{"id":40391,"date":"2022-08-05T06:46:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T14:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=40391"},"modified":"2022-08-05T06:46:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T14:46:02","slug":"ray-mcgoverns-likely-last-as-in-final-appearance-on-skynews-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/05\/ray-mcgoverns-likely-last-as-in-final-appearance-on-skynews-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray McGovern&#8217;s Likely Last (as in &#8216;Final&#8217;) Appearance on SKYNEWS\/Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WXfzmJDSc28\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It was worth it. &#8220;Biden didn&#8217;t want to look &#8216;soft&#8217; cancelling Pelosi&#8217;s Taiwan visit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Former CIA officer Ray McGovern says US President Joe Biden could have prevented US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s visit to Taiwan but didn&#8217;t want to &#8220;seem soft&#8221; on China with mid-term elections coming up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He said Ms Pelosi&#8217;s visit is a &#8216;provocation&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;\u2018If the Chinese reply, as I think they will, with some rather strong military measures, will that be unprovoked? Sorry, it will be provoked,&#8217; he told Sky News Australia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>This originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/raymcgovern.com\">RayMcGovern.com<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Ray McGovern works with Tell the Word, a publishing arm of the ecumenical Church of the Saviour in inner-city Washington. His 27-year career as a CIA analyst includes serving as Chief of the Soviet Foreign Policy Branch and preparer\/briefer of the President\u2019s Daily Brief. He is co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was worth it. &#8220;Biden didn&#8217;t want to look &#8216;soft&#8217; cancelling Pelosi&#8217;s Taiwan visit.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-40391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40391"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40393,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40391\/revisions\/40393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40391"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=40391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}