Recently, China has taken a series of sanctions against U.S. House Speaker Pelosi who visited Taiwan and Lithuanian Deputy Minister of Transport and Communications Vaichu Kevichut, in order to warn unscrupulous politicians who try to collude with "Taiwan independence" separatist forces, trample on the "one China" principle, and undermine China's core interests.
However, shortly after our "hammer" fell, some politicians from Western countries led by the United States began to catch fire again. It is reported that five cross-party members of the United States flew to Taiwan on military planes on the evening of August 14, and met with Taiwan leaders Tsai Ing-wen and others on the 15th to discuss issues such as security, defense, and economic and trade.
Some netizens believe that the United States sent a delegation to visit Taiwan after Pelosi, probably in response to the recent military exercises held by the People's Liberation Army around the Taiwan Strait.
However, in the view of Taiwanese scholar Huang Kuibo, compared to Pelosi, the US delegation's visit seems very low-key, and it is more like a long-planned "diplomatic conspiracy". The purpose is to help the US Congress understand the latest situation in Taiwan and then formulate a Taiwan-related bill.
According to US media reports, the US Congress is recently reviewing a Taiwan-related bill, whose core content includes giving Taiwan a "mainly non- NATO allies" status and increasing arms sales to Taiwan. However, because the bill involves too much sensitive content, the review work is currently suspended.
can be boldly guessed that one of the purposes of the US delegation's visit to Taiwan this time is to promote the law to be passed smoothly after the end of Congress' recess.
In addition, according to the " New York Times ", citing a U.S. scholar, in addition to Pelosi and this delegation, some U.S. lawmakers may also visit Taiwan this month. According to reports, many members of Congress have plans to visit Taiwan, and they want to use this to express the United States' "support" for Taiwan.
It is worth noting that under the clamor and instigation of the United States, some major European countries are also ready to follow. According to German media reports, German MP Becker and the German Bundestag “Friends-Taiwan Group” will visit Taiwan in early October this year.
Melz, chairman of the CDU, the largest opposition party in Germany, said in an interview with the media that although he has no plan to visit Taiwan, he supports the actions of German parliamentarians. Merz declared that German lawmakers have had a "tradition" of visiting Taiwan in the past few decades, and this year is no exception, which will be a correct decision.
It can be clearly found that the United States has joined hands with its allies and frequently playing the "Taiwan card" against China will further intensify tensions in the Taiwan Strait region, and China and the United States are at risk of large-scale conflicts at the economic and military levels.
A few days ago, five central enterprises, including China Aluminum Corporation, also announced their delisting from New York Stock Exchange , which aroused high attention from the capital market. Wall Street analysts said that this move proves that the risk of crisis caused by China and the United States is spilling out to the economic level.
Focusing on the Taiwan issue, China and the United States will set off a fierce game in multiple fields. Although the two countries have a very high economic dependence, no one wants to give in the face of core interests. The decoupling of China and the United States at the economic level seems to be becoming more and more realistic.
Of course, compared to the economy, military risks are the most terrifying. Former U.S. Secretary of State Kissinger warned in an interview with the media that the U.S. government unilaterally provoked a dispute with China has put the two countries on the brink of war.
Reuters quoted a scholar's analysis as saying that although the probability of mainland China solving the Taiwan issue through force is relatively small, the medium- and long-term military risks of China and the United States in the Taiwan Strait are constantly accumulating and increasing.
reported that Pelosi and other American politicians visited Taiwan, completely undermining the long-standing political and military mutual trust between China and the United States, and also strengthening mainland China's perception of resolving the Taiwan issue by force.
Reuters said that after this crisis, mainland China has clearly realized that the hope of fighting for peaceful reunification has become increasingly slim, and military means may become the only way.
In the white paper "Taiwan Issue and China's Unification Cause in the New Era", it clearly emphasized that "no promise to give up the use of force", and the recent military exercises held by the People's Liberation Army around the Taiwan Strait have sent this signal to the outside world. Through this exercise, mainland China showed to the outside world that the People's Liberation Army is capable of taking action, rather than a simple verbal warning.
For example, during this visit to Taiwan by US lawmakers, the Eastern Theater Command did not wait for these lawmakers to leave, but immediately took a series of actions, including organizing multiple military services to conduct joint combat readiness police patrols and practical drills in the sea and airspace around Taiwan. Taiwanese media even said that on the 15th, seven batches of PLA military aircraft entered the so-called " air defense identification zone " and "entered Taiwan" from the north and south directions at the same time, highlighting the momentum of pincer attack.
As Western countries increase their provocations, some military activities that the PLA rarely appeared before will become normal. Kissinger advised the United States and Western countries to maintain caution and restraint on the Taiwan issue and not to intensify tensions.
