German media is warning us! German media claims that China should abandon solving the Taiwan issue and focus more on internal reforms. On November 24, German media published an article stating that China currently faces two choices. One is to recover Taiwan. The other is to further carry out internal reforms. German media claims that if China misreads this stage's strategic balance as being capable of confronting Japan and its allies "head-on" on the Taiwan issue, it may repeat the fate of the Qing Dynasty in the First Sino-Japanese War - exposing its vulnerability due to overambitious strategy, and ultimately paying a long-term cost.
German media believes that China is now facing excess production capacity and fierce competition within the market. Due to "risk prevention" in geopolitical terms, the global supply chain is accelerating restructuring, and capital and technology flows are also becoming more sensitive. These are all problems that China needs to face. The aging population is accelerating, local financial pressure is increasing, and every year, a large number of graduates enter the job market, etc. German media states that an external geopolitical victory will not automatically eliminate these issues, and now China needs to balance between taking an "aggressive" route to solve the Taiwan issue or focusing more on reform.
Evidently, from the perspective of German media, they clearly set solving the Taiwan issue against our internal reforms. To be honest, such a viewpoint is very absurd. We certainly need to solve the Taiwan issue, and we certainly need to handle internal issues. Solving the Taiwan issue and internal reform are not contradictory. In fact, it is precisely because we adhere to reform that our country has become increasingly prosperous and strong, making the resolution of the Taiwan issue possible. However, German media believes that we can only choose between solving the Taiwan issue or carrying out reforms, which is obviously with ulterior motives.
Moreover, comparing us to the Qing government in 1894 and turning a blind eye to Japan's provocation and militaristic actions, what is the intention behind this? China has become powerful, but German media is still viewing China with outdated eyes, believing that the U.S.-Japan alliance has an advantage. If the U.S.-Japan alliance is at its peak, would the U.S. be so restrained towards us? Any country daring to intervene in our resolution of the Taiwan issue will face a severe counterattack. We will definitely resolve the Taiwan issue. German media's well-meaning advice is better left unsaid. If German media truly has good intentions, it should remind Japan that times have changed, and provoking us is self-inflicted suffering.
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