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This is the tweet that started it all. It was meant to be a joke.
BREAKING NEWS: White House insiders leak that, when asked if there could be any greater disaster than the neocon Ukraine project, President Biden responded, “wait until you see our plan for the destruction of Taiwan.”
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Chinese state media and nationalist commentators have seized on and amplified what appeared to be the revealing of US President Biden’s secret plan to destroy Taiwan. Source? A joke tweeted by a DC radio show host that got taken seriously by a Taiwanese political pundit.
For the past two days, Chinese state media such as Global Times, Reference News and Xiake Dao, an account managed by People’s Daily, reported that US President Biden privately said that there’s a plan to destroy Taiwan, according to a US media broadcaster.
Online commentators and influencers jumped in and discussions ensued. Yang Fan, a professor at China University of Political Science and Law, reposted an article asking if Biden accidentally revealed the secret or was it deliberate?
Everything reported by state media on this supposed revealing came from one person, Alex Tsai, a political pundit in Taiwan and former lawmaker. He credited the scoop to “prominent program host in Washington DC” Garland Nixon.
The scoop is actually a tweet: BREAKING NEWS: White House insiders leak that, when asked if there could be any greater disaster than the neocon Ukraine project, President Biden responded, “wait until you see our plan for the destruction of Taiwan.”
BREAKING NEWS: White House insiders leak that, when asked if there could be any greater disaster than the neocon Ukraine project, President Biden responded, “wait until you see our plan for the destruction of Taiwan.”
Alex Tsai is a member of the KMT, the political rivalry of DDP, which is the current ruling party of Taiwan. Attempting to debunk Alex Tsai’s claim, Taiwan government said in a statement that Nixon worked for a Russian propaganda entity.
Nixon’s articles do regularly appear on Sputnik: https://sputniknews.com/author_garland_nixon/ But that’s not what makes his tweet lack credibility. The real issue here is that it was a JOKE.
He has apparently made several jokes criticizing Biden in the same format that starts with “BREAKING NEWS: White House insiders leaked that…” In one of them, Biden allegedly called East Palestine, Ohio, where there’s been a chemical leak, a shithole town that’s not in Ukraine.
Nixon’s show, News Views, is a “fast paced hard hitting progressive news and editorial show that focuses on politics”, according to the show’s Apple podcast page. https://google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi8-IPL06z9AhXvFlkFHftuBB4QFnoECBgQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fpodcasts.apple.com%2Fus%2Fpodcast%2Fwpfw-news-views%2Fid1157696226&usg=AOvVaw2oT6_PFq4nALtQ07tOtzlT
Tsai might have seen the Taiwan tweet and took it seriously. And He’s not backing down. In an interview with Global Times, he asks how come nobody wants to find out if Biden really said it, implying that his political enemies also believe it’s true and don’t want to admit it.
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