Fox News host Tucker Carlson spoke at length about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan during Tuesday night’s edition of his eponymous television show.
“The thing about the Chinese government is, and this is kind of weird, the Chinese government almost never celebrates diversity,” Carlson said. “Think about that. American liberals, liberals throughout the West, love China. It’s Justin Trudeau’s model, but China does not celebrate diversity. In fact, and the American media never says this, but it’s absolutely true, China is a militarized ethno-state. It’s run along traditional fascist lines for the benefit of a specific ethnic group: the Han Chinese. ”
“It’s not supposed to be allowed, but they’re doing it,” Carlson continued. “So, to Chinese leaders, the concept of diversity, equity and inclusion, those concepts make no sense at all. At best, they’re bizarre. It’s one of those incomprehensible jokes that Western liberals tell. The Chinese don’t get it at all.”
Tucker Carlson examines Pelosi's visit to Taiwan:
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He added, “So, when Nancy Pelosi took off for Taiwan today aboard a U.S. military jet, the Chinese government did not issue a statement applauding her remarkable display of spunky girl power. No one in Beijing congratulated Nancy Pelosi for breaking glass ceilings as the very first Speaker in history to identify as a woman. No one in China even mentioned that.”
“Instead, Chinese leaders treated Pelosi’s arrival like an invasion,” Carlson said. “Air raid sirens sounded in coastal towns in China as her plane approached. When she finally landed, the Chinese military announced live fire exercises in the airspace around Taiwan for the next four days. China’s Foreign Ministry declared that Nancy Pelosi’s mere presence ‘gravely undermines peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.'”
Carlson concluded by claiming the incident proved “that in Asia, as at home, things rarely improve when Nancy Pelosi shows up. So, the question really is, why did she go in the first place? That’s the real question — and the official line in Washington, as always, is totally implausible, is that Pelosi’s trip was designed to ‘reaffirm Taiwan’s status as a U.S. ally.'”
