According to Japanese media, Beijing wants to build high-speed railroads and highways to Taipei, hinting at Xi Jinping‘s intentions.
As the two sessions of the Communist Party of China (CPC) are being held, public opinion is focused on the discussion of the CPC’s ultra-long-term plan “Vision 2035”. According to Japanese media, the plan to build high-speed railroads and expressways to Taipei in the CCP’s 2035 vision hints at Xi Jinping’s ambition to change the status quo.
The outline of the National Comprehensive Three-Dimensional Transportation Network Plan, published before the Communist Party’s two sessions, makes it clear that the Communist authorities intend to build a transportation network that crosses the Taiwan Strait and goes directly to Taipei.
The outline shows that Taipei is planned on the main axis of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei-Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao: Path 1: Beijing to Hong Kong (Macau) via Xiongan, Hengshui, Fuyang, Jiujiang and Ganzhou. Spur: Fuyang to Taipei via Huangshan and Fuzhou. Path 2: Beijing to Shenzhen via Shijiazhuang, Zhengzhou, Wuhan, Changsha, and Guangzhou.
In an article titled “China Finalizes 2035 Road, Rail Plan to Taiwan,” Katsuji Nakazawa, senior editor of the Nikkei Asian Review, said that the Communist Party’s “Outline of the National Comprehensive Three-Dimensional Transportation Network Plan” clearly shows A transportation network across the Taiwan Strait to Taipei.
The article said that the idea of building a submarine tunnel in the Taiwan Strait has been raised in the past, but only on paper because no one has the political capital to carry out such an exaggerated and expensive plan, and in recent years Taiwan’s rejection of “one country, two systems” has become almost a national consensus. But this Time is different, as Xi Jinping’s plan to use force to protect his re-election to the 20th National Assembly has been widely discussed.
The article questioned that if the Chinese Communist Party really wants to complete the plan in 15 years, it can be expected that the Chinese Communist Party will force the road to Taipei plan, the purpose may make Taiwan nervous, this is the Chinese Communist Party cunning psychological tactics.
If Xi Jinping remains the top CCP leader after the 20th National Congress and eventually extends his rule until 2035, unifying Taiwan may become a concrete agenda, the article continues. And Taiwan’s reunification will be deeply intertwined with that transportation network plan.
Meanwhile, Xi Jinping’s intention to attack Taiwan by force has recently been unleashed.
At a hearing of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC), U.S. scholar Oriana Skylar Mastro quoted unnamed Chinese Communist Party generals as saying that the Communist Party could invade Taiwan within two years.
The Australian think tank China Matters also recently published a new study saying that Xi Jinping, unlike past Communist Party leaders, seems determined to solve the Taiwan issue in this generation.
In an article titled “Avoiding War – How to Avoid a U.S.-China Confrontation That Could Lead to Catastrophe” published in the February 17 issue of Foreign Affairs, former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said that the next 10 years will be a “dangerous Taiwan is both a point of conflict and a bargaining chip for the United States and China.
Cui Lei, a scholar at the China Institute of International Studies, a think tank affiliated with the Chinese Foreign Ministry, wrote to the East Asia Forum, an Australian research journal, stressing that the Chinese Communist Party cannot accomplish reunification by force in the near future.
Some Taiwanese media analyzed that Cui Lei’s article is not only the opposite of the signals that the Chinese military continues to release about military unification, but also makes Western observers believe that the gap between the Chinese diplomatic system and the military on the line towards Taiwan and even the U.S. has obviously increased, reflecting that the Chinese Foreign Ministry and military are divided on whether to fight or make peace in the Taiwan Strait.
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