Former Speaker of the House of Representatives (DPR) United States of AmericaNewt Gingrich, said that if China shot down the current US House Speaker’s plane, Nancy Pelosiit was tantamount to challenging a war.
Gingrich made that statement in a joint interview Fox News as quoted from Taiwan News on Tuesday (2/8).
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Worst case scenario is them [China] shot down Pelosi’s plane. It is an act of war and we have no other choice but to retaliate massively,” Gingrich told Fox News, quoted by Taiwan News.
“People often forget that the United States, despite its weaknesses in the Pentagon, despite committing various stupid acts, still has strong military capabilities,” he continued.
Gingrich also said China was not in a strong position to bully the US. The US could also deploy their allies to isolate China if Beijing shoots down Pelosi’s plane.
“With our allies in Australia and Japan and various other areas, we were able to isolate China quickly,” Gingrich said.
He later said, “If they can’t export, they fall into poverty, and their cities start to fill with unemployment. If they can’t export, they starve, so China isn’t in a strong position to try to bully the US, and I think we need to. admit it.”
Prior to Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, a columnist at China’s state media, Global Times, said Beijing could have shot down Pelosi’s plane.
“If US warplanes escort Pelosi planes to Taiwan, that is an invasion. [Militer China memiliki hak untuk secara paksa mengusir pesawat Pelosi dan jet tempur AS, termasuk menembakkan tembakan peringatan dan melakukan gerakan taktis untuk memblokade. Jika tidak efektif, mereka bisa menembak pesawat itu hingga jatuh,” kata kolumnis itu, Hu Xijing, dalam pernyataan Twitter, dikutip dari Newsweek.
Pernyataan Hu ini kemudian menjadi sorotan beberapa media internasional.
(pwn/bac)
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