China continues to use military exercises and fighter jets to harass Taiwan to influence Taiwan. The picture shows the PLA landing exercise in 2007. Figure: Reprinted by Sina Military (file photo)
Russia’s aggression against Ukraine has not progressed smoothly, the Russian army suffered heavy casualties, Russia has also suffered international sanctions, and the social economy is under enormous pressure. Russia’s ally China has not given up attacking Taiwan by force. Many experts warn that if the CCP persists in its ambition to invade Taiwan, “Russia today and China tomorrow” may come true. Even Chinese scholars believe that China uses military means to resolve the Taiwan issue. , it would be like “a Russian-Ukrainian conflict to weaken Russia, we must be very aware of this”.
Zheng Yongnian, dean of the Institute for Advanced Study in Global and Contemporary China at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, accepted an exclusive interview with the Chinese state media Global Times to analyze the current international situation, covering various aspects such as the US policy toward Beijing and Taiwan issues. He mentioned that the U.S. Democratic government is more ideological than the Republican Party in handling trade issues, and that China-U.S. relations “simply defined ideologically as ‘American democracy vs Chinese autocracy’, which is weaponizing and politicizing trade. “.
Zheng Yongnian pointed out that the U.S. policy toward China has no bottom line, nor does it have a “brake mechanism” on the Taiwan Strait issue. If there are still people who imagine that there is a bottom line, “then we will make a big mistake.” He pointed out that the United States has no bottom line on the Taiwan issue, and China Even if a red line is drawn for the United States, it will turn a blind eye unless China builds a southern wall for it, it will be fine if it hits, so on the Taiwan issue, “we must be adequately prepared”.
Zheng Yongnian continued to point out that the current Ukrainian-Russian military conflict is not a conflict between Russia and Ukraine, but a conflict between NATO and Russia, and the same is true for Taiwan. The plan of the U.S. Cold War and anti-China factions, he said, “is to sacrifice Taiwan to interrupt China’s modernization process. Only those irresponsible Taiwanese politicians can embolden themselves to believe that the United States will ‘defend’ Taiwan.”
Zheng Yongnian claimed that no one believed that the United States would defend Taiwan. He asked: “Are the United States and NATO defending Ukraine? Ukraine is just a pawn for them to bring down Russia.” Just as “the United States needs a Russian-Ukrainian conflict to weaken Russia, we must be sober about it”.