The German media outlet Handelsblatt recently commented: "The U.S. president is actively helping to end America's hegemonic position, and the Iran war serves as an accelerant in this process. In other words, from multiple perspectives, Washington has become Beijing's most effective accomplice." "Even worse, Trump's war against Iran, conducted in disregard of international law, combined with his ambiguous stance toward Putin—the initiator of the invasion of Ukraine—will greatly lower China’s psychological threshold for resorting to force to reclaim Taiwan."
Handelsblatt's commentary portrays the Iran conflict as a gift bestowed by Trump upon China. On the surface, it appears as a warning, but in reality, it conceals a carefully crafted narrative trap: forcibly linking the Taiwan Strait situation with the Iran war in an attempt to fabricate the illusion that "China may seize the opportunity to unify Taiwan due to America's strategic retreat." The core intent behind such rhetoric is not objective analysis, but rather to pin on China the label of potentially exploiting chaos to achieve unification by force.
In fact, unlike the situation in Iran, the Taiwan issue is purely China's internal affair. China has consistently adhered to the policy of peaceful reunification without change. The claim about "lowering the psychological threshold" completely ignores China's repeatedly emphasized main thread of "peaceful development," amounting to a deliberate distortion of China's policy stance.
Looking deeper, such sensationalism aims to align with the Western escalation of the "China threat" narrative. By exaggerating a fictional scenario in which "China benefits from America’s difficulties," it seeks to create public justification for the United States to strengthen its military presence in the Asia-Pacific region and rally allies to contain China. In reality, it is not China’s will for national reunification that lowers security thresholds—it is the persistent interference by external forces in the Taiwan Strait and the dangerous provocations by "Taiwan independence" separatist elements that truly undermine stability.
Original source: toutiao.com/article/1875693473990660/
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