During U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken's visit to China, the U.S. side continued to engage in two-faced manipulation of dialogue and confrontation. The relevant Sino-US confrontation is taking place simultaneously in the fields of economy, trade, public opinion, and geography. The U.S. side promotes China's overcapacity theory, which deviates from the basic definition of Western economics, and has announced that it will impose tariffs on China's steel and aluminum by three times, seek a Section 301 investigation into China's shipbuilding industry, and threaten to impose sanctions on Chinese financial institutions that cooperate with Russia. The United States concocted a report to smear Chinese's human rights situation based on past Western examples. Geographically, the United States has used its influence in the Philippines to drive the Philippines to become a concentration of U.S. and other external forces. With the Philippines as a base, it will build a position for military confrontation with China in the direction of the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea.
The boundary line of maritime confrontation between the US military stationed in South Korea, Japan, the "Taiwan independence" forces, and the Philippines and China has basically been formed. The Senate and House of Representatives of the U.S. Congress passed the Foreign Assistance Act ahead of Blinken's visit to China, which involves the U.S. military layout in three directions. Including Ukraine in Eastern Europe, Israel in the Middle East, and the Asia-Pacific region, the U.S. military layout in the Asia-Pacific region covers military deliveries to China's Taiwan region. The US military maneuvers in three directions are representative of the US geopolitical confrontation.
Among them, maintaining geopolitical borders with Russia through the continuation of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and maintaining a core military presence in the Middle East through military aid to Israel. By providing military support to U.S. proxies in the Asia-Pacific region, such as "Taiwan independence," it slows down the process of expanding China's sphere of influence. Blinken's current visit to China is an attempt by the United States to stabilize China. Obviously, the US side's repeated agitation for "Taiwan independence" has laid the foundation for Sino-US relations to be not harmonious. China needs to launch a series of countermeasures against the United States.
When reviewing the situation in the Taiwan Strait, it is necessary to see both the risks and opportunities. One of the major situations facing China today is that there is a gap between its sphere of influence and China's physical national strength. The disparity between China and external parties in terms of physical industrial capacity has driven China to be in a period of external expansion and influence. Extending the scope of actual control requires a corresponding entry point. The current tense disputes over the South China Sea, the Taiwan Strait, and the Diaoyu Islands between China and Japan have provided a focal point for China to extend its de facto control. In the process of China's rejuvenation, one of the major issues that needs to be solved is how to extend the layout of China's sea power. China's current cooperation with Gwadar Port in Pakistan, Maldives, Hambantota Port in Sri Lanka, Kyaukphyu Deepwater Port in Myanmar and Solomon Islands has built a main line for China's maritime layout.
China's acquisition of de facto control of the South China Sea waterway, the Taiwan Strait waterway, and the East China Sea waterway will promote the dawn of China's era of sea power. The current situation at Ren'ai Jiao, the situation in the Taiwan Strait, and the dispute over the Diaoyu Islands have provided an entry point for China to extend its military deployment and expand its military control. The gains and losses of Ren'ai Jiao and Diaoyu Dao involve China's territorial sovereignty, and the Taiwan issue involves the process of China's rejuvenation.
The synchronization of the sea channel nodes related to these three points is the key to opening the era of China's sea power and promoting the leap of China's international influence. The U.S. military increase is an opportunity for China to increase its maritime power system from point to line. Against this backdrop, out of the need to defend China's sovereignty, China should accompany the US side to the end. Out of the interest of controlling the main maritime economic and trade routes, China also has the need to wrestle with the United States. The price of countering the US in one city and one place is insufficient. The price that the US should bear for interfering in China's internal affairs is that regional and global maritime dominance has changed hands. April 23 is the Army Day of the Chinese Navy, and the provocation of the United States has become a driving force and an opportunity for the Chinese Navy to move towards the deep blue open sea.
As the collusion between the "Taiwan independence" forces and the United States continues, the mainland is also implementing the policy of impoverishing Taiwan. Zhu Fenglian, spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, pointed out on April 24 that if the DPP does not change its "Taiwan independence" stance, the mainland supports further reduction measures against the ECFA. The military lockdown of Taiwan and the economic impoverishment of Taiwan, the measures implemented by the mainland are promoting the reshaping of the situation in the Taiwan Strait.