China Claims Spokeswoman’s Twitter Rant a ‘Powerful Rejection’ of Pelosi’s Taiwan Visit

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying dumped a string of eight posts on Twitter on Sunday night, ostensibly refuting American criticism that China is “overreacting” to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan.

Given that China responded to Pelosi’s brief visit by flooding the Taiwan Strait with warships and jeopardizing civilian air and sea travel with internationally-denounced “military drills,” it would be difficult for any objective observer to deny Beijing is overreacting.-.

Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns and Secretary of State Antony Blinken criticizing China’s “extreme, disproportionate, and escalatory military response” to Pelosi’s Taiwan visit:.

effectively agreed not to officially recognize Taiwan as an independent nation-state — but also signaled that it will oppose any Chinese effort to conquer the island by force because, as the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act put it, such an invasion would be considered “a threat to the peace and security of the Western Pacific Area and of grave concern to the United States.”.

China also becomes agitated when America’s implicit promise to defend Taiwan becomes an explicit commitment, as when President Joe Biden clumsily told reporters the United States would definitely be “willing to get involved militarily to defend Taiwan” in May.

The communiques she referred to are one of Beijing’s constant obsessions, mentioned in nearly every official Chinese statement on Taiwan

and Chinese governments in 1972, 1979, and 1982 supposedly lock the United States into accepting there is only one legitimate Chinese government and promising not to violate China’s “sovereignty” by overtly supporting Taiwanese independence. 

The Three Communiques also include promises from China not to use military force to change the status quo on Taiwan, as in the current near-blockade of Taiwan under the absurd pretext of holding “military drills,” but as the world has seen repeatedly over the past century, the Chinese Communist Party easily forgets promises as soon as it finds them inconvenient

The Chinese military announced on Monday that its temper-tantrum military exercises around Taiwan will continue indefinitely, without regard to the disruptions they are causing for civilian traffic

China said anti-submarine warfare drills will be added to the program, an implicit threat against the United States given that submarines would play a major role in any U.S