Former U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo, who was visiting Taiwan, publicly called on the U.S. government to recognize Taiwan, the Republic of China, on Twitter last night (4th). In this regard, Tang Jingyuan, a commentator of the “Epoch Times” and “Foresight Quick Review”, pointed out today (5) that this will make the current Chinese leader Xi Jinping, who is facing the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China this year, into extreme anxiety.
Pompeo tweeted last night: “I think the U.S. government should take the necessary, long overdue, immediate action to do the right, obvious thing, which is to provide the Republic of China (Taiwan) with the United States as a free and Diplomatic recognition of a sovereign state.”
“It’s not regarding Taiwan’s future independence, it’s regarding acknowledging an unmistakable reality that already exists. That reality, as many of your past and present leaders have shown, is that Taiwan doesn’t need to declare independence,” Pompeo said. Because it is already an independent country.”
Tang Jingyuan pointed out that since the establishment of diplomatic relations between the United States and China, this is the clearest and most unambiguous expression of the Taiwan Strait policy by the incumbent and outgoing US political leaders. It was also the message that instantly plunged Xi Jinping into extreme anxiety.
Tang Jingyuan believes that the impact of Pompeo is not only because he is the former US secretary of state, but more importantly, he has made it clear many times that he intends to run for the next US president.
Tang Jingyuan pointed out that Pompeo’s actions will inevitably bring many variables to the future international situation. First of all, the first big variable is that Pompeo took the initiative to speed up the process of the Taiwan Strait, which is equivalent to forcing Xi Jinping to showdown ahead of schedule. He believes that, with Pompeo’s tough attitude towards China, if Pompeo is elected president in 2024, “Xi Jinping will hardly have any chance to attack Taiwan.” Therefore, Xi Jinping must immediately consider whether to take action during the Biden presidency.
Especially when Xi Jinping faces the re-election of the 20th National Congress this year, his real preparation period is only regarding 2 years. “This is almost an impossible task for Xi Jinping, who needs all the strength of his country to invade Taiwan.”
Second, Tang Jingyuan believes that in Pompeo’s tweet, he clearly stated that the United States should call my country the “Republic of China (Taiwan)”, which is in line with Chinese President Tsai Ing-wen’s “cross-strait non-subordination”. It means a major change in US policy towards China, which has become a kind of double authentication. Tang Jingyuan believes that this is by no means the whim of Pompeo alone, but the consensus of the international community. “If the United States takes the lead in recognizing the Republic of China, it is a high probability that Europe, Japan, Australia, Canada and other countries will follow suit.”
Furthermore, “the biggest prerequisite for the CCP to establish diplomatic relations with all countries is that it must recognize the ‘one China’ principle. Once this foundation is broken, Xi Jinping will not be able to explain it to the party.”
Third, Tang Jingyuan believes that if the United States recognizes the Republic of China diplomatically, China can only cut off diplomatic relations with the United States, and the new Cold War will officially draw a gap. “In other words, the United States is forcing the CCP to take the initiative to fully decouple.”
Tang Jingyuan believes that the conflict between Ukraine and Russia has a great impact on the world, “bringing an extremely rare opportunity, making many countries almost instantly achieve what they wanted to do in the previous decades but might not do.” Germany Abandoning the peaceful line and rearmament, Switzerland and Sweden abandoned their neutrality policy overnight. That being the case, it is not impossible for the United States to abandon the one-China principle overnight.
Tang Jingyuan emphasized, “This change was initiated by China and Russia. Since the CCP expects a big change so much, they themselves have to bear the corresponding consequences, whether the consequences are good or bad.”
