Update(10:55ET): The vast majority of breathless Western media reports about Nancy Pelosi’s now “imminent” Taiwan visit are being sourced to Taiwanese media and officials; and among Taiwanese outlets it seems to race is on to produce more and more specific detailed predictions. For example, this is the latest out of Taiwan tabloid ETtoday – picked up by international news wires: US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will arrive at Songshan Airport Tuesday evening at 10:30pm local time.
At the same time The Wall Street Journal is reporting Monday that “she’s definitely coming” – based on an unnamed source in contact with top Taiwan officials:
People whom Mrs. Pelosi is planning to meet with in Taiwan have been informed of her imminent arrival, this person said, though some details remain in flux. Some of Ms. Pelosi’s meetings have been scheduled for Tuesday evening, but most are set for Wednesday, the person said, adding that they include, but aren’t limited to, Taiwanese government officials. “She’s definitely coming,” the person said. “The only variable is whether she spends the night in Taipei.”
And now being reported by Bloomberg – minutes following the WSJ:
PELOSI IS EXPECTED TO VISIT TAIWAN TUESDAY: PEOPLE FAMILIAR SAY
And yet Pelosi herself – not to mention the White House – could likely be very much on the fence given China’s military has ramped up threats, and is now on a war-footing, based particularly on harsher quotes coming out in state media on Monday. Taiwan’s defense ministry has said “no comment” when asked to confirm is she’s arriving.
China has also announced closure of waters in the South China Sea amid ongoing PLA navy drills.
After weekend drills, specifically in response to reports of a Pelosi Taiwan visit, more have been announced, set from Tuesday through Friday.
This as the USS Ronald Reagan carrier strike group continues to patrol waters near Taiwan – possibly preparing to respond to any aggressive acts from China which could threaten a potential Pelosi visit to the self-ruled island.
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US equity markets are accelerating their losses suddenly this morning (after briefly touching unchanged from overnight weakness) following headlines that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is reportedly expected to land in Taiwan on Tuesday night.
Liberty Times reports, citing people familiar with the matter, Pelosi plans to visit the Legislative Yuan and meet lawmakers on Wednesday.
However, the US and Taiwan are still preparing for last minute changes, the paper adds.
Futures were sliding already but the Pelosi headlines pushed them to overnight lows…
Bonds are bid with 10Y Yields tumbling back to unchanged…
The offshore Yuan also tumbled on the report…
Interestingly, crude prices are notably lower (after disappointing China PMIs) and are accelerating lower after the Pelosi-Taiwan headlines…
China meanwhile Monday once again warned its military is prepared to take action if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi follows through on a landmark visit to Taiwan.
According to her published itinerary, which does not as yet name Taiwan – this could see her flying to Taiwan after her delegation visits Malaysia and just ahead of going to South Korea.
Amid Chinese PLA drills ongoing in regional waters, and with the USS Ronald Reagan carrier strike group also in the South China Sea, Nikkei writes that “The U.S. military is moving assets, including aircraft carriers and large planes, closer to Taiwan ahead of an anticipated but unconfirmed visit to the island by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.”
The PLA military also on Monday issued a fresh propaganda video saying essentially ‘we’re ready for war’ – consistent with prior messages circulating on official Chinese military channels…
As FT notes additionally of PLA muscle-flexing as a warning to Pelosi: “China’s PLA also on Saturday carried out live-fire exercises in Pintang, a coastal area in south-eastern Fujian province about 125km from Taiwan. State media also broadcast footage of a Chinese destroyer firing its weapons in the South China Sea, through which the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier group is believed to be sailing after visiting Singapore.”
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The chinks stole something that actually works????
This is just a lot of posturing on the part of the CCP. They know that Pelosi is their best weapon against us and the future of our country. They won’t dare take her out.
Exactly. Those ‘red lines’ they’re always talking about, just hot air!
Look, watch me poking the dragon a bit harder
It’s all fun and games until an aircraft carrier gets holed from flight deck to keel. Shiver Me Timbers!
We’ll see how serious they are when the wicked witch flies overhead.
The sooner a US carrier goes down due to hostile action (as opposed to, say, navigation errors), the better for the 50,ooo+ sailor-persons on the other US carriers / floating targets.
Against a near-peer enemy, carriers are near-worthless, and certainly not worth to $10 billion+ per item price tag. Heck, for $10 billion, we could build ten new high schools in Los Angeles! With enough left over for a freeway overpass!!!
Don’t forget a center divider on your overpass, otherwise it becomes a Fast And Furious Donut Derby free for all.
MURIKA, FUCK YEAH!!!: Hey Russia, don’t you wish you had aircraft carriers like us?
Russia: No. We don’t wanting them. We are just invest in weapon systems to SINK them.
MURIKA: Dumbasses. We have defense capabilities to defeat your hypersonic missiles.
Russia: One. Maybe two missiles. Not when we are fire thirty of them at once on one of your obsolete carriers. What will you do then? Then, you will die. That is what you will do.
I would like to see the real world test. I want to know who is right. (pretty sure it is the Ruskies)
Anyone know what the defense is against the Poseidons? One small nuke under the flotilla is probably all that is required.
That will be my cue to load the chest freezer in the truck and head to the lake house.
More fuel for the angst machine.
Looks like theater to me.
Prediction: No plane shot down, no war, back to business as usual 8/3/22
Top off preps just in case.
Goes without saying.
Preps are rotated. should be at 105%. when you get to 100% of your desired amount, buy more and use the oldest dated next. except rice….gas it with around 70% argon 30% Co2,(welding gas mix) then seal it and it will last forever.
