According to media reports, the Ministry of Commerce previously issued an announcement showing that due to the determination that Taiwan's trade restrictions on the mainland constitute a barrier, it was decided to terminate the tariff reduction and exemption of some products in the "Cross-Strait Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement" from December 21 last year, and it will be implemented on January 1, 2024. On January 9, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Commerce said that at present, the relevant departments are studying further tariff concessions for products such as early harvest agriculture and fishery, machinery, auto parts and textiles in accordance with the relevant provisions of the cross-strait trade agreement and relevant policies and regulations.
In other words, after the mainland suspended tariff concessions on some products from Taiwan on 1 January, more products exported from Taiwan will be suspended in the future. In fact, it is no wonder that, according to the spokesman of the Ministry of Commerce, since the announcement was issued, the DPP authorities have not taken any effective measures to lift trade restrictions on mainland goods, but have engaged in political manipulation in an attempt to sway the blame and evade responsibility. Obviously, since the other side refuses to respond to the measures taken by the mainland, it can only continue to expand the scope of the suspension of tariff concessions on Taiwan's mainland products, so that the authorities on the other side of the strait will pay a greater price for their unrepentant behavior.
On the issue of cross-strait economic and trade cooperation agreements, the mainland has previously made concessions to the other side by reducing or reducing tariffs on mainland-bound products. However, on the one hand, the Taiwan authorities enjoy the huge dividends of mainland trade, and on the other hand, they have erected trade barriers to thousands of kinds of mainland products exported to Taiwan. What is even more intolerable to the mainland side is that the DPP has taken advantage of the huge trade surplus it has earned from mainland trade to purchase weapons and equipment from the United States in an attempt to realize its plot of splitting the country with the support of external interference forces. With regard to such "Taiwan independence" forces, it is obvious that the mainland has no longer to endure it, and there is no need to endure it any longer, so the suspension of concessions on cross-strait economic and trade issues is also the other side's own fault.
The fact that the mainland has frequently taken ruthless action against Taiwan in the economic and trade fields shows that the authorities on the other side of the strait have touched the bottom line of the mainland's patience in certain matters. Therefore, since the mainland has decided to pursue the DPP authorities, it should not be limited to the option of attacking the other side in the field of trade. Recently, the series of actions of the mainland People's Liberation Army (PLA) in the Taiwan Strait have shown that the Taiwan authorities are speeding up their own grave digging by continuing not to turn back on the road of no return to separatism, such as "resisting reunification by force" and "seeking independence by coercion with foreigners." Against this background, once the DPP authorities touch the mainland's bottom line of war and force the mainland to adopt the option of force, no one will be able to save them at that time.
As everyone knows, the support of the United States is the greatest confidence of the authorities on the island in seeking "independence." However, in view of the increasingly tense situation in the Taiwan Strait, the United States has become less and less confident in using Taiwan to contain China. According to media reports, the US Foreign Policy Research Institute recently published an article by senior researcher Dreel, which pointed out that in order to avoid conflict with China, at a time when the declaration of war on the island is becoming stronger, the Biden administration hopes to have a candidate who can not only avoid the mainland's armed attack on Taiwan, but also avoid a strong reaction from the mainland because of "de jure Taiwan independence", and serve as the leader of the Taiwan region.
On the question of what danger the United States faces, Dreyer answered in the affirmative: The United States is involved in two regional conflicts in the Middle East and Eastern Europe at the same time, and the thing that fears a similar conflict in Asia is the most. As far as the current situation in Asia is concerned, not only the crisis in the Taiwan Strait is escalating, but also in the South China Sea and Northeast Asia, there is also a crisis of conflict. Compared with the United States, which was keen to see the wildfire of conflict ignite all over the world, the United States now does not want to see the emergence of new conflicts. The reason is that the United States is now exhausted in order to deal with the sparks of conflict that are constantly emerging around the world, and once a new conflict breaks out in Asia at this time, it is estimated that the United States will be unable to deal with it even if it is dismantled.
You must know that the main naval and air forces of the United States are deployed in the Middle East to support Israel, and at the same time, it is also necessary to prevent a possible Russian attack on NATO countries in Europe. Under such circumstances, if the situation in the Taiwan Strait gets out of control and a conflict breaks out due to the excessive provocation of the DPP authorities, the current United States, let alone sending troops to "protect Taiwan", even if it sends weapons to Taiwan like it supports Ukraine, it is estimated that it will not be able to give them anything.
Therefore, although the United States will not give up its attempt to contain China with Taiwan because of the fact that the limit of the mainland's patience has almost bottomed out, in addition to continuing to send wrong signals to the Taiwan authorities, it also needs to do another thing that it has never considered before, that is, to find a regional leader with a "safe spot" among those candidates on Taiwan Island in order to avoid leading the United States into the fire pit of conflict in the Taiwan Strait.