Pelosi's Taiwan trip is not needless provocation as some people claimed if you understand that COVID / Monkeypox didn't come out of nowhere. COVID-19 was basically version 2.0 of SARS outbreak which terrorized Taiwanese society and created a political crisis for Taiwanese government in 2003. Abe's assassination, downing of Black Hawk helicopter carrying Taiwan's highest military commander in 2020 (few days before Taiwan's presidential election, and Trump's swift response in taking down Solemani within 24 hours of this incident), Suez canal container ship blockage (Japanese owned Taiwanese ship), train derailment in Taiwan killing 49 people and injuring several hundred (and China's push to build an underground sea tunnel / railroad to Taiwan), Russia and China's efforts toward de dollarization, supply chain disruption, U.S. food and energy plants hacked /set on fire / blown up, land acquisition by the Chinese near U.S. military bases were no accidents either. People need to read the news with a discerning eye. World War III started toward end of 2019, beginning of 2020.