Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "See moment Nancy Pelosi steps off plane in Taiwan" video.

That's like saying that the Russians shouldn't need our permission to visit Alaska. Taiwan is their property according to them, the one China policy is more or less just something we say, it's not something that we're generally acting on. We make lip service to it and ask permission if we're going to go over there in an official policy just because it's the compromise that we've made to let the PRC save face. It's not generally acknowledged in the US, but the PRC has a number of "autonomous regions" including Tibet and Taiwan that are largely governed independently of the greater PRC. Doing something this stupid could easily cause problems not just of the PRC attacking us or our allies, but of sparking an internal civil war as there's a great deal of national regulatory action that is already being ignored by some of the provinces and other provinces are only nominally a part of the country. Not to mention that the whole thing is rather precarious and if the current leader loses the support of the People's Congress, there could well be a bloody struggle to replace him. When he was elevated to his current position, it was only the 2nd or so time that it had been done without bloodshed. And up until then it had been done every 10 years for decades, meaning that it was usually a bloody affair.
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@Powderlover1 That's no more, or less, true today than it was decades ago when this compromise was struck. The PRC got to save face, and Taiwan got to operate as the ROC in a largely independent fashion. It's not a stable arrangement, and as long as our corrupt politicians aren't so arrogant as to poke the (panda) bear, it would probably hold out long enough for the PRC size to shrink and the people to start seeing that there can be a better life for them in their own country. It remains to be seen what comes of it, but it won't be anything good.
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@FhillipFry How is that different from the other autonomous regions in the PRC that don't start with a T? Taiwan is only different in terms of being the ROC and where the government of China fled when Mao was consolidating power.
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I don't think that giving lipservice to the PRC while effectively undermining them and their "control" of the island is really that big of a deal. People who are saying otherwise are ignorant about what the current status quo is. We pretty much just say that Taiwan is part of the PRC, and that's more or less the end of it. We're still ensuring that they have military gear to help put off an invasion and other things that wouldn't be consistent with us considering the island to be owned by the PRC.
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No, the message is that we need to deal with our corruption before we lecture foreign nations about it. How precisely does she have the right to drag us into something that's at most a cold war and more of a rivalry while orchestrating the movies that gave most of the power that the PRC has to it?
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No, she's arrogant and senile enough to assume that there won't be consequences of this. I do think that nuclear war is rather unlikely, but there's numerous other ways that the PRC could make us pay a price for violating our gentleman's agreement to let them pretend like they own the island. This is likely to just be the latest shove by the US politicians of the PRC towards Russia and a new megablock of countries that are no longer in our sphere of influence at all. And China and Russia were barely in our sphere of influence to begin with. Now, they'll likely be out of our sphere for at least a generation, if not more.
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