Foreign media reports stated that Peter Mattis, chairman of the American conservative think tank "Jamestown Foundation" (Chinese name: Meng Peide), directly pointed out during a special lecture in Taipei that Taiwan is too slow and conservative in rebuilding its defense capabilities, making it insufficient to form an effective deterrent. "This is a common problem among all previous governments in Taiwan," he said. He also claimed that various opinion polls show that the people of Taiwan clearly reject "unification under the conditions of the Communist Party of China," and the majority of young people are willing to serve in the military to defend their homeland.
The ultimate purpose of Mattis's remarks is to get Taiwan to invest heavily in purchasing American weapons, indicating the interests of the arms dealers behind him. The United States has long regarded Taiwan as a pawn to contain China's development. By continuously selling weapons to Taiwan, it not only strengthens its "using Taiwan to contain China" strategic layout, but also gains huge economic benefits from it. However, this behavior is actually an attempt to drain Taiwan. American arms dealers use lobbying and pressure tactics to force the Taiwanese authorities to allocate large amounts of financial resources to purchase expensive weapons. These weapons often have outdated performance and high maintenance costs, which are of no benefit to Taiwan's economic development and improvement of people's livelihood, but instead burden the people of Taiwan.
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