US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi's trip to Taiwan caused a thousand waves.
She took a long detour for safety reasons, and finally completed the entire visit to Taiwan smoothly.
The CCP did not take action against Pelosi as expected by some analysts. Some people on both sides of the strait were disappointed, and some ridiculed them, thinking that the CCP’s allowing Pelosi to visit Taiwan was a sign of weakness.
However, the CCP’s goal is to reunify Taiwan as peacefully as possible. Taking action against Pelosi will only turn domestic issues into foreign affairs and needlessly involve the United States in disputes. Embrace.
This does not mean that Pelosi's visit has no consequences. The CCP immediately announced violent counter-attack measures, militarily encircling the entire island of Taiwan for military exercises, the scale and significance of which far exceeded the 1996 Taiwan Strait crisis; the economic "poor Taiwan" policy also It has come one after another, indicating that its red line cannot be overstepped by half a step.
Before Pelosi's special plane arrived in Taiwan, the world was looking at flowers in the fog, but as things unfolded, the fog gradually dissipated, and the Taiwan Strait and cross-strait relations were obviously undergoing fundamental changes.
Because of Taiwan's rampant reliance on the United States to seek independence, the CCP has adjusted its approach to cross-strait relations and handling "Taiwan independence." alert.
Decisive use of military and economic means to punish "Taiwan independence" with small punishments and a long-term "poor Taiwan" plan will become the new normal, depending on whether Taiwan will change its path and return to the right track from the wrong path of relying on the United States to seek independence.
No one hopes that the Taiwan issue will eventually be resolved by "reunification by force", but no one can rule out this possibility, because China will never give up its core interests of reunifying Taiwan, and the CCP also has the ability and determination to implement long-term plans. .
On the contrary, for the United States, Taiwan is just a pawn to control China. Once the interests of the United States change, for example, the comprehensive national strength is surpassed by China and it has to face the reality of power sharing, the United States will give up its so-called commitment.
Afghanistan and the Kurds are stark examples, and Ukraine is being sacrificed.
The Taiwan Strait crisis should make both Hong Kong and Taiwanese seriously realize that national sovereignty is China's unchallenged bottom line, and colluding with foreign forces to play the red line will ultimately have to pay a heavy price.
On August 3, after Tsai Ing-wen awarded Pelosi the "Special Grand Shouqingyun Medal", the two sides took a group photo.
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The "sense of sight" of the Taiwan issue
In this Taiwan Strait crisis, Hong Kong is not a "peanut friend" who can watch the fire from the other side.
The experience of Hong Kong in 2019 has reference significance for Taiwan, and the wrong path that Taiwan is going down also has a profound reminder for Hong Kong.
At present, Taiwan's "Taiwan independence" and green camps are similar to Hong Kong's "Hong Kong independence" and Huang Si. They all think that relying on the so-called support of the United States and Western countries is enough to threaten the central government to make concessions to them, and naively think that relying on foreign self-reliance can become their split. National passport.
The Taiwan independence elements tightly hugged the thighs of the United States and Japan, thinking that the United States and Japan would go to war to defend Taiwan.
The Hong Kong independence activists in Hong Kong also shouted slogans such as US sanctions and the cancellation of Hong Kong's independent customs territory status, thinking that it was enough to allow them to realize their illusory imagination.
Regarding the kindness and tolerance that the central government has shown over the years, they all believe that this means that the central government has no way to deal with them and dare not do anything to them.
On the other hand, the media, opinion leaders or cyber army with strong political stances deceive the public with false information and distorted theories, creating an advantage in public opinion, making the masses think that challenging the bottom line of the central government is a bright road.
Some Hong Kong media and politicians have played up the theory of China's collapse for many years, magnifying the economic and political problems in the mainland, making young people think that if Hong Kong is messed up, the mainland will collapse.
Taiwan's green camp "experts" and the Internet Army are happy to take advantage of the Taiwanese people's ignorance of the mainland's national conditions, constantly portraying the mainland as a backward and impoverished place, making jokes such as "mainlanders can't afford tea eggs", and even through Belittling the capabilities of the PLA misleads Taiwanese people into thinking that the island is very safe.
Taiwan independence elements are starting to follow the path that Hong Kong independence elements took in 2019, thinking that crossing the central red line will have no consequences.
Hong Kong independence activists launched violent demonstrations in an attempt to overthrow the SAR government. They also tried their best to win over American politicians and tried to undermine the "One China" principle by "cutting sausages". Facing the red line of the mainland, they still showed no repentance.
The results of Hong Kong independence and radical violence are obvious to all. Needless to say, the final result of "Taiwan independence" will not be very different.
