Source: World Wide Web
It's Abbott again.
The US "Defense News" reported on the 30th that former Australian Prime Minister Abbott made a big fuss on the 29th, declaring that Chinese mainland will soon "invade" Taiwan, and Western countries should formulate economic and military countermeasures. This is not the first time he has made a noise on the Taiwan Strait issue, and on October 8 he gave a speech on his visit to Taiwan attacking and smearing China's domestic and foreign policies, which was described by the spokesman of our embassy in Australia as an "ugly and crazy performance."
Defense News said abbott at the event that "I think we need to be prepared to think about the unthinkable" and that "it is very likely that at some point in time, perhaps soon, Chinese mainland will increase the stakes, either to blockade the 'rebel provinces' or to let the Taiwanese know... They will need some sort of reconciliation with Beijing, perhaps even a full-scale invasion," while he declared that Chinese mainland "military harassment" of Taiwan would become "more intense." Earlier, during his visit to Taiwan, he frantically incited the DPP authorities to "prepare for battle."
Screenshot of the U.S. Defense News report
In response to Abbott's frequent manipulation of the Taiwan issue and the creation of incidents, the Chinese Foreign Ministry has responded at a previous regular press conference that this kind of remarks that incite confrontation out of one's own political self-interest, clamor for the "China threat theory," grossly interfere in China's internal affairs, and wantonly slander and smear China are very immoral, extremely irresponsible, and doomed to be unpopular.
In addition, Abbott is also willing to act as a "pawn" of the United States, playing up a provocative regional threat. Defense News reported that he asked Australia to take in one or more of the upcoming decommissioned Los Angeles-class or British Trafalgar-class submarines as soon as possible, "we need better, bigger, faster, larger submarines, not 20 years from now, but now," Abbott claimed. ”
Chen Hong, director of the Australian Research Center of East China Normal University, previously said in an interview with the Global Times that Abbott's remarks represented some anti-China forces in the United States and the West, and they were eager to play the "Taiwan card" and incite the emotions of cross-strait confrontation. Chen Hong said that the last thing the anti-China forces in Australia want is for Sino-US relations to ease, and they will do everything they can to play up conflicts and instigate US-China confrontation. Abbott is becoming a tool in the hands of "Taiwan independence" elements, which is very ridiculous and sad. No matter how many provocative speeches such as Abbott make, it is impossible for anti-China elements like Abbott to help Taiwan "break its international isolation" or to do anything to help "Taiwan independence" elements.