Nancy timed a WaPo Op-Ed to be released the moment she landed.

ICYMI (May 24th 2021): Military planners in Washington pushed for the White House to prepare plans to use nuclear weapons against mainland China during the Taiwan Strait crisis in 1958, newly leaked documents appear to confirm.

Leaked docs: https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/quemoy-study-significant-redactions/764a87f870d1eba9/full.pdf

Former US Defense Secretary Mark Esper (a Raytheon lobbyist) met with separatists in Taiwan 2 weeks ago, and called for the end to the One China Policy, as a US warship passed through the Taiwan Strait: https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2022-07-20/taiwan-esper-one-china-policy-6707974.html

Opinion: It should come as no surprise that China didn’t take down Pelosi’s plane; the State Department is trying to start another proxy war.

Xi’s dilemma consists of trying to peacefully reunite Taiwan (ROC) while simultaneously mitigating the risk of globalists facilitating nuclear buildups in Taiwan.

A peaceful reunification will likely take years, and only be accepted by the Taiwanese if China makes legitimate progress to democratize over time. Given there’s still a long way to go, Xi cannot afford a nuclear crisis that could challenge that possibility many years from now.

Taiwanese media

The Chinese army began to surround Taiwan from all directions by conducting war maneuvers.

🇨🇳🇺🇲🇹🇼 President Xi Jinping on Pelosi's visit to Taiwan:

“We continue to look at the world with wide eyes so as not to miss a single provocation by American reactionaries. Pelosi's visit to Taiwan is yet another demonstration of the uncivilized campaign of the imperialists and the victory of the Chinese Communist Party."

*TAIWAN DEFENCE MINISTRY: 21 CHINESE AIRCRAFT ENTERED TAIWAN’S AIR DEFENSE ZONE ON TUESDAY

*CHINESE ENERGY STORAGE COMPANY CATL PAUSES ITS NORTH AMERICAN PLANT ANNOUNCEMENT ON THE BACK OF THE PELOSI TAIWAN TRIP. - BBG

THE UP-TO-$5 BLN PLANT IS AIMED AT SUPPLYING TESLA AND FORD.

NEW: US warships cruising near Taiwan as Pelosi visits

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The drama in Taiwan, a video of the last few minutes: Rocket firing by formations of the Eastern Command of the Chinese Army in Fujian Province towards the island of Taiwan.

Pelosi to meet with Taiwan’s biggest semiconductor manufacturer, TSMC, in a sign of how vital chips are to U.S. economic and national security.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/08/02/pelosi-tsmc-meeting-taiwan/

With Nancy Pelosi in Taiwan, it's fair to assume that the chances of China ever joining the US-G7's Russia oil price cap initiative have gone considerably lower.

And without China, you don't have India. And without either, well, you don't have any emerging nation.

China's military exercises around Taiwan in August 2022 and March 1996 (Third Taiwan Strait crisis). This time, some exercise areas overlap with Taiwan's territorial waters.

*TAIWAN DEFENCE MINISTRY: 27 CHINESE AIR FORCE PLANES ENTERED TAIWAN'S AIR DEFENCE ZONE ON WEDNESDAY

*TAIWAN DEFENCE MINISTRY: 22 OF CHINESE AIRCRAFT CROSSED TAIWAN STRAIT MEDIAN LINE

Wondering if any of this will disrupt Taiwan exports and global trade routes… highlighting TSMC (screenshot) on Monday, and here’s a comment from Bloomberg:

Serious disruptions are likely as a result of the military drills China plans for the area around Taiwan. Gas suppliers are rerouting or reducing speed on some liquefied natural gas vessels currently en route to North Asia, sources say.

*DEMOCRATS ARE OPPOSED TO EFFORTS TO STRENGTHEN TIES WITH TAIWAN BY THE WHITE HOUSE.

What's is going on here? Trying to win the PR game if China escalates? Turning against the globalists? Throwing Nancy under the bus? All the above? Who knows…

Lightening hit the click tower in Mecca Saudi Arabia. A rare rain in August!

​​▫️We have already informed that more than 16,000 biological samples, including blood and serum samples, were taken from Ukraine to the US, Georgia and European countries.

▫️Against the background of the US administration's assurances that the genetic information obtained from Ukrainian citizens will be used "...exclusively for peaceful purposes...", I would like to quote a statement by Jason Crowof the US House Intelligence Committee at the North American Security Conference in July.

▫️Crow warned Americans about the dangers of giving their DNA to private companies for testing because: "...there is a possibility that test results will be sold to third parties... and the information obtained could be used to develop biological weapons targeting specific groups... or individuals."

▫️Given the US administration's interest in the study of "narrowly targeted" biological agents, such statements force a fresh look at the causes of the new coronavirus pandemic and the role of US military biologists in the emergence and spread of the COVID-19 pathogen.

▫️In May 2022, Jeffrey Sachs - a leading expert in the respected medical journal The Lancet and professor at Columbia University, the leading academic institution for global biosecurity, told a conference in Spain that "...the coronavirus was artificially created and is very likely to have been created using American advances in biotechnology...".

▫️According to our experts, this is evidenced by the uncharacteristic variability of the genovariants that cause different peaks in the incidence of coronaviruses, significant differences in lethality and contagiousness, uneven geographical distribution, and the unpredictable nature of the epidemic process as a whole. It appears that despite efforts to contain and isolate the disease, the pandemic is being artificially fuelled by the introduction of new variants of the virus in a particular region.

▫️We are considering the possibility that the US Agency for International Development (USAID) was involved in the emergence of the new coronavirus. Since 2009, the agency has funded the Predict programme, which has investigated new species of coronaviruses by capturing bats that carry the viruses. One of the contractors for the project was Metabiota, a company known for its military-biological activities in Ukraine.

▫️Characteristically, in 2019 - before the first COVID-19 cases appeared - the US Johns Hopkins Institute hosted an exercise called 'Event-201', which practised dealing with an epidemic of a previously unknown coronavirus, which, according to the legend of the exercise, was transmitted from bats to humans via an intermediate host, pigs. This is how the 'Spanish flu' virus, which has killed tens of millions of people, became pandemic.

▫️The implementation of the COVID-19 scenario and USAID's emergency wind-down of the Predict programme in 2019 suggest the deliberate nature of the pandemic and US involvement in its emergence.

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👀 TAIPEI, Aug 6 (Reuters) - The deputy head of Taiwan defence ministry's research and development unit was found dead on Saturday morning in a hotel room, succumbing to a heart attack, according to the official Central News Agency.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/taiwan-official-leading-missile-production-found-dead-hotel-official-media-2022-08-06/

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