Michael Brand from the "moderate" conservative CDU party, who will likely be part of the delegation:
The Chinese leadership has to watch out that it doesn't become a dragon spewing empty threats on the international stage. A bit more Asiatic discipline would be appropriate.
Visits from German MPs to Taiwan have happened in the past without causing diplomatic incidents, but Jhy-Wey-Shieh, the Taiwanese represenative in Germany (meaning, the de-facto ambassador) has asked for the parliament's president Bärbel Bas (SPD) to head the delegation:
The inhibitions to travel to Taiwan must fall.
Bärbel Bas' office was reasonable enough to decline that invitation, stating that there is an agreement not to do visits of "sovereignty-relevant" politicians to Taiwan. This includes the heads of the executive, legislative and judicative branches of government, the chancellor, the federal president and the secretaries of defense and foreign relations.
Unfortunately, foreign relations secretary Annalena Barbock has already singaled her support of Pelosi's visit in recent days and is a hardcore lib who has studied poli sci at the london school of economics (read: she is an idealist fool who wholeheartedly believes in the democratic regime change ideology of American neocons), so we'll have to see how this develops.
also, germania delenda est :germany-cool:
Yeah, I think Deng's reforms made a gamble on the idea that capitalists have no loyalty to their host countries and only to profit. That gamble has paid off in a big fucking way.
I think the reason China has never done anything like nationalize a foreign business is because the CPC still thinks that the capitalists who own those foreign industries will lobby their own governments without even any input from China.
Not only will capitalists sell us the rope with which we hang them, they will sell us their whole country if we put enough money on the table.
Some lectures on dengism from xinhua university + observing how completely incapable the west is at controlling china now put to rest all of my "dengist china is basically capitalist" brainworms. Deng's gamble is paying off big time.
It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, as long as it
catches micefucks up the West.This is the lesson I’ve sort of learned over the past few days. Like I was actually shocked how many msm in US have been like “okay yes democracy and freedom and all that buttttttttt are we sure visiting Taiwan is a good idea at this moment?! What about le economy?!” re: China, literally right after/during their absolutely unhinged call for blood and self economic sabotage re: Russia.
I think somewhere deep down in the collective lib subconsciousness is the creeping realization that China will one day rise above the West and nobody wants to piss off the future boss.