Nothing gets the peoples’ minds off of their troubles than a hot war and there are a lot of troubled people in chink land and the USSA.
‘….Officials Say Pelosi “Definitely Coming”!
“Looks like theater to me”.
Think I heard about that movie from Stuckey, ‘Grandma Goes Wild in Tijuana’ . Seems it featured a donkey named Jacobo y su gran bolsa de pollas.
I hope they nuke San Francisco.
Iska- Why San Fran over DC?
No such luck! But one can dream, DC would be better.
The perfect excuse for posturing and sabre rattling but nothing will be done as the trigger event will be much more likely the Big Bust of world financial markets or a global cyber-attack rather than a crass military operation.
Still, anything is possible in a world run by the kakistocracy for the Evil Fuckers.
Auntie – China has a lot of domestic problems right now and a shooting war with The Great Satan would be a big distraction.
A shooting war? Not going to happen IMO.
The US has been running simulations for decades trying to come up with a winning plan to defeat China or Russia. So far they have failed in every one, except the one where they ordered their “red team” general to lose on purpose.
The US is an old, decrepit toothless tiger. The military brass knows this and I find it VERY doubtful that they would obey an order that would essentially be suicide.
Get a screen name, faggot.
I have one.
Faggot? Don’t project your desires onto others.
Happy?
Does not help our side when we have a general that telegraphs plans beforehand.
Please, pick a screen name for KJ the faggot.
I suggest “KJ sucks cock”, but whichever you like.
KJ sucks cock it is then.
They deleted the men wearing tampons video.
Admin, it was a good video of the shit they are pushing to the low IQ joggers.
They’re not going to fight over that “dog faced, pony soldier”. Wong time, Wong terms, P.R. is all it is. I’m sure the MIC’s dicks are getting hard just the same. Lindsey Graham(R) will be front row and center to suck each one of them individually.
Please, that is Ladybug Lindsey, Sir Boogie.
Monkey Poxx is not a gay disease.
The science is well established on that.
Trust the science
Dame Lindsey is what they have been using at the Pentagram and other Deep State venues around Baghdad-on-the-Potomac.
I keep thinking this story is much deeper than we think. If something happens to Dementiaman and his sidekick Harris, Pelosi ascends to the crown that doesn’t do the Ds any good in 2024. They need someone younger and with more charisma than the Cackler to run for President.
First you get Pelosi to take a dip in the Pacific and blame evil China for it. The new Speaker of the House, who is a person with Presidential potential, is elected by the Ds .
Then Harris chokes on a bratwurst, if you know what I mean, and keels over dead. Getting rid of Joe is then the easy part. You could simply have him walk off Air Force One before they move the stairs into place.
Once those dominos fall you then have a new, younger democratic President, all set to run against Trump or DeSantis.
Yes…Keep going, I’m listening
Oh, and by the way, the bratwurst thing was classic and the stairs, I’m die’n over ta hare-Pure comedy gold.
Ya, I tinckled a Lil bit.
A Lil bit. But then again, I’m getting old, could just be that too
You should drown yourself in your Anonymous toilet.
What? But then you lose the dick you so love to suck.
Make a movie basd on the script.
Will go well.
I don’t think dems are organized enough to put that detailed a plan into action.
and don’t forget that shitlery is nominated as vice hag.
I am going to look up all the lyrics to “ding dong the witch is dead” just in case things go well.
Nice preplan. Always be prepared they say.
It was a honor posting on this site, and exchanging ideas as well as (verbally) crossing swords with most of you.
If we lose connection (not necessarily because everybody got nuked, but b/c the US will shutdown their public internet “for security reasons” when this goes hot): see you on the other side!
Okay bye, see you on the other side.
Does that mean m is gone?
No. He is just off crossing ‘swords’ with KJ.
Do us all a favor China. Any way we could get Graham, Schumer, and a long list of others to join her?
Dismayed by the lack of decorum here.
Miss Nancy and her family have done so much for Baltimore and now San Francisco, never mind the sacrifices the rest of the nation has made to her endowment.
Please China, take Miss Nancy, show us you really care for Taiwan. Missiles speak louder than words, hear you took hypersonic prototypes from USA and made them work. Show us!
Fake news – SanFranNan would never lower herself to drinking Smirnoff.
Not when you and me are paying her bar tab.
Always go for top shelf when someone else is buying and I doubt there is anything but top shelf liquor on her flights. She probably sells them her own label wine at 10X the normal cost.
I used to get to travel on corporate jets and never saw a bottle of Smirnoff. It was Crown, Stoli or Absolute, Beefeater or Tanqueray and Chevis and we were not that big of a corporation and certainly not as important as SanFranNan thinks she is.
There has to be a reason for Queen Dentures making this visit. Did her husband short the stock market and crude oil or something?
Do I need to watch TV again? Should I follow what that woman is doing?
Don’t really care.
Don’t bother watching. If celebrations break out in the streets, assume she was shot down and is gone.
If her plane blows up and China says they didn’t do it…
…they’ll be telling the truth.
the cunt is going as an act of treason. she is purposefully giving the chinese an excuse to destroy the us navy. she and “biden” work for ccp. the us navy has no chance to survive the chinese unless their aircraft carriers are built like their ghost city towering apartments.
I think they have one, maybe two.
That crazy cunt is going to get us all fucking killed and on Our fucking dime!
Try saying that on ZeroHedge without getting banned.
SMH
https://news.usni.org/2022/08/01/carrier-uss-ronald-reagan-two-f-35b-big-decks-operating-near-taiwan-as-pelosi-arrives-in-singapore-china-renews-threats