Within three days, U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo performed “The Last Crazy” twice on the Taiwan issue.
On January 7th, local time, Pompeo issued a warning that Craft, the Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations, was about to “visit” Taiwan.
On January 9, Pompeo also announced that “all self-restrictions” on the exchange between U.S. and Taiwan officials would be lifted, saying that the relationship between the United States and Taiwan would not be bound by “bureaucratic self-restrictions”.
Pompeo, who will leave office in a few days, why do you still mess with the Taiwan issue?
We contacted Diao Daming, a long-term scholar of American issues and a researcher at the National Institute of Development and Strategy of Renmin University of China, to see his analysis.
Since the 2020 U.S. election, the U.S. government has repeatedly challenged China’s bottom line by means of “cutting sausages” on the Taiwan issue.
Recently, the relevant parties have intensified and hysterical. It seems that they want to completely abandon the specific political foundation of Sino-US relations and try to create “established facts” on the Taiwan issue with the attitude of breaking through the bottom line.
Judging from the latest two-handed action, the Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations, Kraft, who claims to “visit Taiwan”, is a member of the current U.S. National Security Council; her “visit to Taiwan” has specific political implications, and even raises suspicion that the United States may put the Taiwan issue on the framework of the United Nations to provoke China.
As for Pompeo’s so-called “untiation” of the interaction between U.S. and Taiwan officials, it may also lead to some unexpected “interactions” between the United States and Taiwan during the last 10 days of the current U.S. government’ term.
Some media observations even said that Pompeo could not be ruled out seizing the last period of policy change and “suddenly visited” Taiwan.
If Pompeo really succeeds, it can be said that it will break through all the bottom lines jointly held on the Taiwan issue since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States, setting an unprecedented evil example.
Whether this evil case is deliberately designed by the White House to design a certain “governing legacy” or whether some anti-China politicians of the U.S. State Department put forward it based on their own Cold War thinking and political prejudices remains to be seen.
Generally speaking, the former is closer to the national strategic level, while the latter focuses on some politicians paving the way for an individual’s future political career.
Over the years, based on their own political background and political concepts, Pompeo and other anti-China politicians have continuously strengthened ideological prejudices.
During their tenure, they have “do everything possible” on Taiwan-related, Hong Kong-related, Xinjiang-related and other issues, and have obtained a lot of political capital through “anti-China”.
Their selfishness is not small, that is, they are likely to hope to facilitate their future personal political careers by leaving a political legacy on Taiwan issues, such as working in a conservative think tank in the future, joining the conservative strategic camp, etc. Cold War discourse such as “United States and Taiwan integration” can fully pave the way for them.
There is no doubt that Pompeo’s lifting of restrictions on exchanges between US and Taiwan officials this time has raised the negative adjustment door in Sino-US relations, broke the basic consensus between China and the United States on the Taiwan issue, and brought great risks to future bilateral relations and cross-strait peace and stability.
For the United States, this behavior deviates from the clear commitment made by the United States in the communiqué of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States.
If Pompeo is allowed to “greatly” crazily “greatly” before leaving office, the situation in the Taiwan Straits region may further deteriorate.
For the Taiwan authorities, there is no need to secretly congratulate themselves that the “Youtai bad check” of the United States is nothing more than turning it into pawns and tools.
Some politicians in the United States staged the “final madness” and had to make China think again about taking necessary measures to safeguard its sovereign security interests and respond to the sinister provocations of anti-China politicians such as Pompeo.
As the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hua Chunti, responded: Pompeo and others are constantly performing “the last madness”, using the remaining terms of office to deliberately disrupt Sino-US relations and serve their personal political self-interest.
This trick moves against the historical trend and violates the friendly and public opinion of the two peoples.
It will certainly be punished by history.
