{"id":55246,"date":"2020-10-08T07:12:03","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T12:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55246"},"modified":"2020-10-08T07:12:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T12:12:03","slug":"kissinger-warns-china-us-must-agree-to-limits-on-making-threats-or-risk-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55246","title":{"rendered":"Kissinger Warns: China-US Must Agree To &#8220;Limits&#8221; On Making Threats Or Risk War"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-zerohedge-page-title\" class=\"block block-core block-page-title-block\">\n<h3 class=\"page-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/kissinger-warns-china-us-must-agree-limits-making-threats-or-risk-war\"><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Kissinger Warns: China-US Must Agree To &#8220;Limits&#8221; On Making Threats Or Risk War<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-zerohedge-content\" class=\"block block-system block-system-main-block\">\n<article class=\"node node--type-article node--view-mode-full\" role=\"article\">\n<footer class=\"node__meta\">\n<div class=\"submission-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"node__content\">\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>Two major and relatable statements have been issued Wednesday on the question of\u00a0US ties with Taiwan\u00a0and China&#8217;s growing anger and increasingly bellicose rhetoric in response.<\/p>\n<p>First, the notoriously hawkish editor-in-chief of China\u2019s state-owned news tabloid the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/content\/1202774.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Global Times<\/a>\u00a0issued a threat, saying\u00a0<strong>China should &#8220;fully prepare itself for war&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>with Taiwan in the event it restores diplomatic relations with the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Hu Xijin wrote in his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/content\/1202774.shtml\">latest opinion piece that<\/a>\u00a0&#8220;We must no longer hold any more illusions. The only way forward is for\u00a0<strong>the mainland to fully prepare itself for war<\/strong>\u00a0and to give Taiwan secessionist\u00a0forces a decisive punishment at any time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/kissingerandxi.jpg?itok=tOPDWWDK\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/kissingerandxi.jpg?itok=tOPDWWDK\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/kissingerandxi.jpg?itok=OXZo3vi3 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1280px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/kissingerandxi.jpg?itok=OXZo3vi3 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 480px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/kissingerandxi.jpg?itok=OXZo3vi3 1x, https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/kissingerandxi.jpg?itok=OXZo3vi3 2x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1024px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/kissingerandxi.jpg?itok=OXZo3vi3 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 768px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/kissingerandxi.jpg?itok=tOPDWWDK 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"caption caption-img\" role=\"group\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/kissingerandxi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"9cf04593-37ad-40e4-bd72-150d59478b0e\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><figcaption><em>AFP\/Getty Images:\u00a0China\u2019s President Xi Jinping &amp; former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger at the Nov.2019 New Economy Forum at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The GT editor added that<strong>\u00a0&#8220;As the secessionist\u00a0forces&#8217; arrogance continues to swell, the historical turning point is getting closer.&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>The secessionist forces he was specifically denouncing is\u00a0the Taiwanese Kuomintang Party, or KMT, who he described as having &#8220;woken up on the wrong side of the bed. They have gone downhill and become vulgar.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And the latest actions of its legislators is what he finds most alarming, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/content\/1202774.shtml\">his description<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Kuomintang (KMT) group in Taiwan&#8217;s &#8220;Legislative Yuan&#8221; proposed two bills,\u00a0<strong>asking the island&#8217;s authorities to request US assistance in resisting the Communist Party of China and to resume diplomatic ties with the US<\/strong>. The move is widely believed to checkmate the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and put the DPP in a difficult position.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kissinger Warns: China-US Must Agree To &#8220;Limits&#8221; On Making Threats Or Risk War Two major and relatable statements have been issued Wednesday on the question of\u00a0US ties with Taiwan\u00a0and China&#8217;s growing anger and increasingly bellicose rhetoric in response. First, the notoriously hawkish editor-in-chief of China\u2019s state-owned news tabloid the\u00a0Global Times\u00a0issued a threat, saying\u00a0China should &#8220;fully [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[130,6390,1193,1442,827,862,4318],"class_list":["post-55246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-china","tag-global-times","tag-henry-kissinger","tag-taiwan","tag-united-states","tag-war","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55247,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55246\/revisions\/55247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}