If the visits of several senior officials can be used as bargaining chips, it will mean that the Americans have actually won the victory, and they can brazenly create such incidents at any time to blackmail.
If it were me, I would never accept any offer of benefit exchange, this constant creation of new bargaining chips intended to make us give in unilaterally.
It was humiliating enough that the Americans intimidated us with warships and led to a state of division for more than 70 years.This is very successful for the United States, but it also causes Americans' path dependence.They are used to using Taiwan island to blackmail us.
Yeah, but it worked for the USSR. If what Biden asks for is innocuous enough, its possible that China would accept.
Besides, time favors China, whatever minor stuff Biden could get out of deescalating a naval standoff outside China's coast would not save America, it would not be nearly enough. At most, it would just secure that China doesn't immediately move to collapse America with economical war for a few years. None of the US core problems have been solved.
They also destroy long term goodwill by doing shortsighted moves. One of if not the greatest US ally in the world is the Chinese public's unwillingness to take a tough stance against them. Chinese people are prone to ignore stuff happening outside Asia, so there was no uproar against US attacks in the middle east for example. If China didn't prop up the US economy to maintain access to the US market for the last decade, America would probably be in a state of complete collapse comparable to late 1980s USSR already.
Let's not forget, Chinese ppl with awareness about America is but a small segment of the whole population, not big enough to drive real change and create real anti American policies. But more and more ppl are catching on to how the relationship is unsustainable and unfair. Like someone else wrote above, the ability for China to change gears is unmatched in the world, if the public advocate for it, I don't doubt its possible to construct military factories at the same speed they built hospitals during the covid pandemic.
The only remotely feasible way the US military could get her to Taiwan without the almost certainty of a shooting war with China is if they snuck her in on a Seawolf, probably Jimmy Carter so they can use its MMP to launch her on a ROV.
Maybe the PLAN should mobiles it’s militia to deploy some fishing boats to the east of Taiwan to see if they can catch a big fish with their fishing nets. The sight of Pelosi being dragged aboard in a fishing net would be a beautiful sight indeed!
In any goal, the arrival of US forces on Chinese territory must be counteracted in any way. Even a drone strike shouldn't be ruled out if she somehow managed to make her way on solid ground. After all, the Americans themselves started that trend, they should have no objections if an US leader illegally meeting with Chinese terrorists is taken out by a government airstrike.
