"Public opinion cannot be violated, you must burn yourself when playing with fire." During the call between the Chinese and US dollar heads on July 28, China's statement on the Taiwan issue was resounding. This is for US President Biden , and even more for US House Speaker Pelosi .
Using the "Taiwan card" to restrain and contain China is a long-standing method used by the United States. (Comic: Liu Rui)
At present, Pelosi's plan to "stop the stage" is still fermenting. Four months ago, Pelosi had a test and ended with "positive tactics". Pelosi's new visit plan is another example of the US's "four no and one unintentional" promise without trust, and it is also another card in the US's "using Taiwan to build China" deck. Let’s take a look at what “cards” are there in the United States “making China”.
1. Political and diplomatic card
"Political card" is a common trick of the United States, blurring Taiwan's identity positioning as a region of China, and trying to create the illusion that "Taiwan is a sovereign state."
"Political Card" has many ways of playing. "Shifting the straight", "Getting the pair" and "Crashing the Crazy" are all common card techniques used by the United States to provoke and push things up and spread things.
"Paishunzi": sends US officials of different levels or former political leaders to visit Taiwan to show the so-called "firm support" for Taiwan. If the expected provocative effect is not achieved, we will continue to add big names to the straight. This year alone, there have been a number of visits by Mike Mullen, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US military, former Secretary of Defense Esper, and House Speaker Pelosi. Some American politicians have been visiting one China principle in . The edge of the high voltage line is crazy to test.
U.S. House Speaker As soon as news came out, the deadly anti-China element and former US Secretary of State Pompeo said on Twitter that he wanted to "go together".
"Get paired up": pulls up allies in an attempt to pull Taiwan into an international organization or conference where only sovereign states can participate. Not long ago, the United States once again teased the topic of "Taiwan participated in WHO Conference " and "strongly advocated" under the guise of sharing global anti-epidemic information WHO invited Taiwan as an observer to attend the 75th WHO Conference and some Western countries. The country sings and harmony will encourage the arrogance of the "Taiwan independence" forces. This is an unscrupulous provocation to UN General Assembly resolution 2758 and the one-China principle. What the United States insists on is obvious.
"Crack": secretly commented on the Taiwan-related statement on the official documents. The US State Department has recently suddenly adjusted two core statements of its official website's relations with Taiwan:
In June 2022, former US Secretary of Defense Esper said in an interview that the United States needs to re-examine the one-China policy.
One of them deleted the key statement "The United States does not support Taiwan independence" for a time, and then recovered this under pressure.
The second is to change the diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing in the 1979 US-China Joint Communiqué. The United States recognizes the Government of the People's Republic of China as China's only legal government, and recognizes China's position that there is only one China and Taiwan is part of China. "Modified to the so-called " Three Joint Communiqués of China and the United States, the "Taiwan Relations Law" and the "six guarantees" involving the United States' arms sales to Taiwan, jointly guide the United States how to uphold the one-China policy."
In March 2022, former US President's Assistant for National Security Affairs Bolton slandered that the United States should not explain the one-China principle based on China's understanding, and many of the contents of " Shanghai Bulletin " are no longer applicable now.
The great powers should have made a promise, but now they are backfiring and speak nonsense. The US government has repeatedly overdrawn its credibility, which is already "insufficient in balance", and the international community sees it. "Taiwan independence" elements can also think about whether the US promises they rely on are reliable.
2. Military force card
"Military card" is a big card that the United States often shows scary but dare not play easily. It mainly consists of pieced together military alliances, exporting military strength, and engaging in military confrontation.
In recent years, the United States has stepped up its implementation of the " Indo-Pacific Strategy ", and its military output to Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and other places has never stopped, and has launched various formations in the region, attempting to build a "military encirclement" against China. At the same time, the United States takes advantage of Taiwan's "unique" geographical location and strives to build it into a "strategic outpost" to maintain pressure on China.
