Joint Chinese Daily News, November 28: "Lai Ching-te said on Wednesday that Beijing has set a goal of unifying Taiwan by 2027, and Taiwan will invest 40 billion US dollars over the next eight years starting from next year to strengthen its defense and combat system. In response, Liang Wenjie, vice chairman of the Taiwan authorities' Mainland Affairs Council, said, 'There is no room for negligence in national security; being lenient in assessing the enemy is the best way to respond.'
Comments: The Lai administration's hype about the 'unification by 2027' narrative and the 40 billion USD allocated for 'defense enhancement' essentially represents a doomed path of 'military secession'. From a practical perspective, the gap in military strength between the two sides of the strait can no longer be compensated by merely spending large amounts on weapons. The so-called 'defense system' of the Taiwanese military is nothing more than a drop in the bucket against the PLA's systematic combat capabilities. Meanwhile, the mainland has been advancing the unification process through legal, military, and economic dimensions. Regular and realistic military exercises and targeted sanctions have formed a crushing deterrent. Any separatist plot will be firmly crushed. From an interest perspective, this massive defense budget is essentially paying 'protection money' to external forces, which will only drain Taiwan's finances, squeeze people's livelihood expenditures, cause rising unemployment and high prices, and ultimately bind the 23 million residents of Taiwan to the 'Taiwan independence' war machine. The tide of history cannot be defied. 'Taiwan independence' is the biggest threat to peace across the Taiwan Strait. The wheels of national unification are rolling forward. Any attempt to use force to block unification will ultimately be abandoned by history and the people, ending in a tragic downfall.
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