Editorial: China has ample capacity to deal with the US side's "last madness"

Source: Global Times

Two China-related messages from the United States on Thursday have attracted attention. One is that Trump signed his first executive order since the US election, prohibiting Americans from investing in or buying shares in what Washington calls China's "military-related enterprises"; second, Pompeo said in an interview that "Taiwan has not been part of China" and declared that it has been a bipartisan consensus in the United States since the Reagan administration.

There was serious controversy surrounding the outcome of the vote after the U.S. election, but Biden and the Democrats clearly had the upper hand in the developments, and the above two things suggest that the Trump administration will have a wave of "final madness" on China.

It needs to be seen that the suppression of China is still the direction of the performance that the defeated ruling team can show that it has been very strong until the last moment, and it is also a "political legacy" that they want to create and set up a monument for themselves. It is not difficult to imagine that the latest executive order will discourage U.S. investors from holding shares in Chinese companies through capital markets and investing directly in Chinese companies, and even if the executive order is not adopted after the Trump administration, it will also make U.S. investors feel more risky.

On the Taiwan issue, Pompeo said something that had never been said by a senior US official in the past, and this statement once again refreshed people's expectations of how far the United States would go in undermining stability in the Taiwan Strait. The Central Plains is one of the cornerstones of Sino-US relations, and although the US side has attached their interpretation of "one China," the People's Republic of China is the sole legitimate government of China, and the two sides of the strait belong to the same China, which is clearly written in the Sino-US common document. "Taiwan has never been part of China," is a statement from the U.S. secretary of state that was unthinkable in the past.

If nothing else, the Trump administration has run out of time, and they have to set up obstacles and "make rules" for the next Democratic administration in advance, and now is the time for them to break the jar and break it. It is not surprising what kind of extreme words they said about China during this period, and what extreme anti-China measures they announced that they would rely on the next government to implement.

The first thing China should guard against is the Trump administration's substantive risk-taking actions in the final period, especially military provocations and "diplomatic" actions against Taiwan that we can never accept. Once the malicious provocation of the US side occurs, we must resolutely fight back.

Chinese don't want the Trump administration to cause trouble in the time after the election, we must also warn them that at the peak of their administration, we did not hesitate to fight back against their provocations, and now we will not hesitate to fight back against the necessary shots. Although this may be their craziest time, we know very well that this is also the time when they are most vulnerable, when they lack the most real appeal to push for extreme confrontation with China.

We would also like to warn the Taiwan authorities here that during the transition period of the US regime, we should not cooperate with Washington in engaging in dangerous moves, that the mainland side has made all kinds of preparations, including the imposition of stronger military pressure and punishment, and that any escalation of Taiwan-US collusion will be severely punished by the mainland side. It can be said that some time ago, one of the intentions of the PLA's intensive military exercises in the Taiwan Strait was to cope with the challenges of the US regime transition period. Once Taiwan and the United States touch the bottom line, the mainland will fight a battle that is fully prepared.

The current US administration has greatly damaged Sino-US relations and created a countercurrent of hostility with China led by the US government. This is certainly contrary to the spirit of the times and seriously contradicts the huge real interest chassis of Sino-US relations. There are many negative assets in the legacy of the current administration's China policy, and the anxiety about the extent to which they can be inherited by the new administration is believed to be far higher than the anxiety of Chinese. Because in their calculations, there are too many private and personal ambitions of political parties in addition to the national interests of the United States, and China's countermeasures are based on the frankness of safeguarding the core interests of the country and finding the common interests of China and the United States. That's why we have the capital to adapt to the challenges.