Preamble:
Tsai Ing-wen has asked for 3,000 officers and soldiers to be sent to Kinmen, but she has not seen tension on the island. Taiwan's stock market has not been affected, and the Americans are still speculating in stocks. The Green Camp has always given up on Kinmen and is unwilling to provide resources to Kinmen, and the people are helpless about it. The mainland maritime surveillance ships routinely enforce the law in the waters of Kinmen and Xiamen, and the Taiwan Coast Guard is reluctant to collide with the mainland law enforcement team. The 3,000 soldiers came to Kinmen just for show, with no intention of really fighting, and the residents of Kinmen did not want to fight.
1. Kinmen's freshwater resources are supplied by Xiamen, which reflects the close cooperation between the two sides of the strait and is different from political tension.
Although Kinmen is an outlying island, its freshwater resources are not self-sufficient, but rely on pipelines from Xiamen on the other side. In this way, the people and ecological environment of Kinmen can be fully protected, and it also reflects that cross-strait relations are still quite close in some areas.
This is why fishermen near Kinmen choose to run aground on the shores of the mainland, because they know quite well that as long as they are in the waters of the mainland, they can get the best protection, while the Taiwan side is unwilling to provide them with the resources they need.
2. The failure of Taiwan's soldiers to stop the mainland's maritime surveillance vessels from enforcing the law has exposed Taiwan's military weakness.
In the waters of the mainland, Taiwan's soldiers have no way to compete with the mainland's maritime surveillance ships, and this has also invisibly exposed Taiwan's military weakness. Many military experts have also seen some clues from this, believing that Taiwan is still quite weak in terms of defense.
This may also be why Tsai Ing-wen's "30-second refusal" proposed at the beginning, once a military conflict occurs, Taiwan can only "support for one minute", and then it needs to rely on the United States, which also invisibly gives the mainland a fairly clear signal, that is, Taiwan does not have any certainty of victory.
Third, the hope of the people of Kinmen to resolve the issue of friendly exchanges with Xiamen shows the real expectations and needs of the people.
From another point of view, the residents of Kinmen do not want any military conflict, but hope that the issue of friendly exchanges with Xiamen on the other side of the strait can be resolved peacefully, and that such friendly exchanges can be resolved fundamentally and that the people of Kinmen will be given full rights and interests. Compared with the various military actions mentioned above, this is the real expectation and demand of the people of Kinmen.
Fourth, Tsai Ing-wen and Guan Biling may be the only ones who want to fight, suggesting that the military decisions of the Taiwanese leadership are drifting away from public opinion.
If we think about it a little deeper, who asked to send 3,000 officers and soldiers to Kinmen? Undoubtedly, this is inseparable from Tsai Ing-wen and the Taiwan authorities, and this is nothing more than to give a signal to the outside world that Taiwan is going all out to prepare for war, but the real problem is that this kind of practice has not won the support of the people in Kinmen, who prefer to believe that this is just a "show" drama.
5. Kinmen used to have 100,000 garrisons and a large number of artillery shells, but now there are only 3,000 soldiers left, reflecting the weakening and changes in Taiwan's national defense strength.
At that time, there were 100,000 soldiers stationed on Kinmen, and these soldiers were also manipulating a large number of artillery shells to constantly threaten the mainland, but now, all this has become history, what Kinmen residents are looking forward to, Tsai Ing-wen is looking forward to, maybe it is just a phantom of the past, and now, the real national defense strength has changed beyond recognition, and behind this, it reflects Taiwan's real predicament and challenges in national defense.
Epilogue:
Through such a series of events, Kinmen has become a hot topic of the moment, allowing us to see some of the real problems. Perhaps, behind the political struggle, it is the people who should be most cared for and cared for, and the state also needs to deeply reflect on its military decision-making, and how to handle the relationship between peace and military is the most conducive to maintaining national stability and the peaceful development of cross-strait relations.