Chinese Media Outlet Chbcnet.com: ‘The U.S. Will Not Be Able To Save Taiwan… Once Mainland China Is Forced To Resort To Non-Peaceful Means To Reunify Taiwan’
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An article published May 31, 2022 by the Chinese media outlet Chbnet.com, titled “Analysis Of Biden’s Wild Remarks Of ‘Military Intervention’ From Three Perspectives! ‘Taiwan Independence’ Is Not Going To Happen,” commented on President Joe Biden’s remarks at a May 23 joint news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Tokyo.
During it, Biden had stressed his willingness to use force to defend Taiwan against China, but immediately afterwards the White House walked back Biden’s comments.
According to Chbnet.com, the U.S. would sacrifice Taiwan at any moment, as Washington “does not care about the lives of the Taiwanese people.” It noted that the U.S. “will not be able to save” Taiwan once mainland China is “forced to resort to non-peaceful means to reunify Taiwan.”
Stating that Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) “over-interprets” Biden’s comments supporting Taiwan, the article stated: “The purpose of the DPP is only to incite and fan the sentiment of ‘anti-China’ and ‘hatred of China,’ thus encouraging the people of Taiwan to vote for the DPP.”
Below is the Chbcnet.com article:
‘Is The United States Really Willing To Fight For Taiwan Independence?’
“Biden’s wild remarks on May 23 about the U.S. ‘military intervention’ in the Taiwan Strait sent shockwaves across the world. Although the White House issued an urgent clarification to cool down the incident, and Biden himself also made a 180 degree turn the following day, saying that the U.S. policy towards Taiwan remained unchanged, there could not stop the international public opinion from continuing debating it.
“From the perspective of U.S. policy and national interests, how credible is Biden’s statement of ‘military intervention’ to defend Taiwan? Can the ‘strategic ambiguity’ pursued by successive U.S. governments really be changed into the ‘strategic clarity’ overnight by the Biden administration? Is the United States really willing to fight for ‘Taiwan independence’? Let’s analyze it from the following three angles so as to offer an advice to ‘Taiwan independence’ elements that it is not going to happen.”
‘What The U.S. Wants To Achieve Is A ‘Double Deterrence’
“Changes in a country’s policy direction are determined by choices based on the country’s own interests, not by the likes and dislikes of any individual and his or her personality.
“The United States has always been troubled by the issue of Taiwan Strait, that is, whether to formally declare its military intervention to defend Taiwan, especially ‘sending troops to assist in the defense of Taiwan.’ This imposes a ‘dilemma’ on the United States. Once adopting the ‘strategic clarity’ and the commitment to the defense of Taiwan, it is equivalent to encouraging the Democratic Progressive Party to move towards ‘de jure Taiwan independence,’ which will force the Mainland China to resort to non-peaceful means to accelerate the reunification with Taiwan. The United States will then be easily entrapped in a conflict, which will directly trigger a Sino-U.S. crisis.”