At the opening of the 2022 Winter Olympics, China played a big game of chess.
This year is also the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Argentina. At the invitation of the Chinese side, Argentine President Fernandez attended the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics on February 4 and visited China. On February 6, China and Arab States issued a Joint Statement on Deepening the China-Arab Comprehensive Strategic Partnership.
One of the statements pointed out that the Afghan side reaffirmed its adherence to the one-China principle, and the Chinese side reiterated its support for the Afghan side's demand for full sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands (the British side calls the Falkland Islands, hereinafter referred to as the Falkland Islands).
As soon as this statement was published, the British Foreign Secretary hastily pushed forward, completely rejecting any sovereignty dispute over the Falklands and demanding that the Chinese side respect British sovereignty. Really double standard!
In fact, speaking of the Falklands War, it was a small-scale war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 because of the Falklands. Although it was a small-scale battle for the islands, the Falklands War was an electronic war, blockade war, and joint sea, land, and air operations supported by modern science and technology, which deeply touched countless Chinese soldiers for a while and triggered Comrade Deng Xiaoping's military thinking on millions of disarmaments.
The Falklands covers an area of 12,200 square kilometers, has a population of less than 4,000 people, has nothing to offer resources, and has no strategic location, and the island's residents are basically sheep herders. If there is any point of concern, it is that the location is similar to that of Taiwan, but regardless of strategic location, economic situation, and resources, it is not in a grade.
The Falklands was originally an uninhabited island, and the battle for Aying was like a dog biting a dog, and on the basis of real ownership, it should be the indigenous Indians of South America, while the Indians of South America and North America were killed for well-known reasons, and there was no way to claim sovereignty. But historically, it was the British who first discovered the Falklands, when there was no one on the island, and then the British came to settle. But because the British were too far from the Falklands and did not pay too much attention to it, the French secretly occupied the Falklands and sold them to Spain. After Argentina drove out the Spanish army and established the country, it naturally believed that it should inherit all the rights and interests of Spain in Argentina, and the Falklands were naturally Argentina's.
However, there are so many independent countries in South America and North America from the colonies, Spain does not care, and Britain naturally does not recognize the Falkland Islands as belonging to Argentina, so the Arab and British countries have been fighting over the Falklands issue for many years.
By 1981, with inflation at more than 600 percent, the Argentine military junta faced a protracted general strike of workers at home hoping to divert and resolve domestic economic and human rights issues through a clean foreign war. Speaking of this, everyone looks like a self-proclaimed "large country with the largest population in the world" who provokes the mainland border because of various problems such as the epidemic, which is an old routine!
Back to the point, the Argentine junta hinted at the occupation of the Falklands. Originally, the occupation of the Falklands did not require the use of troops, the thousands of inhabitants on the island, and the actual occupation was enough, but the Argentine military government wanted a clean and neat military occupation, so as to achieve the purpose of transferring contradictions within the country. At that time, the Argentine military government should not have thought that the British did not even want India, this place where birds do not, the British are so far away, that the British will not fight Argentina for the Falklands.
But Argentina did not expect that the British Thatcher government faced the cabinet's doubts and the decline in domestic support also needed a big news to divert the pressure on the government, and the Argentine military government was really in the snow at this time. Margaret Thatcher, as a treasure, portrayed the Argentine junta's occupation of the Falklands as the second attack on Pearl Harbor. Both Afghan and British governments are aimed at diverting internal contradictions, and whoever wins the battle is a vested interest. As a result, with the support of NATO, the war soon ended in a British victory, ending with 255 British troops, 649 Afghans and 3 Falklands residents.
At that time, the British government was negotiating with the Chinese government on the issue of Hong Kong's return, and Margaret Thatcher angrily used the victory in the Falklands War as a pretext to clamor for Deng Gong to have disastrous consequences if China announced that it would take back Hong Kong. "Hong Kong, including Kowloon and the New Territories, has a question of sovereignty that brooks no discussion." If no agreement can be reached on the issue of principle, another consideration will be given to the time and means of recovering Hong Kong. Frightened, he rolled back to England. At this time, the British Foreign Secretary's response to the Sino-Arab joint statement was like Thatcher falling on the stairs of the synagogue, which is really ridiculous!