{"id":1584688,"date":"2022-08-02T10:33:32","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T14:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1584688"},"modified":"2022-08-02T10:33:34","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T14:33:34","slug":"300000-track-us-military-plane-ahead-of-reported-pelosi-taiwan-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/300000-track-us-military-plane-ahead-of-reported-pelosi-taiwan-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"300,000 Track US Military Plane Ahead of Reported Pelosi Taiwan Visit"},"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\">22<\/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%2F300000-track-us-military-plane-ahead-of-reported-pelosi-taiwan-visit%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=1584688&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>More than 320,000 people were tracking a U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-military\">military<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-aircraft\">aircraft<\/a> believed to be ferrying House Speaker\u00a0Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-taiwan\">Taiwan<\/a> Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>There were rumors that Pelosi was aboard a U.S. Air Force aircraft, SPAR19, which flew out of Malaysia Tuesday with no listed destination. The destination of the aircraft was updated to Taipei as it passed the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>There is no confirmation that Pelosi is aboard, and it is possible that the aircraft is a decoy. Pelosi is not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/pelosi-believed-headed-to-taiwan-raising-tension-with-china\/ar-AA10cIzc\">expected<\/a> to arrive in Taiwan until Tuesday night local time, according to Taiwanese media.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the plane <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/320k-track-suspected-nancy-pelosi-plane-taiwan-online-1729966\">caught<\/a> the imagination of anxious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-china\">China<\/a>-watchers. Flightradar24, a popular aircraft-tracking website, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/flightradar24\/status\/1554457269714264066\">announced<\/a> that the \u201cunprecedented\u201d interest in the aircraft caused a strain on its servers, temporarily making the website unavailable.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Because of unprecedented sustained tracking interest in SPAR19, Flightradar24 services are under extremely heavy load. Some users may currently experience issues accessing the site, our teams are working on restoring full functionality to all users as quickly as possible. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dsFrlQ67zr\">pic.twitter.com\/dsFrlQ67zr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/flightradar24\/status\/1554457269714264066?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 2, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The speculation follows White House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/pelosi-aboard-military-aircraft-near-taiwan-white-house-confirms-amid-escalating-china-threats_4636487.html\">acknowledgement<\/a> Monday that Pelosi was using a military aircraft to travel on her tour of southeast Asia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is commonplace for the Speaker to travel aboard a U.S. military transport aircraft,\u201d said White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby during a press briefing on Aug. 1. \u201cThat\u2019s very typical.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPart of our responsibility is to make sure that she can travel safely and securely and I can assure you that she will.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is normal for sitting members of Congress to visit Taipei, and such has happened multiple times this year. The last time a sitting Speaker visited Taiwan, however, was in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>The reported trip has been turned into something of a war drum for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP),<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 320,000 people were tracking a U.S. military aircraft believed to be ferrying House Speaker\u00a0Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to Taiwan Tuesday morning. There were rumors that Pelosi was aboard a U.S. Air Force aircraft, SPAR19, which flew out of Malaysia Tuesday with no listed destination. 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