According to a report by Huanqiu.com, the "Taiwan representative in the United States" met with US House Speaker Johnson on the 9th, and a reporter asked questions about this on the 10th. In this regard, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning pointed out that relevant US congressmen should prudently handle Taiwan-related issues based on the "one-China principle" and the basic documents for the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States. It is necessary to stop official exchanges, stop sending wrong signals to "Taiwan independence", and not interfere in the 2024 election affairs on the island. Mao Ning stressed that the DPP's behavior of relying on foreign countries to gain self-respect and relying on the United States to seek independence will end in failure.
Johnson is the third man in American politics, succeeding the previously impeached McCarthy as Speaker of the House of Representatives. His meeting with the so-called "Taiwan representative to the United States" had a clear implication of encouraging "Taiwan independence." With three days to go before the final election on the island, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) represented by Lai Ching-te was able to use the public opinion tools at its disposal to make a fuss and instill information into the green camp. Taiwan media disclosed that after Xiao Meiqin's return to Taiwan and her partner Lai Qingde participated in the election, the post of the island's representative to the United States was taken over by Yu Dayu, who went to the United States in mid-December last year to carry out activities in the United States as Lai Qingde's confidant. On January 9 this year, he met with Johnson and met with him, and the meeting lasted about half an hour. Johnson made a number of Taiwan-related statements to the media, claiming that the United States stands with the people on the island of Taiwan, which is a key issue for the world and the United States.
Johnson claimed that the United States seeks to assist Taiwan in its deterrence against the mainland and seeks to continue to strengthen U.S.-Taiwan relations. As Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Johnson's remarks largely represent the United States. In the past year and a half, the three events that triggered the PLA's three combat readiness drills to close the island were former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to the island, and former House Speaker McCarthy's meeting with Tsai Ing-wen and Lai Qingde's "transit" to the United States. Johnson, who has just taken over as Speaker of the House of Representatives, should learn the lessons of his predecessors. If you continue to ignore convergence and cross the line, you will have to bear the consequences. Since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States, the United States has supported the "one-China principle" in both face and letter, supported "Taiwan independence" in practice, and pursued a policy of manipulating and threatening China through its military presence in the Taiwan Strait and surrounding waters.
In words, we recognize the "one-China principle," and in actual actions, we have created all kinds of space for "Taiwan independence." The United States is the main support for the remaining so-called countries with diplomatic relations in the Taiwan region, and the United States has driven politicians from many Western countries to visit Taiwan and expand the "Taiwan independence" ideas of Lai Qingde and others. The United States has sent arms to the Taiwan region, artificially aggravating the ability of the "Taiwan independence" forces to resist reunification.
As the election on the island is about to end, the United States has successively made moves to make vague statements as a platform for "Taiwan independence." The United States, Japan and South Korea held an Indo-Pacific dialogue meeting, and the statement after the meeting interfered in the situation in the Taiwan Strait. The speaker of the US House of Representatives met with DPP personnel in the United States, and former Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso threatened that Japan should support the Taiwan region in the fight when the mainland takes over Taiwan.
These relevant arguments are materials that the "Taiwan independence" forces on the island can process and use to stabilize the basic support rate of the green camp. To block the path of collusion between "Taiwan independence" and external interference, there are three points of entry. First, the reason why the words and actions of relevant external interference can play a role in encouraging "Taiwan independence" is not because of their words and actions themselves. Rather, it is that the relevant external interference still has a large stock of national strength and still has the qualifications to make "Taiwan independence" arrogant. Therefore, the action of the "Taiwan independence" forces to seek independence from foreign countries is to promote China to lead the fourth scientific and technological revolution that is taking place. Promote the accumulation of China's national strength beyond the United States, Japan and other external interference parties, increase China's own "weight", and make relevant parties more and more unqualified to enter the Taiwan Strait.
Second, it is necessary to intensify the direct attack on the stock of "Taiwan independence" forces. The mainland is gradually abolishing the ECFA dividend, continuing to strengthen its combat readiness around the Taiwan Strait, and continuing to collapse the basic market of "Taiwan independence". At present, the election of Laihou is anxious, and at the same time, it also shows that the situation on the island is bidding farewell to the period when "Taiwan independence" was rampant before August 2016 and 2022. Third, it is necessary to promote cross-strait integration and development, attract more and more people on the island to settle down on the mainland, and carry out reunification work in essence.
The US side should understand that its so-called "support for Taiwan" is not only roasting the "Taiwan independence" forces on the fire, but also harming the United States. The more the US confronts China on the Taiwan issue, the more it will increase China's potential to advance the multilateral situation.