A Little History

As you recall, the Chinese communists warned former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi not to visit Taiwan last year. To her credit, she went anyway. Now, they’re warning Speaker Kevin McCarthy that he had better not go to Taiwan. 

Just think about that. The Chinese communists are warning the speaker of the House of Representatives that he shouldn’t visit an American ally while they are sending spy balloons over our territory! 

They knew when the balloon was likely to arrive over U.S airspace. And they knew that Secretary of State Antony Blinken was scheduled to arrive in Beijing next week. Was this China’s way of reminding us of who is in the driver’s seat ahead of those talks? (It’s being reported that Blinken has now postponed his planned trip to China.)

I remember when it was revealed that General “Thoroughly Modern” Milley secretly called his old buddy in the Chinese communist military to reassure him that he would give him a heads up if we were about to attack. 

Okay, House Republicans, put Milley under oath and ask him if he got a “heads up” from his Chinese Communist Party counterpart, reassuring him that there was nothing to worry about from this balloon.

Does Milley’s trusted Chinese partner call him every time they launch an invasion-level number of aircraft and ships toward Taiwan to say there’s nothing to worry about? I doubt it.

It says something about the nature of the relationship that we’re always reassuring them while they continue to engage in aggressive activity against the people of the United States and our allies. For some reason they just don’t seem to be very worried about Joe and Kamala. 

I remember at the beginning of George W. Bush’s administration when the Chinese forced a U.S. surveillance plane to land in China. That was more than 20 years ago, when communist China was considerably weaker than it is today. 

I suspect that the only way the Biden White House or the feckless Pentagon leadership would shoot that balloon down is if they believed the helium in it was contributing to global warming!