This is ALWAYS the eventual outcome of fascism/ authoritarianism. Every single time. As a reminder, this is what you (in the royal sense) vote for when you vote republican in America.
This is something that might happen within the Green Bamboo Triad in Central Taiwan...gangsters there buy young wives and also run prostitution rings. Often preying on couples with gambling debts to get their daughters...it's rare in most of Taiwan, common in mainland China but not unheard of around the organized crime on the island. In my two decades in Taiwan I'd see these creeps show up with their "young wives" in pubs from time to time. Gambling debts are a huge problem in asian culture in general. Otherwise I wouldn't say this is a common story and those parents should lose custody of those girls. It's a crime in Taiwan.
Maybe Nancy should count her children and grandchildren when she gets home. Her husband apparently is an entitled alcoholic. I think of him as our version of a Prince Andrew. Or Tiffany Trump....people know he's around but don't pay attention to him much.
I agree. She is not a favorite for me and certainly her trip was meaningless and instantly insulted the Chinese Government. She did NOT need to go..
I can't stand her. She did need to go once China told her not to. The Chinese Government the can pound sand.
https://news.sky.com/story/taiwan-n...preparing-for-war-but-not-seeking-it-12664644 Taiwan news - live: China's missiles 'land in Japan's economic zone'; expert says 'this is how it begins' and predicts possible invasion Taiwan latest as China says military drills are under way in six zones surrounding the country following a visit to the island by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
China has flown into Taiwanese, Japanese, Vietnamese and Phillipines waters over contested islands for a long time ....they try to claim all the outlying islands and Chinese and have been doing this for a long, long time....they also are trying to push the border of India back to control more Himalayan watersheds as China is turning into a desert. They said they were going to do live fire military excercises around Taiwan when Pelosi arrived so this is them saying....we told you so! They also assured everyone that these were drills and they weren't attacking Taiwan. Let them piss off more of our Pacific alliance partners....if they continue, they'll end up suffering sanctions like Russia and have assets frozen....the Pacific alliance can also blockade Chinese ports and surround their coastlines....they know this but they have to show some bluster to not lose face. They did this after Tienamen Square and they do this every election year. Taiwan has an extensive defense system built into their mountains that cannot be bombed from the air....they have fighter jet runways tunneled into the mountains as well..Taiwan has been building a state of the art defensive system for 50 years and has missiles pointed directly at Beijing that can strike quickly. China really has nothing to gain from starting a Pacific war with all the Pacific alliance partners joining forces against them..they know this. the US army and S Korean army are also holding live fire drills and a practice run at assasinating Kim Jong Un today..our National Guard just did military drills with the Taiwanese military a couple of months ago....war games...lot of that going around these days.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.th...ear-taiwan-coast-in-wake-of-pelosi-visit-live Taiwan says ‘defence systems activated’ after Chinese missiles fired into Taiwan strait – live Taiwan’s ministry of defence and representative to the US say island ready to defend itself
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-provocative-politics-of-nancy-pelosis-trip-to-taiwan The Provocative Politics of Nancy Pelosi’s Trip to Taiwan What is the House Speaker’s high-profile visit really about? ......It’s a pretty mixed bag, but none of this is the sort of thing that people in Taiwan think about all day long. We’re paying more attention to the Pelosi visit in the U.S. than my friends in Taiwan are. And that makes sense because I don’t think the Pelosi visit, all of this brouhaha, is about Taiwan at all. It’s about American politicians thinking that this is the moment to poke Beijing or to stand up to Beijing or to prove how macho they are relative to Beijing. And, if Taiwan gets caught in the middle, well . . .
China is the bad guy in this story, not the US delegation nor the Taiwanese delegation. You can keep fishing for partisan softballs but they aren't helping the US or Taiwan. You should cut and paste some of the support that is in the news today for Taiwan instead of going for the "Pelosi bashing" that's such a "Hillary bashing" move. You might not care about Taiwan but I sure as hell do.
So, then....what becomes of her visit? More good than harm? China may very well be the bad guy. Let's rub their nose in it.
