Taiwan media reported that Taiwan and the United States recently signed a “Taiwan-U.S. Maritime Patrol Cooperation Understanding Memorandum”, this agreement is ostensibly for maritime patrol, but because Tsai Ing-wen took office, the Maritime Patrol Agency in disguise to the “second navy” transformation, plus the Shanghai Commission and the Maritime Patrol Agency The signing of this “memorandum” can be seen as a superficialization of Taiwan-US military cooperation.
It is strange that the Chinese Foreign Ministry has not “strongly protested” against this, as if it did not happen, but the superficialization of Taiwan-US military cooperation is not a trivial matter. This is the most blatant provocation to the Chinese Communist Party since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the U.S. The U.S. has gone so far as to support Taiwan that it has no bottom line and does not take the Chinese Communist Party into consideration.
The Chinese Communist Party is certainly not unable to see the symbolic significance of this matter and the first signs of danger, the Chinese Communist Party can do nothing about it. The Chinese Communist Party cannot take all the maritime police boats to the sea off Taiwan to demonstrate, and cannot make a big fuss and create a big public opinion, because if the matter is made big, the mainland patriots will be greatly stimulated, and the civil pressure to use force against Taiwan will suddenly increase, and then the Chinese Communist Party will be powerless to fight, and lose face if it does not fight, and Xi Jinping‘s great image will be greatly reduced.
The superficial cooperation between Taiwan and the United States on maritime patrol is in response to the Chinese Communist Party’s maritime police law. The Chinese Communist Party established the Marine Police Law, is to give the Marine Police Force the power to fire with the camera, that is, the Marine Police ships to the disputed areas, if encountered with special circumstances, it is possible to deal with force, in Japan’s Diaoyu Islands, Taiwan waters, Singapore, Vietnam and other countries waters, can be handled in accordance with this. In other words, fishermen from the relevant countries in the South China Sea and East China Sea have a high chance of being hit by the gunfire of the Chinese Maritime Police vessels if they are not careful.
Taiwan’s fishermen are also under the threat of Chinese maritime police vessels. Taiwan sought to sign this memorandum with the United States not only to protect Taiwan’s fishermen, but more importantly, to open a new chapter of Taiwan-US military cooperation. This means that Taiwan and the United States have broken through the forbidden zone of military cooperation, that is, “open cooperation, institutionalized issues, and explicit projects”, and everything is on the right track.
What’s more, this is just the beginning, in the name of sea patrol, the reality of military cooperation, with this beginning, after a succession of coming, cooperation will deepen, the scope will expand, then do not know where the border is.
The U.S. Coast Guard is known as the “fifth branch of the military” and has great firepower. Before the U.S. military directly cooperated with Taiwan, the U.S. Coast Guard was first cooperated by a semi-civilian, semi-military force, which was a prelude and preview of military cooperation between the two countries. Back in March 2019, the U.S. Sea Patrol ship Bertholf already sailed through the Taiwan Strait with the Navy destroyer USS Curtis Wiebe. What is the reason for the American Coast Guard to “patrol” the Taiwan Strait? The Taiwan Strait is not the coast of the United States. According to the Chinese Communist Party, the Taiwan Strait is an internal sea of the People’s Republic of China and is under Chinese sovereignty, so how can the U.S. Coast Guard cruise through it?
It can be seen that the U.S. has long had a plan for Taiwan-U.S. Coast Guard cooperation, allowing its own Coast Guard ships to come and take a walk first, so as to give the Chinese Communist Party a psychological preparation, it seems that the Americans are still doing things step by step, and it can also be said that the U.S. imperialists have long had mischief in mind.
The U.S. intentions for Taiwan’s defense are becoming clearer and clearer. After the quadrilateral security talks, Japan publicly stated that if the U.S. sends troops to Taiwan, Japan is obligated to assist the U.S. military, which means that the U.S. and Japan will not stand idly by while Taiwan is attacked by force. Thus, it seems that the signing of the “Memorandum of Understanding on Taiwan-U.S. Maritime Patrol Cooperation” is an epoch-making event, that is, the military cooperation relationship between Taiwan and the United States has been treaty-based. The treaty was signed, both sides have to abide by it, and in the future, if something happens at sea, they will rescue each other, that actually represents the intention to jointly deal with the Chinese Communist Party, so there is no need to draw a doll to draw out the intestines.
Earlier Biden‘s press conference, and mentioned that with the Chinese Communist Party does not seek confrontation, but to maintain a competitive relationship, there are comments on this is very disappointed. In fact, when you look at the diplomatic line of the U.S. government, you should not look at what they say, it does not matter what they say, but what they do. The U.S.-sponsored “Quadripartite Security Talks” are aimed at the Chinese Communist Party; Blinken and Austin’s visit to Japan and South Korea is also aimed at the Chinese Communist Party; Blinken’s participation in NATO meetings is still aimed at the Chinese Communist Party; and the massive expansion of U.S. capital construction and high-tech chip investment is also aimed at the Chinese Communist Party. These unprecedented big moves, you can call it competition, you can call it dealing with the threat of the Chinese Communist Party, and you can call it confrontation.
Is it necessary to discuss whether the “Memorandum of Understanding on Taiwan-U.S. Maritime Patrol Cooperation” is competition or confrontation? Is there such competition? The United States is competing with the Chinese Communist Party, to the point of competing under the nose of the Chinese Communist Party, in the territory of the Chinese Communist Party, and cooperating with the Chinese Communist Party’s arch rival in the cooperation of maritime patrol, the United States has eaten too much?
Because of this incident, the Taiwan dynasty and the public feel much more at ease, the Chinese Communist Party armed police ships came, and not so afraid, because Taiwan is standing behind the United States it! On the contrary, the Chinese Communist Party’s maritime police ships can still strut around threatening Taiwan’s fishing boats? The Chinese Communist Party must also look behind Taiwan’s sea patrol ships, also followed by the U.S. Coast Guard, to measure their own strength before they dare to fire, right?
Things have been changing subtly, to the depth of development, Taiwan’s heart is more fixed, the Chinese Communist Party’s heart is more vain, Ma Ying-jeou’s “the beginning of the war is the end of the war”, it seems to be unable to stand.
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