Zhou Zhihuai, an expert on the mainland: 2022 will be an important historical node in the process of complete national reunification

Beijing, 19 Jan (China News Service) -- Title: Mainland expert Zhou Zhihuai: 2022 will be an important historical node in the process of complete national reunification

China News Service reporter Zheng Qiao

"2022 will be an important historical node in the development of cross-strait relations and the process of complete national reunification." The mainland will adhere to the bottom-line thinking, firmly safeguard peace in the Taiwan Strait and the one-China framework of the international community, and actively promote the process of complete national reunification into a new stage. Zhou Zhihuai, director of the Academic Committee of the Center for Taiwan and East Asian Studies of East China Normal University, said in an exclusive interview with a reporter from China News Agency recently.

Looking back at the situation in cross-strait relations last year, Zhou Zhihuai pointed out that the complicated and severe situation in the Taiwan Strait and the continuous increase in risks in 2021 are mainly due to the DPP authorities' "anti-China and independence plots" and constantly stirring up troubles in an attempt to change the current situation in the Taiwan Strait, where the two sides of the strait belong to the same China, and the erroneous signal sent by the US Biden administration has further aggravated the tension and confrontation in the Taiwan Strait.

Zhou Zhihuai further pointed out that under the manipulation of the DPP authorities, the atmosphere of "anti-China hatred against China" and green terror on the island is very strong, which has seriously impacted the public psychology of the people on the island on the issue of reunification and "independence," and has further intensified the confrontation between public opinion on both sides of the strait, thus becoming a deep-seated reason for the difficulty of alleviating tension in the Taiwan Strait.

Zhou Zhihuai stressed: In 2021, the mainland will strengthen its military struggle and use the means to crack down on "Taiwan independence" diehards, continue to exert efforts in the anti-"Taiwan independence" struggle, make precise efforts, and shape the cross-strait peace situation with a "positive peace" thinking, effectively safeguarding the stability of the situation in the Taiwan Strait. It should be said that the more fully and effectively the mainland's preparations for military struggle, the more it can guarantee the greatest possible efforts to win peace in the Taiwan Strait and safeguard peace in the Taiwan Strait. The mainland's continuous sword-raising struggle against "Taiwan independence" is a response to the strong demand of mainstream public opinion on both sides of the strait to punish "Taiwan independence" and a necessary measure to safeguard state sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Looking forward to cross-strait relations this year, Zhou Zhihuai said that 2022 will be an important historical node in the development of cross-strait relations and the process of complete national reunification. The 20th NATIONAL CONGRESS of the Communist Party of China will be convened, and under the guidance of the party's overall strategy for resolving the Taiwan issue in the new era, it will further enrich and develop the theory of national reunification and draw up a new blueprint for the complete reunification of the country.

Zhou Zhihuai pointed out that in 2022, the island's elections and Taiwan's political situation are intertwined and interacted, and the impact on the peaceful development of cross-strait relations will further increase. If the "nine-in-one" election solidifies the DPP's pattern of "one party dominating the country," it is bound to intensify the DPP's impulse to take risks in "Taiwan independence," and the situation in the Taiwan Strait will continue to fall into a vicious circle. In the face of the "Taiwan independence" provocations of the DPP authorities and the interference of external forces such as the United States and Japan, the mainland will adhere to the bottom-line thinking, firmly safeguard peace in the Taiwan Strait and the one-China framework of the international community, and actively promote the process of complete national reunification into a new stage.

Zhou Zhihuai said: Under the circumstance that the possibility of peaceful reunification between the two sides of the strait through negotiation is constantly being severely challenged, the mainland should make efforts to eliminate interference from the DPP authorities and external forces and build a new mechanism for unilaterally resolving the Taiwan issue at its own pace. In a state of "reunification," the DPP authorities will completely lose the opportunity to "jointly discuss reunification" with the mainland, and the space they can choose will become an irreparable regret.

Zhou Zhihuai held that the mainland is willing to strive for the prospect of peaceful reunification with the greatest sincerity and the greatest efforts, but the path to peace in the Taiwan Strait is not a negative peace, but a positive peace. Non-peaceful means are a last resort and a last resort. (End)

Source: China News Network