Comment: What are the Taiwan authorities proud of? Buying weapons from the U.S. will only ruin you

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Buying weapons from the U.S. will only ruin you

　　"The DPP authorities blatantly carried out naked military threats and provocations against the mainland. They did not exercise their power and attempted to link up with external forces to'independence by force' and aggravate tension in the Taiwan Strait. This would only severely undermine peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait and bring serious disasters to the people of Taiwan. In the end, it must be a dead end." The United States announced its arms sales to Taiwan twice within a week. The Taiwan Affairs Office spokesperson Zhu Fenglian responded to this at a regular press conference on the 28th.

　　On October 21, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency of the US Department of Defense issued a statement stating that the US State Department has approved the sale of weapons and equipment totaling approximately US$1.8 billion to Taiwan.

Then on the 26th, they announced that they had approved the sale of 100 "harpoon" coastal defense systems to Taiwan, with a total value of US$2.37 billion. This is already the ninth batch of arms sales to Taiwan since the Trump administration took office, and this year. This is the fourth time since arms sales to Taiwan.

With the situation in the Taiwan Strait already highly tense, the U.S. government has repeatedly done things that violate the one-China principle and the three Sino-U.S. joint communiqués, which cannot but trigger a strong backlash from the Chinese side.

　　The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China announced on October 26 that, in order to safeguard its national interests, China has decided to deal with American companies such as Lockheed Martin, Boeing Defense, Raytheon and other American companies involved in arms sales to Taiwan, as well as relevant American individuals who have played a bad role in arms sales to Taiwan. Impose sanctions with entities.

Some experts interpreted that the scope and intensity of China's sanctions this time exceeded the previous ones. Together with the signals sent by China in its series of activities to commemorate the War of Resist U.S. Aid Korea, it clearly shows that China’s decisions will not be affected by the United States. Interference in internal affairs and trampling on China's sovereignty, security and development interests will inevitably bear serious consequences.

　　Since the beginning of this year, Taiwan’s DPP authorities have taken the United States’ self-esteem to "Taiwan independence" more and more rampant. For their own political self-interest, they will not hesitate to tie all Taiwanese people to their "Taiwan independence chariot."

For its own political purposes, the United States has repeatedly sent wrong signals to the Taiwan authorities. The most important of these wrong signals is to constantly challenge the mainland's bottom line in the matter of "arms sales to Taiwan."

Regarding the continuous availability of weapons from the United States, Taiwan’s defense department is very proud of it and clamored that "two of the missiles and rockets can hit the coast of the mainland."

This statement fully proves that the "Taiwan independence" forces are the biggest real threat to the peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait, and the reason why the mainland's peaceful attitude has become tough is because of the "Taiwan independence" forces.

After all, the national sovereignty and security interests that the DPP authorities are stepping on, the lives and well-being of the people on both sides of the strait that they do not care about are treasures of the motherland and the mainland!

　　Taiwan media has long pointed out that the United States has made high profits through arms sales to Taiwan, but it has brought many harms to Taiwan, including wasting a lot of the hard-earned money of the Taiwan people and squeezing out funds for promoting government affairs, developing the economy, and improving people’s livelihood. It reduces the dividends that cross-strait peace brings to Taiwan, increases Taiwan’s economic debt, and increases the economic burden of Taiwan’s future generations.

Therefore, US arms sales to Taiwan are a curse or a blessing for Taiwan.

The DPP authorities take foreign self-respect and sell their country and national interests. They will eventually be nailed to the historical shame along with "Taiwan independence."

(Text丨Zhao Jing)