Back-to-back visits to Taiwan by American congressional leaders this month has enraged Beijing. This week, Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) led a five-member bipartisan delegation to Taipei for a two-day trip . The Communist Party's Global Times published a dire threat to the members of the delegation. Earlier this month, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) led a high-profile trip to the Taiwan capital. Hu Xijin, formerly Global Times ' editor and now China's "most famous propagandist," threatened a shoot-down of the speaker's plane . The harsh tone of Chinese propaganda issued in connection with both delegations is in line with China's white paper on Taiwan , released last Wednesday. There is a new ominous attitude in the Chinese capital. Beijing's policy toward the self-governing island has dramatically hardened and become strategically incoherent. The adoption of self-defeating policies suggests serious internal problems in senior Communist Party circles. For … [Read more...] about China’s strategic incoherence on Taiwan shows ominous mindset | Opinion