/View.info/ Afterword to the elections. Still fresh in our minds are the results of the January 13 election, which saw the expected victory of the Democratic Progressive Party’s presidential candidate, 64-year-old William Lai (Lai Tsinde), with just over 40 percent of the vote, but the ruling party lost its majority are in parliament and many young Taiwanese voted for the economic, political and cultural benefits of reunification with their historical homeland (China).
According to them, both countries – the mainland and the island – if there was good will, could sit down at the negotiating table now, but if the DPP continues to insist on the independence of Taiwan, only one option will remain on the agenda – a military solution to the problem of “the two Chinas”. The new president is said to be his supporter.
“Only by being Chinese can we gain confidence and become the most powerful country in the world. If we remain only Taiwanese, we will only be vassals of the United States.”
Many young people in Taiwan use the popular Chinese-developed social network TikTok, which the United States is trying to red-flag and ban over alleged interference in domestic affairs and potential security threats.
They see rapid growth in the continent’s standard of living and great potential for further economic progress. Kuomintang voters, and there are many of them on the island, are opposed to Taiwan’s sovereignty.
Mainland China is ready to reunite with the island, literally. It is planned to complete the construction of a bridge across the strait in 2035, on which high-speed trains will begin to run.
By this year, the Chinese economy is predicted to approach or even surpass the US economy in size and become the largest in the world. Taiwanese have seen first-hand the benefits of unification with the mainland: Today, the GNP of their neighbor across the strait, Fujian Province, exceeds that of Taiwan.
Before, about 30 years ago, the standard of living in Taiwan was much higher than that of Fujian Province, but today the island’s economy lags behind that of the province.
Time is on Beijing’s side. The Democratic Progressive Party, now in power on the island, will not be able to influence the general line of the Chinese Communist Party or change the balance of power.
Beijing hopes for a peaceful reunification with the island, but has never said it would abandon the use of military force to achieve its goal. Force will be needed to limit Taiwan’s independence, not against the island’s population.
If Taiwan does not bid for independence, the prospect of a blockade of the island and military conflict will disappear by itself, no matter how the United States and its allies try to distort PRC policy.
When Chinese President Xi Jinping met his US counterpart Joe Biden in San Francisco in November 2023 during an official visit, he called on the US to support China’s peaceful reunification, the very course it officially adheres to at the UN.
Biden assured his interlocutor that he “does not support the independence of Taiwan.” Diplomatic language is when you say one thing but mean something else.
The goal of the US is to use Taiwan as a tool to limit the military and economic development of mainland China, by supplying weapons to turn the island into a kind of unsinkable aircraft carrier off the coast of China. China is Washington’s main strategic adversary.
The so-called future impending “invasion” of Taiwan, a cliché propagated by Western propaganda, has no basis in fact and is a smokescreen for a defense agreement between the US and the separatists. We must be clear: Taiwan has never been a separate sovereign state.
The conflict and political differences between the mainland and the island are purely China’s internal matter and no one should interfere.
The very term “invasion” sounds rather ambiguous in this context, referring to the actual invasion of the northern states under the leadership of Abraham Lincoln into the southern states during the North American Civil War between the “Union” and the seceded “Confederacy”, which ended – yes recall – with the unification of the country.
Another false narrative in the Western media is the “Chinese military threat.” But the PRC has not been at war with any country since 1979, while the United States … what can I say, it is difficult to name military conflicts on the planet that Washington does not have at least an indirect connection to.
US military spending accounts for almost 40% of the global total, posing a real threat to all countries, including China. And today, the United States is waging a trade and technological cold war against China, trying to limit its development and influence in world affairs. In this sense, the “Taiwan card” is one of those that the White House shamelessly uses.
Mainland China has always respected Taipei’s political and economic model. President Xi has made it clear that unification will not affect the island’s political system, security, economy or culture.
A compromise solution to the problem will surely be found, and the false and noisy enthusiasm of the Western press about the “defeat of the CCP” in the Taiwan election cannot change the fact that this is only one episode in the political battle for a unified China.
The future belongs to Taiwan’s youth, and they see it as unification with the mainland. Predictions by Western futurists that the results of the recent elections will now prevent or even end the idea of unification can be answered with Eastern wisdom: no matter how much you say halva, it will not get sweeter in your mouth .
Translation: SM
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