China News Network, August 8 (Reporter Meng Xiangjun) Hit the snake seven inches! On August 5, in response to the vicious provocation of US House Speaker Pelosi, China announced that it would impose sanctions on Pelosi and her immediate family.
Pelosi, desperate, will feel more and more strongly the serious consequences of his reckless and evil deeds.
Can she afford to lose this political gamble?
【The most important ticket: banknote】
Pelosi valued the three tickets in her political career: banknotes, ballots, and empty checks. The first two tickets are for their own benefit and their families, and the latter ticket is used to fool the world.
After marrying Paul Pelosi of the San Francisco investment banking family in 1963, Nancy Pelosi, who changed her husband's surname, gradually became one of the richest members of Congress in the United States. Pelosi herself earns about $220,000 a year, and her family's net worth will exceed $171 million by the end of 2021.
Although Pelosi's husband Paul is the "man behind the scenes", he crossed the stock market and was named "Capitol Hill Stock God". In 2020, pelosi's return on investment was as high as 56%, while buffett, the "god of stocks", was only 26%. Paul seems to have "opened his eyes", and each investment is precisely before the US government releases good news for the industry.
Pelosi's family bought Tesla stock, and the U.S. government announced that it would replace 650,000 fuel vehicles with electric vehicles.
After Paul invested in Internet giant Amazon, the US Department of Defense "just happened" to cancel Microsoft's $10 billion cloud computing contract, which was good for the stock price of rival Amazon.
Before the U.S. vote on the Chip and Science Act, which would subsidize the U.S. semiconductor industry by more than $52 billion, Paul bought a lot of shares in semiconductor giant NVIDIA.
Can Paul really be "clever"? Although Pelosi denies engaging in insider trading, former Fed Vice Chairman Fisher and others pointed out that in fact, this is the "pillow wind" she blows.
The United States imposes severe penalties for identifying insider traders, with sentences of up to 10 years in prison, but lawsuits often fail when it comes to members of Congress like Pelosi. Among them, the role of money is self-evident.
It is noteworthy that during Pelosi's channeling, he specially talked with the chairman of TSMC about chips. As the speaker of the US House of Representatives, Pelosi has worked hard to promote the landing of the Science and Chip Act, not only to cooperate with the drama of relocating the TSMC industrial chain to the United States, to try to let the United States monopolize chip research and development, but also to seek benefits for "her own family" - husband and Democratic Party.
Former US President Trump believes that "crazy Nancy is inserted" and "there may be economic motivation" behind it.
In addition, American and Western politicians such as Pelosi are sneaking into the platform, and behind them is an industrial chain that exchanges money for political benefits. Taiwan media and others have previously exposed that the DPP authorities used taxpayers' money to pay US lobbying companies or individuals to lobby and publicize high-ranking US government officials and congressmen, prompting US politicians to visit "stand up to Taiwan."
When former US Secretary of State Pompeo sneaked into Taiwan, he was exposed to collecting a "benefit fee" of 150,000 US dollars, and the people and media people on the island ridiculed it, these US politicians "do not love Taiwan, but love Taiwan dollars!" ”
One of the key figures who contributed to Pelosi's rise to power was Dick Gehatt, a veteran politician in the US Democratic Party and a former leader of the MAJORity Party in the US House of Representatives.
Pelosi is the focus of the DPP authorities, and Gehatt is taking pelosi's $22,000 monthly salary from the DPP authorities.
An investigation published by the Center for International Policy in the United States shows that Gehrat contacted Pelosi himself and his staff as many as 18 times. Gehatt became a broker in the "revolving door" of politics and business, using his connections to earn real money and silver, which was also an option after Pompeo and Pelosi stepped down.
However, looking at Pompeo today, after being sanctioned by the Chinese side in 2021, the financial road is broken, the job is not easy to find, and he can only go to an anti-China think tank to seek an errand.
China's sanctions against Pelosi and her immediate family members this time are of great significance. Hong Kong's "Ta Kung Pao" and other revealed that Pelosi's husband and son rely on funds to invest in assets Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and other places, and half of the funds of a global investment company founded by husband Paul involve Chinese enterprises. The fund operator is a Democratic Party funder, and once sanctioned, it will not only affect the source of political donations of the Democratic Party, but also the entire Pelosi family will not want to fish in China.
Pelosi, who got into qian's eyes, was really poked in the pain!
【Most Wanted Vote: Ballot】
Pelosi, who entered politics from a high starting point, did something disgraceful. In the 1990s, she set up the so-called "China Working Group" as the first congressman, and also tried to link the so-called "human rights issue" with the trade issue, demanded the abolition of China's most-favored-nation treatment, and submitted a tough bill on China to Congress and then-President George H.W. Bush.
In January 2008, at the age of 68, Pelosi became the first female speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and the second-in-command emergency heir to the U.S. presidency. The House of Representatives was in charge of the government's "money bags," and Pelosi became washington's "most powerful woman."
