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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
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
If @realDonaldTrump really thinks that nothing can be done against global warming, maybe he could understand this: "nine top scientists, the members of @WBGU_Council as comic-book heroes, show us that we can beat the heat - and how to do it! wbgu.de/en/comics/comi… (free pdf)
... and of course, this is also very helpful to understand and fight the Whitehouse effect: the #Madhouse effect (@MichaelEMann) theguardian.com/environment/cl…
The Great Transformation comic ( wbgu.de/en/comics/comi… #trafocomic ) and the Madhouse effect are both also available in German (and the GT also in French, Korean, and partly, in Spanish): see die-grosse-transformation.de . German version of Madhouse effect: dgs-franken.de/medien/tollhau…
