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Finalement, N. Pelosi se rend à Taïwan.

Voici un point intéressant de Moon of Alabama sur la communication chinoise :

Comment la Chine met en garde contre le voyage de Pelosi à Taiwan.
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Il y a trois jours, un locuteur mandarin a publié un fil de discussion intéressant sur l'utilisation de phrases en chinois pour exprimer une menace.

Un court fil sur la #rhétorique chinoise sur le plan supposé de @SpeakerPelosi de se rendre à Taiwan.
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Jusqu'à présent, la formulation de Pékin a été bien en deçà du seuil des types de mots et d'expressions que la Chine a historiquement utilisés pour signaler une guerre imminente/une stratégie de la corde raide.
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A short thread on China's #rhetoric on @SpeakerPelosi's rumored plan to visit Taiwan. So far Beijing's wording has been far below the threshold of the kinds of words & phrases that China historically used for signaling impending war/brinkmanship. /1
@SpeakerPelosi Let's start with MFA spokesperson's recent words: "China will act strongly to resolutely respond to it and take countermeasures. We mean what we say" (中方必將採取有力措施予以堅決應對和反制。我們說到做到) /2
Many observers take 'forceful response' to mean war. That may be overselling it.

Note his key operative words '有力' can mean 'forceful' or 'effective'. If they meant war, they would have said '武力 or 非和平' (military/non-peaceful measures). /3
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