The Taiwan authorities have been making small moves recently. Tsai Ing-wen even said in her speech at the so-called "security dialogue" a few days ago, "I hope to coexist with neighboring countries under the principle of peace, stability and mutual existence."
Where does Tsai Ing-wen’s “neighbor country” refer to? Island analysis and comments believe that Tsai Ing-wen refers to the mainland. Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council A reporter also mentioned related issues during a regular press conference on September 15.
State Affairs Office spokesperson Zhu Fenglian
State Affairs Office spokesperson Zhu Fenglian replied: You may have noticed that on the one hand, they are making various small moves, and on the other hand, the Mainland Affairs Council also said that we should promote benign interaction between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait. These words and deeds are contradictory.
In addition, the matter of Taiwan and Lithuania setting up offices has also been quarreled by the Taiwan authorities. After Lithuanian allowed the DPP authorities to set up a "representative office" in the name of "Taiwan", what small moves were being made by the DPP authorities?
According to reports, Chen Liguo, the "European Director" of Taiwan's foreign affairs department, claimed on the 15th that Taiwan's "Chairman of the National Development Council" Gong Mingxin will lead an "economic and trade investment inspection team" of about 65 people from October 20 to 30 to charter a flight to visit Slovak , Czech and Lithuania 3 Central and Eastern European countries to strengthen economic and trade exchanges and cooperation with Europe.
In response to this, Lithuanian Economic Minister Almonet responded, "I am looking forward to and welcome the Taiwan Economic and Trade Expedition to visit Lithuania in October."
According to existing reports, the so-called Taiwan "economic and trade inspection team" has 40 companies and other representatives from the fields of semiconductors, information and communication technology, finance, tourism, electric vehicles, financial technology , biotechnology, food, smart cities and network security.
Just look at the lineup, but Lithuania's economic size is only a little bit, and the same is true for Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Is it really necessary for the Tsai Ing-wen authorities to go through so much trouble?
Some experts analyzed that Central and Eastern European countries have "no deep friendship" with the DPP authorities. In addition, the Polish , which donated vaccines to Taiwan in early September, was not on the visit list of the Taiwan authorities. The Polish Foreign Minister has made it clear that Poland’s position is very clear, that is, to support the “one China” policy.
, Lithuania and the Czech Republic have frequently played the "Taiwan card" recently and interfered in China's internal affairs.
In September last year, the chairman of the Czech parliament ignored China and the Czech government's opposition to going to Taiwan; in April this year, the Czech parliamentary Senate fabricated a resolution involving Taiwan, requiring the Czech government to support Taiwan in all activities of World Health Organization. At the same time, the Lithuanian government has frequently hyped up the Taiwan issue, announcing in August that the Taiwan authorities have allowed the establishment of "representative offices" in the name of "Taiwan", and tried to "support" the United States, EU and NATO for themselves.
Therefore, the DPP authorities' visit has greater political significance.
But some experts also have different opinions, believing that the DPP authorities want to pry open the economic and trade doors of Europe. Tsai Ing-wen has made many remarks on "decoupling the mainland".
Recently, some reporters also raised questions. Tsai Ing-wen said in response to cross-strait trade that the future goal is to get rid of the high dependence on mainland products and make Taiwan's trading partners and investment more diversified. What is your comment on this? Recently, what new characteristics have been shown in cross-strait economic and trade exchanges, and what new progress will be made in the future?
According to statistics from General Administration of Customs , from January to August this year, the cross-strait trade volume was US$208.82 billion, an increase of 31.8% year-on-year. Among them, mainland China's exports to Taiwan were US$50.32 billion, a year-on-year increase of 33.4%; mainland China's imports from Taiwan were US$158.5 billion, a year-on-year increase of 31.3%.
Since the beginning of this year, the growth rate of cross-strait trade volume, mainland exports to Taiwan, and imports from Taiwan have been higher than 30%, indicating that the momentum of cross-strait economic and trade cooperation has continued to increase.
In addition, Taiwanese businessmen's investment in mainland China maintains a growth trend.
According to statistics from the Ministry of Commerce, from January to July this year, 3,552 new Taiwanese-funded projects were approved in mainland China, a year-on-year increase of 47%; it actually attracted US$640 million in Taiwan, a year-on-year increase of 9.6%.
More importantly, cross-strait financial cooperation continues to deepen.Taiwanese financial institutions such as Beifubon Bank, Bank of Taichung Securities Investment Trust, and Kaiki International (Hong Kong) have also actively applied for qualified overseas institutional investor qualification (QFII) to participate in mainland securities market investment.
More and more facts show that the Tsai Ing-wen administration is simply not qualified or capable of talking about "decoupling" from the mainland.
We often say that "the two sides of the Taiwan Strait are one". The mainland has given Taiwan too much kindness. You should know that not everyone can enjoy the trade dividends brought by the mainland. Even Lithuania, which had previously tried to win over the entire NATO and the EU on the issue of China, was in the end it just ignored the interests of Lithuanian businessmen, and the EU was busy doing business with mainland China and had no time to pay attention to Lithuania.
At present, the Taiwan authorities, who are eager to seek independence, do not agree with it. They took the "Taiwan card" of Lithuania and Slovakia as the command arrow, and tried to "support" the United States, the European Union and NATO for themselves.
The Taiwan authorities' actions are nothing more than to use this to increase the popularity and influence of "Taiwan". Of course, it is not ruled out that the United States encourages Lithuania, Slovakia and other countries to star in this "anti-China" drama.
As the pioneer, Lithuania, together with the Taiwan authorities blinded their eyes to engage in "Taiwan independence", stepping on the red line of mainland China. It must strike hard. If it wants to destroy the fundamental interests of mainland China, this fantasy is doomed to be shattered.
The vacancy left by exports to China today is likely to be filled by the Cube's own "allies". The billions of trade between China and Lithuania have little impact on China, but it seems indispensable for Lithuania.
Of course, if the DPP authorities want to take Lithuania as a "role model", we have nothing to say, but don't forget the scene of shouting hard for their own pineapple at the beginning of the year, how embarrassing! (Feng Chao)