This year, Pelosi, who had tried to obstruct China's Olympic bid since the time of China's Olympic bid, instigated a boycott of the Beijing Olympic Games under the guise of human rights and put pressure on then-US President George W. Bush. From Bush Sr. to George W. Bush Jr., she was offended by Pelosi, who criticized her as a "national security disaster."
On the occasion of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, Pelosi called for a "diplomatic boycott."
On issues such as arms sales, Tibet, and Xinjiang, Pelosi has repeatedly made a big fuss. In 2019, she described the street atrocities of Hong Kong rioters as a "beautiful landscape" and encouraged the United States to concoct a Hong Kong-related bill, but in 2021, she condemned the people who stormed the US Capitol Hill and smashed their offices as rioters.
Pelosi's double standard and anti-China are not only due to their own political ideas, but also have a lot to do with the domestic political environment in the United States. In recent years, "every china must be opposed" in the US political arena seems to have become a kind of "political correctness", and Pelosi herself has taken this as a bragging capital, claiming that "in criticizing China, I rank second, and no one dares to rank first."
Pelosi is not the first time to play the "Taiwan card", but he must choose to brave the world at this time and insist on sneaking into Taiwan, in the final analysis, it is still out of his own selfishness.
As the decisive battle for the November midterm elections in the United States approached, Pelosi took the initiative to provoke China, hoping to win back some votes for the democratic party in the sluggish election. But even if democrats retain a majority in the House of Representatives, Pelosi, 82, will no longer be speaker of the House of Representatives, and her extreme obsession with power has made her unwilling to end this and intends to seek a 19th re-election in the midterm elections.
Pelosi deliberately accumulated his own "political legacy" and fought for a reputation of "good fighting and toughness", but this practice was based on interfering in the internal affairs of other countries and creating contradictions and conflicts.
Pelosi's fierce, provocative style of acting has long existed, in 2020, after then-President Trump issued a State of the Union address, he publicly tore up the copy of the State of the Union address, completely did not give Trump face, and then launched an impeachment against Trump, making the other party hate her to the bone.
When Biden took office, Pelosi's behavior became more and more bizarre. In March 2022, as Biden delivered his State of the Union address, Pelosi, who was sitting behind him, suddenly stood up, looked to the side with a smile on her face, and rubbed her hands back and forth in fists. Netizens complained, "Is this a drug, or is it a high drink?" ”
The leader of the US Congress, the political elite in Washington, is like this, how can the people not worry about their country?
According to the 2021 poll, 53% of the American people surveyed have a negative view of Pelosi, coupled with the frequent scandals in the family, Pelosi's public opinion base is becoming more and more fragile, and it is no wonder that she has to rely on gebo to get out of office.
【Most abused ticket: "Bad Check"】
In a Column in The New York Times, american writer Thomas Friedman criticized Pelosi for being reckless, dangerous, and irresponsible, and that Pelosi's passage to Taiwan was "purely symbolic" and "would not bring anything new, nor would it make Taiwan safer or more prosperous."
Pelosi, however, claimed pompously that she was trying to show that the United States "will not abandon its commitment to Taiwan" and "stand with Taiwan."
What kind of "commitment" did the United States give to Taiwan? Generally speaking, Pelosi refers to the so-called "Taiwan Relations Act" passed by the United States in 1979, which violates the communique on the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States and the principles of international law, and is a cover for the United States to launch arms sales to Taiwan and interfere in China's internal affairs, and the Chinese side has never recognized the validity of this law.
Pelosi is not writing a blank cheque, the public knows best. According to an online poll in Taiwan, 76.4 percent of the people surveyed lack confidence in Pelosi's commitment to "safeguarding Taiwan's democracy."
Before and during Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, many people on the island also spontaneously protested, calling her a "war dealer" and asking her to "get back."
Bad checks are a trick that Pelosi often plays, serving only his political needs. For example, she once said that she wanted to "stand together" with the Hong Kong rioters, and she used the same words on the Issue of Ukraine.
Pelosi has said he supports Ukraine, urging Zelenskiy's regime not to "succumb to Russian bullying," claiming it will "always be on your side." However, when showing her support for Ukraine, she did not even understand the object, mistaking Ukraine as Hungary.
Recently, U.S. Rep. Marjorie Green tweeted five times in a row criticizing Pelosi, saying she refused to resolve the riots in the U.S. Congress, refused to defuse the border crisis, and refused to protect children. "Americans are tired of such a man who is obsessed with self-interest," Green noted.
On August 4, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said in response to a reporter's question that we often hear US politicians say who they want to stand with, but history and facts have repeatedly proved that whoever US politicians claim to stand with will lead chaos and disaster to where they go.
Look at Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Afghanistan, and then look at the "beautiful landscape" that Pelosi once said to stand together and those "Hong Kong independence" separatists. (End)
Source: China News Network