The Canadian defense minister issued a challenge to China, and after 24 hours of silence, the Ministry of Defense began to play, and the United States has retreated. What kind of "challenge letter" did the Canada defense minister give to China? After the Ministry of Defense made a statement, what kind of current situation does United States' stage fright reflect?
Recently, the Royal Canada Navy frigate "Montreal" sailed through the Taiwan Strait from north to south, and Canada has publicly hyped this action and hyped up the so-called "freedom of navigation". The Minister of Defense of Canada later reaffirmed Canada's commitment to realizing the so-called "free, open and inclusive" Indo-Pacific region.
To be clear, the USS Montreal had conducted bilateral military operations with the destroyer USS Johnson of the United States Navy in the East China Sea at the end of July, and not only that, but the warship had also conducted maritime replenishment operations in the East China Sea with the supply ship Tsukiwa of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. It can be said that this warship has a full sense of presence at China's doorstep, and the remarks of the Canada defense minister can be regarded as a "challenge letter" to China to a certain extent, which is a serious provocation to China's territorial sovereignty.
Naturally, the Chinese side could not remain indifferent to this, and after 24 hours of silence, the Ministry of Defense began to play. On August 3, Zhang Xiaogang, spokesman for the Ministry of National Defense, responded to the incident of the Canada Navy's frigate "Montreal" sailing through the Taiwan Strait and hyping it. Zhang Xiaogang made it clear that the Eastern Theater has lodged solemn representations with the Canadian side through military and diplomatic channels between the two sides.
He pointed out that the behavior of Canada's warships in the Taiwan Strait is sending a wrong signal to the "Taiwan independence" separatist forces, which has seriously endangered peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait. In addition, Zhang Xiaogang also used "nuisance and disturbance" to describe this behavior of the Canadian side. Zhang Xiaogang stressed that the Canadian side hyped up its erroneous behavior in a high-profile manner and tried to mislead public opinion by brushing up its "sense of existence", which is a mistake on top of a mistake. China has always firmly upheld national sovereignty and territorial integrity and will never tolerate any external interference in China's internal affairs.
In fact, judging from some of Canada's recent performances, in the international and regional political arena, as a sovereign country, it seems to lack independent thinking and decision-making ability, and often blindly follows the pace of United States to enhance its international status by catering to the United States strategy, but this approach not only fails to truly enhance its own strength, but will damage its own independence and autonomy. Moreover, while Canada has taken huge risks to provoke China, the United States has begun to retreat.
Since the successful "eighth joint strategic air patrol" between China and Russia at the end of last month, the strategic pressure on the United States has increased significantly, forcing it to re-examine its military and security strategies. Recently, the United States Congressional Defense Strategy Committee released an in-depth 132-page report, clearly pointing out that the US military is no longer able to deal with the "challenges" that may come from China and Russia at the same time.
The report notes that the United States is currently facing "the most serious and challenging security threat" since the end of World War II. The report also warns that the United States could soon be drawn into a war that spans multiple theaters of war against China and Russia, which are equal or even close in strength. However, with the current strength of the US military, the war is likely to end in United States defeat. In response to this critical situation, the report makes a series of recommendations.
First, the United States should formulate its future strategy from the worst-case scenario, optimize the wartime system, and improve the efficiency of decision-making and the speed of military response. Second, we need to strengthen cooperation with our allies and build a multi-level and cross-regional joint theater model to jointly respond to threats from China, Russia and other countries in East Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. In addition, the report also stressed the importance of increasing military production capacity and military funding, and recommended that the level of United States armaments be restored to the level of the Cold War era and be prepared for full-scale war.
Some analysts have pointed out that it cannot be ruled out that the US side is issuing this report in order to hype up the "China threat theory" and find an excuse for its military expansion and increase its military budget. But on the other hand, the decline of the US military has indeed appeared, which is worthy of reflection and vigilance for Canada and other United States allies.