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Who Killed Him?? Taiwan Defense Official Found Dead after Pelosi’s Visit

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The body of a top Taiwanese official who was responsible for overseeing the island nation’s major ramp-up of missile manufacturing was discovered in a hotel suite in the southern portion of the country on Tuesday.

According to official media, the body of Ou Yang Li-Hsing, who was the deputy chief of the Ministry of Defense of Taiwan’s research and development section, was found early on Saturday morning. The 57-year-old Ou Yang died while on a government trip to the southern province of Pingtung.

As the island nation of Taiwan prepares for a potential invasion from Communist China in the coming years, Ou Yang was in charge of supervising the work being done at the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology to increase the number of missiles it produces to 500 per year. The institute is owned by the military. Reports said that he died of a heart attack and that he had had problems with his heart in the past.

The news of Ou Yang’s passing came after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat from California, spent this week in Taiwan to demonstrate that China could not successfully cut Taiwan off from the rest of the world. China wrongfully claims Taiwan as its own territory.
In spite of warnings from Chinese military and government officials, including a state-run news agency publicist who effectively said that China may fire down Pelosi’s jet, Pelosi’s visit to the island was a success. In an opinion piece that was published in the Washington Post not long after she arrived on the island, Pelosi gave an explanation for why she went there.

Pelosi pointed out that the Taiwan Relations Act commits the United States to support Taiwan’s defense and that the act also states that the United States will “consider any effort to determine the future of Taiwan by means other than peaceful to be a threat to the peace and security of the Western Pacific area and of grave concern to the United States.”
“This is a promise that the United States of America must not forget. We must stand by Taiwan, which is an island of resilience,” Pelosi wrote. “In recent years, Beijing has dramatically intensified tensions with Taiwan. The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has ramped up patrols of bombers, fighter jets, and surveillance aircraft near and even over Taiwan’s air defense zone, leading the U.S. Defense Department to conclude that China’s army is ‘likely preparing for a contingency to unify Taiwan with the PRC by force.’“

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Ron Paul: Pelosi's Taiwan Trip Exposes US Policy As Dangerous, Deadly, & Dumb

MONDAY, AUG 08, 2022 - 05:15 PM
Authored by Ron Paul via The Ron Paul Institute,

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s "surprise" trip to Taiwan last week should be "Exhibit A" as to why interventionism is dangerous, deadly, and dumb. Though she claimed her visit won some sort of victory for democracy over autocracy, the stopover achieved nothing of the sort. It was a pointless gesture that brought us closer to military conflict with zero benefits.
As Col. Doug Macgregor said of Pelosi’s trip on a recent episode of Tucker Carlson Tonight, "statesmanship involves advancing American interests at the least cost to the American people. None of that is in play here... Posturing is not statesmanship."


PLA pilot patrolling near Taiwan on Sunday: Xinhua via AP

Pelosi’s trip was no outlier. Such counterproductive posturing is much celebrated by both parties in Washington. Neoconservative Senators Bob Menendez and Lindsey Graham were thrilled with Pelosi’s stop in Taipei and used it as a springboard to push for new legislation that would essentially declare war on China by declaring Taiwan a "major non-NATO ally."
The "one China" policy that, while perhaps not perfect, has kept the peace for more than 40 years is to be scrapped and replaced with one sure to provoke a war. Who benefits?
Foolishly taking the US to the brink of war with Russia over Ukraine is evidently not enough for Washington’s bipartisan warmongering class. Risking a nuclear war on two fronts, with both Russia and China, is apparently the only way for Washington to show the rest of the world it’s serious.
The Washington Post’s neoconservative columnist Josh Rogin accurately captures the mindset in Washington DC with a recent article titled, "The skeptics are wrong: The US can confront both China and Russia."
For Washington’s foreign policy "experts," those of us who don’t believe a war with both Russia and China is a great idea are written off as "skeptics." Count me as one of the skeptics!
During the Cold War there were times of heightened tension, but even in the darkest days the idea that nuclear war with China and the Soviet Union could be a solution was held only by only a few madmen. Now, with the ideological struggles of the Cold War a decades-old memory, such an argument makes even less sense. Yet this is what Washington is selling.
The US fighting a proxy war with Russia through Ukraine and Nancy Pelosi provoking China nearly to the point of war over Taiwan is meant to show the world how tough we are. In reality, it demonstrates the opposite. The drunken man in a bar challenging everyone to a fight is not tough. He’s foolish. He has nothing to gain and everything to lose from his display of bravado.



