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Aug 3, 2022Liked by Cyrus Janssen

Completely agree with you, Cyrus. Very pleased that China did not start a war, even though Pelosi provoked them so much. They will seek smarter ways to deal with this, I am sure. Hope very much for continued peace, although there will be repercussions for this reckless visit.

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Aug 4, 2022Liked by Cyrus Janssen

In the end China showed more restreint than most predicted. They did practically nothing the night when Pelosi landed. Their response came only after. With unprecedented level of military exercises. This crisis created the perfect and legitimate reason for China to scale up their military drills basically surrounding Taiwan and blocking all major Taiwanese ports. This is one crucial step forward in China's long term strategy of reunifying with Taiwan. You can't be more impressed by Chinese government's strategic planning and execution. The only thing they lost in this episode is face. They lost BIG in this department. China's "red line" will be a laughing stock and many western politicians will be tempted to follow Pelosi's example. But as an extremely pragmatic nation, China is willing to pay this price.

Honestly, as a Chinese I had expected Chinese military to do a bit more, like sending planes to fly over Taiwan, not to push Pelosi's fleet away, that would be too risky, any chance of skirmish must be avoided, but just flying over Taiwanese people's head for once to show our stance would be nice, as far as I saw it. Fortunately our government is way smarter than me and doesn't respond to our nationalist sentiments.

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Aug 4, 2022Liked by Cyrus Janssen

Curious to know how the USA (or just Pelosi) will get burned… and hope the Taiwanese are not the ones getting burned….

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Aug 4, 2022Liked by Cyrus Janssen

Well said. With all of the things going pear-shaped in the US, you’d expect different priorities from Pelosi. The US is proving to be one of the great destabilizing forces in the world today, when more unity of purpose is so urgently required. Sad to say that we’re unrelenting in our “king of the hill” game playing.

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但是我的看法是什么呢?在佩洛西访台之前,中国官方及其民间的自媒体不断的说“后果自负”“不会让你们有好下场”这样的发言,总是只会发布“严正声明”这样的话,让中国大陆的大部分公民都认为一旦佩洛西真的访台了,那么官方绝对会“做点什么”。然而实际上,什么事情都没有发生,这就非常打击中国公民的自信心,认为国家软弱无力

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