Reading from the article, the United States instigated Japan, Britain, and Australia to intervene in the Taiwan Strait, exposing an intention

Source: Global Times

On the 8th, Taiwan media reported on the "concern" of the PLA told the Japanese media about the "concern" of the PLA by Vice Admiral Thomas, commander of the US Seventh Fleet. But in fact, this concern is just an excuse for the United States to contain and contain China. In recent years, the United States has been constantly encouraging these "allies" to intervene in the Taiwan Strait by forming alliances with Britain and Australia and holding joint military exercises with Japan, which on the one hand reflects the United States' unwillingness to confront the mainland alone and, on the other hand, exposes its attempt to "internationalize" the Taiwan issue. And such attempts are doomed to fail.

The Japanese Prime Minister and the Defense Minister have constantly raised the Taiwan Strait

On May 5, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson signed a defense agreement with visiting Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. The Anglo-Japanese armed forces will "cooperate more closely", including through joint deployments, joint exercises and disaster relief assistance. The British government considers this to be a "landmark bilateral agreement". The media said that this means that the "quasi-alliance relationship" between Britain and Japan has been taken to a higher level in the past decade or so, and Japan has become a key ally of Britain in East Asia.

On the Taiwan Strait issue, Kishida claimed that "unilateral attempts to use force to change the status quo in the Indo-Pacific region, especially in East Asia," and that peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait are of vital importance not only to Japan's security, but also to the stability of the international community. Just as Kishida Fumio was active in Europe, Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi held talks with US Defense Secretary Austin at the Pentagon on the 5th, and the two sides once again stressed the "importance of peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait." Austin said China's recent behavior "poses a deep challenge" and that the United States and Japan will discuss how to build a "more open and liberal Indo-Pacific," including working together to strengthen the U.S.-Japan alliance. From May 3 to 7, 11 members of the Youth Bureau of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party, known as the "cradle of the prime minister," visited Taiwan. One of the members, Kenkazu Suzuki, said on the 6th that recently the PLA military plane "invaded" Taiwan's air defense identification zone on an unprecedented scale, and Japan regarded it as "its own business" and enhanced its sense of crisis.

In order to cooperate with the United States, Japan has made frequent moves. In April last year, Japanese media disclosed that the United States sent Campbell, the coordinator of Indo-Pacific affairs, to Visit Tokyo before the Japan-US summit, demanding that Japan and the United States work together to strengthen the "deterrence" against China, and hoped that Japan would enact a bill similar to the US "Taiwan Relations Act." Japan, which knows China's bottom line, is unable to meet this demand, so as a compromise solution, the two countries rarely "concerned" about the security of the Taiwan Strait in the joint summit statement. In November, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Commander Aquilino visited Japan for talks with senior officials such as Yukiji Yamazaki, chief of staff of the Japan Self-Defense Forces. In January, Japan signed a new security cooperation agreement with Australia in an attempt to limit the PLA's activities to the "First Island Chain."

It is reported that the Japanese Self-Defense Forces and the US military have drawn up a joint battle plan "in response to a possible emergency situation in Taiwan." In the early stages of the "emergency," the U.S. Marine Corps will establish temporary offensive military positions on the islands from Kagoshima to Okinawa Prefecture. According to the analysis, this means that the United States and Japan should enter the operational level in response to the so-called "Taiwan Strait crisis.". Just a few days ago, Japan was supervising the Liaoning warship of the People's Liberation Army, and the Maritime Self-Defense Force also sent a quasi-aircraft carrier "Izumo". The analysis said that the Taiwan Strait is Japan's energy channel, and Japan is worried that China may cut off its energy channel at any time after its complete reunification, and at the same time does not want to see the strength of the unified China in East Asia stronger.

In view of Japan's frequent use of the Taiwan Strait to talk about things, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian criticized on the 6th that the Japanese side frequently borrowed some diplomatic activities to "carry smuggled goods," to play up regional tensions, and to hype up the so-called "China threat." In doing so, the Japanese side found excuses for expanding its own armed forces and strengthening its army, and undermined mutual trust and cooperation among regional countries, which is not conducive to peace and stability in the region and is doomed to be unpopular.

Australia "armed to the teeth"

In September last year, US President Joe Biden, British Prime Minister Johnson and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison issued a joint statement announcing the formal establishment of the US-Uk-Australia Trilateral Security Partnership, referred to as "Augustus". Under this framework, the United States and Britain pledged to help Australia acquire nuclear-powered submarines as soon as possible, completely disregarding the risk of nuclear proliferation.

Under the influence of the United States, Australian Defense Ministry Darton echoed that if the United States took action to "defend Taiwan", it is "inconceivable" that Australia would not join the US camp. In March, he threatened that Australia might supply Taiwan with weapons in the event of a war in the Taiwan Strait. Australian Liberal Senator Eric Abez has even threatened that Australia should abandon its long-standing one-China policy and that he "would like to see Australia and Taiwan establish full diplomatic relations" and now have so much in common between Australia and Taiwan.

