Hu Xijin

Chinese Media: ‘Taiwan Independence Means War’

Hu Xijin, the ultra-nationalist former editor of China’s state-run Global Times and now an editorialist, said in Monday’s edition of his Hu Says video blog that Taiwan and the United States could provoke a war by pushing for Taiwanese independence under newly elected President William Lai Ching-te.

Taiwanese Vice President Lai Ching-te, also known as William Lai, left, celebrates his vic

Chinese Propagandist: Beijing Should Shoot Down Nancy Pelosi’s Plane to Taiwan

Hu Xijin, former editor of China’s state-run Global Times and a top Communist propagandist, took his increasingly belligerent rhetoric against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) impending visit to Taiwan to its ultimate conclusion on Friday by advising the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to simply shoot Pelosi’s plane down, along with her U.S. Air Force escorts.

US Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, speaks during her weekly pr