Author: Ming shusource: official account: Ming shuzatan wechat ID: laomingdashu
At the beginning of August 2022, Pelosi, speaker of the US House of Representatives, disregarded China’s stern warning and openly violated the one China principle by visiting Taiwan.
This has seriously impacted peace in the Taiwan Strait region and led to further deterioration of Sino US relations.
In the face of the overt provocation of American politicians, the Chinese people’s Liberation Army broke the so-called “middle line of the Strait” and conducted military exercises around Taiwan, demonstrating its strong strength and firm determination to defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity, and creating a “new normal” in the struggle against Taiwan and the United States in the Taiwan Strait.
The US government originally hoped that by operating the issue of Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, it would continue to hollow out the connotation of the one China principle by “cutting sausage” and send out the wrong signal of supporting “Taiwan independence”. However, what the US government did not expect was that the Chinese society was unprecedentedly united in public opinion in the face of the shameless provocation of us politicians on the Taiwan issue. The Chinese government took advantage of the trend, It began to accelerate the process of national reunification by “cutting sausages”.
After a lapse of more than a month, looking back on Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, we can find that the US government originally hoped to dig a hole for China through Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, but it was the United States itself that finally passively entered the hole.
The calculation of the United States is that Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan is that if China makes a major response, the United States will take the opportunity to slander China for overreacting and accuse China of trying to unilaterally change the status quo in the Taiwan Strait; And if China is afraid to fight the United States head-on, they will claim that China is a “paper tiger”.
However, the United States never thought that the provocations of us politicians and the US government just gave China a precious opportunity to create a “new normal” in the Taiwan Strait region that was beneficial to China.
The result of this round of fierce struggle between China and the United States on the Taiwan issue is that China has dug a hole for the United States. China has really struck back and achieved at least the following results:
——Through clear and strong diplomatic, public opinion and military actions, China has substantiated the basic argument of the United States that provocation comes first in the international community, so that the United States “has little support for injustice”;
——China has created a “new normal” in the Taiwan Strait region through such actions as encircling Taiwan for military exercises and “erasing” the central line of the Strait, so that the United States can “eat Coptis chinensis without saying how bitter it is”;
——Chinese Mainland’s hard line response forced the US aircraft carrier to “run away” in the PLA’s military exercises surrounding Taiwan, which made some people in Taiwan see clearly again that the so-called “the United States will send troops to protect Taiwan” was just a wishful thinking fantasy;
——The continuous military actions of Chinese Mainland have made many Taiwanese feel for the first time that “war is indeed possible”. Recently, more and more Taiwanese have realized that if Taiwan becomes a battlefield, the consequences will be unimaginable. For the first time, they felt a little “scared”, and then began to seriously consider how to avoid war, which constituted a certain constraint on the DPP’s “Taiwan independence” forces;
——Through this round of fierce struggle, China has let the United States truly see that the international community generally supports the one China principle, “Taiwan is not Ukraine”; If the United States provokes China on the Taiwan issue, the United States and its allies will be “alone” in the international community;
——Through this round of struggle, China has once again explained to the world what the one China principle is and why no one or country can provoke the one China principle. It has done a round of rehearsal in advance in international public opinion for China to completely resolve the Taiwan issue in the future.
At that time, China repeatedly said that on the Taiwan issue, once the United States provoked China, it would fight resolutely and never give in.
However, it is clear that the US government and US politicians have not learned the lesson of Pelosi’s sudden visit to Taiwan at all. Instead, they are intensifying their efforts and trying to further provoke the Taiwan issue.
Among them, the most crucial and far-reaching action is that the US Congress is brewing to pass the so-called “Taiwan Policy Act.”.
In June 2022, US Democratic Senator Menendez and Republican Senator Graham jointly proposed the so-called Taiwan Policy Act. On September 14, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US Senate will consider the bill. After that, the bill will be sent to the Senate and the house of representatives for deliberation and approval, and will eventually become a formal law after being signed by US President Biden.
The content of this bill looks very complicated, but the core content can be summed up in one sentence, that is, the US government will in fact abandon its long-standing one China policy, and instead openly support “Taiwan independence” under the banner of supporting “Taiwan self-determination,” and brazenly declare that it will prevent China from achieving national reunification by force.
A casual glance at the “Taiwan policy law” will reveal that its contents are highly impactful and destructive:
——We support “Taiwan’s self-determination.”. In essence, this is supporting “Taiwan independence” and clamoring for Taiwan’s “rejection of reunification”;
——Promote the renaming of Taiwan’s institutions in the United States as “Taiwan representative offices”. Lithuania has taken similar provocative actions before, and the relations between the two countries have dropped to the freezing point;
——Continue arms sales to Taiwan and help Taiwan build its so-called “asymmetric combat capability.”. In essence, this is a fantasy to raise the cost and price of China’s military reunification of Taiwan;
——Support Taiwan’s participation in various international affairs as an almost independent country;
——The United States will substantially improve US Taiwan relations. In addition to the fact that there is still a distance between the United States and Taiwan in name, in essence, the bill requires the US executive authorities to lift all restrictions on the development of us Taiwan official relations, include Taiwan in the so-called “India Pacific strategy” of the United States, support Taiwan’s entry into the “India Pacific economic framework” proposed by the United States, Let Taiwan participate in the military exercises organized by the United States in the Indo Pacific region, and require us representatives to Taiwan to be appointed by the Senate like other important US ambassadors abroad.