A propaganda video released by the US Army's first special operations group in February 2019 shows that the US special forces carried out training with the Taiwan military in Taiwan.
The US side has always said that it does not support "Taiwan independence". In fact, helps Taiwan formulate the so-called "military strategy", conducts "practical" training on its military forces, and acquiesce or even joins forces with the "Taiwan independence" to fight China. It is not enough to build a disposable "barracks" for training on behalf of others. The United States also personally took over and frequently sent warships and fighter jets to Taiwan Strait to provoke.
Recently, the US military's reconnaissance aircraft has approached the Taiwan Strait several times, and the "Benfude" missile destroyer has carried out provocative actions three times in a week such as the Taiwan Strait.
The United States not only "shows its muscles" under the banner of so-called "freedom of navigation", but also muddles the water and bites it back. slanders China's legitimate response as "forced coercion" in the region, and packages itself as maintaining regional peace. The "Emuniversal of Justice" continues to make trouble, and then the "Taiwan independence" elements cooperate to beautify the United States' security threat to the region into the so-called "stability benefit."
"Getting rich" through arms sales is another major feature of the United States. In order to make excuses for selling martial arts to Taiwan, the United States often first throws out the "legal card" to pave the way, that is, invoking the so-called "Taiwan Relations Law" as a domestic American law.
In March 2020, the Taiwan military drove the M-60A3 TTS main battle tank purchased from the United States and carried out tactical movements on the streets of Yilan City.
Since the 1980s, the US side should have adhered to the three joint communiqués of China and the United States, especially the spirit of the "August 17 Communiqué", gradually reducing the sale of weapons to Taiwan until it completely stopped, but it has not been fulfilled so far. Some American politicians and arms dealers colluded and kept submitting various fancy Taiwan-related bills to Congress, thus making a lot of money.
In June 2022, the chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Committee, Democratic Congressman Menanderz and Republican Members Graham jointly proposed the "Taiwan Policy Act 2022", which includes enhancing the so-called "military relations" between the two sides. Taiwan is listed as a "mainly non- NATO allies" and provides US$4.5 billion in military financing support to Taiwan in the next four years.
Not long ago, the US State Department approved the provision of a total of US$108 million in military technical assistance to the "Taipei Department in the United States". The United States, which plays the role of a "big philanthropist", regards Taiwan as a "pawn" to contain China, and at the same time makes a big profit from it to satisfy its ambition of winning both strategic wealth.
3. Technology Innovation Card
"Technology Card" is a common routine for the United States to maintain its hegemony. It mainly suppresses strategic competitors and consolidates its own technological advantages through direct intervention, technological blockade, export control, and pieced together "small circles".
From the Cold War period, the United States imposed an embargo on socialist countries led by the Soviet Union through the Export Control Act, and by the 1980s, it suppressed Japan's related industries through the US-Japan Semiconductor Agreement. This card's "black history" Abound.
In recent years, the United States has attracted allies to decouple and cut off supply, blacklist, and build a "small courtyard and high wall". attempts to increase the blockade of China in the core technology field, in key supply chains and industries The chain achieves "de-Sinicization". Taiwan’s advantages in the semiconductor industry make it a “key wall brick” that the United States must firmly hold on and must never let China get it.
During the Trump administration, the United States repeatedly asked TSMC to set up factories in the United States and banned TSMC from providing chips to Huawei . Last year, the "American Association in Taiwan" said that "in the global semiconductor supply chain, the United States and Taiwan are the most natural partners", and used sweet words to promote the deepening of interest binding between the two sides.
The US launched the "Chip Four-Party Alliance" and invited semiconductor companies from South Korea, Japan and Taiwan Province of China to join in an attempt to build a "semiconductor barrier" for mainland China. The picture shows Biden visiting Samsung Electronics Semiconductor Factory accompanied by South Korean President Yoon Seo-yeol in May 2022.
