China warns Taiwan independence 'means war' as US pledges support

Published 2 hours ago

China has warned that attempts by Taiwan to seek independence "means war".

The warning comes days after China stepped up its military activities and flew warplanes near the island.

It also comes after new US President Joe Biden reaffirmed his commitment to Taiwan, and set out his stance in Asia.

The US has called China's latest warning "unfortunate", adding that tensions did not need to lead to "anything like confrontation".

China sees democratic Taiwan as a breakaway province, but Taiwan sees itself as a sovereign state.

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"We are seriously telling those Taiwan independence forces: those who play with fire will burn themselves, and Taiwan independence means war," Chinese defence ministry spokesman Wu Qian said at a press conference on Thursday.

He also defended China's recent military activities, saying they were "necessary actions to address the current security situation in the Taiwan Strait and to safeguard national sovereignty and security".

China and Taiwan: The basics

China and Taiwan have had separate governments since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949. Beijing has long tried to limit Taiwan's international activities and both have vied for influence in the Pacific region

Tensions have increased in recent years and Beijing has not ruled out the use of force to take the island back

Although Taiwan is officially recognised by only a handful of nations, its democratically elected government has strong commercial and informal links with many countries

Like most nations, the US has no official diplomatic ties with Taiwan, but a US law does require it to provide the island with the means to defend itself

Presentational grey line

The US responded later on Thursday.

"We find that comment unfortunate," Pentagon press secretary John Kirby told reporters, in the first statement by the new administration on China-Taiwan relations.

Mr Kirby added that the Pentagon "sees no reason why tensions over Taiwan need to lead to anything like confrontation".

MORE - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55851052

WHO team visit Wuhan hospital where China reported first known cases of coronavirus

Posted 6 hours ago, updated 51 minutes ago

A World Health Organization (WHO) team has visited a hospital where China says the first COVID-19 patients were treated more than a year ago, as part of the experts' long-awaited fact-finding mission on the origins of the coronavirus.

The WHO team members and Chinese officials earlier had their first in-person meetings at a hotel, which WHO has said were to be followed by field visits in the central city of Wuhan.

"First face-to-face meeting with our colleagues. Correction: facemask to facemask given the medical restrictions," Dutch virologist Marion Koopmans tweeted.

"Discussing our visiting program. China teamleader prof Wannian joking about some technical glitches. Nice to see our colleagues after lengthy Zoom meetings," she wrote, apparently referring to top Chinese epidemiologist Liang Wannian, a leader of China's response team.

More - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-29/who-team-to-begin-meetings-with-china-experts-coronavirus/13103768

Unlike Trump, Biden Cannot Lean on Conservative Supreme Court to Keep Agenda Alive

By Reuters, Wire Service Content Jan. 29, 2021, at 6:10 a.m.

BY ANDREW CHUNG AND Jarrett Renshaw

(Reuters) - The first major lawsuit hit President Joe Biden's administration two days after he took office, providing an early test not only of how much conservative legal opposition his policies will draw but also of his strategy in fending off such challenges.

Unlike his Republican predecessor Donald Trump, whose administration sought to rush cases to a U.S. Supreme Court it considered friendly territory, Biden's team may not be able to count on a sympathetic audience among the conservative justices who hold sway on the nation's top judicial body.

The Jan. 22 lawsuit was filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a staunch Republican ally of Trump, challenging Biden's 100-day moratorium on deportation of many immigrants. The judge in the case on Tuesday temporarily blocked Biden's action while the litigation continues, with the potential that the matter could end up at the Supreme Court.

The high court's 6-3 conservative majority includes three Trump appointees. Trump's administration took a particularly aggressive stance when judges blocked his policies by quickly and repeatedly turning to the high court - sometimes bypassing intermediate federal appeals courts - in a way that broke norms.

Legal experts said Biden's team is unlikely to use the same playbook given a Supreme Court ideological makeup that signals skepticism toward liberal policy approaches.

The Justice Department's Office of the Solicitor General, which handles the federal government's cases at Supreme Court, will play a key role.

Biden has not yet chosen his nominee for solicitor general, but Washington lawyers Nicole Saharsky, David Frederick and Andrew Pincus are among those being considered, according to two sources familiar with the process. Washington lawyer Elizabeth Prelogar, a veteran of the office, is serving as acting solicitor general. Biden has nominated federal appellate judge Merrick Garland as attorney general.

'MORE FAVORABLE FORUM'

The new solicitor general's office must decide whether it can attract the support of a majority of the Supreme Court's justices in a given case or whether it would be a "futile effort" even to try, said Ilana Eisenstein, a Philadelphia lawyer who worked in the office under Trump and his predecessor Barack Obama.

