lived in Taiwan and having visited many times since, we have friends all over this island nation.  In 2001 I was invited to tour a new chip factory in Taiwan (outside Taipei).  By some estimates Taiwan produces 90% of the global supply of chips needed in semiconductors.  Once China controls chips, they control America AND Americans. 

**BRIEF HISTORY OF TAIWAN

The Chinese Communist Party has long maintained that the Taiwanese people are really Chinese people and that Taiwan really belongs to China.  Well, that depends upon how one looks at it.  Should the American colonies have been forever ruled by England even though Americans wanted to govern themselves?  At the time of the American Revolution there were much, much closer ties between Americans and Englishmen than there are today between Taiwanese and Chinese. 

Anthropologists believe humans have lived on the Island of Taiwan for tens of thousands of years.  By 3000 BC they had established an agrarian culture.  DNA shows that these first inhabitants share the same ancestors as the original Hawaiians and other cultures around the South Pacific.  They spoke an early form of Austronesian languages.

There were two waves of migrants from the Chinese Empire’s southeastern provinces in the 1600s: 1) the ethnic Holko who still speak the Hokkien language and 2) the Hakka people who still maintain their distinct identity and language in today’s Taiwan.

During this period the Island of Taiwan was nominally part of the Chinese Empire. Taiwan & China are separated by 110 miles of ocean called the Strait of Taiwan.  The Chinese government had little actual control over Taiwan and its people due to the distance and the poor travel & communication conditions of the day.  The Taiwanese were mostly free to make their own decisions and run their own affairs.

SPOILS OF WAR: CHINA GAVE TAIWAN TO JAPAN 

The Chinese government long considered Taiwan useless, referring to it as a place where “flowers don’t bloom and birds don’t shit.”  In reality, Taiwan is a beautiful land, covered with forests, mountains, rivers, lakes, flowers, many species of birds and numerous unique animals, including the Mei Hua Lu deer.  As a Portuguese ship approached the island around 1542-44, the sailors called out “Ilha Formosa,” which means “beautiful island.”

After defeat in the Sino-Japanese War, Empress Dowager Cixi quickly ceded Taiwan to the Empire of Japan in 1895.  Japan occupied Taiwan until their own defeat in WWII, at which time China’s nationalist government took nominal control of the island.  Following defeat by Mao’s Red Army, the president of the nationalist government, Chiang Kai-shek, brought what was left of his army to Taiwan in 1949 and declared martial law. 

Chiang’s soldiers slaughtered 18,000 to 28,000 Taiwanese, most of whom were deemed “too educated.”  They assassinated the only Harvard-educated man, along with doctors, professors, lawyers, newspaper editors, etc.

Chiang Kai Shek passed away in 1975 and his son took over as ruler.  His son passed away in 1988.  By that time the Taiwanese people were eager to rule themselves and the dictatorship collapsed.  Taiwan became a democracy in 1989.  Both their economy and democracy are now thriving, and the Taiwanese people don’t want to be taken over by China. They don’t want to live under the oppression of Communism.