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Nancy Pelosi, Taiwan & yet another fake binary
• Off Guardian - Kit KnightlyNancy Pelosi visited Taiwan yesterday. It was quite an event. People were asking "is this brinksmanship dangerous?", or "Will the Chinese shoot down Pelosi's plane?"
Protesters took to the streets of Taipei, the Chinese military is holding live-fire drills in the South China sea.
…and then Pelosi left, and nothing has actually happened, has it?
Taiwan is just another fake binary. At the press conferences and photo-ops, everyone was wearing masks.
In Beijing and Washington, they are still pushing vaccine passes and vaccine mandates and vaccine boosters.
They are still talking about Covid and Climate Change and central bank digital currencies.
They very much agree about the need to control you, muzzle you, surveil you and inject you.
By now we need to realise geopolitics has become staged theatre.
— OffGuardian (@OffGuardian0) August 2, 2022
Saying "oh no, #NancyPelosi could cause #WWIII by visiting #Taipei!" is as grounded in reality as worrying that The Undertaker might hurt Stone Cold Steve Austin when he hits him with a chair.