China “will accelerate reunification”, the PC-linked Global Times headlined as “No. 3 US” arrived in Taiwan. In an editorial, he said that “the countermeasures will not be punctual, but the combination of long-term actions, of constant progress”.
Its columnist Hu Xijin said the military would “eliminate the consequences of the visit by escalating operations”. by Weibo and twitter, added that Pelosi “opens up a new era of high-intensity competition” between Washington and Beijing. “Taiwan is close to mainland China and we have a lot of cards in our hands.”
Vehicles such as Guancha, from Shanghai, and then the Global Times itself highlighted the military exercises announced around Taiwan, extending into the weekend — with the map above and even the coordinates, reproducing information from the Xinhua agency.
Guancha also highlighted the article “Turning the crisis of the visit into an opportunity to accelerate reunification”, by Taiwanese journalist Huang Zhixian, while the South China Morning Post, from Hong Kong, called at the top of the home page the column “Escalation is almost certain after visit”, by Alex Lo.
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Map and coordinates also appeared at the top of the Zhongguo Shibao or China Times, one of Taipei’s main newspapers, with headlines “Worse than the missile crisis! Pelosi has just landed in the PLA military exercise!” For three days, he says, the Chinese operation “is equivalent to a blockade of Taiwan.”
The map was also the online headline of Pingguo Ribao or Apple Daily, another popular Taipei outlet linked to the Hong Kong tabloid of the same name, which closed last year.
In the US, the New York Times headlined that “Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan tests China” and “should provoke a strong response.” And economic news outlets such as Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal have called for “days of military exercises around Taiwan.”
