Direct News: State Councilor and Defense Minister Wei Fenghe made a speech at the 19th Shangri-La Dialogue on the topic of "China's Vision for Regional Order".
What are your observations on this statement?
Special commentator Wu Wei: The outside world is generally concerned about what tough statements the Chinese Defense Minister's Council will make on the Taiwan issue and how it will evaluate Sino-US relations. However, in my opinion, the information increment of Minister Wei's speech is not limited to For China and the United States or the Taiwan Strait, it is more about the systematic discussion of "what role China will play in the world and in the region."
I noticed that the English title displayed on the blue screen of the venue used the expression China's vision, so I think this speech is also telling the world "how should the regional order be under China's vision".
Considering the current world, the European order is suffering from a major earthquake, and the Asia-Pacific order is widely regarded as "the eve of the reshuffle". Therefore, as a major power in the region, China's view has great bellwether significance.
Minister Wei made a clear statement at the outset, first throwing out Chinese thinking: Human society is experiencing multiple crises that are rare in history, and the way out is to maintain and practice multilateralism and promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.
Once this problem-solving idea is focused on the Asia-Pacific, the answer is: all countries should move towards the beautiful vision of building an Asia-Pacific community with a shared future and realizing lasting peace and universal security in the Asia-Pacific region.
In his speech, Minister Wei quoted the main sentence of the white paper "China's National Defense in the New Era": China firmly adheres to a defensive national defense policy, and the Chinese military has always been a force for peace, and will also resolutely defend national sovereignty, security, and development interests.
This is a full interpretation of the original mission of the Chinese People's Liberation Army and the foundation of its founding.
Minister Wei put forward the "four insistences" and "four objections", and criticized the US "Indo-Pacific strategy" without naming names, which is a "small circle" under the banner of freedom and openness, kidnapping and coercing regional countries, targeting specific countries, and exaggerating Conflict confrontation, suppression, containment and containment of others.
Minister Wei further commented that any strategy should conform to the historical trend and the world trend, and is conducive to maintaining regional peace and stability and the common interests of all countries.
In my opinion, Minister Wei's remarks today also countered the "too directional and unfriendly" remarks made by the United States and Japan the previous day.
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Direct News: The outside world has noticed that Wei Fenghe's words strongly warned "Taiwan independence" elements and external forces trying to interfere in his speech.
What is your analysis of this part of the speech?
Special commentator Wu Wei: I think that over the years, China's national leaders, political and military high-level officials have fully and frankly declared China's position on the Taiwan issue on many international foreign affairs occasions.
In my opinion, there are three layers of logic: first, there is no doubt that the motherland will be unified; second, we have always had a great desire for peaceful reunification; third, if the red line is breached, then we will not hesitate to use force Contribute to the achievement of a unified goal.
This incense meeting was no exception. Minister Wei's statement of "no matter what the battle, no matter the price" represents the ultimate mission of Chinese soldiers to strengthen the army and train and wait for the next.
In addition, what aroused my keen interest was a historical scenario set up by Minister Wei for the expression of "do not hesitate to fight". He said: "Back then, the United States fought the Civil War for the reunification of the country. China was very reluctant to have such a civil war, but will Resolutely smash any 'Taiwan independence' attempts." In my opinion, Minister Wei's use of the American Civil War as an argument has several merits.
First of all, this defines the historical origin of the Taiwan issue as "understandable by the Western world": the Civil War was the largest civil war in the history of the United States, and the Taiwan issue also originated from the historical continuation of the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China. and civil war.
Therefore, the Taiwan issue is China's internal affairs at its root, and no other country can interfere.
Second, the Civil War is also known as the bloodiest civil war since the founding of the United States.
According to statistics, about 10% of northern men aged 20 to 45 and 30% of southern American men of the same age died in the war.
When the American people are commemorating President Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address," mourning the souls of the Civil War, and remembering the legacy of their ancestors in a series of literary and film works, can they still understand the Chinese nation's unification of the motherland and "nostalgia" Is it a shallow strait"?
I believe that the Western world, especially the United States, should clearly perceive the situation in the Taiwan Strait from the perspective of the Civil War. The Chinese defense minister's loud "do whatever it takes, whatever the price" in Singapore is by no means an empty threat.
Furthermore, the Civil War was also an American Civil War interfered by external forces.
In May 1861, the Union Army imposed a "federal blockade" on many ports in the southern United States, but the British used fast armed smuggling ships to continuously send weapons and ammunition to the Union Army.
So what did President Lincoln do?
One word: hit!
When history shines into reality, I believe that the audience at the incense meeting and the international public opinion will definitely understand what Minister Wei said: "Taiwan independence" is a dead end.