ACTION ALERT: Stop Provoking China.
We Need Diplomacy Not Escalation!
Massachusetts Peace Action
(August 3, 2022) — Yesterday House Speaker Nancy Pelosi chose to visit Taiwan. This was an unnecessary provocation and such a bad idea that it was opposed by both President Biden and by the Chinese government!
Her trip also contradicts the “One China Policy” an agreement made between the US and China that go back 50 years!
In her own words Speaker Pelosi is setting the stage for unthinkable conflict:
“Today the world faces a choice between democracy and autocracy. America’s determination to preserve democracy here in Taiwan and around the world remains ironclad.”
We can’t afford to divide the world into camps or to pursue another ideological Cold War. This thinking has no place in the 21st century. We cannot defeat imminent climate catastrophe or prepare for health threats like the COVID-19 pandemic without cooperation between the US and China.
The Speaker’s rhetoric is viewed as an insult by China, a nuclear-armed state only 100 miles from Taiwan, and a country that very much considers Taiwan to be a part of China. They’re responding to the visit with military exercises that will only further escalate tensions.
Pelosi’s ill-timed photo-op puts the people of Taiwan at risk. The precedent of the war in Ukraine should be a warning for all of us. Actions have consequences and the last thing the world needs is another crisis.
THE LETTER
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi chose to visit Taiwan. This was an unnecessary provocation and such a bad idea that it was opposed by both President Biden and by the Chinese government! It also sends a contradictory message that weakens agreements made between the US and China that go back 50 years.
In her own words Speaker Pelosi is setting the stage for unthinkable conflict:
“Today the world faces a choice between democracy and autocracy. America’s determination to preserve democracy here in Taiwan and around the world remains ironclad.”
We can’t afford to divide the world into camps or to pursue another ideological Cold War. This thinking has no place in the 21st century. We cannot defeat imminent climate catastrophe or prepare for health threats like the COVID-19 pandemic without cooperation between the US and China.
The Speaker’s rhetoric is viewed as an insult by China, a nuclear armed state only 100 miles from Taiwan, and a country that very much considers Taiwan to be a part of China. They’re responding to the visit with military exercises that will only further escalate tensions.
As your constituent I’m asking you to push back. Speak out against escalation with China. Support diplomacy. Oppose increased arms shipments from the US to Taiwan. Speak out against provocative military exercises and bases near China.
We can’t afford a war with China. Coexistence not coannihilation,
ACTION: Sign the Letter
Congress: Stop Provoking China: Diplomacy Not Escalation!
Brian Garvey is the Assistant Director of Massachusetts Peace Action