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This is the first time I’ve seen a CNN guest take one of the network’s jingoistic halfwits to the woodshed on Ukraine and Taiwan so comprehensively in such a short amount of time. And it was @rogerwaters.

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9:07 PM · Aug 6, 2022

That is interventionism at its core: a foolish policy that provokes nothing but anger overseas, benefits no one in the US except the special interests, and leaves the rest of us much poorer and worse off.
There may be plenty to criticize about China’s government and policies. They are far from perfect, particularly in protection of civil liberties. But have we already forgotten that our own government shut down the country for two years over a virus, and then forced a huge number of Americans to take an experimental shot that is proving to be as worthless as it is dangerous? Let’s look at the log in our own eye before we start lobbing missiles overseas.

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China Extends Taiwan Drills Past Sunday Deadline, Says Training Under "Real War Conditions"

MONDAY, AUG 08, 2022 - 08:30 AM

China's military drills in six zones surrounding Taiwan were scheduled to wind down and end on Sunday, but on Monday Beijing announced it is extending the threatening military drills which Taipei officials have slammed as a "blockade" and simulation for future invasion. The drills were originally set for four days, but have now been extended into this new week.
Not only have the drills launched in the wake of the last Tuesday into Wednesday visit to the self-ruled island of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi disrupted surrounding air traffic and shipping lanes key to global trade, but they've upped tensions with Washington, given the USS Ronald Reagan carrier strike group was ordered to stay in waters near Taiwan for longer than planned.
The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Eastern Theatre Command confirmed Monday that it is "continuing joint training under real war conditions, focused on organizing joint anti-submarine warfare and naval strikes."


Image: Xinhua via AP

This follows, as we detailed Sunday, on the heels of a "close quarters" standoff wherein ten warships each from the Chinese and Taiwan sides closely shadowed each other the Taiwan Strait. A total of 66 PLA aircraft and 14 warships were observed conducting exercises aimed at Taiwan into Sunday evening, with the aircraft repeatedly violating Taiwan's Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ).
In announcing its military on a high state of alert and confirming it sent additional ships through the strait, Taiwan's defense ministry again said China is "simulating attacks on the island of Taiwan and our ships at sea."
Further, according to the AP on Monday, "The exercises would include anti-submarine drills, apparently targeting U.S. support for Taiwan in the event of a potential Chinese invasion, according to social media posts from the eastern leadership of China’s ruling Communist Party’s military arm, the People’s Liberation Army."
"The military has said the exercises involving missile strikes, warplanes and ship movements crossing the midline of the Taiwan Strait dividing the sides were a response to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the self-ruled island last week," the report details.
Meanwhile, at a moment it appears that China's ongoing military squeeze is set to (at least for the foreseeable future) hold the democratic-run island 'hostage' - also threatening vital trade - the pressure on Washington to act more firmly in support of Taipei is growing.



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WATCH: #PLA Eastern Theater Command on Monday carried out joint anti-submarine drills with warships and warplanes around Taiwan island.

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7:32 AM · Aug 8, 2022

The latest Taiwan defense ministry statement said of the drills, "Their intention is to deal a blow to our morale and threaten regional security." Alarmingly the statement also underscored the adverse effect on international air traffic in the region.
Echoing the point of view of Taiwan officials and some regional allies, a Vietnam-based regional security analyst named Duan Dang was cited in FT as saying, "If the US doesn’t do something militarily to push back China in Taiwan Strait and re-establish a credible red line, it will be very bad! Frankly, no one in the region is going to believe in US commitments anymore."


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