At the beginning of Biden‘s visit to Taiwan, Chinese Communist Party military planes increased the scale of disturbance to Taiwan, one for the mainlanders and the other for Biden. The Chinese Communist Party is well aware that the honeymoon period between China and the United States has long ended, and no matter who is in power, the relationship between the United States and China will not be good, but unfortunately, except for the military aircraft to disturb Taiwan, the Chinese Communist Party is now at its wits’ end with Taiwan.
Long-term intimidation by armed reunification is not acceptable
This bitter fruit is determined by three key factors, one is the system, two is the hearts of the people, and three is the current situation.
The system is fundamental, the Chinese Communist Party is a one-party dictatorship, Taiwan is a democratic system, the two are incompatible. Deng Xiaoping’s “one country, two systems”, at first there is a certain degree of deception, but over the decades, the road has become narrower and narrower, until last year, Hong Kong‘s anti-Send China campaign, the true face of the dictatorship more self-piercing, “one country, two systems” rapidly depreciated, now only for wallpaper.
Taiwan’s democratic system is working smoothly. Recently, The Economist published its Global Democracy Index, which ranked Taiwan 11th out of 167 countries, the highest in East Asia. Taiwan is well off when it is separated from the Chinese Communist Party by sea, but it is in danger of being annexed when it is unified with the Chinese Communist Party. The CCP’s past performance proves that they will never share power with the people. Once Taiwan falls into the hands of the CCP, Taiwan’s democratic system will go down the drain.
Once the two sides of the Taiwan Strait are unified, the KMT will be reduced to a doormat, the DPP to a sidekick, and the Taiwanese to a slave. Taiwan’s current political autonomy, economic self-improvement and cultural self-sufficiency, compared to the CCP’s brutal dictatorship, this alone is proof that there is no political basis for reunification.
Secondly, the hearts of the people are even more deadlocked. Since Chiang Ching-kuo opened up the mainland to visit relatives, there has been a boom in people-to-people exchanges, followed by Taiwanese businessmen’s investment in the mainland, and the Chinese Communist Party has been making use of Taiwanese businessmen’s interests to carry out united warfare, and exporting immigrants from the mainland to Taiwan through cross-strait marriages and study, and infiltrating the island’s political, business, academic, and journalistic and cultural circles for a long Time, changing Taiwan’s political ecology. In addition, the Kuomintang acted as the mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party on the island, which once made the issue of unification very popular.
However, Taiwan is after all a country with freedom of information. The CCP’s corrupt political system, dictatorial and harsh social control, genocide of ethnic minorities, and the killing of multiculturalism and freedom of the press are all untold, and there is widespread antagonism among Taiwanese, especially among young people. In addition, Ma Ying-jeou’s trade in services was a major loss of popularity, and what happened to Hong Kong people was like a negative example, making the public even more disgusted, and Taiwan’s public sentiment was overwhelmingly against the Communist Party, making reunification a taboo subject.
The Chinese Communist Party has long threatened the people of Taiwan with the threat of military unification, with missiles during the Jiang Zemin era, warplanes during the Xi Jinping era, and the constant deterrence of propaganda, with an evil look, how to capture the hearts and minds of Taiwan? If you can’t win the hearts and minds of the people, how can we talk about unification?
The time has passed to reveal the true face of dictatorship
Anyone with a little common sense knows that time and momentum have never been so far away from the CCP as they are now, and the dream of unifying Taiwan has never been so far away as it is today. Xi Jinping’s statement that “the time and the trend are on our side” is just to help the Chinese people get their blood pumping.
In the CCP’s case, the economy has been in decline since its peak, high technology is facing the pain of being cut off, diplomacy has hit a wall everywhere, and military expansion has depleted national power. Internal problems abound, and economic thunderstorms are coming one after another.
On the diplomatic front, Xiao Meiqin attended Biden’s inauguration, forcing Cui Tiankai to avoid attending the ceremony; Biden has not spoken to Xi Jinping so far, making it clear that his attitude is arrogant. U.S.-Taiwan relations will steadily improve under the new provisions of several U.S. Congress bills related to Taiwan, and various advanced Western countries will have more cooperation with Taiwan under the push of Biden’s multilateral foreign policy.
Taiwan, with its high-tech capabilities, has won the favor of major industrial nations. Taiwan’s massive purchase of advanced U.S. weapons and greater confidence in its self-defense make the Chinese Communist Party face the difficult task of higher costs of armed unification. Taiwan is at the center of the first island chain, and the dispute over the islands in the South China Sea has increased the value of Taiwan’s existence, and it has become indisputable that the United States will actively defend Taiwan out of its own interests.
If the Chinese Communist Party ever had a chance to unify Taiwan by peace or force, that chance is gone. The Communist Party is very anxious to unify Taiwan, because the further we delay, the more the weakness of the system will be exposed, the more the national power will be depleted, the more the people’s hearts will be lost, and the more Taiwan’s international status will be raised, the worse the prospects of unification will be. But the more anxious the CCP is, the less anxious the U.S. and Taiwan are. Worse still, there is no path for peace, no certainty for fighting, and no hope for dragging.
In Xi Jinping’s term of office, the above three major problems are dead ends, no hope for a solution, as for after Xi Jinping, it is too early to say, depending on how China changes, how the United States changes, how the world changes.
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