China Warns: US Congress Speaker Nancy Pelosi Trip Marks An Invasion and Military Has Right to Fire on Her Plane. Just hours ahead of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s planned trip to Asia, Chinese state media has threatened to shoot down her plane and U.S. military pilots escorting her.
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. If ineffective, then shoot them down.
#Editorial: If Pelosi's plane is found flying toward our airspace, the PLA fighter jets could warn, follow, intercept, electronically interfere, force a landing, or drive it back. https://t.co/iNXwwKYIhw pic.twitter.com/wOTLNqbSru
— Global Times (@globaltimesnews) July 29, 2022
The threat comes 24-hours after President Joe Biden spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping for two hours on a call from the White House. The communist government’s readout of the conversation also included a threat in response to Pelosi’s planned trip to Taiwan.
For days Republican lawmakers have defended Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan, an allied country to the U.S., and have stressed communist Chinese officials cannot dictate where Americans choose to travel.
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“Speaker Pelosi should go to Taiwan and President Biden should make it abundantly clear to Chairman Xi that there’s not a damn thing the Chinese Communist Party can do about it. No more feebleness and self-deterrence. This is very simple: Taiwan is an ally and the Speaker of the House of Representatives should meet with the Taiwanese men and women who stare down the threat of Communist China,” Republican Senator Ben Sasse.
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will leave this weekend on a trip to Asia where she is expected to make stops at Singapore, Japan and South Korea.
All eyes will be on the latter part of her trip, to see if she goes ahead with her planned trip to Taiwan.
The US has not clarified whether Nancy Pelosi will indeed land in Taipei and meet Taiwan’s leaders but this issue was raised by Chinese president Xi Jinping during his virtual meeting with US president Joe Biden, earlier this week.
Xi ended the meet warning Biden by telling him ‘not to play with fire’.
According to Politico, Pentagon officials are preparing for Pelosi’s trip.
Pelosi, if she decides to make a stop at Taiwan, will be landing in Taipei on a US military aircraft.
But there are chances that her aircraft could be shot down by China’s People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) air force jets.
Chinese state media commentator and Global Times editor Hu Xijin on Twitter threatened that Pelosi will be ‘forcibly dispelled’.
Usually such high-profile trips and the itineraries are often kept under wraps but a public jostling online and offline has begun between Democrats and Republicans regarding the trip and could force Pelosi to follow through with her planned visit to Taipei despite the warnings.
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