On 25 January, Senior Colonel Wu Qian, spokesman for the Ministry of National Defense, confirmed at a regular news conference that the Eastern Theater of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) had organized naval and air forces to conduct joint combat readiness patrols around the Taiwan Strait.
Wu Qian also stressed that China's sovereignty and territory have never been divided, the election in the Taiwan region is a local affair of China, and the legal status and fact that Taiwan is a part of China have never changed. Taiwan was not a country in the past and will not be a country in the future, and the conspiracy of external forces to split China will never succeed.
The reunification of the motherland, Taiwan angelica. The Chinese People's Liberation Army will speak with action and always be a great wall of steel to defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity. Wu Qian also said that if the "Taiwan independence" separatist forces continue to provoke or even break the red line, the mainland will have no choice but to take resolute measures.
Senior Colonel Wu Qian
In addition, Wu Qian emphasized two points, one is to strengthen the PLA's ability to defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity, and the other is to emphasize that the PLA's relevant military operations will be normalized. These two points are the core messages, and both are closely related to "unity".
As everyone knows, since the meeting between the heads of state of China and the United States in San Francisco in November last year, the situation in the Taiwan Strait has cooled down, the frequency and frequency of the mainland's circumnavigation of the island have decreased, and the United States has not taken major provocative moves on the Taiwan issue during this period.
Even before and after the elections in the Taiwan region, high-level contacts between the Chinese and US governments were held, such as working meetings, consultation meetings, and teleconferences. Before and after the election in the Taiwan region, the Biden administration has made three consecutive remarks that it does not support "Taiwan independence", first saying that if the two sides of the strait use dialogue and negotiation to resolve the issue of Taiwan's ownership, the US government will not take a position on this matter.
U.S. President Joe Biden
After the election on the island, Biden said for the first time that the United States does not support Taiwan's "independence" and that the one-China policy of the United States has not changed. Later, a delegation composed of former high-ranking government officials was dispatched to "visit Taiwan" to attack Lai Ching-te and the DPP's "Taiwan independence" tendencies. That is, in the past two months or so, the US Government's attitude toward the Taiwan issue has become colder, but the cooling down of the situation in the Taiwan Strait is based on the warming of Sino-US relations.
By 25 January, the US destroyer USS Finn had passed through the Taiwan Strait, and at the same time, the US House of Representatives delegation had "fled" to Taiwan, which meant that the United States would not give up the "Taiwan card," and the situation in the Taiwan Strait might usher in a round of heating up in the future.
The fact that the People's Liberation Army (PLA) has normalized military training around the island, trained troops around Taiwan to prepare for war, and strengthened its ability to defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity already shows that we are prepared for the worst on the Taiwan issue.
It is also true that the Taiwan issue is slipping in a bad direction, and the landmark event is that the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won the Taiwan regional election. And the leader-designate Lai Qingde is a "troublemaker" certified by China and the United States. During the election campaign on the island, Lai Qingde kept releasing "Taiwan independence remarks," saying that he would inherit Tsai Ing-wen's policy of "the two sides of the strait are not subordinate to each other." In addition, in Lai Qingde's cross-strait policy, the ambition of "seeking independence by force" and "relying on the United States to seek independence" is even more obvious.
In order to realize its so-called Indo-Pacific strategy, the United States has encircled and blocked China's development, fanning the flames around China, trying to contain China's economic development and continuous expansion of influence.
For example, we have continued to exert efforts on the Korean Peninsula issue, stirring up tensions on the Korean Peninsula, instigating the Philippines on the South China Sea issue, and attacking China on the islands and reefs in the South China Sea. However, none of these problems can fundamentally affect China, the situation in Northeast Asia is contained by North Korea and Russia, and the Philippines in the South China Sea is too small to compete with China in terms of military force or maritime law enforcement force, and the impact is also controllable.
U.S.-China relations
Among the series of geopolitical tools in the hands of the United States, the only one that has been effective for China for a long time is the Taiwan issue. In the face of the gradual ineffectiveness of the United States' various tools against China, if the United States wants to achieve its strategic goals, it will only continue to play the "Taiwan card", and even detonate the Taiwan issue and turn Taiwan into the next "Ukraine" before a full-scale showdown.
Since the Biden administration took office, the United States has promoted at least 12 rounds of arms sales to Taiwan, continuously strengthened the military strength on the island, and turned Taiwan into a "porcupine", so as to contain China's development to the greatest extent and achieve the goal of containing and suppressing China in disguise.
Under such circumstances, the United States will certainly continue to play the "Taiwan card" for a long time to come, and this will certainly lead to the escalation of the situation in the Taiwan Strait. Therefore, Senior Colonel Wu Qian made this series of statements at the regular news conference to warn the United States and the "Taiwan independence" forces on the island.