Tuesday, August 02, 2022

We Don't Have to Trade With China

Yet we do.

Pourquoi?:

Twenty-one Chinese warplanes flew into Taiwan's air defense zone on Tuesday, the day House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Taipei, according to Taiwan's Ministry of Defense.

The People's Liberation Army Air Force planes — which included ten of its newer J-16 fighters, eight J-11 fighter jets, one KJ-500 airborne early warning and control aircraft, one Y-9 electronic warfare plane, and one Y-8 transport aircraft — entered Taiwan's air defense identification zone.

The Shenyang J-16 is an advanced fourth-generation fighter based on the Russian Sukhoi-30 fighter jet. The twin-jet, tandem-set fighter carries a 30 mm cannon, 12 air-to-air missiles, rockets and satellite-guided bombs, and anti-ship and anti-radiation missiles. A China-based military analyst previously told the South China Morning Post that the jet had "surely been primarily developed for assaults on Taiwan."

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It must have been what China said and did and is planning to do:

"The continual naming and blaming of China as a bad actor on seemingly every front, as the source of all of America’s problems, cultivates real fear and insecurity among Americans," Lee said in a May 2021 video. "And it directly fuels violence against Americans of Asian descent. From physical attacks to outright murder, evidence of violent racism fueled by our anti-China policy is alarming."

 

Of course, there is no evidence of that but, whatever. It's a soundbyte.

 


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