China News Service, August 8 (Reporter Meng Xiangjun) Hit the snake and hit seven inches!
On August 5, China announced that it would impose sanctions on Pelosi and her immediate family in response to the vicious and provocative actions of the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Pelosi, who went to Taiwan.
Pelosi, who is desperate, will feel more and more strongly the serious consequences of her reckless and evil deeds.
Can she afford to lose this political gamble?
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
[The most important ticket: banknotes]
The most important thing in Pelosi's political career is the three bills in her hand: banknotes, ballots, and blank checks.
The first two tickets are for the benefit of themselves and their family, and the latter one 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 congressmen in the United States.
Pelosi's annual salary is about $220,000, and her family's net worth has exceeded $171 million by the end of 2021.
Although Pelosi's husband Paul is "the man behind", he is the "Capitol Hill God".
In 2020, the Pelosi family's return on investment is as high as 56%, while the "stock god" Buffett is only 26%.
Paul seems to have "opened his eyes", and every investment is precisely in time for the US government to release good news for the industry.
The Pelosi family bought Tesla stock, and the U.S. government announced that it would replace 650,000 gasoline-powered cars with electric cars.
After Paul invested in Internet giant Amazon, the US Department of Defense "just" cancelled Microsoft's $10 billion cloud computing contract, benefiting rival Amazon's stock price.
Before the vote on the Chip and Science Act, which will subsidize the U.S. semiconductor industry by more than $52 billion, Paul bought a large number of shares in semiconductor giant Nvidia.
Paul can really "magic tricks"?
Although Pelosi denied engaging in insider trading, Fisher, the former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, and others pointed out that it was actually all her "pillow wind".
Pelosi's husband sold shares in chipmakers as the U.S. House of Representatives looks at a chip bill.
Image source: Screenshot of Reuters report
The United States imposes severe penalties on those found to be insider traders, with up to 10 years in prison, but when a congressman like Pelosi is involved, lawsuits often come to nothing.
The role of money in this is self-evident.
What is notable is that during Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, he made a special trip to discuss chip issues with the chairman of TSMC.
As the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Pelosi has worked hard to promote the implementation of the "Science and Chip Act". This time, it is not only to cooperate with the stage of relocating the TSMC industry chain to the United States, but also to try to let the United States monopolize chip R&D and manufacturing. own family”—husband and Democrats for profit.
Former U.S. President Trump believed that "crazy Nancy stabbed the bar" and "there may be economic motives" behind it.
In addition, American and Western politicians such as Pelosi have gone to Taiwan, and behind them is an industrial chain that exchanges money for political interests.
Taiwanese media and other sources have previously revealed that the DPP authorities used taxpayer money to pay American lobbying companies or individuals to lobby and publicize senior US government officials and members of Congress, and facilitate US politicians to visit "support Taiwan", which is linked to each other.
Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party authorities have admitted to hiring American lobbyists to build closer ties with the United States.
Image source: Screenshot of the Hong Kong "South China Morning Post" report
When former U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo went to Taiwan, he was exposed to receive a "facilitation fee" of US$150,000. People and media people on the island ridiculed this. These American politicians "do not love Taiwan, but Taiwan dollars!"
One of the key figures in promoting Pelosi to power this time is Dick Gayhart, a senior U.S. Democratic politician and former majority leader of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Pelosi is the key lobbying target targeted by the DPP authorities. Gayhart takes the monthly salary of the DPP authorities of $22,000 to attack Pelosi.
Former U.S. House Majority Leader Dick Gayhart (left).
Image source: Guy Hart Twitter account
According to an investigation report published by the Center for American International Policy, Gehart had contact with Pelosi and his staff as many as 18 times.
Gayhart has become a broker who enters the “revolving door” of politics and business, and uses his personal connections to earn real money. This is also a choice after Pompeo, Pelosi and others step down.
However, look at Pompeo today. After being sanctioned by the Chinese side in 2021, the financial path will be cut off, and the job is not easy to find. He can only go to an anti-China think tank to find 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 others revealed that Pelosi's husband and son rely on funds to invest in assets in mainland China, Hong Kong and other places. Half of the funds of a global investment company founded by her husband Paul are involved in Chinese companies.
The operator of the fund is a Democratic Party donor. Once sanctioned, it will not only affect the source of the Democratic Party's political donations, but also the entire Pelosi family will not be able to make money in China.
Pelosi, who got into the eyes of money, was really poked at the sore spot!
[Most Wanted Tickets: Ballots]
Pelosi, who entered the political arena with a high starting point, has done something disgusting.
In the 1990s, as the first congressman, she established the so-called "China Working Group", and also tried to link the so-called "human rights issues" with trade issues, demanded the cancellation of China's most-favored-nation status, and submitted to Congress and then-President George W. Bush to be tough on China. bill.
In January 2008, Pelosi, 68, became the first female speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and the second-ranked emergency heir to the U.S. president.
