Pelosi's visit to has not yet been resolved, and 5Another 5 US lawmakers have formed a group to conduct a visit to Taiwan. On August 14, Ma Ji, chairman of the Asia-Pacific Group of the US Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, led a delegation to Taipei and contacted the Taiwan authorities on the 15th. China's countermeasures come very quickly for the US's actions of hollowing out one-China policy and infringing on China's sovereignty. 15, The Eastern Theater Command of the People's Liberation Army of China announced that it would continue to conduct military exercises around Taiwan, but the focus of this exercise was on joint combat readiness police patrols and practical exercises. This seems to be to strengthen control over Taiwan’s surrounding areas. In addition to this group of members of parliament, New York Times said that at the end of the month, members of Congress will lead a delegation to visit.
It is worth noting that Ma Ki, who led the delegation to visit this time, is a veteran supporter of "Taiwan independence" in American politics, because when the so-called "Taiwan Relations Act" was launched in 1979, he also voted for support as a member of parliament. It is precisely because of his seniority and political stance that Markie has become an important liaison between the US Congress and the Taiwan authorities. It can be said that besides Pelosi, he has the most weight. Although Ge Laiyi, director of the Asian Program of the German Marshall Foundation, said that the visit was planned a few months ago, without Pelosi's nod and the acquiesce of Biden and , it would be unlikely that these people would want to take military business jets to visit.
First look at Biden. Is he reason to support this incident of snare? Judging from the "unresolute opposition" of Biden's visit to Pelosi, perhaps he did not have the reason to take the initiative to instigate this visit, but it is still possible to open a door for convenience for him. Biden now shows a very contradictory mentality. On the one hand, he regards competition with China as a key part of Sino-US relations, but on the other hand, he realizes that the United States needs to cooperate with China in many areas to achieve ideal results. Perhaps for Biden, it is important to ease relations with China and use China to alleviate inflationary pressure, but it is also important to support allies who "have the same values."
It is in these two entanglements that Biden knew Pelosi’s identity was sensitive but did not strongly oppose his launch of a visit, let alone the Maggie gang who did not have a US government official position? If Biden is really sincere in repairing relations with China, the most important thing he should do now is to stop similar behaviors, stop continuing to empty one China's policies, and correct Pelosi's mistake in visiting. Judging from Biden's inaction during this period, not only did he fail to find the right way to get along with China, but he also lacked control over various departments of the US government. At least when his attitude is not firm enough, his influence on parliament is limited.
Let’s look at Pelosi again, and she has a relatively sufficient reason to open a convenient door for these interviewees. From the perspective of political interests, there is only one Republican member of the team this time, and the others are Democratic MPs. Therefore, this visit is still helpful for the Democratic Party to attract votes. For Pelosi herself, the visits of these congressmen are equivalent to supporting Pelosi's previous visits, which is also beneficial to alleviating public opinion pressure on her. In addition, China imposed sanctions on Pelosi and his immediate family shortly after his visit, which would cut off Pelosi's financial path and career path for generations.
Therefore, either out of revenge or to save some face for the United States, Pelosi is happy to see this visit happen. Of course, there is no substantial evidence for all this speculation, but it is more interesting to watch the US government watch this visit. Judging from the US government's reaction before and after Pelosi's visit, they do have the intention to actively avoid strategic misjudgment, but this almost concessionary behavior somewhat made some senior American officials feel uncomfortable. Therefore, they not only issued various statements to try to disrupt China's legitimate military operations, but also repeatedly hyped that they would pass Taiwan Strait in order to regain their face.
chapter 0 says, but when China's Eastern Theater Command was still exercising in the Taiwan Strait, the USS Reagan aircraft carrier had been circling farther east of Taiwan, and had not stepped into the Taiwan Strait even a single step. Moreover, even the visiting team that arrived in Taipei on the 14th entered Taiwan after the military exercises around the Taiwan Strait came to an end. Judging from the US's behavior, the United States is the one who is fierce on the outside but also the United States is the one who is really a paper tiger. Regardless of whether the declaration of crossing the Taiwan Strait and the visiting U.S. lawmakers can boost the morale of the stage authorities, just this attitude of making ruthless and stalemate is embarrassing.
Perhaps the United States hopes to express its support for the Taiwan authorities by using the visit of lawmakers and the passage of military aircraft warship to express its support for the Taiwan Strait, but can this kind of general behavior of hindsight really play a role? After the "Table-lock" military exercise began on August 4, the United States' military force was far away from the exercise area throughout the process, and it only issued several painless statements to respond to China's large-scale military exercises. When the Taiwan authorities needed the support of the United States the most, the United States ran away faster than anyone else and shouted louder than anyone else. No wonder a large number of people on the island gave up their fantasies about the United States. Perhaps this is one of the important reasons why the United States is eager to restore its reputation in Taiwan.
In fact, China's counterattack in this visit is also very commendable, because this time it was not a live-fire exercise, but a combat readiness patrol exercise under the background of practical combat, which shows that this exercise is China's military "sausage-cutting" that is, using normalized activities of sea and air forces to further strengthen control over the Taiwan Strait and further compress the activity space of the Taiwan authorities.
. Judging from the strength of the counterattack, the scale and intensity of this exercise are not as good as the "locking platform" exercise that began on the 4th, but the identity of the person who visited this time is far inferior to that of Pelosi. Pelosi is the third politician in the United States at least. According to the constitution, he is the second heir to the position of the president when he is absent. If these members of the congressmen are suffocated, they can only represent the attitude of some members of the U.S. House of Representatives. Therefore, this counterattack is appropriate and appropriate. Another thing worthy of fun is that it was originally advertised that these congressmen would stay in Taiwan for two days. When the exercise began, they were still in Taiwan. As a result, they left on a special plane on the afternoon of the day when the exercise was announced. This was less than 24 hours before the plane landed on , Songshan Airport, .
Although the target sea area of the security cruise exercise started on the 15th is most likely to be the Taiwan Strait, it is not said that the security scope cannot be expanded to eastern Taiwan. After all, it is also China's territorial waters and is within the scope of the Taiwan Strait. In terms of air force, there were 30 PLA military aircraft patrolling Taiwan on the 15th. It was not difficult to block the exit passage of these visiting members according to this cruise density. After all, these congressmen didn't want to get into trouble, so they chose to end the trip early and escaped.
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