Thursday 28 July 2022

“Peaceful reunification ‘still an option for Taipei’”

Like in the Sopranos: Salvatore "Coco" Cogliano saying to the store owner “nice business you got there. Pity if something should happen to it”. The Beijing offer. But not quite yet an offer they can’t refuse. 

China’s number four, Wang Yang, has the gall to say “democratic consultations” when everywhere else “democracy” is a poisonous word to the CCP. 

In the red box above: sinister, wicked, threat.

Biden: Pelosi visit to Taiwan is a “bad idea”. Even so, they’re in a bind as cancelling the visit will be hammered for giving in to the bullies. 

Meantime: 80% of Taiwan residents want nothing to do with “reunification”. That number has only gone up in the era of Xi Jingping (>2012). Not that the people matter! HK people didn’t, in the negotiations on the Joint Declaration. Our views were studiously ignored.