In April 2022, the United States reiterated the establishment of the "Chip 4" with Taiwan, South Korea and Japan. Last month, the "American Association in Taiwan" announced that Taiwan Global wafers will invest in and set up a factory in Texas, USA. Recently, , the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, passed the "chip+" bill involving a $280 billion appropriation, attracting more companies, including Taiwanese semiconductor companies, to set up factories in the United States.
The United States frequently wins over Taiwan in the semiconductor field in order to gain greater initiative in technological blockade and export control with China, prevent China from gaining dominance in the strategic field, and strengthen control over the global chip industry chain.
The American magazine "Diplomatic Scholar" and "North Feiqi " said that Chip 4 highlights security and political considerations, which runs contrary to economic laws, and will further disrupt the global value chain, leading to an increase in costs and a decline in competitiveness of the semiconductor industry.
4. Public opinion card
"Public opinion card" is a common routine for the United States to engage in political manipulation and the party's common deeds. It mainly relies on fabricating lies, planning conspiracies, and manipulating public opinion to cause trouble to other countries.
At present, this set of public opinion cards in the United States attempts to put a layer of "Democracy against authoritarianism" narrative, and act in a false name of morality.
is to discredit China. The United States is hyping up its hype based on the so-called " universal value ", and has labeled China as "authoritarianism" and "the number one security threat in the United States". Last year, the Senate Foreign Committee passed the "2021 Strategic Competition Act ", proposing that it will be every year It will cost $300 million to spread negative information that discredits China. At the same time, it exaggerates the "threat of force" in the mainland to incite panic on the island and conquers Taiwanese public opinion, thereby distorting and amplifying the differences in the social systems between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait into the differences between the people's ideological .
The second is to praise Taiwan. Officials at all levels of the United States have repeatedly praised Taiwan’s “democratic achievements”, shaping the image of Taiwan’s “democratic students”, and inviting Taiwan to participate in the so-called “democratic summit.” On the one hand, it provides "support" for the DPP authorities to consolidate the ideological foundation of "relying on the United States to seek independence" and transform the political identity and value system of Taiwan society. On the other hand, it expands Taiwan's "international living space" in the name of "democracy" , trying to arouse the Western world " empathy with " and "solidarity".
U.S. Secretary of State Blinken When responding to questions in the House of Representatives in September 2021, he compared Ukrainian with Taiwan, claiming that the United States will fulfill its commitment to Taiwan by the "Taiwan Relations Act" and will also fulfill its commitment to Ukraine.
The third is to take advantage of the topic and use other hot issues to indirectly write articles on the Taiwan issue. Commander of the US Indo-Pacific Command, Aquilino, declared in an interview that "the Ukrainian issue highlights the serious threat posed by China to Taiwan." Taiwan issue has an essential difference between the Ukrainian crisis. Comparing the two, advocating that "Ukraine today is Taiwan tomorrow" is a completely conspiracy and is openly challenging China's bottom line.
After the "Amendment Bill Storm" in Hong Kong, Mo Jian, chairman of the "American Association in Taiwan", rumored that China's " One Country, Two Systems " action implemented in Hong Kong clearly shows that it not only seeks unification with Taiwan, but also undermines Taiwan's democracy. The US deliberately misinterprets the "one country, two systems" and provokes cross-strait relations under the banner of democracy, creating difficulties for cross-strait peaceful reunification.
Taiwan issue is the most important and sensitive issue in Sino-US relations. It is very dangerous for the United States to keep playing the "Taiwan card" and is "playing with fire". (Comic: Liu Rui)
Political and diplomatic cards, military force cards, scientific and technological innovation cards, and public opinion cards, seemingly all-in-one and interlocking. The United States seems to be determined to win Taiwan's "bargaining chip". However, the Taiwan issue is just a card game and a game for the United States, and for China it is related to national rejuvenation and national justice, and there is no room for bargaining.
In the face of the righteousness, the United States' fire game can only end up being a dream.
