According to CNN, Tsai Ing-wen confirmed for the first time that there were US military in Taiwan for training purposes in an interview with the media. She said that the number of US military "is not as many as people imagined", but she emphasized that the purpose of large-scale cooperation with the US is to "increase our 'national defense' strength."
Tsai Ing-wen's media conversation is widely regarded as a breakthrough. Taiwan's "Minister of Defense" Qiu Guozheng seemed to want to ease the impact when he was questioned by the Legislative Yuan today. He emphasized that the US military only has assisted training in Taiwan, which is within the scope of exchanges and no troops are stationed.
US military is not allowed to station in Taiwan. This is definitely a red line, and the United States and Taiwan are clear about this. It is well known that the United States has no clear commitment to assisting in defense of Taiwan, but pursues "strategic ambiguity". Now the United States and Taiwan are constantly provocative statements about this red line, which has become their new strategy.
They try to show a tough attitude in this way, hedge against the strategic majesty of the mainland's military preparedness to continuously build military struggle, and encourage the "Taiwan independence" forces. Taiwan and the United States are increasingly worried about the outbreak of the Taiwan Strait War. The DPP authorities are clamoring to "fight to the end" while clearly knowing that the Taiwan military is unable to defend. They want to encourage supporters to maintain confidence that the US military will assist in defending Taiwan at that time, so they continue to release information and create an imagination space for "the US military and Taiwan are with each other."
The strategic situation of the struggle between mainland China and Taiwan and the United States is very clear, and the specific game situation is very complicated. The mainland is seeking trends and results. Taiwan and the United States have deep influence on electoral politics, and short-term political interests are placed in a prominent position. Therefore, the mainland's policies are very principled and directional. The characteristic of Taiwan and the United States is that they are "broken" and are highly linked to the support rate in each period.
However, Taiwan and the United States are absolutely clear that the bottom line of the mainland is serious. The US military's entry into Taiwan is to break the bottom line and is one of the most dangerous indicators to detonate the war in the Taiwan Strait. Taiwan and the United States have been swaying recently. They have a strong intention to achieve the symbolic US military station in Taiwan by cutting sausages, but they are also frightened by the will of the mainland. Therefore, they move forward little by little, take a step back when they feel the danger, and declare that "the policy has not changed."
In fact, as long as the DPP authorities reject "1992 Consensus ", stubbornly adhere to the route of dividing national sovereignty, and the United States condons and supports them in doing so, the mainland will sooner or later use force to liberate Taiwan. This is one of the conditions for the peaceful reunification of a country in the Anti-Secession Act that has lost its possibility of using force, and it has nothing to do with how to provide US military personnel with training to Taiwan.
Taiwan and the United States have had a premonition that the People's Liberation Army's attack on Taiwan may occur some time a few years later, which is the root of their uneasiness and mania. On the one hand, they know that crossing the red line that the United States must not garrison in Taiwan will make the war come faster, and at the same time, they hope that such risky advances may form a bargaining chip to deter the mainland from using force. In addition, they have an opportunistic that considers the support rate. They talk about it every day, and you are hard and you are soft.
There is no doubt that the line of the DPP authorities leads to a dead end. The closer they collude with external forces, the more inevitable the punishment from the mainland is, and this causal relationship becomes increasingly entangled. While they seek reliance and protection, they are the same process of recruiting mainlanders to resolve the Taiwan issue by force. They knew very well that they were drinking poison to quench their thirst, but they hysterically drank one cup after another of poisons.
Mainland public should fully understand the overall situation in the Taiwan Strait and not be led by the short-term performances of Taiwan and the United States. Justice is on our side, the absolute military advantage of execution of punishment is on our side, and time is on our side. All this determines when to punish the "Taiwan independence" forces and how to solve the Taiwan issue in a way that we have the initiative on our side. Faced with the provocation and struggle of the DPP authorities, we do not need to question ourselves, "Why haven't you done it yet?" and "Is the red line going to be re-drawn." We must believe in the country's strategic trade-offs and control, and see clearly that the DPP authorities that split the country have become the fish in the net. They pretended to be like a fish that was going to be killed, but if they really dared to do that, they would only be killed, and there would be no one!
column editor: Gu Wanquan Text editor: Fang Ying Title picture source: Xinhua News Agency Photo editor: Su Wei
Source: Author: Global Times
