All of this is such a sham though.
The Hill captured this best yesterday:
https://thehill.com/opinion/interna...reason-xi-is-upset-over-pelosis-taiwan-visit/
China acts like the stalker ex-boyfriend of Taiwan, but the fact is it never dated it in the first place. China had
sh*t all interest in Taiwan up until Taiwan established one of the world's model democracies with Han Chinese at the helm, basically mocking Xi's iron-fisted rule to keep the barbarians off the gates while claiming there is simply no other way.
Taiwan is cognitive dissonance for the Chinese. It's evidence that you can have a good life and live out of the dictatorship of the CCP, and the CCP is threatened as all hell by their very existence.
I still remember when I first flew into Beijing over 20 years ago with a Taiwanese coworker, and instead of asking for her passport they asked for her "papers to return home". Such pompous b.s.
Well Biden did learn from the best: America's Drone President.