Militarily, Australia has also made many preparations. Dutton said the launch date of Australia's first nuclear-powered submarine would be much sooner than expected. Australia is accelerating plans to equip warplanes and warships with long-range strike missiles, which will cost $3.5 billion, VOA reported on April 6. According to the revised timeline, the RAF's active F/A-18F Super Hornet and future F-35 fighters will be equipped with improved U.S.-made combined air-to-ground long-range strike missiles by 2024, three years ahead of schedule. The missile could allow Australian warplanes to strike at targets 900 kilometers away. Dutton is unabashedly saying that "China is arming itself with more nuclear weapons, and we must be pragmatic in facing the threat." Morrison announced that it will invest $10 billion to build a new military port in eastern Australia for the deployment of nuclear submarines.

In addition, on the Solomon Islands issue, the Associated Press said on May 7 that since the South Pacific island nation Solomon Islands signed a security agreement with China, the Australian foreign minister met with the foreign minister of the Solomon Islands for the first time and repeatedly expressed "concerns" about China.

Australia's meddling in the Taiwan Strait has sparked opposition at home. Former Prime Minister Keating argued that Taiwan was not a "key interest" for Australia and should not be involved in a military firefight because of Taiwan, whether sponsored by the United States or for other reasons. Former Foreign Minister Evans said that China accounts for more than 30% of Australia's exports, while the United States will only care about its own interests, and Australia has previously suffered (to China) red wine losses, and the United States has not given support.

Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Tan Kefei said in March that the relevant remarks of Australian defense leaders grossly interfered in China's internal affairs and wantonly distorted China's actions to safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity, which fully exposed its Cold War mentality and ideological bias and seriously damaged the relations between China and Australia and the two militaries. Some media said that after Australia followed the United States to interfere in China's internal affairs and was counterattacked by China, Australia's lobster, wine, coal and other major products were completely removed from the shelves in China, resulting in heavy losses to Australia's agricultural and marine fishing industries

Britain 'Tilts Toward the Indo-Pacific'

Britain announced a foreign policy of "leaning toward the Indo-Pacific" after Brexit in 2020 and sees Japan as a major ally in East Asia. In May last year, the British aircraft carrier "Queen Elizabeth" began its first exercise voyage, making a "historic operational deployment" in the Indo-Pacific region, during which it entered the waters of the South China Sea and the formation frigate "Richmond" crossed the Taiwan Strait. In September last year, the Royal Navy's new patrol ship Tamar and others departed from the United Kingdom and began a normal deployment in the Indo-Pacific region for at least five years. All of these actions reveal Britain's ambitions to "return to the Indo-Pacific".

In February, the House of Commons of the British Parliament passed a non-legally binding motion on what is known as "Uk-Taiwan Relations and Cooperation". The motion suggests that the UK should strengthen economic and trade relations with Taiwan, deepen security cooperation and support taiwan's greater "international recognition". At the end of March, the Institute for International Strategic Studies, a British think tank, published a research report entitled "Cross-Strait Stability and European Security", proposing that "how Europe should assist Taiwan in resisting China's aggression is a subject that has yet to be pondered and practiced." At the end of April, when U.S. Secretary of State Blinken had just begun to "help Taiwan resist mainland aggression," British Foreign Secretary Traus declared in London that NATO should become "a global NATO" and deal with so-called "threats" around the world, such as "protecting Taiwan from Chinese mainland."

On May 1, the Financial Times also revealed that Campbell, the White House Coordinator for Indo-Pacific Affairs, and Rosenberg, senior director of China affairs at the National Security Council, met with British representatives in March on how Britain could do more "diplomatic" work with Taiwan, how to strengthen its deterrent ability in Asia, and even what role Britain would play if the United States eventually went to war with the mainland for Taiwan. The Financial Times also quoted senior Taiwanese officials as saying that Taiwan noted that the United States was trying to involve more allies in the "Taiwan Plan" and that "they have been working with Japan, Australia, and now trying to cooperate with the United Kingdom."

In response to the Frequent Encouragement of the United States to intervene in the Taiwan Strait by Japan, Britain, and Australia, Zhang Wensheng, vice president of the Institute of Taiwan Studies of Xiamen University, said in an interview with the Global Times reporter on the 8th that this shows that the United States is very worried about China's development and rise, and it is necessary to take some measures to curb China's development. Zhang Wensheng said: The United States is vainly trying to internationalize the Taiwan issue, obstructing the process of China's reunification, and also causing us to have more variables and obstacles on the road to reunification. Therefore, for us, we must make stronger preparations, and we must have both peaceful means and non-peaceful preparations on the Taiwan issue, "to solve the Taiwan issue in a way that we have determined, to curb foreign interference, so we must also strengthen our own military strength."

Taiwan's "retired ambassador" Xu Miansheng wrote that US President Joe Biden invited ASEAN leaders to hold a special summit on March 28 to encourage these countries to participate in the US "Indo-Pacific strategy" to counter the mainland. But the united states have been forced to postpone the summit indefinitely because several ASEAN members have said they cannot participate. In contrast, the foreign ministers of Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines and Myanmar have visited the mainland. This underscores the serious challenges facing the United States' intention to establish an "anti-China initiative" in the Indo-Pacific region. The article said that India is not very enthusiastic about the US "Indo-Pacific strategy", and ASEAN countries are unwilling to participate, which has caused a breakthrough in the US "Indo-Pacific strategy".