In the four years of Trump's administration, the United States has introduced a number of Taiwan-related bills to support Taiwan, advocating the exchange of visits between US and Taiwan warships to invite Taiwan military exercises, strengthening arms sales to Taiwan, and mutual visits by senior generals. At the same time, the United States has also adopted the so-called "Taiwan Exchange Act," the "Taipei Act," and the "Taiwan Guarantee Act" to include Taiwan in the scope of the "Indo-Pacific Strategy," assist Taiwan in expanding its "international space," and support Taiwan's participation in "international organizations." The biden administration's recent remarks have also shown that in the future, the United States will continue the hard-line policy toward China during the Trump era.
U.S. Secretary of State Blinken said That China poses the greatest challenge to the United States among all countries, and Trump is right to be tough on China. U.S. Defense Secretary Austin said that "China is a rising threat to the United States" and supported Taiwan's self-defense capability to "resist aggression." Charles Richard, commander of the US Strategic Command, openly shouted that the US military should "re-imagine ways to prevent Chinese and Russian competitors from taking aggressive actions" and that "nuclear war is indeed possible." Bo Ming, a former US deputy national security adviser, said: "If the mainland uses force against Taiwan, the United States should provide substantive assistance to Taiwan, but the people of Taiwan should be prepared for sacrifice before they can stop the war with war."
It can be expected that in the future big chess game of the Sino-US game, the Biden administration will focus on the implementation of the "Indo-Pacific strategy" on Taiwan-related issues and use "Taiwan cards" such as "arms sales, military exercises, and mutual visits" to delay the process of rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Because the United States does not want China to complete reunification in its bones, maintaining a situation of "no reunification and no independence" between the two sides of the strait is the best choice for the UNITED strategy of "using Taiwan to control China." The spokesman of the US National Security Council also publicly declared that the US commitment to Taiwan is "as solid as a rock," which undoubtedly sends a wrong political signal to the Taiwan authorities.
In order to effectively deter the "Taiwan independence" forces on the island and improve its military intervention capability in dealing with external forces, the PLA has stepped up combat readiness patrols in Taiwan's airspace, and Taiwan military fighters have frequently taken off to deal with it. Earlier, the Taiwan military also revised the rules of engagement, the most important of which was that "the Taiwan military does not provoke, does not take the initiative to attack, and is ready to withstand the first blow." Taiwan's defense department also divides the PLA's actions into three types: gray area behavior; bottom-line pressure test; paramilitary operations, and only after determining the intentions of the other side can the Taiwan military exercise the right to counterattack and self-defense.
The Taiwan media interpreted this as saying that the Taiwan military revised the rules of engagement, and only if the PLA preemptively attacked its opponent could it fire on the continental aircraft. Some people hold that the Taiwan military's revision of the rules of engagement is ostensibly to avoid cross-strait gunfire, but in fact it is to show its determination to "resist reunification by force" and to obtain the assistance of the US side by hyping up sorrow. It should be known that Taiwan is China's Taiwan, and when and in what way the mainland realizes the reunification of the country is a matter Chinese its own affairs, and no third-party force has the right to intervene.
During the Trump period, relying on the support of the US government, the Taiwan authorities always refused to recognize the "1992 Consensus," which embodied the one-China principle, and constantly provoked the mainland. After Biden takes office, although the United States will not abandon the strategy of "using Taiwan to control China", it may not be as crazy as Trump. In this regard, the Biden administration will still maintain the relative stability of the "one-China" policy, not to tear its face with the Chinese mainland because of the Taiwan issue, so as to avoid stimulating the mainland to be forced to completely resolve the Taiwan issue in advance. However, the Taiwan authorities have always fantasized about "resisting reunification by force," "uniting with the United States to resist the mainland," and continuing to push forward the process of "Taiwan independence."
In the face of the DPP authorities' act of "seeking independence," PLA warships and aircraft have intensively conducted large-scale actual combat exercises, and the call for civilian armed reunification has also risen higher and higher. At the same time, the mainland also plans to introduce the National Unification Law at an appropriate time, which, once implemented, may set a timetable for the liberation of Taiwan. You must know that each generation has the responsibility of each generation, and since reunification has been put on the agenda, we will never leave it to the next generation on the issue of promoting national reunification.
Facts have shown that the DPP authorities will not take the initiative to abandon the "Taiwan independence" stand, and external forces will not easily lay down the butcher knife for armed intervention. Therefore, we must abandon all illusions and make all preparations for the military struggle against Taiwan that "it is better to fight late than early," so as to accomplish the reunification of the motherland and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation at an early date!