"The United States of America recognizes the Government of the People's Republic of China as the sole legitimate Government of China and recognizes China's position that there is only one China and that Taiwan is part of China. To this extent, the two sides agreed that the people of the United States will continue to maintain cultural, commercial and other unofficial relations with the people of Taiwan. ”
I don't know if the United States remembers this sentence.
At the beginning of the new year, the United States and Japan have vigorously manipulated the Taiwan Strait issue, and behind the high-profile action is the ulterior motives of the United States and Japan. However, the "Taiwan independence" elements on the island have taken the cheering up of the United States and Japan seriously and pinned their hopes on the United States and Japan to intervene.
The United States and Japan "Stand up" have a ghost fetus
As the US Government's "strategy of containing China" has become more and more clear and has been constantly playing the "Taiwan card," Japan, a close ally of the United States, has also jumped up and down on the Taiwan Strait issue since last year. Entering 2022, the US and Japan's Taiwan-related actions are becoming more and more high-profile, and politicians of the two countries will also take the Taiwan Strait issue as an opportunity to win votes for the upper position; US Secretary of State Blinken, Adviser Sullivan, and Defense Secretary Austin, former Japanese Prime Ministers Shinzo Abe and Yoshihide Suga, Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi, and other politicians have jumped out from time to time to shout the slogan of "Standing Up for Taiwan", and Tsai Ing-wen on the island is eager to immediately "offer" Taiwan and let others take it for granted. It's just that these politicians are talking about "standing up" and all they have in mind is votes.
At the same time, in the face of China's tough stance, the United States and Japanese officials have repeatedly emphasized support for "one China.". It can be seen that the United States and Japan are not really "standing up for Taiwan," but have other plans.
First, both the United States and Japan want to contain China's rise by playing the "Taiwan card." Neither the United States nor Japan wants to see China rise. The United States sees a rising China as the greatest threat to U.S. hegemony, while Japan fears Retaliation from China. Therefore, the biggest purpose of the United States and Japan in playing the "Taiwan card" is to use the Taiwan issue to distract China's energy, deplete China's diplomatic and strategic resources by increasing military deterrence, and disrupt China's pace, so as to achieve the purpose of containing China's rise. However, the United States and Japan did not expect that on the Taiwan issue, China has always maintained its strategic determination, because Taiwan is a part of China, and this is an undeniable and unchangeable fact. The more the United States and Japan are militarily involved in the Taiwan Strait issue, it is precisely the United States and Japan that are being held back by the "Taiwan card," not China.
Second, by showing the so-called tough stance toward China on the Taiwan issue, we should win more votes. Entering 2022, both the United States and Japan will usher in a "big test". The midterm elections that will determine the fate of the Biden administration will be held in November, and if the midterm elections are lost, the Democrats will lose control of the House of Representatives, and the Biden administration, which has no political authority, will have a more bumpy presidential road in the future, and the policies will be subject to the Republican Party. The Japanese government will also usher in the house election, and Kishida Fumio will have to please the right-wing forces in the country to win more votes. As the exams approach, Biden and Kishida Fumio are facing similar dilemmas, with repeated epidemic situations, failed economic recovery, and rising inflation, in which case, for Biden and Kishida Fumio, the "anti-China card" has become a chip for them to win votes. As for other US and Japanese politicians who frequently make generous remarks on the Taiwan Strait issue, such as Blinken and Shinzo Abe, on the one hand, they are for votes, and on the other hand, they are also for the sake of brushing up on the sense of existence.
Third, hollow out Taiwan in the name of "standing up for Taiwan." For the United States and Japan, Taiwan under the control of the DPP is their "cash machine." The DPP authorities on the island, in order to curry favor with the United States, have forcibly opened up the import of "Lai pigs," and now in order to curry favor with Japan, they are planning to lift the ban on Japan's "nuclear food." However, these are only small profits, and the greatest benefit lies in arms sales to Taiwan. In recent years, the number of US arms sales to Taiwan has become more and more frequent, and THE US arms dealers have sold a bunch of second-hand weapons at a sky-high price, and Tsai Ing-wen still has to smile and greet each other. In addition, there is also a semiconductor company TSMC on the island of Taiwan, which is also one of the goals of the United States and Japan. In recent years, the United States and Japan have frequently forced TSMC to go to the United States and build factories in Japan in the name of "standing up", trying to completely control the upstream of the semiconductor industry chain through console accumulation, and at the same time achieve the purpose of blocking Chinese mainland.
