Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China, recently visited Fujian, the outside world has been concerned about whether he inspected the military, but until the end of the trip on the 25th, the official did not reveal the relevant news, the evening of the 26th, Xinhua News Agency reported that Xi Jinping inspected the second mobile unit of the armed police in Fuzhou on the 24th, proposed to comprehensively strengthen the training and preparation for war.
According to the Xinhua News Agency, Xi Jinping was in Fujian from March 22 to 25, visiting Nanping, Sanming and Fuzhou, and inspected the training of the 2nd Mobile Force in Fuzhou on the morning of March 24, and then listened to a report on the tasks carried out by the force through a video system.
Xi then asked to fully implement the spirit of the military training conference of the military commission, adhere to the focus on the preparation for war, in-depth promotion of actual combat and practical training.
In early January, Xi, in his capacity as Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China, signed the Central Military Commission’s Order No. 1 for 2021 and issued a “Training Mobilization Order” to the military, asking the entire army to focus on “preparing for war” and ensuring that it is “ready for war and ready for battle. The military will be able to fight at all times.
Comprehensive media reports, March 22 to March 25, Xi Jinping has to Fujian Nanping, Sanming, Fuzhou and other places for investigation and research. The outside world previously believed that Xi Jinping’s visit to Fujian Province is undoubtedly of observational significance, and may become a weather vane for the situation in the Taiwan Strait.
However, in the official media briefings of the Communist Party, there was no mention of Xi Jinping’s visit to the troops in Fujian. And the list of accompanying persons does not appear in the military top brass. These circumstances have led to speculation.
The previous day’s official media Xinhua news release shows that for cross-strait issues, Xi Jinping in the morning of the 25th to listen to the CPC Fujian Provincial Committee and the provincial government work report, but asked “to promote integration, to promote integration, to promote integration,” to promote cross-strait integration and development.
The “through” refers to the smooth flow of economic and trade cooperation, infrastructure links, interoperability of energy resources, industry standards, etc.; “benefit” refers to “measures to benefit Taiwan”; “love” refers to the “Taiwan measures”. “Love” refers to “deepening spiritual ties”.
Xi Jinping left Fujian the next day (26), the official media reported that Xi inspected the Second Mobile Headquarters of the Armed Police in Fuzhou on the 24th, proposing to comprehensively strengthen military training and preparation for war. (Photo source: Internet)
Xi mentioned the so-called cross-strait integration in Fujian, which was considered by the foreign media as “soft words”, different from the tone of war preparation and fighting.
In addition, in response to U.S. Indo-Pacific Commander Philip Davidson’s recent warning at a Senate hearing that the Chinese Communist Party might try to occupy Taiwan within six years, Chinese Ministry of Defense spokesman Ren Guoqiang also said at a press conference on the 25th that the U.S. side’s warning that the Chinese Communist Party might invade Taiwan in the next six years is an exaggeration of the Chinese Communist Party’s military threat. China opposes this.
In March, U.S. scholar Oriana Skylar Mastro quoted unnamed Chinese Communist Party generals at a U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) hearing as saying that the Communist Party could invade Taiwan within two years and that General Secretary Xi Jinping was seeking short-term The story of “armed reunification” to consolidate power also exploded.
Later, Cui Lei, a scholar at the China Institute of International Studies, a think tank affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, also wrote to the East Asia Forum, an Australian research publication, stressing that China could not accomplish unification by force in the near future.
According to an analysis by the Taiwanese newspaper Shangpao, Cui Lei’s article may represent an attempt by the Chinese Communist Party’s diplomatic system to cool down the issue, but it also shows that there are internal divisions within the Communist Party.
The Chinese Communist Party’s tone on the use of force against Taiwan has changed from Time to time. But today, as the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) and its representative office in the United States signed a memorandum of cooperation on maritime patrols, the Chinese military sent a total of 20 military aircraft to disturb Taiwan’s southwest ADIZ and southeast, the largest number of sorties since the Ministry of Defense announced its statistics.
According to the Voice of America, several scholars of regional security, defense and international relations have observed that it is uncertain whether and when the Chinese Communist Party will use force. However, the ambiguity of the strategy toward Taiwan has given Beijing some policy space, but at the same time, it also shows that Beijing is at a loss as to what to do with Taiwan.
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