Mother Nan crossed China's red line — now the PRC will have to meaningfully retaliate — or suffer a massive loss of face
© 2022 Peter Free
02 August 2022
I'm generally against boxing oneself into a strategic corner
Unfortunately for future world peace, China allowed Speaker Pelosi to land in Taiwan.
And thus, the PRC's red line warning has boxed itself in.
Now, China will have to act in some genuinely meaningful retaliatory way.
Consequences
If Mother Nan gets away with her One-China violation, American neocons will be over-the-moon encouraged to further escalate their global warmongering.
The moral? — Hopefully, China will be visibly skillful in its revenge extraction
Absent such, a loss of face for the mainland Chinese — occasioned by this US-provoked unnecessary-ness — will be a disaster for all of humanity.
An eventual nuclear war — due to ballooning overconfidence in American imperialists' thinking — would almost certainly follow.
Do you ever 'pray' that people, over whom you have no control, will act intelligently and with precision?