During Russian President Putin's visit to China, China and Russia issued a 10,000-character joint statement, which included a detailed statement on the Taiwan issue, and the joint statement made some changes in its expression on the Taiwan issue; it is not difficult to see through reading these changes that Chinese mainland is targeting those stubborn "Taiwan independence" elements.
After reading this statement, the 27 countries of the European Union immediately expressed their stance on the Taiwan issue in a categorical manner, saying that they would resolutely not have any intersection with Taiwan other than economic and cultural exchanges!
Different from the clear-cut attitude of Europe, after the joint statement issued by China and Russia, the United States even began to hype up the Taiwan issue more intensively, and there were even US congressmen who tried to overturn the most basic one-China principle recognized by the United States!
Why did the Sino-Russian Joint Statement change its wording on Taiwan? Why did Europe take the lead in taking a stand? What problems does the attitude of the United States reflect?
Why did Europe express its support in the first place?
In fact, in the Sino-Russian joint statement, only a small part of the content of the statement on the Taiwan issue has been changed, and in the Russian side's statement on the Taiwan issue, it has emphasized that Taiwan is an inalienable part of the People's Republic of China, and not just replaced by China, that is, it emphasizes that Taiwan's sovereignty belongs to the mainland!
The reason for such a change is that some "Taiwan independence" elements in Taiwan will be subordinate to an inseparable part of China, and this expression plays with words!
Although the Kuomintang acknowledges the "consensus of '92," they will also have their own careful thinking about the one-China principle; when dealing with the one-China principle, the Kuomintang forcibly added a so-called "one China, each with its own interpretation" to play words with the mainland, in an attempt to replace the mainland People's Republic of China with the so-called "Republic of China" in order to deny the mainland's sovereign jurisdiction over Taiwan!
The DPP, on the other hand, has gone even further, and even Lai Qingde is unwilling to admit the basic "one-China principle," and it is no wonder that the PLA's methods in the Taiwan Strait have gradually become tougher!
In addition, in the statement issued by Russia, Russia made it clear that it will resolutely support China's measures to safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity and achieve national reunification. Russia's attitude is very clear, it will resolutely stand with China on the Taiwan issue, and even if China launches a war of armed reunification in order to recover Taiwan, Russia will still be China's supporter!
Obviously, Europe and the United States and other countries that are paying close attention to Putin's visit to China have also learned all the contents of this statement in detail, and the content of the Taiwan issue, Europe immediately understood the core of the problem after seeing the changes!
Later, the EU foreign minister expressed his very resolute stance in an interview with reporters, not only firmly supporting the one-China principle expressed by China and Russia, but also saying that there are only economic and cultural exchanges between Europe and Taiwan, and there will be absolutely no political or even military involvement, which is equivalent to directly stating to China that Europe will not interfere in the Taiwan issue!
However, in the face of the issue of Taiwan by the Chinese People's Liberation Army, the EU foreign minister expressed his opposition to resolving the Taiwan issue by military means. In fact, we can see from the statements of these 27 European countries that Europe does not want to stand on the opposite side of China on the Taiwan issue, but if China wants to use force to solve the Taiwan issue, Europe will not support it!
It is not difficult to see from this attitude expressed by Europe that the Western world, with the exception of the United States, will basically not raise objections to offend China when faced with the Taiwan issue.
However, in the face of China's use of force against Taiwan, they will still stand up against it at the instigation of the United States, but once a conflict breaks out in the Taiwan Strait, it is basically impossible for the United States to get Europe to support them as it did in the past, and to use force to intervene in a war in the Taiwan Strait!
What does the attitude of the United States reflect?
With the inauguration ceremony of Lai Qingde coming to 520, American politicians have also frequently made nonsense on Taiwan-related issues recently, trying to build momentum for Lai Qingde to come to power!
A US politician said at a meeting of US think tanks that UN Resolution 2758 does not endorse the one-China principle! The politician also slandered us, claiming that Chinese mainland was intent on "isolating Taiwan."
In an interview with reporters, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken also made a lot of inappropriate remarks on the Taiwan issue, and even claimed that the United States encouraged the WHO to invite Taiwan to join, which is obviously a serious violation of the "one-China principle"!
It is obvious that it is not unpurposeful for US politicians to engage in such intensive hype on the Taiwan issue during this special period, and there must be the support and encouragement of the US Government behind this!
The United States has always claimed that it will abide by the one-China principle, but it has kept making a fuss about the Taiwan issue, and the United States wants to make Taiwan a key point for the United States to contain China, so that once there is a problem in Sino-US relations, Taiwan will become the capital of the United States to blackmail China!
Of course, it is precisely because of this that the United States will not really support Taiwan's "independence," because once the mainland's bottom line is touched, a conflict in the Taiwan Strait will inevitably break out, and then the direction of the Taiwan issue will no longer be the final say of the United States!
But now the United States has obviously lost control of the situation in Taiwan, especially after the European Union stood up for China's statement on the Taiwan issue for the first time, the United States understands that in the Sino-US game with Taiwan as the core, Europe withdrew ahead of schedule and chose not to help each other!
However, the United States wants to rely on its allies in the Asia-Pacific region to win a decisive victory with China, and it is obvious that even the United States does not have much confidence, so when the situation is ebbating and growing, the initiative on the Taiwan issue seems to be back in the hands of the mainland!