"Where there is a perception that the Supreme Court is the more favorable forum, whether for emergency relief or relief on the merits, there may be a rush to get there," Eisenstein said. "And where there is a perception that appeals courts are more favorable, there may be an effort to keep the matter in those lower courts."

In the past, a solicitor general typically sought the Supreme Court's attention only after lower courts had ruled. But Noel Francisco, solicitor general for most of Trump's presidency, repeatedly pushed the justices - often on an emergency basis - to hear cases or block unfavorable lower court rulings to keep contested policies alive.

Trump's administration asked the justices to block lower court rulings 41 times, according to University of Texas School of Law professor Stephen Vladeck, with the administration winning at least in part in 28 of those requests. In the 16 years prior, the Obama and George W. Bush administrations sought such relief eight times combined.

Vladeck said the numbers reflect a conservative Trump administration capitalizing on a reliably conservative court.

"You had probably a majority of the court that was sympathetic to Trump administration policies on the merits. It's hard to believe that is going to be true now," Vladeck added.

That could be the case on issues such as LGBT and religious rights, abortion and gun control.

"On certain culture war issues, those are ones that the Biden people probably wouldn't want to see go to the Supreme Court, at least in most cases," George Mason University law professor Ilya Somin added.

Biden's Justice Department declined to comment.

https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2021-01-29/unlike-trump-biden-cannot-lean-on-conservative-supreme-court-to-keep-agenda-alive

>>12753849

Get a heavy bag and some good gloves

You be okay

kek

Panelists Unpack Capitol Insurrection, Trump Impeachment, and Biden Inauguration at JFK Jr. Forum

By Meimei Xu, Crimson Staff Writer

5 hours ago

Political reporters and experts convened over Zoom to discuss the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol building, former President Donald Trump’s impeachment, and the inauguration of President Joe Biden at a JFK Jr. Forum panel Thursday.

The event, entitled “What Just Happened? Insurrection, Impeachment, and Inauguration” featured Igor Bobic, a HuffPost senior political reporter; Stephanie Cutter, the deputy campaign manager for former President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign and the executive producer of Biden’s virtual inauguration; and Benjamin Wittes, editor-in-chief of the blog LawFare. Dan Balz, an IOP senior fellow and a political correspondent for the Washington Post, moderated the event.

Bobic, who was at the Capitol on Jan. 6 to cover Biden’s electoral vote certification, offered insight into what it was like to witness the insurrection up close. He captured a video — which has garnered 10.5 million views on Twitter — of Capitol police officer Eugene Goodman confronting the mob inside of the building and leading rioters away from the Senate floor.

Bobic said that the magnitude of Goodman’s intervention was not clear at the time. Goodman has since been credited with diverting the crowd from interacting with senators who had not yet been evacuated.

“It wasn't clear to any of us what he really did until days later, when we found out that the Senate Chamber itself, with all 100 senators in there and the vice president, wasn't sealed at the time that officer Goodman was only steps away, downstairs,” Bobic said. “If he didn't delay their progress, who knows what would have happened?”

Bobic also said the image of a man carrying a Confederate flag through the Capitol building will be “seared” into his brain.

“To me, the symbolism of this rioter carrying a Confederate flag outside the Senate Chamber itself was the most visceral thing,” Bobic said. “It just made me so outraged standing there.”

The panelists also discussed the aftermath of the Capitol insurrection, specifically Trump's impeachment — his second during his tenure. Trump, who was impeached by the House of Representatives on Jan. 13, is set to face trial in the Senate in the coming weeks.

Wittes said the marked partisan split regarding Trump’s impeachment suggests that polarization in government hinders the Constitution's efficacy.

“What Trump has done has really shown that the impeachment as a mechanism of accountability doesn't work in the face of genuine partisan polarization,” Wittes said. “And that's something I think the founders did not anticipate. It’s certainly not the way they wrote about impeachment.”

In addition to political polarization and extremism, the U.S. is also suffering from a global pandemic. Taken together, the inauguration was especially difficult to put on, Cutter said.

“We had hundreds of people traveling here to produce the shows, and there was a lot of nervousness about it,” Cutter said. “So that was what we had to work through to make people feel safe to participate in a presidential inauguration, which is startling that you even have to say that.”

A silver lining of the largely virtual setting, Cutter said, was that it made participation in the inaugural events more egalitarian.

“You didn't have to have an inside game to get a ticket to sit on the floor to watch a speech. You didn't have to spend thousands of dollars for a ticket to the inauguration and stand in long lines and high heels and lose your coat. You can sit on your couch and feel just as much a part of it.”

