{"id":1584902,"date":"2022-08-02T12:52:14","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T16:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1584902"},"modified":"2022-08-02T12:52:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T16:52:19","slug":"newt-gingrich-responds-to-pelosis-trip-to-taiwan-calls-chinese-threats-a-bluff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/newt-gingrich-responds-to-pelosis-trip-to-taiwan-calls-chinese-threats-a-bluff\/","title":{"rendered":"Newt Gingrich Responds to Pelosi\u2019s Trip to Taiwan, Calls Chinese Threats a \u2018Bluff\u2019"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fnewt-gingrich-responds-to-pelosis-trip-to-taiwan-calls-chinese-threats-a-bluff%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=1584902&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>Former House Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-newt-gingrich\">Newt Gingrich<\/a> said the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s (CCP) threats in response to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s (D-Calif.) trip to Taiwan are merely posturing.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Fox News, Gingrich said a similar scenario unfolded in 1997 when he visited both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-china\">China<\/a> and Taiwan. He was the last speaker to visit the self-governing island country.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, CCP officials invited Gingrich to deliver speeches in Beijing and Shanghai but their rhetoric changed when he mentioned visiting Taiwan. For decades, the CCP has claimed Taiwan is its territory despite it being a functionally democratic and independent state since 1949.<\/p>\n<p>Gingrich, a Republican, said that a deal was made for him to visit China to deliver speeches before visiting Japan and then Taiwan. He said the agreement was made in such a way that he wouldn\u2019t directly go from China to Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey backed down,\u201d he said Monday, referring to the Chinese regime. \u201cTheir current bluff is just that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, they are harassing Taiwan every week. They are flying aircraft into Taiwanese space. They recently announced a live-fire zone off of Taiwan,\u201d he added.\u00a0\u201cThey\u2019re doing all they can to rattle the Taiwanese people, who are 24 million free people with a free election and a free news media, who produce, by the way, about 67 percent of the world\u2019s high-value computer chips. So it\u2019s a very important place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Arrival <\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speaker.gov\/newsroom\/8222-2\">statement<\/a> Tuesday, Pelosi confirmed that she and a congressional delegation touched down in Taiwan, saying the trip is \u201cfocused on mutual security, economic partnership, and democratic governance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Pelosi-lands-in-Taiwan-1200x675-1.jpg\"><\/a> U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (C) arrives in Songshan Airport in Taipei, Taiwan, on Aug. 2, 2022, in a still from video. (Taiwan Foreign Ministry, Pool via Reuters\/Screenshot via NTD) <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the face of the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s (CCP) accelerating aggression, our<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s (CCP) threats in response to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s (D-Calif.) trip to Taiwan are merely posturing. Speaking to Fox News, Gingrich said a similar scenario unfolded in 1997 when he visited both China and Taiwan. 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