In 2019, the Taiwan Green Camp relied on the promotion of "Hong Kong today, Taiwan tomorrow" to sell a sense of national subjugation and win the election. Perhaps they did not expect this statement to be self-fulfilling.
On August 4, a brigade of the Army in the Eastern Theater Command organized a long-range fire unit to organize live ammunition in the Taiwan Strait to complete the precision strike mission.
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Politicians are willing to make wedding dresses for others
It is not a coincidence that Hong Kong and Taiwan have gone astray one after another. Both are deeply confronted with structural contradictions in which the interests of politicians and the people are inconsistent.
Radicals in Hong Kong have spotted young people's dissatisfaction with social injustice and low class mobility, and took the opportunity to package these problems as mainland problems, inciting land-Hong Kong confrontation and political divisions within Hong Kong.
The methods they propose, including "Hong Kong independence", are unrealistic and are by no means a solution to these social problems. They just want the West to use them as agents to disrupt Hong Kong affairs and seize the opportunity to seize political power in Hong Kong.
The older generation of pan-democrats were led by the radicals for fear of losing their seats and succumbed to the so-called "non-separation" philosophy.
The turmoil in 2019 has hurt the whole Hong Kong society, and a large number of pan-democratic figures have even had to end their political careers.
The situation in Taiwan can only be described as "magic".
In the early years, Lee Teng-hui had secretly promoted "Taiwan independence", disregarding the interests of the entire Taiwanese people for his own political ideals.
The DPP was able to govern twice with the political appeal of "Taiwan independence" and a sense of national subjugation.
On the one hand, they dare not use the banner of "Taiwan independence", but on the other hand, they collude with foreign countries to make small moves, continue to exaggerate the mainland threat theory, cover up the reality that their politicians are fake, corrupt, and incompetent, and intensify cross-strait confrontation.
In the end, politicians such as Tsai Ing-wen can go into exile, but the majority of Taiwanese people will have to bear the bitter consequences.
The United States instigated political turmoil around the world for its own national interests or to serve domestic electoral needs, never for the well-being of the local people.
In the past, how many countries had wars and regimes easier because of the color revolutions in the United States. In the end, which of Iraq, Libya, Syria, etc. benefited?
Hong Kong independence and Taiwan independence politicians are willing to be political tools of the United States even if they know this. They are either ignorant or unscrupulous.
But the so-called lone hand is hard to say, and the public cooperates with or tolerates the selfish and stupid behavior of these politicians, which is also one of the reasons for the problem.
Looking back, how many "harmony" in Hong Kong have been deceived by the so-called "justice" of violent people, tacitly supporting some dehumanizing behaviors?
Many Taiwanese people only vote on their positions, and do not stop the crazy behavior and political corruption of green camp politicians.
Hong Kong people envy Taiwan's democratic elections, but in the end the politicians did not put the interests of the people first, and the people were willing to cooperate.
Today it seems that it is worthy of deep reflection in both places.
The Taiwan Strait and cross-strait relations are clearly undergoing fundamental changes.
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Governing must serve the well-being of the people
The difference between Taiwan and Hong Kong is that it is much more difficult for the central government to deal with this "Taiwan's 2019" than the Hong Kong issue.
The central government promulgated the "Hong Kong National Security Law", which easily disintegrated the core Hong Kong independence elements and corrected the Hong Kong people's misunderstanding of the CCP and international lines.
Taiwan has its own government, financial network, and military. Although Taiwan's military cannot be compared with the People's Liberation Army, it is not a problem that can be solved by a few decrees and laws, and Taiwan has deep US involvement behind it.
It is not technically difficult for Beijing to forcibly use military force, but it bears the well-being of the people on both sides of the strait and the great aspiration of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Peaceful reunification has always been China's national policy toward Taiwan, and military reunification is the last resort.
Just as it did not take unnecessary action against Pelosi's special plane because of the clamor on both sides of the strait last week, it showed its responsibility to the great nation.
Su Dongpo wrote this very well in his "Liuhou Lun": "There are some people who can't be ninja. When a man sees humiliation, he draws his sword and stands up to fight. This is not enough to be brave. There are great brave people in the world. It is not alarmed when it comes, and it is not angered when it is added for no reason. The people it holds are very large, and its ambition is far away.”
Unprincipled patience is for cowardice, nothing to be alarmed or angry is unintentional, and the real brave are those with lofty aspirations.
The ambition that those in power must have is to think about the well-being of the people. Politicians who can’t take on big responsibilities are just beating themselves up. What really destroys them is not others, but themselves.