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2021/1/29/panel-insurrection-impeachment-inauguration/

>>12753894

Anons are, for the most part, not bothered by Papal Diplomatic Immunity which protects Agents of a Corrupt Foreign Government on American soil with Impunity.

Vatican clears retired US bishop of multiple abuse claims

The Vatican has cleared a retired U.S. bishop of multiple allegations he sexually abused minors and teenagers, rejecting lay experts' determination that a half-dozen claims were credible

By NICOLE WINFIELD and COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press

January 26, 2021, 4:41 PM

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/vatican-clears-retired-us-bishop-multiple-abuse-claims-75485227

Police cleared? No… VATICAN CLEARED as it never went to the Police and/or if it did, the Police referred it back to the Church.

Weird world we live in.

>>12753931

>>12753994

>>12754012

>>12754016

Not sure which way they go, Anon?

Just when I think my work is done here.

Tippy FUCKING top kek!

VATICAN RCC RESEARCH FILE 2.0

More truth than most can handle.

99% IN THE HOSPITAL

PART I

https://8kun.top/qresearch/res/11306246.html

>>11306246 VATICAN RCC RESEARCH MAIN

>>11663635 Q DROP#154Our Father "Who Financed 9-11?" ClownsInAmerica

>>11306328 Q DROP#189The Cult Runs the World > GODFATHER III > PAPAL ORDERS OF KNIGHTHOOD > VATICAN

>>11726307 Q DROP#306 "Why was the Lord's prayer posted? Which version? Why is this relevant?" SEE DROP #154 ABOVE

>>11306340 Q DROP#714Q Threat to Clowns > CIA > Vatican> Catholics In Action, Catholics In America, Clowns In America "SAVE THE BEST FOR LAST. [P]"

>>11306348 Q DROP#851CIA & Vatican Helped Nazi Officers Escape

>>11306360 Q DROP#936The Nazi Order > Vatican > Jesuits

>>11306372 Q DROP#997Pope will have a Terrible May - "Those who backed him pushed into the LIGHT"

>>11306379 Q DROP#1002The BITE that has no CURE > Vatican Viper Symbolism "Symbolism will be their downfall"

>>11306412 Q DROP#1021Did US taxpayers pay $3.5 Billion for the Predatory Sexual Abuse Perpetrated upon Americans by the Roman Catholic Church?

>>11306430 Q DROP#1413Guardian of the Pope Owl Photo > Q named the owl photo "Guardian_P"

>>11306440 Q DROP#1763Sex Abuse in the Church > "Those you are taught to TRUST the most..... Dark to LIGHT."

>>11306453 Q DROP#1831POTUS Roasts Corrupt & Evil Hillary Clinton at Catholic Charity Event > "Surrounded by EVIL."

>>11306467 Q DROP#1879100s of Priests in PA Molested 1000s of Children "House of GOD?"

>>11306475 Q DROP#1916Priest Hits Crying Baby at Baptism > "Man of God?"

>>11306478 Q DROP#1950Holy See Corrupt Universal Government of the Catholic Church

>>11306489 Q DROP#2152Pope Francis Compares Vatican Whistleblower to Satan

>>11306494 Q DROP#2590Australian Cardinal George Pell Found Guilty of Sexual Abuse > "[CARDINAL PELL] Dark to LIGHT."

>>11306507 Q DROP#2594Cardinal George Pell 3rd in Command at Vatican "Define "pecking" [Animals].

>>11306522 Q DROP#2894Vatican Treasurer Cardinal George Pell Found Guilty of Child Sex Charges "Many more to come? Dark to LIGHT."

>>11306537 Q DROP#2918Trump's Roast of Hillary Back in 2016 Reveals Her Dark Secrets > "Symbolism will be their downfall"

>>11306550 Q DROP#3565Q Links to Pope's Tweet on Human Trafficking > "GODFATHER III. It's going to be BIBLICAL"

>>11306563 Q DROP#3709Vatican Ambassador to France Resigns after Molestation Allegations > "Those you are taught to trust the most...."

>>11306591 Q DROP#3957"Sleepers [Pro] will shift position [Nay]. [Paul Ryan_Fox]" Rupert Murdoch Papal Knight Fox news dominated by Catholics.

>>11306685 Q DROP#4303CIA's Use of Journalists and Clergy in Intelligence Operations "CIA coming back into the news [soon]?" Who really controls the Media?

