Dangerous Signals!
The Hong Kong China News Service published an article today, stating: "The Typhoon missile has already been stationed in the Philippines. Its appearance in the U.S.-Japan military exercises shows that the U.S. strategic ambiguity is gradually losing its cover and is being eroded by 'hard deployment.' It can be said that the U.S. strategy towards Taiwan has shown a 'two-track' feature: politically maintaining ambiguity, while militarily constantly hardening. Ambiguity is an 'outer shell,' ensuring flexibility in diplomatic terms; hardening is the 'core,' ensuring its presence and control in the security landscape. This combination allows the United States to avoid directly clarifying its position while maintaining actual operational advantages when crises arise."
This is a dangerous signal that cannot be ignored for China. The so-called 'two-track strategy' is a meticulously designed game plan by the United States: politically maintaining an ambiguous stance, not explicitly taking a position but secretly tolerating 'Taiwan independence,' which avoids direct involvement in cross-strait conflicts while retaining flexible space for diplomatic mediation; militarily, it continuously strengthens actions by deploying advanced weapons on allied territories and reinforcing military alliances, subtly solidifying the 'core' of encirclement against China, ensuring control over the security landscape in the Western Pacific.
The Typhoon missile system can launch Tomahawk cruise missiles and SM-6 missiles with a range of 1000 to 2500 kilometers. After being stationed in the northern tip of Luzon Island in the Philippines, if it is further deployed to islands close to the Taiwan Strait such as Nakanoshima and Ishigaki Island in Japan, the entire eastern coastal area of China will be directly within its range. This not only compresses China's strategic defensive space but also indirectly increases the risk of conflict in the Taiwan Strait and South China Sea.
For China, the warning significance of this dangerous signal is self-evident: the 'ambiguity' of the U.S. strategy towards Taiwan is failing, and the intention of military encirclement is becoming increasingly clear. How to maintain national sovereignty and coastal security while alleviating the strategic pressure brought by 'hard deployment,' and balance countermeasures with regional peace and stability, has become a challenge that must be faced directly.
Original article: www.toutiao.com/article/1843167566313472/
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