[Text/Observer Network Xiong Chaoran] On July 29, local time, US House Speaker Pelosi set out to visit Asia. Whether she would visit Taiwan has not yet been determined. This matter has also been repeatedly discussed between the media in China and the United States. On the evening

[Text/Observer Network Xiong Chaoran] On July 29, local time, US House Speaker Pelosi set out to visit Asia. Whether she would visit Taiwan has not yet been determined. This matter has also been repeatedly discussed between the media in China and the United States.

29 On the evening of the 29th, former editor-in-chief of " Global Times " Hu Xijin posted a tweet on the matter, saying that if the PLA fighter jets are invalid, they can shoot down Pelosi's landlines. Once this tweet was posted, it attracted great attention.

htmlOn the 30th, Hu Xijin revealed that the tweet has been blocked by the platform, and his personal Twitter account is also locked. Only by manually deleting the tweet by himself can the account be unlocked, which also means "he admitted that he violated the rules of Twitter."

Reuters said in reporting the matter that although Pelosi did not make it clear that her "Asia trip" itinerary includes Taiwan, various speculative news about her going to Taiwan has become increasingly intense in recent days, exacerbating tensions in the Taiwan Strait and outside the region.

Hu Xijin’s Weibo screenshot

On July 30, Hu Xijin posted a post on Weibo to describe the incident. He posted the following tweet the night before: "If the US military fighter jet escorts Pelosi to visit Taiwan, it is an invasion. The People's Liberation Army has the right to forcibly drive away Pelosi's landlines and US military fighter jets, including firing various warning bombs and performing obstructive flight actions. If the drive away is invalid, you can shoot down them."

Hu Xijin said that because he warned the US military not to escort Pelosi to visit Taiwan, his Twitter account was locked, and the tweet was blocked, and others could not see it. Unless the tweet was deleted, you could not continue to use this Twitter account.

"I have to go through the program that I delete myself and prompt me that clicking 'delete' means I admit that I have violated the rules of Twitter." Hu Xijin said, "When people are under the roof, they have to bow their heads." He had to click to delete and unlock his Twitter account. He also said that the "freedom of speech" in the United States seems to have boundaries, and similar encounters are not the first time he has encountered them on Twitter.

Hu Xijin’s screenshot on Weibo

Finally, Hu Xijin reiterated this view on Weibo: "If the US military sends fighter jets to escort Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, it will be a further escalation of the bad nature of this visit and constitutes aggression. In that case, our military fighter jets should use all the blocking methods. If they are still ineffective, I think it is okay to shoot down Pelosi’s landlines."

Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Reuters for Hu Xijin’s statement.

According to Bloomberg, on July 29, local time, US House Speaker Pelosi set out to visit Asia. At a press conference that day, Pelosi claimed to be "excited" before leaving, but refused to disclose his visit plan on the grounds of "security issues", and said that he would let people know the specific itinerary "on the way".

On July 29th local time, US House Speaker Pelosi delivered a speech at a press conference Photo from Visual China

On the same day, White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby tried to "draw a clear line", saying that Pelosi's visit plan does not require the approval or approval of White House and has the right to take military planes to visit. But if Pelosi insists on visiting Taiwan, the White House calls for not wanting a "conflict" between China and the United States, "because the one-China policy of the United States has not changed."

htmlOn July 28, Pingtan Maritime Bureau issued a navigation warning, from 8:00 to 21:00 on July 30, the waters near Yiqiyu Island in Pingtan, Fujian Province carried out live-fire training tasks, and all ships were prohibited from entering. In response, Taiwan's United Daily News commented on the evening of July 29 that whether to visit Taiwan when Pelosi set out to visit Asia became the focus of the topic. The People's Liberation Army suddenly announced that it would shoot live ammunition in the waters near Pingtan, Fujian on July 30, "a strong warning."

Taiwan's "Central News Agency" quoted public information that Pingtan is only 68 nautical miles away from Taiwan's Hsinchu , equivalent to 126 kilometers, which is also the narrowest part of Taiwan Strait .At the same time, Taiwan's "Central News Agency" quoted Hong Kong media statistics that the People's Liberation Army has recently had at least 5 military exercises in the South China Sea, the Taiwan Strait and the East China Sea waters. Experts believe that this move is a "warning the United States."

On July 29, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman spokesman Zhao Lijian said in response to relevant questions at a regular press conference that China has repeatedly expressed its serious concern and solemn position to the US side recently on its firm opposition to the Speaker Pelosi's visit to Taiwan. If the US challenge China's bottom line, it will inevitably be resolutely countered, and all the consequences caused by this will be borne entirely by the US.

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