Taiwan is to China what Ukraine is to Russia.
Both have abnormal amounts of personal interest and investment from deep state globalist politicians.
Both are small supposedly "independently democratic" places that are nothing but.
Based on the general theory that Trump, Xi and Putin are in some kind of alliance, it would make sense that Putin wants Ukraine back and China wants Taiwan back. They are "their country first" like Trump is America first, and the plans for a mutually prosperous America, Russia and China require that the criminal globalist strongholds posing as independent nations are destroyed.
Pelosi isn't a diplomat. There has to be personal stakes for her to want to go to Taiwan. We've seen all the pedo actors and warmongers flying to Ukraine for photo ops and psyops. Would make sense if a similar thing would occur re Taiwan.
Thus, this may explain the different response to Pelosi re Taiwan. I mean, logically if China were pro-Globalism why would they be upset with a globalist visiting a globalist stronghold?
Now, assume that China at the highest levels of government is trying to RID the country of globalists, while also being brutal Chinese.
Does the response to Pelosi make more sense?
"Get your globalist hands out of our country, stop interfering, or we will go to war with the US right now", knowing full well that the deep state don't have total control over the military and can't launch a proper response.
Or, if you're cynical, this is theatre and the prelude to an all out China vs. America attack and falls entirely within the scope of destroying the credibility of the west.
But I like my hopium answer better.
Curious to other opinions, since I'm not entirely savvy about geopolitics.
Not sure how, but the issue with Taiwan must be solved if we are going to get into a new world where war is once again rare. So it will necessarily play out similarly to Ukraine in the early stages.
Just some observations:
The DS likes to use countries which aren't really countries for their shady practices. Ukraine never actually registered their borders, which meant officially the country was an administrative district of Russia, even though they acted like an independent country. Taiwan is officially part of China, even though it pretends to be its own country, so a very similar situation.
The Chinese also have a huge number of ghost cities that nobody can figure out why they were built. I have a suspicion they have been planning to take back Taiwan for decades, and they anticipate a large number of refugees. They have entire empty cities just waiting to handle this.
With regard to the CCP, almost universally everyone admits that with only a small change in the way their dynasty operates, China is poised to become a powerful global force right now. I suspect many in the CCP have realized they are better off as their own boss, rather than just a faction under the control of the globalists. I would watch for them to use a peace and unification with Taiwan as the excuse needed to make small reforms and push out the globalist sympathizers within their ranks.
Summary: I think this is a decades long plan by China. I do not expect Taiwan to drag on like Ukraine. Watch for a fight to a standstill very quickly, and then a peace agreement that brings reunification in exchange for reforms within the CCP.
The issue with Taiwan would have been solved decades ago, had the west not betrayed the Republic of China at the prospect of fucking the Communist Republic of China.
Case in point. during the 80-ties, the question was whether the Netherlands would deliver 6 submarines to the Republic of China. This would have been a nice order for an industry that, while the Dutch built very good subs, was at the point of annihilation, like all the shipbuilding in favor of an abstract: knowledge economy.
As a consequences, the prices of houses in Amsterdam en beyond are bloated in such a way like all housing prices everywhere have gone when CCP money is infused.
Had these boats been sold and built and delivered, it would have set CCP back quite a bit.
I don't think the DS took over countries which weren't really countries. They created those countries in the first place to hide their deeds.