>>11306697 Q DROP#4408We Are in the Middle of Another Enlightenment Approaching the Precipice. Against (the monarchy, the privileges of the nobility, the political power of the Catholic Church)

>>11306720 Q DROP#4429Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò Letter to POTUS-Biblical Battle Light vs Dark> "Armor of God" Vigano is not our friend.

>>11306736 Q DROP#4799Rebuffed by Vatican, Pompeo Assails China and Aligns With Pope’s Critics

When does a Church become a playground?

When does a Church become a business?

When does a Church become political?

When does a Church become corrupt?

When does a Church become willfully blind?

When does a Church become controlled?

Enjoy!

>>11307180 '''MEET GEORGE SOROS A "Jew" or a Catholic Court Jew?'''

>>11689078 '''MEET GEORGE SOROS PART II "BILLIONAIRE ATHEIST FUNNELS CASH TO JESUITS" '''

>>11307149 WHAT IS A COURT JEW?

>>11306887 ROBERT F. KENNEDY Jr. "The CIA killed my Father RFK and Uncle JFK" + Vaccines>COVID on Ron Paul's Show.

>>11306927 Revealing look at the Director of the CIA when J.F.K. was assassinated, John A McCone. Part I

>>11306949 Revealing look at the Director of the CIA when J.F.K. was assassinated, John A McCone. Part II

>>11307201 MEET BERNHARD STEMPFLE Catholic Jesuit Priest who wrote and edited parts of Mein Kampf

>>11307730 Adolf Hitler And The Jesuit Order - Part I

>>11307750 Adolf Hitler And The Jesuit Order - Part II Von Papen, Mussolini, Fascism, Pious XII

>>11307784 Adolf Hitler And The Jesuit Order - Part III Jesuits and the CIA

>>11307499 MEET MAXIMO ALVAREZ - Cuban Immigrant warns of evils of Socialism - at TRUMP round table event - Castro was trained by Catholic Jesuits

>>11307274 MEET ALPHONSE LOUIS CONSTANT AKA Éliphas Lévi Zahed Failed Catholic Priest responsible for adding "SOLVE ET COAGULA" to Baphomet image

>>11307925 MEET ARCHBISHOP CARLO MARIA VIGANO - Deep State, Deep Church, Invisible Enemy

>>11716167 List of articles concerning the McCarrick Report which proves that Carlo Vigano, Taylor Marshall and Archbishop Timothy Dolan are Deep State.

>>11652901 "Sainted too soon? Vatican report casts John Paul II in harsh new light."

>>11307021 MEET TIMOTHY DOLAN Archbishop of New York - Deep State Deep Church

>>11307305 MEET ADAM WEISHAUPT - FOUNDER OF THE ILLUMINATI - STRONG JESUIT CONNECTION

>>11306800 Q said "Soros takes order from P." Q DROP#416

>>11306807 Q asks "Who controls the [D] party" and "Who really controls the [D] party?" [GS] George Soros? Q DROP#3749

>>11306822 Q said "Guardian of the Pope" and titled the accompanying image of an owl "GUARDIAN_P" Q DROP#1413

>>11306775 Drops#3749, 416and1413basic decode>P = Pope/Papal Royal Families (Black nobility) Papal Orders of Knighthood (Malta) Orders such as the Jesuits.

>>11306837 Drops#3749, 416and1413basic decode>P = ? Part II

>>11307120 '''Link between SAUL ALINSKY and the Roman Catholic Jesuits Alinsky and the Jesuits also link to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton'''

>>11307397 SONS OF LIGHT VERSUS THE SONS OF DARKNESS - THE WAR SCROLL - PART I VIGANO MUST ENJOY THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS

>>11307428 SONS OF LIGHT VERSUS THE SONS OF DARKNESS - THE WAR SCROLL - PART II VIGANO USED THIS THEME

>>11306863 CHINA VATICAN SECRET TWO YEAR DEAL IS NOT A SECRET ANYMORE.

>>11309278 MEET ANTHONY FAUCI - A ROMAN CATHOLIC JESUIT WITH MANY CONNECTIONS TO THE DEEP STATE.

>>11307590 WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION AND THE VATICAN CONNECTION

'''24 year assistant Director of the Who, Milton Siegel explains exactly how the Vatican controls the W.H.O. consider the implications now with covid.'''

Is the story about China controlling the W.H.O a cover story? Does the Vatican secretly control China?ChInA

>>11899297 Why are Australian Journalist and News Agencies on trial for talking about the Cardinal Pell Abuse Case? Why was there a Gag order? Did the Case get Quashed?