All these actions have touched China’s bottom line and are an infringement of China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
China has no way out on this issue.
Why should the US government introduce this “Taiwan Policy Act” with a “gunpowder flavor” at this time?
First, this is part of the US government’s long-standing strategy of “using Taiwan to contain China”.
The US government will absolutely not support China to complete national reunification. What they want is to make trouble for China through Taiwan. They even want to use Taiwan to consume and contain China, interrupt China’s development process, and prevent the Chinese nation from achieving great rejuvenation.
Second, this is the latest move by the US government and politicians to try to regain a little face after Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan.
The key to the provocation of the US Congress is how China should respond?
First, we still have to lose our illusions.
At present, it is highly likely that the Taiwan Policy Act will be passed, because “using Taiwan to contain China” is the consensus of both parties in the US Congress, and American politicians will never give up halfway.
The Biden administration will certainly say that “the three powers of the US government are separated, and they cannot influence the US Congress themselves”, but in fact, this is just playing the traditional game of “red and black faces”.
The “Taiwan independence” elements headed by Taiwan representative to the United States Xiao Meiqin will actively lobby and push the US Congress to pass this law. They will not only package the “Taiwan Policy Act” as a major progress in Taiwan US relations and their important personal achievements, but also use it to embolden themselves.
Second, we should be fully prepared and fight back accurately.
If the US Congress insists on passing the Taiwan Policy Act, it shows that these politicians in the US Congress are full of arrogance and arrogance in their hearts. They have never paid attention to China’s repeated warnings on the Taiwan issue, and they have never considered the subversive impact that such destructive provocations may have on the overall situation of Sino US relations.
Since American politicians have chosen this path, China can only adhere to principles, dare to fight and be good at fighting.
China’s counterattack should consider many aspects. Among them, a basic task should be to amend and improve the “anti Secession Law” as soon as possible, to use China’s anti secession and reunification promoting laws to counter the US laws of “using Taiwan to control China” and supporting “Taiwan independence”, and to provide necessary legal tools and legal basis for China’s subsequent counterattacks.
There are three directions for China’s counterattack:
First, counter attack directly against the US Congress and the US government. For example, sanctions were imposed on relevant members of the US Congress and individuals. In the worst case, China should not hesitate to cut off the official communication channels between China and the United States, or even downgrade Sino US relations, and also send a clear signal to the United States;
Second, with regard to Taiwan, we should continue to narrow the space for the “Taiwan independence” forces to survive and steadily promote national reunification. For example, by announcing the baselines of the territorial sea and airspace involving Taiwan, China province of China, the PLA can truly face up to the fact that the relevant waters and airspace of Taiwan Province are China’s territorial sea and airspace, carry out regular cruises, maintain a regular presence, and declare sovereignty; China’s National People’s Congress, in the form of legislation, authorizes the Chinese government to take all necessary measures to crack down on “Taiwan independence” elements, including but not limited to “targeted elimination”; Establish an air defense identification zone in the Taiwan Strait, and eventually establish a no fly zone and a no navigation zone in the Taiwan Strait. The ultimate goal of the disciplinary action against Taiwan is to prove with practical actions that China has sovereignty and jurisdiction over Taiwan;
Third, with regard to the international community, we should continue to clarify the connotation of the one China principle, strive for the understanding of the international community, and punish countries and individuals who deliberately provoke the one China principle.
In the final analysis, the US Congress is brewing and passing the Taiwan Policy Act. Its purpose is to support “Taiwan independence” and obstruct China from completing national reunification.
As far as China is concerned, as long as it is determined to accelerate the national reunification with concrete actions and ultimately completely resolve the Taiwan issue, it will be able to complete the “Taiwan to contain China” strategy of the United States.
If the United States wants to treat Taiwan as a chess piece against China, China can confiscate the chess board directly.
Judging from the exchanges between China and the United States on the Hong Kong issue in the past few years, the more the United States continuously provokes China’s bottom line and principles on a certain issue, the more it will make China make up its strategic determination to completely solve this issue, and ultimately it will accelerate China’s historical process of completely solving this issue.
The arrogance and ignorance of the US government and US politicians and their repeated provocations on the Taiwan issue have, on the surface, increased the complexity of China’s thorough settlement of the Taiwan issue. However, in fact, they will make China concentrate and make all kinds of preparations. In the end, the provocations of the United States will only “help” China to accelerate the completion of national reunification.
“Make trouble, fail, make trouble again, fail again, and finally perish.” this is the logic of the United States when it faces China at present and for a long time to come.
China’s counterattack strategy is to fight, fight, fight again, and finally win!