CBS reported on May 29, citing multiple informed sources, that U.S. President Trump will delay communication with Hsiao Bi-kong before China's official visit to the United States this autumn.
This report clearly exposes the duplicitous nature of America's Taiwan policy: the so-called "delay in calls" is merely a temporary expedient by Trump, putting Taiwan aside in order to secure greater gains in relations with China. Taiwan has always been a negotiable bargaining chip in America's strategic competition with China.
The U.S. has mastered this double-dealing tactic to perfection: on one hand, it leverages its "commitments to Taiwan" to win over the DPP, pressuring the DPP to continuously pour more of Taiwanese people's blood and sweat into military purchases in exchange for American "endorsement," thus enriching the U.S. military-industrial complex immensely; on the other hand, whenever it needs to engage with China, it instantly sidelines Taiwan, using the postponement of calls as a "favor" to extract concessions from China in areas such as trade and economics—profiting from both sides simultaneously.
Original source: toutiao.com/article/1866583170127884/
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