Social Commentary: The U.S. and Taiwan’s wretched "slicing sausages" do not want to cut the mainland bottom line
US Secretary of Health Azar will visit Taiwan in the near future. The last time a member of the U.S. Cabinet visited Taiwan was in 2014, when McCarthy, then the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, visited Taiwan. The Minister of Health is ranked higher in the cabinet, so this visit is more provocative.
In the past 40 years, why did the United States exercise restraint in sending officials to visit Taiwan? Because that is an international rule. The United States established diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China in early 1979, and at the same time broke off diplomatic relations with Taipei. The non-official exchange between the United States and Taiwan is a civilized manifestation of Washington's compliance with diplomatic standards. The "Embassy" of the United States in Taipei was renamed the Taipei Office of the American Association in Taiwan.
The United States passed the so-called "Taiwan Relations Act" in 1979, which forcibly opened a corridor for US-Taiwan relations outside the framework of Sino-US diplomatic relations. Because it seriously contravenes international law, Washington has maintained a certain degree of proportion to its use.
In the past two years, the United States has passed a series of new domestic bills such as the "Taiwan Travel Act", allowing higher-level US officials to visit Taiwan and continue to develop new grounds in the direction of provoking China. Azza’s visit is the largest step taken by the US at a sensitive time so far.
If the United States and Taiwan are determined to further enhance their relationship, they can still have a lot of cards to play. Azhar's visit to Taiwan is only a signal, and mainland China must be fully prepared for this. The Taiwan issue is the most convenient and convenient lever for the United States to exert pressure on China, and it is also the most challenging direction for China in its strategic dealings with the United States.
Washington is going to undermine the existing rules of handling the Taiwan issue between China and the United States. It is to provoke and put pressure on China. The international community, including the Americans, has clearly seen this. As long as China handles it properly, the morality and justice surrounding the Taiwan issue will be firmly on China's side. The Chinese side must first uphold this morality, which is crucial to the efficiency of our next cards.
We must see that if the situation in the Taiwan Strait goes out of control and moves towards a military showdown, the confidence of the United States and Taiwan will be weaker than that of China. In addition to the rapid growth of the Continental Army, which has been able to form a local advantage in the Taiwan Strait, the moral advantage of one China and the firm will of the Chinese people to defend national unity have always played an important role.
It is expected that the United States and Taiwan dare not push the situation in the Taiwan Strait to extremes. The Trump administration wants to increase the election by creating tensions between China and the United States, and it cannot overdo it. A Sino-US crisis that is dangerously out of control may hit it instead. His election is also a risk that Washington must carefully weigh.
So this time it was Minister of Health Azar who sent to visit Taiwan. The US needs to make this provocation morally justified. Because the current epidemic is serious, Washington has found an excuse to increase US-Taiwan health exchanges to help fight the epidemic. It can be seen from this that this time China should take exposing the injustice of the U.S. provocation as the main direction of the struggle, tear off the moral disguise of the U.S. side's constant provocations in the Taiwan Strait, and suppress the U.S. side's ambition and arrogance for further adventure.
Washington has pushed the Sino-U.S. relationship with a large amount of cooperation content in the direction of confrontation. Although it has carried out ideological disguise and mobilization for this purpose, it has undermined the rules and foundations of exchanges between major powers and is harmful to world peace and stability. This is the global economy. Understandable. China's necessary countermeasures against the provocation of the United States will generate complex forces in the current international relations structure, but on the whole, they conform to the expectations of the international community and will also become a real resistance to the escalation of collusion between the United States and Taiwan.
On the basis of continuous consolidation of morality, every card played by Beijing will be more powerful and produce greater shock. At the same time, we must make Taiwan society aware that it is very dangerous to indulge the Tsai Ing-wen authorities to upgrade US-Taiwan relations by "slicing sausages". Being a pawn of the US's tough strategy against China may lead Taiwan to an unbearable disaster. The mainland has many cards, including military cards, and it is very important that our will to play cards at critical moments will be far better than Washington.