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The Chinese Communist Party changed course Thursday after a week of increasingly belligerent threats to use military force against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) if she dares to visit Taiwan in August, using its state media organs to convince President Joe Biden that Pelosi’s trip would cause needless political hassles for the Democrat party.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) invited Republican Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, to accompany her on a trip to Taiwan, according to a spokesperson.

Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) warned House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to consider the risk of “escalating tensions with China” should she take her reported trip to Taiwan to highlight human rights abuses.

China’s purchase of American homes and land is a “huge problem,” Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said in an interview.

Chinese state media on Monday intensified its belligerent threats against a reported visit to Taiwan by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, warning that Pelosi’s visit could trigger a military confrontation or outright war.

Chinese investors are gobbling up homes, farms and other properties in the U.S., statistics in a real estate market report show

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) pushed back against President Joe Biden’s criticism of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s planned Taiwan visit by stating that “we’re not going to let the Chinese Communist Party dictate where

Gingrich urged Pelosi to take her intended trip to Taiwan in August despite the misgivings of the Biden administration.

During an interview aired on Friday’s edition of the Fox Business Network’s “Maria Bartiromo’s Wall Street,” Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) stated that President Joe Biden’s criticism of House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) planned trip to Taiwan shows “the CCP’s

Alabama Republican U.S. Senate nominee Katie Britt maintains Taiwan should remain a free nation-state. She urged the Biden administration to ignore complaints from the Communist Chinese by moving forward with aid for Taiwan to bolster its defenses.

Hu Xijin, the influential former editor of China’s state-run Global Times, on Wednesday suggested Chinese forces should “restrain” and “punish” U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) if she follows through with a planned visit to Taiwan next month.

Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) on Thursday called on President Joe Biden and his administration to be “clear” that the United States would help Taiwan in the event China invades.

The EU’s newly appointed ambassador to Beijing said that China should “rule the world,” and called for “reunification” with Taiwan.

President Joe Biden expressed doubts Wednesday about the safety of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s planned trip to Taiwan this summer.

Military experts speaking at an event on Tuesday at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) diagnosed the Chinese military with “surprising shortfalls” in its ability to operate, leaving open the possibility of a disaster for the Communist Party in the event of active war.

Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) introduced a resolution Wednesday that recognizes China as the greatest foreign threat to U.S. peace, security, and stability.

China’s Foreign Ministry and its government propaganda outlets expressed concern on Tuesday that the decisive conservative victory in Japan’s legislative elections this weekend, which took place immediately after the assassination of former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo on Friday, could encourage Japan to become a “geopolitical thug.”

Former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo spent much of his public effort in the months leading up to his assassination on Friday advocating for defending the nation of Taiwan from a potential Chinese invasion, outraging the Communist Party into threatening a “bloodbath” if he did not stop.

China’s state-run Global Times on Wednesday suggested that a recent increase in Chinese naval activity near waters surrounding the Japanese archipelago will soon “become routine,” as Beijing ramps up its militaristic ambitions across the greater Pacific Ocean.

The launch of China’s third aircraft carrier on June 17 was an expected – actually slightly delayed, thanks to coronavirus lockdowns – step toward the aggressive Communist power challenging the ability of the United States and its NATO allies to project power across the seas.

America celebrates its independence on the Fourth of July, while captive people around the world hope they might one day celebrate their own.

Japan’s foreign ministry confirmed Thursday that a flotilla of Chinese Navy ships that entered waters near Japan’s Tsushima Strait on June 12 completed a circumnavigation of the archipelago after a nearly three-week mission that saw the ships end their journey near Taiwan, Kyodo News reported.

The UK should begin sending weapons to Taiwan in order to bolster their defence against an invasion from China, the foreign secretary said.

Taiwan’s foreign ministry on Monday condemned a recent decision by FIFA World Cup organizers to change Taiwan to “Chinese Taipei” on an official Qatar government website granting spectators’ permits for the upcoming soccer tournament, the Taipei Times reported Wednesday.

China’s Global Times government propaganda newspaper illustrated an article on Monday about President Joe Biden considering lifting tariffs on Chinese products with a photo of Biden falling off of a bicycle this weekend — an embarrassing image that went unmentioned in the article and had nothing to do with its contents.

On Friday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “The Record With Greta Van Susteren,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) argued that China sees weakness from President Joe Biden’s foreign policy and we need to provide Taiwan with lethal weapons to defend themselves before

China ceremonially launched its third aircraft carrier on Friday and christened it Fujian, the name of the Chinese province opposite the country of Taiwan. The name was clearly meant as a bullying warning to the Taiwanese.

A Chinese Communist Party regulation signed by dictator Xi Jinping, whose many titles include chairmanship of the Central Military Commission (CMC), greatly expands the mandate of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to conduct “non-war military activities” – a benign-sounding term that happens to be very similar to the language Russian dictator Vladimir Putin employs to describe his invasion of Ukraine.

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping called his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Wednesday to offer financial support and backing on Russia’s “respective core interests,” Chinese state media revealed.

Washington Post reporter Josh Rogin asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday to advise Taiwan on how it could “stand strong as China seeks to impose its control over a free people, by force if necessary.”

Senior Chinese Politburo member Yang Jiechi berated U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan to make Washington “correct its strategic perceptions of China” and “make the right choices” in a reportedly four-and-a-half-hour meeting on Monday that the White House and Chinese state media both reported featured little input from Sullivan.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Chinese Defense Minister Gen. Wei Fenghe traded warnings over the weekend on Taiwan.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday urged the international community to learn a lesson from Russia’s attack on his country by stepping up to defend Taiwan before China decides to invade it.

Chinese Defense Minister General Wei Fenghe appeared to threaten a war with America during remarks on Sunday at the Shangri-La Dialogue, a global security conference in Singapore, asserting that the Communist Party would “fight to the very end” to annex Taiwan.

China’s state-run Global Times on Wednesday dismissed recent Japanese government efforts to forge closer ties with Taiwan, suggesting that Beijing should “break the leg” of any third party like Tokyo that tries to interfere with the China-Taiwan relationship.

China’s top English-language government propaganda outlets completely ignored the 33rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre this weekend, a return to a standard Beijing disposed of in 2019 when it began celebrating the mass murder following the rise of the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement.