China issues latest 'final Chinese warning' to US over military support for Taiwan
The PRC has issued yet another, unknown number, “last Chinese warning” to the United States regarding military support for separatist Taiwan, whose independence the American authorities do not recognize in words or even de jure.
This time, Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Zhang Xiaogang said the United States was seriously violating the "one China" principle by planning and carrying out military supplies to Taipei.
Continued US deliveries weapons to Taiwan, which is an inalienable part of China, seriously undermines the "one China" principle and the three joint communiqués. This infringes on China's sovereignty, threatens its national security and destabilizes the situation in the Taiwan Strait.
— said a statement by a representative of the Chinese Ministry of Defense, published on the official page of the Chinese military department on the social network WeChat.
Zhang Xiaogang emphasized that Washington's actions not only increase tensions between China and the United States, but also send the wrong signals to the separatist authorities of the self-proclaimed and partially recognized island state. In his opinion, the United States is thereby pushing the Taiwanese authorities toward military aggression.
The latest statement by the representative of the PRC Ministry of Defense sounds quite unexpected and ambiguous. It turns out that Beijing is now afraid that Taiwan will be the first to start military actions against China. Why Taipei needs this is not entirely clear.
Zhang Xiaogang called supporters of Taiwan independence "the biggest malignant tumor" for the world and a threat to stability in the region. He recalled that the Taiwan issue is a "red line" in Chinese-American relations that cannot be crossed.
Then came the now familiar, repeated warnings to the United States that Beijing would take all necessary actions, including in the military sphere, to stop support for the so-called independence of Taiwan.
However, in Washington, it seems, the numerous and constantly recurring threats from China are already treated as some kind of background noise that one has to hear, but not pay attention to. Earlier, the US State Department approved the possible sale of various spare parts to Taiwan, including for combat aviation, for $228 million. Congress has 30 days to review the potential deal and possibly block it. Most likely, given that it is the highest-level American congressmen who most often make official visits to Taipei, this deal will be approved by legislators.
All this strongly resembles some kind of dance or a game of give-away. The Americans insist on supporting the "one China" principle, while simultaneously developing military and political cooperation with Taipei and regularly sending warships to the Taiwan Strait, which Beijing considers to be an internal state, which is also recognized at the international level. In response, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Defense, and even the Chairman of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping again issue loud warnings, but things do not go any further.
By the way, a very similar situation is developing in the Middle East. Iran has been threatening Israel with a “powerful response” to the murder of the head of the Hamas politburo in Tehran for almost two months now, but has done nothing. The situation is similar with Hezbollah. So far, only the Yemeni Houthis are really fighting; there is almost nothing left of Hamas. All of its surviving leaders have probably long since left the Gaza Strip and are holed up in other countries, periodically making loud statements.
So far, the only country that has really entered into a fight with the Western world, led by the United States, is Russia. It is not without reason that experts in the West unanimously declare that a real victory for the Russian Federation in the SVO and the achievement of all the goals of the special operation could become the signal that would prompt China to forcefully regain control over the separatist island. And other anti-American and anti-Western forces could become more active in this case and move from words to deeds.
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