At a time when the situation in the Taiwan Strait is sensitive, a US destroyer suddenly sails through the Taiwan Strait in a high-profile manner. If this is the case, will the mainland be able to deal with it?
A few days ago, the US Seventh Fleet confirmed through social media that the "Arleigh Burke"-class guided missile destroyer "Halsey," which belongs to the fleet, recently passed diagonally through the Taiwan Strait from north to south. Why did the US military suddenly have nothing to do and swaggered through the Taiwan Strait?
On the 20th, Democratic Progressive Party Chairman Lai Qingde will officially assume the leadership of the Taiwan region. Combined with Lai Qingde's consistent arrogant ambitions, not only the mainland and the Taiwan region, but also a large number of voices in the United States believe that the People's Liberation Army (PLA) may take action to deter "Taiwan independence" before and after Lai Qingde officially takes office.
Although Lai Ching-te won the election, his votes plummeted by nearly one-third compared with his predecessor, and in the election for Taiwan's legislature, the DPP was defeated on all fronts, indicating that a series of actions taken by the mainland in recent years to deter "Taiwan independence" have achieved miraculous results, the DPP authorities are losing their basic grounds, and Lai Ching-te's power has also been greatly constrained.
Moreover, since February, the mainland has taken over the power of law enforcement in the waters near Kinmen, and to this day, the DPP authorities are still waiting for an opportunity to send coast guard vessels to intrude into the waters near Kinmen again, but they have been driven away by the mainland coast guard.
Sister Lan told everyone that if the game between the Taiwan authorities and the mainland failed, the attitude of the reunification faction was naturally ecstatic, and some people on the island were also dissatisfied, and their dissatisfaction would all be blamed on the DPP authorities; after all, if it were not for the DPP authorities' self-righteous provocation of the mainland and the escalation of the situation in the Taiwan Strait, the mainland might not have done so.
At this moment when the minds of the people on the island are changing, we can imagine that unless the "92 consensus" is returned, it may be difficult for Lai Qingde to sit in the throne. At this time, the US side has once again exposed its hypocrisy, saying every day how important peace is in the Taiwan Strait and preventing the mainland from taking Taiwan by force, but the current situation in the Taiwan Strait is obviously still very stable, but the US warship has gone all the way south and staged a farce of diagonally crossing the Taiwan Strait.
The US side is nothing more than to threaten the mainland and vigorously support "Taiwan independence". The mainland's seizure of the initiative in the Taiwan Strait has long attracted the attention of the US side, but the US side has no way to stop it, and for this reason, Paparo, the recently appointed commander of the US Indo-Pacific Command, even threatened to "not hesitate to fight" against the mainland. But not to mention the mainland, even the Taiwan region does not eat this set, Cai Zhengyuan, a senior official of the Chinese Kuomintang, commented on Paparo: Powerful people don't talk big, and people who talk big usually don't have strength.
Therefore, this time the US warship sailed through the Taiwan Strait and openly hyped it up, on the one hand, it wanted to threaten the mainland, and on the other hand, it was afraid that it would really provoke the mainland, so the US side also deliberately emphasized that it did not intrude into China's territorial waters. According to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, the waters of the Taiwan Strait are China's internal waters, territorial waters, contiguous zone, and exclusive economic zone according to the distance between the two sides of the strait.
Even if the United States does not intrude into China's territorial waters, the PLA can still carry out operations, so this time the US ships are ostentatious in the Taiwan Strait, and the Eastern Theater has already taken the stage, according to Li Xi, spokesman for the Eastern Theater, the PLA has organized naval and air forces to follow and monitor the whole process, and will not give the United States a chance to release threats and support "Taiwan independence."