On August 27, U.S. President Joe Biden ordered the U.S. Coast Guard gunboat USS Monroe and the U.S. Navy's USS Kidd guided-missile destroyer to cross the Taiwan Strait again. It has been learned that this is the eighth time since Biden took office that the US military has crossed the Taiwan Strait, and the wolf ambition of the United States to comprehensively contain China's development and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has no longer been concealed in any way.
As early as 2018, the Trump administration had already included "Taiwan" in the framework of the "Indo-Pacific Strategy" of the United States. The US warship crossed the Taiwan Strait this time, and the US Seventh Fleet also announced that this move was to once again show the attitude of the US team to open up the free Indo-Pacific. However, if the US Seventh Fleet wants to "enter" the Taiwan Strait, it has long been not a day or two; as early as the founding of our country, the US Seventh Fleet crossed the Taiwan Strait in an attempt to endanger China's sovereignty.
On September 15, 1950, MacArthur, commander of the U.S. Far East Army, ordered the vanguard of the U.S. 10th Army to land at Green Beach north of Wolmi Island to support South Korea. The Inchon landings, which completely reversed the situation in the early stages of the Korean battlefield, began. However, just before the US landing at Inchon, shortly after the outbreak of the Korean War, the US Seventh Fleet had already entered the Taiwan Strait in a dignified manner.
Chairman Mao already had an insight into the sinister intentions of the US Seventh Fleet. So why did the U.S. Seventh Fleet enter the Taiwan Strait before landing at Inchon? How did Chairman Mao dismantle the sinister attempts of the US military?
Speaking of the contradictions between China and the United States, it can really be said that they have a long history. Since we have not yet formally established the country, the contradictions between China and the United States have begun to emerge. At the beginning of 1949, the north had basically been liberated, and the People's Liberation Army 's Tun Division was stationed along the Yangtze River, ready to go south at any time. Chiang Kai-shek in Nanjing had already accepted the fact of defeat, and under this desperate circumstance, the retreat of the Nationalist Government became a top priority.
As for where to eventually retreat, there was another endless debate within the Kuomintang. Most of the generals believed that they should return to the southwest and rely on fertile resources to take the opportunity to counterattack again; a few generals believed that they should go to Hainan to confront the Communists in the Qiongzhou Strait. However, the words of the geographer Zhang Qiyun made Chiang Kai-shek finally decide to abandon these two land locations that could wait for the opportunity to compete for the world again.
In fact, in Chiang Kai-shek's mind, going to Taiwan was not the best choice. Because the "dictatorial" dream in his heart has never been realized. Therefore, when Zhang Qiyun proposed to him to retreat to Taiwan, he initially refused. However, Zhang Qiyun suddenly hit the soft underbelly of Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang -- with the strength of the Kuomintang and the insurmountable graben in Chongqing and Hainan, could it really block the millions of heroic divisions of the communist army?
As the narrowest part of the Taiwan Strait, which has 130 kilometers, for the People's Liberation Army, which did not have an air force and a navy at that time, the Taiwan Strait was the natural graben that Chiang Kai-shek could ultimately rely on. In addition to this geographical factor, there is another reason why Chiang Kai-shek has no reason to refuse - to retreat to Taiwan and gain the support and protection of the United States.
As one of the two most powerful superpowers at the time, with the most advanced weapon system, the U.S. Navy can be said to be unique. If Chiang Kai-shek had retreated to Taiwan, the United States would have had every reason to send a fleet to help the Kuomintang resist the PLA offensive. In the end, weighing the pros and cons, Chiang Kai-shek decided to retreat to the island of Taiwan to preserve his strength in the hope of counterattacking the mainland in the future. Later facts proved that although Chiang Kai-shek's dream of "counterattacking the mainland" could only be a dream after all, Zhang Qiyun's analysis was extremely accurate.
After Chiang Kai-shek's retreat to Taiwan, in order to achieve complete reunification, the People's Liberation Army launched a tentative campaign by the Tenth Corps of the Third Field Army on October 25, 1949, the Kinmen Landing. However, as Zhang Qiyun expected, our army lacked naval combat experience and did not have the cover of the navy and air force, and the Kinmen landing battle ended in failure, and the 9,000 soldiers who landed on the island died heroically.
