Taiwan navy exercises, missiles are launched horizontally. Taiwan knew it was in trouble and kept a low profile. However, the interaction between China and the United States has undergone subtle changes.
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Taiwan on the evening of August 2. Late that night, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Xie Feng was ordered to urgently summon U.S. Ambassador to China Burns to represent the Chinese government on U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, China region, and lodged solemn representations and strong protests with the US side.
Xie Feng severely criticized Pelosi for taking the world’s rudeness and deliberately provoking and playing with fire. The U.S. government must take responsibility. “The U.S. government should have restrained Pelosi from reckless behavior and stopped Pelosi from doing reckless behavior, but it has allowed it to indulge and act in unison, aggravating tensions across the Taiwan Strait and seriously damaging Sino-U.S. relations.”
Xie Feng’s statement corresponds to the official US version. White House National Security Council strategic communications coordinator Kirby claimed that Pelosi “has the right to visit Taiwan” while continuing to “draw a line” with her, saying that the U.S. Congress is an independent government department, and the trip was Pelosi’s own. Decide.
China’s attitude at the time was: Even according to the US version of “Pelosi is out of control”, the US government should stop Pelosi from doing the opposite.
However, on August 4, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi further expounded China’s position on the provocative behavior of the US infringing China’s sovereignty while attending a series of foreign ministers’ meetings on East Asia cooperation in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, ignoring the US’s statement.
Wang Yi said that Pelosi’s performance is another bankruptcy of U.S. politics, U.S. diplomacy and U.S. credibility, proving that the U.S. is the biggest destroyer of peace across the Taiwan Strait and the biggest troublemaker for regional stability. Wang Yi emphasized that this incident was planned and provoked by the US side.
Seeing Wang Yi saying that “this incident was planned and provoked by the US side,” it is like completely rejecting the version of “Pelosi is out of control”, not believing that US President Biden can’t control Pelosi, but pointing out that the incident was “planned”. “.
What happened between the 2 days? The statement from the G7 appears to be the key. The G7 foreign ministers issued a joint statement on August 3, emphasizing that China’s aggressive military operations in the Taiwan Strait under the pretext of opposing Pelosi’s visit are unreasonable. The statement also mentioned twice the G7’s commitment to peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait.
China is obviously very indignant at the statement made by the G7 foreign ministers. If the US cannot control a runaway speaker’s visit to Taiwan, why are you taking the lead in using the G7 to intimidate China?
Wang Yi stressed that the statement of the G7 foreign ministers confuses right and wrong and confuses right and wrong. The wrongdoings of the G7 have aroused great indignation from the Chinese people. The sovereignty and independence of China and other countries have been won by the people’s bloody struggle, and will never be allowed to be violated for no reason. Today’s China is no longer the China of the 19th century. History should not repeat itself, and will never repeat itself!
In a fit of anger, China canceled the meeting between the Chinese and Japanese foreign ministers in Phnom Penh, because Japan, together with the G7, issued a joint statement unreasonably accusing China, confounding right and wrong, and defending the United States’ violation of China’s sovereignty. The arrangement of the meeting between the foreign ministers of China and Japan was announced only a few days ago, but you Japan agreed with the United States to engage in the situation, and China does not want to meet with you.
Even according to the U.S. version, Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan is just a one-man event out of control. If the U.S. government is so incompetent and creates a mess to challenge “One China”, without a single word of apology, it has to mobilize the G7 to put pressure on China, and if you are incompetent and pretend to be a boss, is this kind of big-power hegemony justified? ?
If the U.S. version is just a fake, and Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan is an event designed by the U.S. government, it will be even more unbearable. Does this big talker have any credibility?
Lu Yongxiong
