By Jun Sheng
For the last few days, troops from the Eastern Theater Command under the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) held combat readiness patrols and "Joint Sword" exercise in the maritime areas and airspace encircling the Taiwan Island as planned. Such moves are serious warning and strong countermeasures to the collusion and provocations by the Taiwan Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authority and external forces, and also fully demonstrated the Chinese military's strong determination, resolution and capability to defend national sovereignty.
For some time, Tsai Ing-wen and the DPP authority have vigorously sought Taiwan independence by relying on the US. From undermining the common political basis of cross-Strait relations by denying the "1992 Consensus" to wantonly attacking the guideline of "One country, two systems" and keeping manipulating "de jure Taiwan independence" inside the island, and from disrupting and defaming cross-Strait exchanges to colluding with foreign anti-China forces for seeking industrial decoupling across the Strait, they have poured out vicious remarks and malicious provocations time and again. During her "transit" trip through US just a few days ago, Tsai Ing-wen openly made "Taiwan independence" separatist remarks once again, and bucked for the support of American anti-China forces, which fully exposed her despicable and snaky face of "flattering the US while separating and betraying Taiwan".
To boost their courage for provocations, and further finagle and instigate the common Taiwan people, these "Taiwan independence" separatist forces vainly attempt to entrust the so-called "security assurance" commitment to the American politicians harboring ulterior motives.
To this end, the DPP authority has been thriftlessly spending the money of Taiwan taxpayers and purchasing a bulk of weapons from the US with continuously increasing budget. Under the US incitement, it accelerates the vicious outflow of competitive industries within the island, transforming Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company into "American Semiconductor Manufacturing Company". What's even more shocking is that the DPP authority is also deliberately ingratiated toward the preposterous "destruction of Taiwan" plan of the American politicians, and makes the Taiwan people the cannon fodder to contain China with Taiwan. With clamors of so-called "protecting and loving Taiwan" but doing wicked actions of "devastating and betraying Taiwan" in essence, the DPP authority directly intensified the tension and turbulence across the Taiwan Strait and devastated the peaceful reunification of both sides.
Is the US "security assurance" undependable? The answer is absolutely no. From Iraq to Syria, and from Afghanistan to Ukraine, for so many years, the US has been agitating conflicts and stirring up regional security situations around the world, but gaining private profits from these actions. The US' international credit has been impoverished long ago.
The US' arms sales and military collusion with Taiwan in the name of "security assurance" is to transfer interest to its own military-industrial complex, and transform Taiwan into a "hedgehog island" and front "ammunition depot" to contain China.
For this, the voice of skepticism toward US has been elevated to an unprecedented level recently. More and more Taiwan people have fully recognized that the "Taiwan independence" separatism is formidably opposed to the peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait. The so-called US "security assurance" clutched by Tsai Ing-wen and the DPP authority is actually potent poison with a fictitious promise of the US, which will push Taiwan closer to dangerous situations.
Reunification is the general trend of history and the right path, and "Taiwan independence" separatism is a reversal of history and doomed to a dead end. Action is the strongest response to those sinister villains who keep conspiring "relying on the US to seek independence" and "containing China with Taiwan" against the historical trend and social justice. The combat readiness patrols and "Joint Sword" exercise of the Chinese PLA are just forceful responses and resolute opposition to the "Taiwan independence" separatists and external forces.
China must be and will surely be reunified. The Chinese People's Liberation Army shall firmly safeguard the national sovereignty, security and development interests of China, and never allow any forces to make Taiwan separate from China under any name or by any means. And any wrongdoings attempting to make trouble in the name of Taiwan question and damage the national sovereignty and territorial integrity of China are bound to encounter bitter hit and ignominious defeat in the end.
