Republic of China President Tsai Ing-wen (5th from left) receives U.S. President Joe Biden (4th from left) at the Presidential Palace on April 15 for his first visit to Taiwan since taking office. The delegation included Richard Armitage (2nd from left) and James Steinberg (left), who served as Deputy Secretaries of State under Presidents George W. Bush, Jr. and Barack Obama, respectively.
During the visit of former U.S. Congressman James Todd and his delegation to Taiwan, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian even said “Tsai Ing-wen is just a local leader of China” when expressing his protest, causing an online backlash. Scholars believe that the CCP’s war-wolf diplomacy actually shows the authorities’ extreme weakness, and that it is done for domestic consumption to stabilize a critical situation.
A statement from the White House said Todd’s visit to Taiwan was at the request of President Joe Biden and emphasized that “the United States stands with our friends and allies in the Indo-Pacific region to advance shared prosperity, security and values, which includes deepening relations with Taiwan.”
On the 15th, Tsai met with Todd and his delegation and hosted a dinner. Responding to questions from the Japanese media on the meeting and Tsai’s thanks to the Biden administration for emphasizing the importance of peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said at a regular Foreign Ministry press conference on the 15th that he made China’s stern position clear yesterday on the U.S. delegation’s visit to Taiwan.
Zhao Lijian, in addition to opposing official exchanges between the U.S. and Taiwan, asked the U.S. side to be careful in its words on the Taiwan issue, and also said “Tsai Ing-wen is only a local leader of China” with a so-called corrective title, a statement that caused an outcry on the Internet.
Netizen “eight or nine monsoon” asked, “I want to ask Tsai Ing-wen who appointed this leader? How come I haven’t seen the appointment document from the Central Organization Department? How can a local government in China have its own army, currency and diplomatic passport? Or even establish foreign diplomatic relations?”
Wang Juntao, a U.S. doctor of political science and chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese Democratic Party, told the Epoch Times that Zhao Lijian’s opposition to interaction between U.S. and Taiwan officials would not be heeded by the U.S., not to mention that Todd does not hold any position now.
He described Todd as a political family with a thirty-year career as a senator, having been the secretary general of the U.S. Democratic Party and a special committee member on East Asia and the Pacific matters in the Senate, so he knows a lot about foreign affairs and security, and stepped down in 2011.
“Within the Senate, he was good friends with Biden, and Todd was one of the four U.S. lawmakers who pushed for and signed on to the Taiwan Relations Act that year, and he has a special affinity for Taiwan. So on the 42nd anniversary of the Taiwan Relations Act, Biden commissioned him to go to Taiwan and deliver a commitment to maintaining peace in the Taiwan Strait.” He said.
“His representation of Biden suggests a heavier official tone. With the aggressive posture of the mainland now, the U.S. definitely wanted to warn the mainland that there were three communiqués between the U.S. and China at the time based on one that the mainland was committed to maintaining peace in the Taiwan Strait, and if you were to disrupt that peace, the U.S. would ignore some of the restrictions they had set on themselves in the past.”
Dr. Wang Juntao emphasized that the Chinese Communist Party’s greatest fear now is that the United States will include Taiwan in a strategic alliance to encircle the entire Chinese Communist Party. The U.S. is now creating a four-country posture around China centered on the U.S., Japan, India, and Australia, uniting all other countries to encircle the CCP. Although India is historically non-aligned, it is now in fact involved.
Regarding Zhao Lijian’s reference to Tsai as a local CCP leader, Wang Juntao said that the war wolf performance of CCP diplomats is also the CCP’s mandate for them to speak tough, big and empty words in front of imperialism.
Wang Juntao stressed that in fact Xi Jinping feels a strong sense of crisis, you see his recent statements, always mentioning the struggle, what the bottom line thinking, in fact, shows that he is very weak inside.
“So some people say that the language of war wolves indicates that the CCP now has confidence and is calling the shots, my view is the opposite, I think he is now very faint-hearted. Because Xi Jinping they have offended too many people, he is in internal and external difficulties, but he will never admit it.” He said.
“So the talk of ‘leveling the world’ and ‘rising in the east and falling in the west’ and using all this language is actually to cover up the weakness of heart, and also to give these people a chicken blood, so that in the middle of a false atmosphere, they can cover up the failure of their roots.”
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