Recently, the security situation around China has been extremely grim, and the challenges and threats in the two major strategic directions of the southeast and southwest are increasing day by day. Of course, the problems facing the southwest strategic direction can also be seen as an extension of the southeastern direction problem to an appropriate extent. With the changes in the international situation and the regional situation, great power competition has become the most important world style in contemporary times. The United States actively creates a strategic encirclement in the Indo-Pacific region, while India only plays a strategic role. However, for the United States and its allies, the western Pacific region is the main battlefield of great power competition, and the situation in the southeast has undoubtedly become the core problem of all this. Although the southeastern issue has been playing the role of the forefront of great power strategic competition for many years, judging from the military actions taken by the two sides in recent times, the situation in the southeast has developed to a point where all parties are particularly concerned, and it is most appropriate to describe it as a storm.
Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the attitude and policy adopted by our country on the issue of completing reunification have been consistent, and we will never allow external forces to interfere in our internal affairs, nor will we allow the division of any national territory. At the just-concluded G20 summit, there is a detail that is worth noting that at the end when the leaders of the world arranged a group photo, US President Biden was arranged on a row of edges, not like the previous middle position, which is considered by the outside world that the status of the United States in global affairs has begun to decline, the United States is not as important as before, on the contrary, China's influence in international affairs is in a gradual upward trend.
In the subsequent Sino-US talks, our representatives once again sent the strongest voice to the world to complete the reunification of the motherland. Since the Anchorage talks, the southeastern issue has become a card often played by the United States in the western Pacific region, and for this reason China has made a solemn statement on the southeast-facing issue. The US side, on the other hand, is still not spared on the most sensitive issues of major powers, constantly challenging our bottom line, frequently making remarks that it will assist in the defense of the Taiwan Strait when necessary, and constantly helping Taiwan island to establish defense capabilities in the military field. The behavior of the US side has seriously caused tension in the southeast direction, and our representative warned that if the US side mishandles the southeast issue, it will subversively and comprehensively damage the relations between the two countries. Judging from the terms "subversive" and "overall" used by our representatives, this is the strongest voice of our country's proclamation.
In order to promote world hegemony and power politics, the United States has been operating in the Indo-Pacific region for decades, and the United States does not allow the emergence of another superpower, so the United States is bound to maintain the existing strategic balance in the western Pacific. With the rise of our country, it is already necessary to complete the great cause of reunification. If the island chain encirclement strategy created by the United States is destroyed, it is bound to have a great impact on the Western Pacific allies of the United States, especially Japan, which is in danger of being cut off, and the loss of Japan by the United States means losing its foothold in East Asia. In the same way, if the United States does not assist its allies and partners in defense when they are in trouble, but only provides technical, intelligence, and logistical support, then the United States will lose the credibility of its allies, and the US alliance system established by the United States will be disintegrated, both of which will have a negative impact on the hegemony pursued by the United States.
Many international experts have different views on whether the United States will send troops to start a war because of this. One of the voices believes that the possibility of an all-out war between the two countries is basically zero, because both countries have strong strategic nuclear strike capabilities, and the United States does not have a certainty of victory on the Taiwan Strait issue, which will prevent the United States from risking troops. Another voice believes that the Long-Term U.S. insistence in the Western Pacific is to maintain a regional balance of power, which represents the national interest of the United States, and the United States may fight a proxy war. Experts who agree with this view argue that during the period of hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union, although there was no direct military confrontation between the two powers, there were several proxy wars, and they believed that the United States might follow the cold war practice.
However, the great power competition in the United States and the Soviet Union is not the same as the great power competition in the new era; the United States and the Soviet Union can wage a war of proxy for power and hegemony, and the southeastern issue is a major issue of right and wrong that will absolutely not yield to our country, and any intervention by any force is an aggression for us and will cause us to resolutely counterattack. On the whole, for the United States, the best option for the United States is to achieve the balance of the western Pacific region through the sale of weapons, technology and other indirect means, and maintain the existing balance of power. Any direct armed intervention will lead to a strong frontal response from our country, even at the expense of a war. And once the war starts, the United States will suffer strategic defeat!