{"id":1579626,"date":"2022-07-29T17:36:26","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T21:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1579626"},"modified":"2022-07-29T17:36:31","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T21:36:31","slug":"china-state-media-threatens-to-shoot-down-pelosis-plane-to-taiwan-if-she-flies-with-military-escort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-state-media-threatens-to-shoot-down-pelosis-plane-to-taiwan-if-she-flies-with-military-escort\/","title":{"rendered":"China State Media Threatens to \u2018Shoot\u2019 Down Pelosi\u2019s Plane to Taiwan If She Flies With Military Escort"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-state-media-threatens-to-shoot-down-pelosis-plane-to-taiwan-if-she-flies-with-military-escort%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1579626&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-white-house\">White House<\/a> has refused to comment on a threat by a Chinese state media figure who said that the Chinese military should \u201cshoot \u2026 down\u201d a plane carrying House speaker Nancy Pelosi if she visited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-taiwan\">Taiwan<\/a> with a military escort.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs it relates to the Speaker\u2019s travels, it\u2019s something that we\u2019re just not going to speak to. Right now that\u2019s a hypothetical,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thejcoop\/status\/1553087381049319424\">said<\/a> White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on July 29.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are just not going to speak on her schedule\u2026 I\u2019m not going to speak to a hypothetical.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Pierre\u2019s comments were made in response to a question as to the White House\u2019s position on recent comments made by Hu Xijin, the former editor-in-chief of the Chinese Communist Party-controlled Global Times media outlet.<\/p>\n<p>Hu suggested that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-china\">China<\/a>\u2019s military, the People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA), should use force against Pelosi if she visited Taiwan with U.S. military protection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf U.S. fighter jets escort Pelosi\u2019s plane into Taiwan, it is invasion,\u201d Hu <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HuXijin_GT\/status\/1553054547970760704\">said<\/a> in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe PLA has the right to forcibly dispel Pelosi\u2019s plane and the US fighter jets, including firing warning shots and making tactical movement of obstruction. If ineffective, then shoot them down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hu\u2019s comments were just the latest in a growing list of bellicose rhetoric emanating from Beijing and its various mouthpieces.<\/p>\n<p>In May, China\u2019s defense secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/china-will-not-hesitate-to-start-a-war-over-taiwan-chinese-general-tells-us-defense-secretary_4525064.html\">threatened<\/a> to start a war \u201cno matter the cost\u201d to prevent Taiwan\u2019s de facto independence from becoming internationally recognized. Likewise, Chinese communist leader Xi Jinping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/xi-to-biden-us-playing-with-fire-on-taiwan_4627968.html\">threatened<\/a> President Joe Biden on a phone call on Thursday, warning that the United States was \u201cplaying with fire\u201d on the Taiwan issue.<\/p>\n<p>The saga comes amid reports that Pelosi was planning a personal visit to Taiwan, which was previously scheduled in April. At that time, Pelosi contracted COVID-19 and canceled the trip. The House<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House has refused to comment on a threat by a Chinese state media figure who said that the Chinese military should \u201cshoot \u2026 down\u201d a plane carrying House speaker Nancy Pelosi if she visited Taiwan with a military escort. \u201cAs it relates to the Speaker\u2019s travels, it\u2019s something that we\u2019re just not going [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1579626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1579626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1579626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1579626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1579626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}