>>12423292 Breaking News - #ITALYGATE - Gen. Flynn Agrees Italy + Obama/CIA + MI6 Stole the Election

If

BY RUDYARD KIPLING

If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,

Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,

And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;

If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,

And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

>>12754124

>>12754138

>>12754147

>>12754148

>>12754120

>>12754191

Shill still felt that shit!

Hold my keyboard!

I am going straight beast mode!

kek

>>12754395

Generals gathered in their masses

Just like witches at black masses

Evil minds that plot destruction

Sorcerer of death's construction

In the fields, the bodies burning

As the war machine keeps turning

Death and hatred to mankind

Poisoning their brainwashed minds

Oh lord, yeah!

Politicians hide themselves away

They only started the war

Why should they go out to fight?

They leave that role to the poor, yeah

Time will tell on their power minds

Making war just for fun

Treating people just like pawns in chess

Wait till their judgement day comes, yeah!

Now in darkness, world stops turning

Ashes where their bodies burning

No more war pigs have the power

Hand of God has struck the hour

Day of judgement, God is calling

On their knees, the war pigs crawling

Begging mercy for their sins

Satan laughing, spreads his wings

Oh lord, yeah!

>>12754418

Fair Weather sunshine "Patriot" says what?

Faggot?

>>12754439

>>12754447

>>12754468

>>12754494

>>12754507

There are approx. 10,000 MSM articles concerning the Larp known as Qanon that cost absolutely zero to get into MSM print, video et al.

How much do you reckon they would have charged for such a service?

Can you say KEK!?

Louder!

I can't fucking hear you!

#2 only to POTUS.

What does it feel like to be so used MSM?

Free Rent!

Now if we just teach [them] to feed us we will have it made, Anons!

>>12754524

>>12754525

It was an attack!

Must, build, wall!

While taking down other wall!

kek

>>12754557

Joe! Joe! Joe! Joe!

>>12754564

MEET ADAM WEISHAUPT FOUNDER OF THE ILLUMINATI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminati

Adam Weishaupt (1748–1830) became professor of Canon Law and practical philosophy at the University of Ingolstadt in 1773.

A JESUIT CONNECTION

He was the only non-clerical professor at an institution run by Jesuits,whose order Pope Clement XIV had dissolved in 1773.

The Jesuits of Ingolstadt, however, still retained the purse strings and some power at the University, which they continued to regard as their own.

Christians of good character were actively sought, with

Jews and pagans specifically excluded,along with women, monks, and members of other secret societies.

Favoured candidates were rich, docile, willing to learn, and aged 18–30.[13][14]

Transition

Having, with difficulty, dissuaded some of his members from joining the Freemasons, Weishaupt decided to join the older order to acquire material to expand his own ritual.

He was admitted to lodge "Prudence" of the Rite of Strict Observance early in February 1777.

His progress through the three degrees of "blue lodge" masonry taught him nothing of the higher degrees he sought to exploit,

but in the following year a priest called Abbé Marotti informed Zwack that these inner secrets rested on knowledge of the older religion and the primitive church.

Zwack persuaded Weishaupt that their own order should enter into friendly relations with Freemasonry, and obtain the dispensation to set up their own lodge.

At this stage (December 1778), the addition of the first three degrees of Freemasonry was seen as a secondary project.[15]

With little difficulty, a warrant was obtained from the Grand Lodge of Prussia called the Royal York for Friendship, and the new lodge was called Theodore of the Good Council,

with the intention of flattering Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria. It was founded in Munich on 21 March 1779, and quickly packed with Illuminati.

The first master, a man called Radl, was persuaded to return home to Baden, and by July Weishaupt's order ran the lodge.[15]

The next step involved independence from their Grand Lodge. By establishing masonic relations with the Union lodge in Frankfurt, affiliated to the Premier Grand Lodge of England,

lodge Theodore became independently recognised, and able to declare its independence. As a new mother lodge, it could now spawn lodges of its own.

The recruiting drive amongst the Frankfurt masons also obtained the allegiance of Adolph Freiherr Knigge.[15]

Provided with material by Weishaupt, Knigge now produced pamphlets outlining the activities of the outlawed Jesuits, purporting to show how they continued to thrive and recruit,

especially in Bavaria.

Meanwhile, Knigge's inability to give his recruits any satisfactory response to questions regarding the higher grades was making his position untenable, and he wrote to Weishaupt

to this effect.

In January 1781, faced with the prospect of losing Knigge and his masonic recruits, Weishaupt finally confessed that his superiors and the supposed antiquity of the order were fictions, and the

higher degrees had yet to be written.[16] “

>>12754582

whoopsy!

>>12754596

image monser gotem!

>>12754597

yeah fuck all masons!