Who would have thought that Eddie Markey, who shouldn’t be operating for president, would go to Taiwan earlier than Elizabeth Warren, who’s.
Talk about stealing her thunder.
But there the 76-year-old senator of Massachusetts was final week main a delegation of lawmakers to Taiwan. And he isn’t even up for reelection till 2026.
And Warren, 73, who is predicted to run for president if President Joe Biden doesn’t, was nowhere in sight.
The subsequent factor you realize the pair of progressive Massachusetts U.S. senators will go to the southern border.
But don’t guess on it. It is much extra harmful down round Eagle Pass, Texas than it’s in Taipei, Taiwan.
While the Chinese Communist Party could also be threatening to invade Taiwan, a whole lot of hundreds of unlawful immigrants, together with terrorists and drug smugglers, have already invaded the U.S., because of the Democrats’ and Biden’s open borders coverage.
Markey’s Taiwan go to got here simply days after the mainland Communist Chinese turned so unhinged over the sooner go to by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that they launched navy actions across the island.
It fired missiles into the ocean off the Taiwan coast, despatched fighter jets, bombers and drones over Taiwan air house and despatched an plane provider and warships round Taiwan’s perimeter, all in an effort to intimidate Biden and the Taiwanese folks.
So maybe Markey, a member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in addition to chairman of a Senate subcommittee that offers with Asian issues, figured that it was secure to go as a result of the Chinese concluded their dayslong intimidating navy rehearsal of a possible invasion of Taiwan, or had run out of ammo.
But hardly had he arrived than the Chinese resumed their navy drills across the island that they declare is a breakaway province and never an impartial nation.
There can be hypothesis that Chinese President Xi Jinping was initiating a possible armed battle to divert consideration from China’s struggling financial system and to spice up his virtually assured reelection to an unprecedented third time period when the National Party Congress meets in October.
Still, it’s a must to hand it to Markey for going there within the first place for a two-day go to, particularly as he adopted within the wake of the worldwide consideration that surrounded Pelosi’s go to.
Like Pelosi, Markey determined to make the journey regardless of Biden’s opposition based mostly on his marketing campaign of China appeasement.
If nothing else it additionally confirmed the Communist Chinese that regardless of Joe Biden and the State Department, U.S. members of Congress is not going to be deterred from going to Taiwan regardless of Chinese bluster and bullying.
Markey, main a five-person delegation, met with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, who talked about constructing on shared democratic values and constructing a safer provide chain, a reference to Taiwan’s main function in supplying the U.S. with semiconductors or pc chips.
And although Markey acquired nowhere the media protection that Pelosi did, he get the eye of the Communist Chinese.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin stated, “A handful of U.S. politicians, in collusion with the separatist forces of Taiwan independence, are trying to challenge the one China principle, which is out of their depth and doomed to failure.”
While the U.S. has an ambiguous one China coverage, and doesn’t assist Taiwan independence, it does again Taiwan’s democracy and sells it navy protection weapons.
Markey stated, “We have a moral obligation to do everything we can to prevent any unnecessary conflict, and Taiwan has demonstrated incredible restraints and discretion during challenging times.”
Markey, a veteran member of Congress, did properly.
Maybe he can channel that “moral obligation” to defending Americans from the unlawful immigrant invasion on the southern border.
Peter Lucas is a Massachusetts veteran political reporter and columnist.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”