Before and after Biden took office, China continued to send military aircraft across the center line of the Taiwan Strait, testing Biden’s policy toward China with obvious intentions. At a press conference at the National People’s Congress a few days ago, Foreign Minister Wang Yi told the United States that the Chinese government has “no room for compromise and no room for concessions” on the Taiwan issue and that “the two sides of the strait must be reunified and are bound to be reunified. The Biden Administration‘s policy toward China has clearly been revised in the direction of compromise, and what would be the reaction of the United States if China “arms” against Taiwan? This is a question of concern to the world today. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC), and next year will see the succession of power in the CPC. While Xi Jinping is eager to build a great career to consolidate his power, the public also seems to agree that “unification” is a natural and righteous thing to do. After the completion of the “second reunification” of Hong Kong, and further unification of Taiwan, then the historical feat will be accomplished and the succession of power will be logical.
But Taiwan’s security is different from Hong Kong’s. It not only involves the American people’s values of freedom and human rights, but also directly involves the security of America’s Asian allies. Once China occupies Taiwan, Japan’s maritime trade and energy transportation routes, and the Senkaku Islands (Diaoyutai), over which Japan claims sovereignty, will be seriously threatened. For Australia, a breakthrough of the first island chain by Chinese communist forces would greatly increase China’s ability to intervene in the Indo-Pacific region and pose a challenge to the rule-based international order of Indo-Pacific countries. It goes without saying that South Korea, and even Russia and North Korea, do not want to see the current strategic balance disrupted. Even the pro-China Philippines and Vietnam, as well as other ASEAN countries, will not support China’s “military unification” because of sovereignty and security issues in the South China Sea.
Biden’s first national security strategy guide clearly states that the U.S. will support Taiwan as a major democracy and security partner, emphasizing that the U.S. commitment to a democratic Taiwan is “solid as a rock. In response to Wang Yi’s remarks, a White House spokesman reiterated that Washington will “continue to assist Taiwan in maintaining adequate self-defense capabilities. Japanese media reported that Secretary of State Blinken and Secretary of Defense Austin will visit Japan in the middle of this month to discuss with Japan the strengthening of the “U.S.-Japan alliance” and the formation of the “East Asia Anti-China Link”. Philip Davidson, commander of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, emphasized the importance of Taiwan’s presence in the first island chain and said that strengthening the ability of allies and the United States to deter the Chinese Communist Party is an absolute priority.
Based on the recent interaction between the U.S. and China on the Taiwan issue, the Biden administration will not back off on substantive and security protection, even if it slows down its friendly Taiwan actions based on the strategic situation in the Asia-Pacific region. And the U.S. military power is absolutely superb after the development of the Tai Air Force, which should not be underestimated.
But China’s will to “unite” under absolute power should not be underestimated either.
It is rumored on the Internet that Xi Jinping said two years ago, “The real crisis is not a financial crisis, but a crisis of morality and faith.”
But what is China’s morality today? The old moral bottom line, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” has long since been thrown out of the window. What used to be considered immoral, “harming others for one’s own benefit,” has now actually become a moral code. The reason is that “harming others” still has the purpose of “benefiting oneself”; and a large number of behaviors in society are “harming others” but “not benefiting oneself The “harm to others, not to oneself”.
Gradually, “harming others but not benefiting oneself” has become relatively more moral. A further development is “harming others but not oneself”, that is, to “harm others” even if it causes damage to oneself. For example, in order to kill each other, rather than break two legs.
There is a further development, that is, “damage to others even more damage to themselves”, that is, even if they die to break your two legs. Because the “damage” is the purpose, not only never benefit you but also to fight to the death to harm you.
A lawyer friend told some divorce lawsuits, said that the hatred between the two sides, has reached such a level of irrationality, no longer calculate the benefits and losses.
In a society that builds power and consolidates it with the concept of enmity and spreading hatred, it is inevitable that the moral level will gradually go to this extreme.
Only by understanding a regime that has adopted the concept of hostility as its sense of governance, and by understanding this morality, will it be possible to understand the changes and developments in Hong Kong over the years and use them as factors to observe future changes in the situation in the Taiwan Strait.
For, irrational actions, though detrimental to society as a whole, are beneficial to individual power.
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