Tsai Ing-wen wants to get Japan to intervene in Taiwan affairs, expert: the so-called "Japan-Taiwan friendship" is nothing more than a political performance
[Global Times Special Correspondent Tao Xinran Global Times Reporter Xing Xiaojing Zhang Dan] Tsai Ing-wen’s interview with the Japanese "Literature Spring and Autumn" magazine was exposed on the 10th.
She claimed that the joint statement of the leaders of Japan and the United States in April this year included "emphasis on the importance of peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait", and the G7 summit held in the UK in June also mentioned the importance of peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait, "full proof It is not Taiwan that undermines the status quo of the Taiwan Strait."
She said that in recent years, the mainland has shown "great ambitions" in the Asia-Pacific region. The United States and Japan have actually sent a "signal" that "makes China have to be more cautious in policy decisions."
When talking about cross-strait issues, Tsai Ing-wen threatened that the consistent position of the Taiwan authorities is to "unyield under pressure and get support not to advance aggressively", and a very important point is to "get rid of the high dependence on products, parts, software, etc. produced in China." The status quo allows trade and investment to develop more diversified."
According to an analysis by Lianhe News on the 10th, Cai’s interview with Japanese media was that on the one hand, he turned his head back to speak up to the international community after the epidemic on the island stabilized. At the same time, he observed that the United States focused its diplomacy on the Asia-Pacific in the second half of the year and set the agenda in advance. .
For example, Tsai Ing-wen mentioned that Taiwan hopes to further share the responsibility for regional peace, "whether it means joining the dialogue mechanism, this is probably an issue she raised with the United States and Japan."
In addition, she also talked about TSMC's international investment.
The Biden administration is currently planning to reduce its dependence on Taiwan’s chips, and Japan and Germany are also putting pressure on Taiwan to decentralize production.
The article believes that this is a fatal blow to Taiwan’s semiconductor industry. In the future, not only will the production volume gradually migrate outside the island, but there is even doubt whether the headquarters will be located in Taiwan, which will cause Taiwan’s economy to face a crisis of hollowing out.
Zhu Songling, a professor at the Institute of Taiwan Studies of Beijing Union University, told the Global Times reporter on the 10th that Tsai Ing-wen tried to take advantage of the fire by means of hostility to the mainland. The way of "public performance" is shown. He said that the phenomenon of "singing double reeds" between Japan and Taiwan has always existed, but the so-called "Japan-Taiwan friendship" is nothing more than a political performance. At the moment when the people on the island express strong dissatisfaction with the DPP authorities’ ineffectiveness in fighting the epidemic, Tsai Ing-wen tries to use this to divert internal conflicts and increase his support rate. Wang Jianmin, a researcher at the Institute of Taiwan Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, bluntly stated in an interview with a reporter from the Global Times that the good performance of Taiwan’s economy is due to the close trade exchanges between the two sides of the strait.