{"id":1623653,"date":"2022-08-26T20:35:52","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T00:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1623653"},"modified":"2022-08-26T20:36:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T00:36:11","slug":"sen-blackburn-china-wants-an-excuse-to-bully-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-blackburn-china-wants-an-excuse-to-bully-taiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Blackburn: China wants an excuse to bully Taiwan"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fsen-blackburn-china-wants-an-excuse-to-bully-taiwan%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=1623653&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--><div id=\"attachment_2741966\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2741966\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2741966\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/AP22238163547469-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"In this photo released by the Taiwan Presidential Office, U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn exchange gifts with Taiwan&#039;s President Tsai Ing-wen during a meeting in Taipei, Taiwan on Friday, Aug. 26, 2022. Blackburn met with Tsai on Friday, in the second visit by members of Congress since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi&#039;s trip earlier this month sharply raised tensions with China. (Taiwan Presidential Office via AP)\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2741966\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this photo released by the Taiwan Presidential Office, U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn exchange gifts with Taiwan\u2019s President Tsai Ing-wen during a meeting in Taipei, Taiwan on Friday, Aug. 26, 2022. Blackburn met with Tsai on Friday, in the second visit by members of Congress since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s trip earlier this month sharply raised tensions with China. (Taiwan Presidential Office via AP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 4:58 PM PT \u2013 Friday, August 26, 2022<\/h5>\n<p><span>Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) has vowed to stand by Taiwan amid high tensions between the island and China.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I just landed in Taiwan to send a message to Beijing \u2014 we will not be bullied.\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>The United States remains steadfast in preserving freedom around the globe, and will not tolerate efforts to undermine our nation and our allies. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yVcaYN7yIA\">pic.twitter.com\/yVcaYN7yIA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarshaBlackburn\/status\/1562841112674328577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>While speaking with the Taiwanese President on Friday, Blackburn referred to the island as a country, a move experts say could irk the Chinese Communist Party. Blackburn\u2019s surprise visit to the island comes amid China aggressively demanding that the international community should recognize Taiwan as a part of China\u2019s mainline.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Blackburn stressed that China is just trying to see if it can push over Taiwan without setting off an international crisis.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cXi Jinping and his military leaders are not prone to making sour of the moment decisions they planned for this moment. And they were just waiting for an excuse to bully Taiwan,\u201d the Senator said. \u201cThey are clearly testing Taiwan\u2019s resolve and the rest of the world\u2019s tolerance for even more imperialist violence.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>The Tennessee Republican is the latest US lawmaker to visit the island. She joined the ranks of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and other members of Congress who recently visited Taiwan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In the meantime, Blackburn urged the Biden administration to help America\u2019s ally defend itself from Chinese aggression. She also added that Chinese President, Xi Jinping, doesn\u2019t scare her.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I will continue to stand with the Taiwans and their right to freedom and democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Xi Jinping doesn\u2019t scare me.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarshaBlackburn\/status\/1562952591805673473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/walkaway-founder-brandon-straka-recreates-jailing-to-raise-awareness-of-j6-prisoners\/\">WalkAway Founder Brandon Straka Recreates Jailing To Raise Awareness Of J6 Prisoners<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this photo released by the Taiwan Presidential Office, U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn exchange gifts with Taiwan\u2019s President Tsai Ing-wen during a meeting in Taipei, Taiwan on Friday, Aug. 26, 2022. Blackburn met with Tsai on Friday, in the second visit by members of Congress since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s trip earlier this month sharply &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1209,"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-1623653","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\/1623653","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\/1209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1623653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623653\/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=1623653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1623653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1623653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}