Speaker Pelosi landing in Taiwan to support their democracy, despite repeated warnings from Xi Jinping, is exactly the kind of energy we need right now.

    • ProfessorAdonisCnut [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Could easily create a huge surge of domestic support for expanding that trade relationship in China too. They love tobacco and they love having stuff from the country that's seen as best at a thing (e.g. Australian wool), pushing a cultural obsession with Cuban cigars as a simultaneous symbol of communist patriotism and personal status would be the easiest thing PRC's propaganda ministry could ever do.