The defeat in the Kinmen landing battle made our army deeply aware that our army's operation across the sea was weak, and even Kinmen, which was only 7 kilometers away from the mainland, could not be captured, let alone Taiwan, which was 140 kilometers away. The defeat of this campaign has further strengthened the PLA's urgency to establish a fully formed naval and air force. However, before our army was officially established, the United States was already openly meddling in Taiwan Strait affairs.
In February 1950, China and the Soviet Union signed the Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance, and as the United States competed with the Soviet Union for world hegemony, it felt the danger and immediately took corresponding measures. In April of the same year, instigated by "McCarthyism," the U.S. National Security Council officially released Document NSC-68. In the document, the United States made it clear that tough military measures would be imposed in the Far East to safeguard U.S. interests, and it also highlighted that it would not only support the Kuomintang stationed in Taiwan in the Far East, but also include South Korea in the scope of protection.
MacArthur, commander of the US Far East, said even more bluntly that the United States will never "hand over" Taiwan's aircraft carrier, which will never sink. A series of "operations" by the United States have unabashedly indicated that they will be involved in China's internal affairs, which has also led to the official beginning of decades-long contradictions between China and the United States. What is even more unexpected is that the "self-confidence" of North Korea's Kim Il Sung directly contributed to this "commitment" of the United States.
Just after the release of the NSC-68 document in the United States, Chairman Mao expected that the United States would finally show the ugly face of reality. After that, recovering Taiwan will be even more difficult. With the assistance of the Soviet Union, the People's Liberation Army is working intensively to form its own naval and air force units, hoping to liberate Taiwan before the United States officially intervenes.
Unexpectedly, however, Stalin and Kim Il Sung firmly believed that the United States issued a statement only to intimidate China, the Soviet Union, and the DPRK, and that it was obviously unrealistic to really send troops to intervene. In this way, Kim Il Sung, with his self-confidence and Stalin's support, openly crossed the "38th Line" and began the journey of "national reunification."
When Chairman Mao learned that North Korean forces had raided South Korea on June 25, 1950, he immediately realized that this move would create an excellent excuse for the United States to intervene in the situation between Korea and the Taiwan Strait. However, although it was expected that the United States would take the opportunity to attack, it still underestimated the degree of preparation and efficiency of the United States in this matter.
On June 27, 1950, just two days after the outbreak of the Korean War, U.S. President Harry S. Truman issued a statement formally announcing that the U.S. military would directly enter North Korea to support South Korea. At the same time, Truman instructed the U.S. Seventh Fleet to sail into the Taiwan Strait. Not only that, but the United States also sent a military adviser into Vietnam to help the colonial French army suppress the Vietnamese independence uprising.
When Truman announced these three-step military deployments of the US military, Chairman Mao immediately understood his sinister true intentions. From North Korea to the Taiwan Strait to Vietnam, the United States has sought to establish a military blockade line in East and Southeast Asia as a way to contain China's complete reunification and economic development. After this apparent intention, Chairman Mao also deeply saw the potential threat.
Truman sailed the U.S. Seventh Fleet into the Taiwan Strait, seemingly to prevent the People's Liberation Army from recovering Taiwan. In fact, however, Truman's move was to attract China's attention to the situation in the Taiwan Strait, and it was best to hope that China would be able to organize a large number of troops to attack Taiwan. Because, at that time, China had just begun to form a navy and air force, weapons and equipment aside, only combat experience was a weakness that could not be ignored.
The famous US Seventh Fleet is not only equipped with the most advanced naval warfare weapons, but also has experienced the baptism of many wars, and once China sends troops to recover Taiwan, it is bound to produce a greatly anxious war situation. As the world's best military strategist, Chairman Mao soon saw through Truman's true intentions. The United States wants China's leaders to focus on the situation in the Taiwan Strait, while the United States is focusing on the situation in North Korea, thereby threatening China's sovereignty. In later declassified documents from the U.S. military, MacArthur, commander of the United Nations forces during the Korean War, said: "At that time, I prayed every night that the Chinese army could attack Taiwan." This shows the sinister intentions of the United States.
However, although Truman's deployment was extremely shrewd, it was still very secretive, and he underestimated Chairman Mao's military sense of smell and boldness. Just after the Seventh Fleet sailed into the Taiwan Strait, Chairman Mao, after a night of sleepless thinking, finally decided to first postpone the pace of recovering Taiwan, organize troops, and prepare to deal with the intervention of the United States in the situation in Korea.
