If Pelosi's visit were kind of irrelevant or a "distraction" as you say, then you wouldn't have all those PLA exercises afterward as a response.
Nor would you have constant military maneuvers around Taiwan if Taiwan's recent rhetoric, US arms sales, etc, were also "distractions".
What would you say the same when Biden or Trump visited the island after the following elections in the US for example? Is it also a "distraction"?
If you had those exercises after Pelosi's visit failing to deter, then what would happen during Kamala Harris's or Biden's visit, what would be the next step for China to respond with?
Could the US "interpret" that response for China as enough to warrant their own military "protection" of Taiwan, as Biden said they would do?
There is a point when something becomes too much. It's not that point yet, but it's sure coming soon. You people are way too casual.
By this point, it's way more likely that a war over Taiwan between China and the US would break out in this decade than it won't.
In a world where all this is going in Ukraine, and the Middle East, it sounds very likely that something around Taiwan would also break out.
As we see the US is not backing down from anything and they made it clear with their actions. They are just waiting for their elections to finish.
They secured Lao's victory in Taiwan, just after the US presidential elections finish you will see a new exponential increase in provocations.