With the House in charge of the government's "money bag", Pelosi has become the "most powerful woman" in Washington.
This year, Pelosi, who has been trying to obstruct China since its bid for the Olympics, incited a boycott of the Beijing Olympics under the guise of human rights and put pressure on then-US President George W. Bush.
From Bush Sr. to Bush Jr., they were all 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 outrageous remarks.
In 2019, she described the street atrocities of Hong Kong rioters as "beautiful scenery", and encouraged the United States to concoct a Hong Kong-related bill, but in 2021, she condemned those who stormed the US Capitol Hill and smashed her office as rioters.
On January 6, 2021, local time, supporters of then US President Trump broke into the Capitol and sat in the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Pelosi's double standards and anti-China are not only due to her own political ideals, but also have a lot to do with the domestic political environment of the United States.
In recent years, "every China must be opposed" seems to have become a form of "political correctness" in American politics, and Pelosi herself has taken this as a bragging capital, claiming that "I am second in criticizing China, and no one else is. Dare to be number one."
It is not the first time that Pelosi has played the "Taiwan card", but she insisted on going to Taiwan at this time despite the world's anger.
The decisive battle in the US mid-term elections in November is approaching, and Pelosi took the initiative to provoke China, hoping to win back some votes for the Democratic Party, which has been in a sluggish election.
But even if the Democratic Party maintains the majority of the House of Representatives, the 82-year-old Pelosi will no longer serve as Speaker of the House of Representatives.
This time, Pelosi intends to accumulate her "political legacy" and gain a reputation for being "tough and tough", but this approach is based on interfering in other countries' internal affairs and creating conflicts.
Pelosi tore up a copy of then-President Trump's State of the Union address during a joint session of Congress in Washington, U.S., February 4, 2020.
Pelosi's ruthless and provocative style of behavior has long existed. In 2020, after the then-President Trump delivered the State of the Union address, he tore up the copy of the State of the Union address in public, and did not give Trump face at all. Pu's impeachment made the other party hate her to the core.
After Biden took office, Pelosi's behavior became more and more bizarre.
In March 2022, when Biden delivered the State of the Union address, Pelosi, who was sitting behind him, suddenly stood up, looked to the side with a smile, and clenched his hands into fists and rubbed them back and forth.
Netizens complained, "Is this taking drugs or drinking too much?"
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Pelosi suddenly stood up and rubbed her hands during Biden’s speech, acting strangely.
Image source: Screenshot from Fox News video
The high-ranking leader of the U.S. Congress and the political elite in Washington actually look like this. How can the people not worry about their own country?
Polls in 2021 show that 53% of the American people surveyed hold a negative view of Pelosi. Coupled with the frequent family scandals, Pelosi's public opinion foundation is becoming more and more fragile. It is no wonder that she has to rely on Gebo to stand out.
[The most abused ticket: "Blank Check"]
American writer Thomas Friedman criticized Pelosi for being reckless, dangerous, and irresponsible in a column in The New York Times, saying that Pelosi's appearance on the stage was "purely symbolic" and "will not bring anything new. , nor will it make Taiwan safer or more prosperous."
Pelosi, however, claimed in a high-sounding manner that she wanted to show that the United States "will not give up its commitment to Taiwan" and "stand with Taiwan".
What kind of "promises" did the United States give Taiwan?
Generally speaking, Pelosi is referring to the so-called "Taiwan Relations Act" passed by the United States in 1979, which violates the communiqué on the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States and the principles of international law. It is a cover for the United States to initiate arms sales to Taiwan and interfere in China's internal affairs. The validity of the law was not recognized.
The public knows best whether Pelosi wrote a blank check.
An online poll in Taiwan shows that 76.4% of the respondents lack confidence in Pelosi's commitment to "protect Taiwan's democracy".
Many people on the island also protested spontaneously when Pelosi ran in front of the stage and during her stay in Taiwan, calling her a "warmonger" and asking her to "go back."
On April 30, 2022, Pelosi visited the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv, to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The empty check is a trick Pelosi uses to serve her political needs.
For example, she once said that she would "stand with the Hong Kong rioters", and she also used the same rhetoric on the Ukraine issue.
Pelosi has expressed her support for Ukraine, urging Zelensky's regime not to "succumb to Russian bullying," claiming that she will "always be on your side."
However, when she showed her support for Ukraine, she didn't even know who she was, mistakenly referring to Ukraine as Hungary.
Recently, U.S. Rep. Marjorie Green criticized Pelosi in five tweets, saying she refused to resolve the riots in the U.S. Congress, refused to resolve the border crisis, and refused to protect children.
"Americans are fed up with a guy who is obsessed with self-interest," Green noted.
On August 4, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman 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 who the US politicians claim to stand with, Where will chaos and disaster be brought.
Look at Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Afghanistan in those days, and then look at the "beautiful landscape" and those "Hong Kong independence" separatists that Pelosi once said to stand together. What happened?
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