On the afternoon of March 7, Beijing time, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi held a press conference during the two sessions to answer questions raised by domestic and foreign journalists on China's foreign policy and foreign relations. In response to the questions concerning Ukraine and the Taiwan Strait, Foreign Minister Wang stressed: The Ukrainian issue is fundamentally different from the Taiwan issue, there is no comparison between the two, and the biggest difference between the two sides is that the Taiwan issue is China's internal affair and brooks no interference by any external forces, and ukraine, as an independent sovereign state, China respects its sovereign territorial integrity.
No matter how the situation changes, the two sides of the Taiwan Strait will eventually move toward reunification.
Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that not only to smash the funny argument of "Ukraine today, Taiwan tomorrow" hyped by some foreign media, but also to deter the extraterritorial forces headed by the United States and Japan and abandon the idea of confronting the whole of China by interfering in the Taiwan Strait issue.
Although China's high-level statements will deter Western anti-China forces for a certain period of time and make them dare not act rashly, against the background of the changing international political situation, the die-hard Western anti-China factions still use the power in their hands to stage one anti-China farce after another. Almost overnight, the two major political forces in the West, the United States and the European Union, have successively blackmailed China and openly supported the "Taiwan independence" proposition, and the antagonism between China and the West has once again reached a climax.
Let's start with the United States. On March 9, local time, the U.S. Congress passed a fiscal spending bill of up to $1.5 trillion, which includes $13.6 billion in emergency assistance to kiev authorities. Money can be given generously, but the war needs to be fought by the Ukrainian government itself, and the pain in Zelenskiy's heart is known only to himself.
Who would have thought that in the 2022 fiscal year comprehensive expenditure bill, the United States will also try its best to play the "Taiwan card", one of which is to prohibit the US executive branch from funding the production and display of any so-called "incorrectly marked" map of the Taiwan region. Just last year, the United States passed a bill prohibiting the relevant map from painting Taiwan Island as part of China, and now it continues to escalate on this issue, hoping to create the illusion that the mainland and Taiwan are not the same country, in order to express support for the "Taiwan independence" forces.
The Russian-Ukrainian conflict has made people realize that the power of the "public opinion war" is no less than the confrontation between the two sides on the battlefield. Once public consciousness is subtly manipulated or brainwashed, it is very difficult to reverse it. Once these maps with major errors are widely disseminated in American society, then for most ordinary Americans, the illusion that the mainland and Taiwan are "not subordinate to each other" will naturally be formed. In contrast, this move by the United States is not fundamentally different from the "de-Centralization" education carried out by the DPP on the island for many years.
At the same time that the US House of Representatives passed the Taiwan-related bill, the EU side also made a similar move. According to media reports, the European Parliament passed a resolution on the Taiwan region by a disparity of 552 votes in favor and 81 votes against. The resolution accuses Chinese mainland of using information, public opinion and other means to influence the EU democratic process and control EU public opinion, and the Taiwan region is at the forefront of the "cognitive operation" against Chinese mainland, and the EU top level must re-examine its relations with the Taiwan region and jointly confront the "public opinion offensive" launched by the Chinese mainland.
In addition to singing anti-China rhetoric and supporting the "Taiwan independence" DPP authorities, the resolution also puts forward the measures that must be taken to confront the "information war" of the Chinese mainland, including the establishment of a "counter-counterfeiting information center" and an "advanced special committee" to strengthen "cooperation" with the Taiwan region in the fight against public opinion with practical actions.
The two messages seem to be unconnected, but they reflect an extremely strong signal: the reconquest of Taiwan cannot be delayed, and the reunification of the motherland must press the acceleration button. Before the 21st century, Sino-US relations as a whole developed in a relatively stable situation, and in the first 10 years of the 21st century, Sino-US relations were once very warm because of the factors of the war on terrorism. However, as the pace of China's rise accelerates, the United States has gradually emerged from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan and begun to "return to the Asia-Pacific region" and curb China's comprehensive national strength and international status through various means such as "Asia-Pacific rebalancing" and "Indo-Pacific strategy".
Obama, Trump, Biden and other US presidents have used almost all means except war in the direction of China, but have not achieved a fundamental reversal of the situation toward China. Next, there is the most sensitive issue of Taiwan. Of course, the United States does not dare to go to war with the People's Liberation Army at China's doorstep, but it has constantly exerted influence on the island through various channels and cooperated with the "Taiwan independence" forces in engaging in small actions in an attempt to de facto separate Taiwan from China. These moves themselves, that is, forcing the mainland to recover Taiwan at an early date, must press the acceleration button in the process of reunification.
The Russian-Ukrainian conflict has taught us many lessons, not only in terms of military strategy, but also in the overall international situation. After Russia launched a special military operation against Ukraine, the Western world did not send troops to Ukraine as expected, only providing certain military assistance from Kiev, and the sanctions against Russia not only did not hurt Russia, but made energy prices soar, and the inflationary pressure reached an unprecedented height.
Once there is an incident in the Taiwan Strait, there is a high probability that the entire Western world will still watch the fire from the other side, and several symbolic sanctions will be difficult to cause serious damage to China, which has developed comprehensively in internal and external circles, and once Taiwan returns to the embrace of the motherland, the historical mission of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation will also be officially completed.