Sure enough, as Chairman Mao expected, on July 7, 1950, the United States manipulated the United Nations Security Council to pass Resolution 84, deciding to send United Nations troops into North Korea to support Rhee's attack against Kim Il Sung. When the United Nations began to organize its forces, Chairman Mao sent a telegram to Kim Il Sung overnight, instructing him that if the US army led the UN army into the DPRK, it would definitely choose to land at Inchon, so that he could make preparations as soon as possible.
Kim Il Sung, however, was confident that with the bravery of the North Korean army, even if the UN army arrived, it would be repulsed. In desperation, Chairman Mao had to send several more requests to the korean people's army generals to make preparations for the landing of the United Nations army. At the same time, Chairman Mao has gradually completed the deployment of domestic troops. On July 13, China established the Northeast Border Defense Army and transferred four armies and artillery units from Henan to the northeast to guard the border.
With Kim Il Sung's successive victories in the Korean battlefield, Chairman Mao became more and more uneasy. On August 5, Chairman Mao sent a telegram to the commander of the Northeast Border Defense Army, ordering him to complete strategic preparations by the end of August to ensure that he could enter the DPRK in September. I have to say that Chairman Mao's sense of military smell is indeed extraordinary, and looking at all the generals in military history, there are very few who can compete with each other at this point.
At dawn on September 15, 1950, United Nations Commander MacArthur personally boarded a warship to oversee the landing of the 10th Army, the vanguard of the American Army. Under the cover of more than 300 warships and more than 500 warplanes from the United States and Britain, the US 10th Army quickly landed at Inchon, crushing the North Korean rear and recovering the port of Incheon and many nearby islands in one fell swoop.
Subsequently, under the leadership of the U.S. army, the UN forces gradually defeated the various north Korean armies, and on September 27, the Inchon Landing Force and the Busan forces met near Suwon. At dawn the next day, the horn of attack was blown, and in just one day's effort, seoul, the capital of South Korea, was recaptured. At this point, the situation in the Korean battlefield was completely reversed, and Kim Il Sung no longer had his previous vows, and began to constantly ask for Chinese military support.
The news spread back to China, and although the troops for the korean war had been mobilized, there were differences of opinion among the top levels of the central authorities. Many generals, led by Lin Biao, did not approve of China's sending troops, believing that the newly established new China was in a state of ruin and awaiting rejuvenation, and if the troops were to enter the DPRK and fall into war again, it might make the people miserable. Moreover, the military strength of China and the United States at that time was very different, and once the battle was lost, the consequences were unimaginable.
However, Chairman Mao already knew in his heart that the intentions of the United States were already known, and once it was left unchecked, it was the greatest danger to China. To this end, Chairman Mao vigorously defied the consensus of the people and ordered the dispatch of troops to support Korea. On October 7, 1950, the Northeast Border Defense Army was officially changed to the Chinese Volunteer Army, with Peng Dehuai as its commander-in-chief. On October 19, the mighty People's Volunteer Army officially entered the Korean War, and the war to resist US aggression and aid Korea, which shocked the world, began.
The People's Volunteer Army, supported by the belief in defending the country, was not timid or afraid of death in the face of the combined army of the 16 countries led by the United States. After the Volunteer Army entered the DPRK, the pace of the UN Army's "northward advance" began to slow down and gradually regress, and in the end, the Battle of Shangganling, with an unprecedented degree of tragedy, shattered the American dream of "using Korea as a stepping stone and then threatening China."
After the Battle of Shangganling, the UN army no longer had the courage to face the attack of the volunteer army, and the US army, as the head of the UN army, was ready for "ceasefire negotiations". Of course, Truman and MacArthur certainly wouldn't have given up like this, so there was the "Battle of the Golden City" that surprised MacArthur later. In the end, the Korean War ended with the near total annihilation of Syngman Rhee's elite South Korean troops.
From the time the US Seventh Fleet sailed into the Taiwan Strait, Truman and MacArthur took every step quite meticulously, and the root cause of their ultimate failure was "the superiority of imperialism." Chairman Mao is well aware of the dangers of US hegemonism, and from the moment Chiang Kai-shek retreats to Taiwan, the United States will never allow China to easily recover Taiwan.
It is precisely because of knowing oneself and knowing the other that Chairman Mao was able to see through the sinister intentions hidden behind Truman. In the end, sufficient preparations were made to fight the national and military prestige of New China with the Battle of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea. And thus, the basis for the peaceful development of the economy was obtained. Today, China is already changing with each passing day, socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era; the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has entered a new journey; and the pace of China's complete reunification has entered a new node.