08-06-2022, 03:02 PM
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US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wrapped up her high-profile and destructive trip to Asia after the final stop Japan on Friday and was put on the official sanctions list by the Chinese government for seriously trampling on the one-China principle.
With the curtains falling on the political stunt of the 82-year-old, who will always be remembered as a reckless and egocentric troublemaker, Pelosi's tour in the region - widely considered as a "graduation trip" as she is likely to lose in the upcoming midterms - left nothing but a mess for the Asia-Pacific region and the world, as well as incurred a huge damage to the US' national interests.
Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, a blatant violation of the one-China principle and intrusion of China's sovereignty, prompted China's necessary countermeasures that are defensive in nature. As the People's Liberation Army's (PLA) drills surrounding the island continue, the world is clearly seeing where China's red line is and has realized better that the US cannot protect "Taiwan independence" secessionists, even through the very military strength that the US has been proud of in maintaining its global hegemony, experts said.
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