Newt Gingrich: Pelosi should tell Biden officials to 'shut up' about Taiwan visit
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Newt Gingrich reacted to Taiwan holding air raid drills as China doubled down on warnings to the U.S. against allowing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to visit the island.
NEWT GINGRICH: It's exactly the kind of confusion that enabled Putin to mislead himself about Ukraine. We need to be very, very clear. And this is part of why we had a lot of tension in 1996, 97, and President Clinton and I collaborated in trying to send very strong signals, including putting American aircraft carriers in the Taiwan Strait. So I would say she absolutely has to go now.
She cannot allow the Chinese communist dictatorship to think that it can bully an American Speaker of the House. And frankly, she ought to tell the Pentagon and the State Department to shut up. They're always timid. They're always risk-averse. And they don't get it. It's very important to show strength. So the Chinese communists understand that we're real, and we're not, just as Mao called us a paper tiger.