Joe Biden is playing a dangerous game of chicken with Xi Jinping over the issue of delivering democracy to the Communist party’s doorstep. To prove his point, Xi escalated the tension by firmly declaring that the Taiwan Straight belongs to China, with a move equivalent to putting up no trespassing signs. The way the disputed island nation’s Mainland Affairs Council sees it, China’s “public threatening of the nation” is “tantamount to a declaration of war.”
Taiwan caught in the middle
Joe Biden’s handlers are doing their best to start a war with China, and Taiwan is stuck in the middle. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin gave an inflammatory speech on Saturday, June 11, at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore.
It seems intentionally worded to enrage the Chinese communists. It worked. Biden has said all along that if the “status quo” were to change in the region, Uncle Sam would go to war. For months, his administration has been poking and prodding China until they’re forced to push back. That’s the opening Joe’s globalist New World Order handlers were waiting for.
All along, Chinese military officials said over and over again that the “Taiwan Strait is not within international waters.” Washington won’t accept that. The United States and her allies “routinely send naval vessels through the waterway as part of freedom of navigation exercises, with the view that much of the strait is in international waters.” China responds that any right they have to passage is limited at best.
It’s not clear how hard the Chinese are prepared to go to enforce their new “no trespassing” policy but Austin is prepared to test the limits. We’ve been teasing them for a long time. “the US regularly deploys military aircraft and warships in the South China Sea.” Also, “reconnaissance aircraft have successfully electronically impersonated civil aircraft from other countries.” That’s not fair. To top it off, a “U.S. nuclear-powered submarine even hit an ‘uncharted seamount‘ there.” The press really played that one down hard when it happened.
The most up to date Pentagon policy says that “the United States will continue to fly, sail and operate wherever international law allows, and that includes transiting through the Taiwan Strait.” Austin doubled down on that by declaring China is trying to change the infamous “status quo,” not us. We’re totally blameless and innocent as the driven snow.
“Our policy hasn’t changed but unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to be true for the PRC.” He calls it “growing coercion from Beijing.” He’s not happy about all the People’s Liberation Army jets buzzing over “in record numbers in recent months, and on a nearly daily basis.”
#China has sovereignty, sovereign rights and jurisdiction over the #TaiwanStrait. At the same time, it respects the lawful rights of other countries in relevant waters. There is no legal basis of “international waters” in the international law of the sea.
— 刘晓明Liu Xiaoming (@AmbLiuXiaoMing) June 13, 2022
No good end
By Sunday, China’s Defense Minister, Wei Fenghe, appeared at the same international security conference to reply to Austin’s remarks the day before. He was steaming. “Taiwan is, first and foremost, ‘China’s Taiwan.‘ … It’s an internal affair of China’s.” he noted that China will “inevitably achieve reunification with Taiwan.” Then he added a clear threat that “those who pursue Taiwan independence in an attempt to split China will definitely come to no good end.” That means you, Joe.
“Let me make this clear: if anyone dares to secede Taiwan from China, we will not hesitate to fight we will fight at all costs and we will fight to the very end,” Wei promises. “This is the only choice for China.”
“Some country,” he continued, meaning United States, “has violated its promise on the One-China principle as it applies to Taiwan.” That sounds ominous. “It has connived at and supported the moves of separatist forces for Taiwan independence. It keeps playing the Taiwan card against China and it often cites the so-called Taiwan Relations Act, using its domestic law to interfere in the internal affairs of another country.”
If China started tempting Puerto Rico with the benefits of communism and arming them with a whole bunch of Fei Nu-6 missile systems, we wouldn’t like that one bit, would we? How about a Chinese aircraft carrier parked in the Gulf of Mexico?
“No one and no country should impose its will on others or bully others under the guise of multilateralism,” Wei thundered. “We noticed Secretary Austin’s remarks on the U.S. Indo-Pacific strategy. To us the strategy is an attempt to build an exclusive small group in the name of a free and open Pacific to hijack countries in our region and target one specific country. It is a strategy to create conflict confrontation to contain and encircle others.”
He had recently dragged Austin aside for a private chat on the sidelines of the summit and warned “if anyone dares to split Taiwan from China, the Chinese army will definitely not hesitate to start a war, no matter the cost.” Austin doesn’t seem to care. Or, maybe he wants a war.
