The Situation: Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s journey to Taiwan within the face of threats from Beijing.
Taiwan has by no means been a part of China (“Pelosi’s Stand for Freedom,” Editorial, Aug. 3). It’s an unbiased democracy and ought to be acknowledged as such.
China ought to finish its aggressive actions to cow Taiwan into submission. The US ought to take the lead by totally recognizing Taiwan as a sovereign state.
Paul Schoenbaum
Richmond, Va.
The nearer we get to midterm congressional elections, the extra bipartisan optimistic acts are being applied.
True, Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi visiting Taiwan was transfer, even when there isn’t any comply with up. China, hopefully, is not going to retaliate militarily. However even when they do, we should present energy, not weak point.
The Dems wish to maintain their seats in Congress, so count on extra good issues to occur.
Carl Rosenberg
Nice Neck
Whereas I’m not a fan of Pelosi, kudos to her for following by way of regardless of Chinese language threats and blustering.
Coinciding with the deployment close to Taiwan of the USS Ronald Reagan, USS America and the USS Tripoli, a transparent message is being: Lay off Taiwan.
Peter Kelly
Hazlet, NJ
What’s Pelosi’s Taiwan publicity stunt meant to do? Make America neglect the inflation disaster that her get together and President Biden brought on? Or the virtually 2 million illegals which have already crossed our southern border? Neglect the unbelievable proven fact that Lawyer Common Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray have let Hunter Biden skate on his quite a few alleged crimes?
That’s lots to ask us to neglect by initiating one pointless journey to Taiwan. Though maybe 10 or 12 journeys to the moon may suffice.
Myron Hecker, New Metropolis
To her nice credit score, Pelosi defied Beijing’s bullying by making that cease in Taipei, the place she applauded Taiwan’s “vibrant democracy.”
Biden threw a monkey wrench in her journey planning by publicly saying the US army thought it wasn’t a good suggestion, given our ongoing tensions with China.
Simply one other very unhappy signal of the weak point of this newfangled woke army.
James Hyland
Beechhurst
The Situation: The assault on a McDonald’s employee by the son of a buyer indignant about her order.
What precisely is occurring on this once-peaceful, stunning metropolis (“Cold fries, cold heart,” Aug. 3)?
A few weeks in the past, a profession legal was killed by a bodega employee over an argument about potato chips. Now, a younger “gunman” settles a rating by capturing a McDonald’s worker over chilly french fries served to his mom.
The shooter’s mom doesn’t seem to have an issue together with her son’s actions. In any case, the fries had been chilly! I ponder what the subsequent justification for capturing a employee will likely be. Perhaps the late supply of a pizza?
As a result of dangerously out-of-touch criminal-justice insurance policies of the progressive elite, there’ll quickly be no secure areas left on this metropolis.
Anthony Scro
Whitestone
Within the newest case at a Brooklyn McDonald’s, 40-year-old Lisa Fulmore complained her “fries was chilly.” A employee pretended to trade her chilly fries with new ones and she or he left, however they had been nonetheless chilly.
So she summoned her 20-year-old son who, with arrests in 2019 for grand larceny and 2018 for theft of service, allegedly shot the employee to avenge his mom’s struggling.
Naïve New Yorkers will marvel why Ms. Fulmore didn’t name a extra accountable grownup — say, her son’s father.
Mark G. Brennan
Manhattan
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