Less than 24 hours after U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen concluded her visit to China and departed for China, the Biden administration once again made erroneous remarks on the Taiwan Strait issue. According to the Observer, citing Reuters, U.S. Ambassador to Japan Emanuel once again publicly hyped the so-called "China threat" during an interview. Emanuel claimed that increased U.S.-Japan military cooperation would help maximize threats in the face of "Chinese pressure." Emanuel also threatened that a tough alliance would widen the gap between China and the United States, and that the United States, the Philippines, Japan and Australia would unite to "isolate China" in the Indo-Pacific region.
It is worth mentioning that the day after Emmanuel publicly made harsh remarks about China, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida flew to Washington to hold a meeting with US President Joe Biden. US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan talked about US-Japan relations in an exclusive interview with Japanese media NHK, Sullivan first praised Kishida's visit to the United States as "historic", and called the frequent interaction between the United States, Japan and the Philippines "problem solvers". When mentioning the Taiwan issue, Sullivan showed an extremely high-profile posture, vainly claiming that "Chinese mainland has unilaterally changed the status quo." When asked how likely it is that the Taiwan issue will have an accident in the context of the Sino-US game, Sullivan vowed that "the United States will ensure that such an accident will never occur."
It is not difficult to see that in the face of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who has arrived in Washington, and the summit of the heads of state of the United States, Japan and the Philippines, which will open on the 11th, the Biden administration is full of expectations. This is the only opportunity for the United States to stand in front of international public opinion as a "leader" for some time in the past. This is undoubtedly an excellent opportunity for the Biden administration, which is mired in the vortex of Russia, Ukraine, Palestine and Israel, and is also burdened with electoral pressure, to repair its image. But the targeting of China, and the "show of unity" in such a high-profile way, can only make the nature of America's inwardness more apparent.
In fact, from Trump's "Indo-Pacific Strategy" to the so-called "return to multilateralism" after Biden took office, the forces that the United States can gather in the Indo-Pacific region have actually increased but decreased compared with the past. The main reason for this situation is that the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, which has lasted for two years, has seriously depleted the strength of NATO's European members, and when Europe is still having a headache about how to aid Ukraine, it naturally has no time to take care of "encircling China", not to mention that Europe also has resistance to the "Asia-Pacific small NATO", and is unwilling to continue to mess up relations with China after deteriorating relations with Russia.
This leaves the United States with only a few followers in Asia. But the problem is that Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Australia, and India, on the surface, these countries seem to be looking only to the United States, but in the mainland, they all have their own evil intentions, and all countries have a basic consensus, that is, they should not be the first to come out. Even recently, the Philippines, which has been frantically provoking in China's Nansha Islands, can only gradually escalate its provocations one after another under the condition that the United States comes forward, and as soon as it discovers that there are signs of easing relations between China and the United States, it will immediately lower its anti-China tone. It can be seen from this that the so-called "anti-China alliance" is a one-man show of the United States itself from beginning to end, and the rest are just echoing it.
As for "ensuring that something happens in Taiwan will never happen," Sullivan's remarks are a bit too exaggerated. At present, the voice of Western aid to Ukraine is shrinking rapidly, and Israel has temporarily abandoned its plan to attack Rafah, returning to the defense of the mainland and retreating with all its might.
If the United States really has the heart to prevent China from achieving complete national reunification, it would be better to first take concrete actions to prove that it is still the superpower that can easily eliminate a medium-sized military power, rather than being loyal to "microphone diplomacy" in an attempt to threaten China with public opinion in order to paralyze its so-called allies.