Source: China Jingwei.com
[China Jingwei.com Comprehensive Report] The British "Financial Times" recently reported that Gu Lixiong, secretary-general of Taiwan's "Security Council", and Wu Zhaoxie, director of the Taiwan authorities' foreign affairs department, have flown to the United States to hold special channel dialogues with senior US officials. , to discuss the renaming of Taiwan's "Representative Office in the United States". The report also stated that U.S. officials expressed serious consideration in changing the name of Taiwan’s representative office in the United States, the “Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office” to the “Taiwan Representative Office.” As the news spread to the island, the Democratic Progressive Party erupted in joy again, and various "internal propaganda" praising his virtues came and went.
Taiwan's special commentator Ren Woxing believes that at this sensitive moment when frictions between China and the United States continue to heat up, the United States is telling the world through foreign media. The more political purpose is just to seize the contradictions between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and try to test China. This will force China to make concessions in the Sino-US negotiations. People who understand will treat it calmly. This is just a two-faced approach by the Americans, taking full advantage of cross-strait conflicts and playing with Taiwan in their hands. They will not and should not dance with the Americans. But the key point is that the United States has seen through the DPP's desire to complete the "political results" of changing the name of the "Representative Office in the United States", so it is willing to be the pawn of the Americans. "Changing the name" has become the fruit that the United States hangs in front of Taiwan and the Democratic Progressive Party, using this to induce Taiwan to accept more unfair conditions, including eating more "vital" American pigs and American cows, and replacing TSMC and Hong Kong It will guide key industries such as maritime investment to the United States, import American oil from thousands of miles away, borrow money to buy more high-priced military weapons, etc. The worst thing is that this move will anger the mainland and push 23.5 million Taiwanese people into the storm of war. In other words, Taiwan was eventually used as a weapon by the United States.
Shi Weiquan, a Ph.D. from Birkbeck Law School, University of London, wrote in the China Times, pointing out that in the previous dispute with Lithuania, China recalled its ambassador and asked Lithuania to also recall its ambassador. If the United States really wants Taiwan to change its name to a "representative office," China's level of action should not be just If we stop at recalling the ambassador, even if we only recall the ambassador, it will be a major diplomatic event that shocks the international political arena. Sino-US relations will plunge into the abyss, and it will take a long time to recover in the future. At present, the economies of China and the United States are interdependent and need each other. The United States will not easily play the Taiwan card so suddenly, but this card is a weapon that the United States can easily use.
Shi Weiquan believes that the United States is considering agreeing to change the name of the "Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office" because it is treating Taiwan as a tool rather than treating Taiwan as a true love. When the United States talks about Taiwan, it talks about democratic alliances and the value of freedom, which are just window-dressing. If there is no Chinese factor, the United States will not care about Taiwan. Some Taiwanese public opinion believes that Taiwan is the source of the conflict between China and the United States, and that the United States has teamed up with Western countries to support Taiwan. This type of argument mistakenly regards the props on the stage as a living protagonist, thinking that the world revolves around Taiwan. Miscalculating the situation of the game between China and the United States will not help Taiwan find a niche for survival in the gaps between powers.
Hong Kong's China Review News Service mentioned that the Chinese and American presidents had just had another phone call. During the call, US President Biden stated that the United States has never intended to change the "one China" policy. From the fact that the United States and Taiwan are planning to "change their names", it can be seen that it is not credible for the United States to say one thing and do another. The China Review News Agency stated that the "name change" challenged the bottom line of "One China" and touched the red line of the mainland's "Anti-Secession Law." The mainland will definitely take resolute actions to protect the bottom line of national interests. The United States knows that this matter is not trivial. If it ignores the mainland's solemn representations and continues to collude with Taiwan, it will be deliberately provoking and preparing for a showdown, and the situation in the Taiwan Strait will escalate at any time.
In response to Taiwan and the United States’ petty flirtations, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying once said that the Taiwan issue is the most important and sensitive issue in Sino-US relations. China urges the U.S. to abide by the one-China principle and the provisions of the three Sino-U.S. joint communiqués, change the dangerous practices of the previous administration of "crossing the line" and "playing with fire", handle Taiwan-related issues prudently and properly, and not send any wrong signals to "Taiwan independence" forces .
Zhu Fenglian, spokesperson of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, said that Taiwan is part of China, and we firmly oppose the development of any form of official relations or the establishment of official institutions in each other's countries with Taiwan having diplomatic relations with China. No matter how many tricks the DPP authorities use to pursue "Taiwan independence", they are destined to fail.