Fourth, find reasonable excuses to maintain high military expenditures. At the end of 2021, both the United States and Japan passed the military spending bill for the new fiscal year, both of which set a new high. The US military expenditure reached 776 billion US dollars, and Japan did not hesitate to let go, breaking the record, and in the US and Japanese bills, they all mentioned the need to strengthen military investment in order to deal with the so-called "Chinese military threat". It is not unexpected that the United States controlled by the military-industrial complex will increase military spending, especially in 2021, the US military has withdrawn from the Middle East one after another, and the military-industrial complex needs a new "crisis" to maintain high military expenditures.
The main purpose of Japan's increase in military expenditure under the "Taiwan card" is to continuously enhance Japan's military strength and break through the "Peace Constitution" step by step; regardless of whether the United States is involved in the conflict in the Taiwan Strait, Japan has a reason to completely break through the restrictions of the "Peace Constitution" and finally successfully form a normal army.
Therefore, the United States and Japan have their own small calculations in playing the "Taiwan card," and such actions not only hollow out the "one China" principle step by step, but also cause the "Taiwan independence" elements to have unrealistic delusions. However, the DPP is naïve in wanting to rely on the United States and Japan to achieve the goal of "Taiwan independence." However, it is not only the "Taiwan independence" elements who are naïve, but also the Taiwan people on the island.
Tsai Ing-wen forced the mainland to use force, and the people of Taiwan hoped that the United States would intervene
Recently, Su Qi, a former senior official in Taiwan, pointed out in an interview that before Tsai Ing-wen came to power, Taiwan maintained a good balance between China and the United States, but after Tsai Ing-wen came to power, she made the worst choice, turning to the United States in an all-round way, confronting the mainland, and completely "forcing the mainland into a corner." Such an action is undoubtedly forcing the mainland to use force against Taiwan.
Faced with such a situation, the people of Taiwan are still paralyzing themselves. Just recently, Taiwan released a poll data, in which nearly 60% of the People in Taiwan believe that the mainland will not "reunify" Taiwan. In addition, 58.8 percent of the Taiwan people believe that once the two sides of the strait go to war, the United States will send troops to "defend Taiwan," and more than half of the Taiwan people believe that the US military can "effectively protect" Taiwan.
What is effective protection? At the very least, we must defeat the People's Liberation Army. However, even the United States itself believes that the US military cannot defeat the People's Liberation Army at China's doorstep, and former US Defense Secretary Carter once said that the United States will not choose to go to war with China in the Taiwan Strait, but will choose to start a war where China can be won. In other words, the US military can not defeat the PLA in the Taiwan Strait, including the US RAND Corporation has also said that they have done many military pushes, the US military has lost to the PLA, and it is not a good idea to go to war with China. Despite this, the people of Taiwan are so blindly believed in the United States that they can only say that Tsai Ing-wen's brainwashing has indeed been successful.
All along, Tsai Ing-wen has constantly played up the so-called "mainland military threat" on the island and belittled the mainland's economic and military development; Taiwan's so-called politicians have advocated the so-called "aircraft carrier killer" of the Taiwan military on variety shows every day, emboldening the "Taiwan independence" elements, and at the same time advocating the so-called "US-Taiwan relations" and making promises to Taiwan, which eventually led to the Taiwan people living in an illusion and viewing the development of cross-strait relations and the "empty check" of the United States with a wrong eye.
Taiwan has only one path to follow, and that is reunification. As for how to reunify, the mainland has been releasing the goodwill and opportunity for peaceful reunification to the people of Taiwan and striving for space for peaceful reunification. However, if the DPP authorities insist on taking the road of "Taiwan independence," once they cross the red line, the mainland will not rule out using non-peaceful means to reunify the two sides of the strait.
Some sources refer to: Global Network, Xinhua Net