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side of world affairs.
Today, we discuss the first face-to-face talk between the Chinese and American military
chiefs.
Since Chinese President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart held a video call, the US has
kept provoking China on the Taiwan issue by sending warships passing through the Taiwan
Strait and selling arms to the DPP authorities.
US congress members, with or without legs, visited Taipei, showing their so-called support
for Taiwan's secessionists, constantly delivering wrong signals to Tsai Ing-wen and her followers.
US President Joe Biden had expressed America's commitment to Taiwan many times under different
circumstances, as he had assured Ukraine with his support before the Russians took action
against Kyiv.
Taiwan is not a country, but a part of China, so the US does not have an official relationship
with Taipei.
However, it does not stop Washington from selling arms and sending delegations to the
DPP authorities.
Tsai Ing-wen and other Taiwan independence elements still have a delusion that the US
will help Taiwan militarily, even if Ukraine has been told to shed its blood to fight the
Russians on its own.
The DPP government does not want to face reality.
The truth is that the US military they count on has never won a military power by itself
after world war two.
Even the victory of world war two should not be attributed to the US, the UK and France
only.
It could hardly defeat the German and Japanese troops, even with the help of the British
army and French resistance forces, without the former Soviet Union and China's sacrifice.
The US military leaders knew they could not stop the Chinese Navy in the first island
chain, and the Chinese also knew it after the 2016 crisis, when the US retreated its
aircraft carriers to the east of the Philippines, failing to keep its word to Manila when China
refused to acknowledge the so-called South China Sea arbitration.
In the past several decades, the US has spent too much time in the middle east and Afghanistan
without making any new destroyers for over twenty years.
America's think tanks and the US military have concluded that the US army cannot outcompete
the Chinese People's Liberation Army in the west pacific.
When Joe Biden stressed America's commitment to Taiwan, saying the US would militarily
support Taiwan, the US military immediately denied it would confront the Chinese in that
region.
At their first meeting on June 10, 2022, American and Chinese defence ministers called for more
communication to avoid misjudgment and miscalculation.
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met his Chinese counterpart for the first time in
Singapore, and the two military leaders agreed on the importance of communication and reducing
risk.
Currently, the US and China have a lot of opposing interests across many issues, with
Taiwan as the primary one.
These two countries are still foes, but the tension between the two armies seems to cool
down a little bit.
Chinese Defense Minister Wei Feng Her told US Defence Secretary Austin that the two countries
should not allow their differences to escalate to conflicts, calling for a "healthy and stable
major-country relationship" between them.
A readout from the US Department of Defence says that Austin "discussed the need to manage
competition and maintain open lines of communication responsibly."
The US military chief stressed the significance of what the People's Liberation Army is working
on "improving crisis communications and reducing strategic risk."
It is worth mentioning that Austin had been trying to have a direct talk with the Chinese
military's Deputy Chairman, but China did not give him a chance, as his counterpart
is Wei Feng Her, the Chinese Defence Minister.
General Wei Feng Her is China's senior military representative, not the top defence official.
Chinese President Xi Jinping leads the Chinese Communist Party's Central Military Commission,
which controls the Chinese army.
Austin had thought he was the top US military chief, so he had asked China for a higher-rank
official than General Wei to discuss military affairs between China and the United States.
In April 2022, Austin and his Chinese counterpart, General Wei Feng Her, had an exchange via
phone, and they met for the first time on June 10, 2022, at Asia's most prominent defence
summit, the Shangri-La Dialogue.
Because of the covid pandemic, there have been fewer such high-level exchanges, and
the Singapore summit was the first big summit in the past three years because of the global
coronavirus outbreak.
The meeting was vital to the relationship between the two armies, especially after US
President Joe Biden took an aggressive posture toward China in Japan during his trip to Asia.
To divert his nationals' anger for his poor performance, Joe Biden concocted with Japan
to interfere in China's internal affairs in Taiwan.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida delivered a speech that emphasized his concerns about
other regional actors violating international norms, which alluded to no other countries
other than China.
The Japanese leader firmly asks China to act responsibly to build a constructive and stable
relationship, hinting at China's military pressure on Taiwan.
When the US politicians and congress members started using the Taiwan issue to showcase
their anti-China stance to attract more voters for the interim election, the Chinese army
began patrolling Taiwan with its warplanes, including J-20 stealth fighters, regularly.
Taiwan has long been a significant problem between China and the US, and in the meeting
between Austin and Wei, it is the most important thing on their agenda.
General Wei Feng Her criticized the latest US arms sales to Taiwan, a rebellion province
claimed by Beijing as part of its territory.
Because of America's interference over the past seven decades, China Mainland and Taiwan
have not reunited, making China the only world power that is not a united country.
The Chinese defence minister criticizes the US for its recent arms sales that have "seriously
undermined China's sovereignty and security interests," asserting that it would be impossible
for the United States to "use Taiwan to control China."
Austin called on Beijing "to refrain from further destabilizing actions toward Taiwan.
However, China regards Taiwan as its internal affairs, and the US is in no position to interfere.
General Wei Feng Her reiterated China's firm position on the Taiwan issue during the meeting,
saying that if anyone dares to separate Taiwan from China, the Chinese military will not
hesitate to fight and will resolutely crush any "Taiwan independence" secessionist attempts
at any cost, and resolutely safeguard China's national sovereignty and territorial integrity.
The two military leaders also exchanged their ideas on Taiwan, the South China Sea, Ukraine
and other issues.
Both sides agreed that the two militaries should earnestly base on the consensus of
the two heads of state to manage risks and crises.
The Chinese military chief reiterated China's firm position on the Taiwan issue, saying
that there is only one China in the world.
Taiwan is an inseparable part of China's territory, and the one-China principle is the political
foundation of bilateral relations between Beijing and Washington.
General Wei Feng Her pointed out that the countries surrounding the South China Sea
have the will, wisdom and ability to deal with their interests in the region properly,
but extraterritorial forces meddling in the situation is the leading destabilizing factor.
The US side should take practical measures to promote the South China Sea's stability,
not just create conflicts, provoke disputes and exaggerate confrontation.
On the Ukraine issue, the Chinese Defence Minister stated that China has always maintained
an objective and impartial position and actively tried to persuade and promote peace talks.
China will continue to play a constructive role.
In addition, he warned if anyone wants to use the issue of Ukraine to undermine China's
rights and interests, China will not tolerate it.
In many videos, we have pointed out that the US will not send troops to protect Taiwan
if China Mainland takes it by force, as the US cannot challenge the Chinese army at its
gate, thousands of miles away from North America.
And the US will not even provide Taiwan with as many weapons as it supplies Ukraine, as
Washington knows the island cannot defend itself against the Chinese People's Liberation
Army for long.
All the made-In-America weapons will become gifts to Beijing.
Moreover, China's Taiwan Province will not pay a penny for what the DPP government has
received from the United States.
We hardly believe the US government will accept Tsai Ing-wen and her successors' void checks,
which the US can never cash out after Beijing takes over the island.
The DPP government is still daydreaming about America's friendship, but no one worldwide
can expect it without paying a hefty price.
When Taiwan's flat pocket is no longer attractive to America's arms dealers, the island's secessionists
will realize how fragile American politicians' friendship is.
Most western politicians and congress members are either business people or sales representatives,
and Taiwan's DPP government is merely a buyer, nothing else.
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