The US guided-missile destroyermade a transit through the Taiwan Straits last Wednesday. This was the fourth passage through the sensitive waters by US naval vessels since President Joe Biden took office in January and coincided with a naval drill by the People’s Liberation Army Navy carrier strike group near the island of Taiwan in the South China Sea.
Though the US claimed it was a routine crossing, such a move can be interpreted in a different way: secessionists on the island may be emboldened to go even further in their attempt to split the island from the motherland.
The US is wilfully and recklessly disrupting the regional situation by endangering peace and stability across the Taiwan Straits. Late in March, the US ambassador to Palau, John Hennessey-Niland, became the first US ambassador to a foreign country to visit Taiwan since the US rightly cut off diplomatic ties with the island. It is clear the Biden administration has willingly accepted the mantle of its predecessor and intends to play the Taiwan card in its confrontational approach towards China.
Such a turn in policy is a step away from the promise the US made to abide by the one-China policy, a promise it recently reiterated. It seriously undermines the foundation for relations between the two countries as Beijing has made it clear there is no room for compromise or concessions when it comes to the country’s core interests, such as its territorial integrity.
If the US continues to play with fire on the question of Taiwan, it will only increase the tension across the Taiwan Straits and further harm the already strained political trust between Beijing and Washington. And if those secessionists on the island act on the wrong message of the US and go any further in their attempt to split the island from China, it will only cement the determination of the Chinese mainland to take the island back by force.
The war mongers are hell bent to cause trouble in South China sea, let's see this ramped up agression how far it will last.
US jeopardises peace and stability across the planet. As well as above and below it...
They are looking for war.
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