The United States is a very arrogant country, and for a long time the United States has pursued the principle of "putting the interests of the United States first", imposing sanctions on the rest of the country at every turn, and the United States often intervenes in international affairs through "long-arm jurisdiction". Although the United States claims to uphold the "one Central Plains," what the United States has done is hollowing out the "one China principle," and the most obvious thing is to sell weapons and equipment to Taiwan Island. 202202168/Global Defense Watch/Ali, in 2021, the US Biden administration approved the sale of $750 million of arms to Taiwan Island, mainly the M109 self-propelled howitzer system, and by 2022, the US Biden administration has launched another provocation.
According to the news released by the US media, the US Biden administration suddenly announced the arms sales to Taiwan Island for the maintenance of patriot 3 air defense missiles, and the contract amount this time was 100 million US dollars. Taiwan Island purchased the Patriot 3 air defense missile system from the United States, and because Taiwan Island itself did not have the maintenance capability, it put forward relevant procurement requirements to the United States. Patriot 3 air defense missile system has the ability to intercept ballistic missiles, so it is an important equipment for Taiwan Island to "resist reunification by force", Taiwan Island often takes out Patriot 3 air defense missiles to show off, in fact, the ability of the Patriot 3 air defense system is much worse than the S400 air defense missile, Turkey did not choose the Patriot 3 air defense missile, but bought Russia's S400.
After the United States announced that it was approving arms sales to Taiwan Island, Chinese customs announced that it would ban customs declaration procedures for Lithuanian beef after February 9, which meant that Lithuanian beef could not enter the Chinese market. Since the end of 2021, Lithuania has embarked on the wrong route of openly challenging the "one-China principle", the Lithuanian authorities have allowed Taiwan Island to set up so-called "representative offices" in Lithuania, openly creating "one China, one Taiwan", for which China has launched countermeasures, including stopping the stops of China-Europe trains in Lithuania, prohibiting the import of Lithuanian rum, and also reducing the level of diplomatic relations with Lithuania. However, Lithuania is "unrepentant, and when the Lithuanian foreign minister visits Australia, he will try to win over Australia to jointly oppose China."
The reason why Lithuania jumped up and down is because there is the support of the United States behind it, the United States is carefully calculated, because the total trade between Lithuania and China is not large, the United States believes that Lithuania can afford to lose, in fact, the United States is miscalculating, because the European Union is also using Lithuanian parts, EU products in the use of Lithuanian parts after entering the Chinese market will be risky, so the impact on Lithuania is much greater than imagined. China has countered Lithuania and slapped the United States in the face, and now China has made another move to make Lithuania more painful. The United States tried to set an example through Lithuania, and now it is "hammering", and Lithuania has become the first bird.
At the same time as China suspended Lithuanian beef imports, the PLA mobilized eight J-16 heavy fighter jets to conduct a normal patrol of Taiwan. The J-16 is a heavy fighter platform with powerful assault capabilities, combining air combat and sea/ground combat capabilities, and can be used as the "right and left arm" of the J-20 Weilong fighter. The PLA's combat cruise in the airspace southwest of Taiwan Island is a deterrent to the "Taiwan independence" elements, and if the "Taiwan independence" dares to cross the red line, the PLA will not be polite. The PLA's use of eight J-16 fighter jets to enter the southwest airspace of Taiwan Island for combat cruises also issued a warning to the United States.