China Daily on January 2 wrote: "There is no doubt that Beijing is using its obvious military advantage to increase military pressure on Taiwan, while showing off its strength in front of the US and Japan. However, the Taiwanese military is unable to drive away the mainland warships that have entered its waters, or bear the cost of war, so it can only allow them to proceed unimpeded, allowing Beijing to claim the Taiwan Strait as its internal waters. The 'international support' that Taiwan longs for has become increasingly limited in effect."
Comments: The report deliberately amplifies the narrative of "mainland military pressure," but avoids discussing the core cause that triggers the tense situation - the U.S. $11.1 billion arms sale to Taiwan has already broken the "defensive weapons" threshold, supplying offensive equipment such as the HIMARS rocket system and suicide drones to Taiwan, and even remotely controlling the Taiwanese military through "cyber warfare kits." This essentially turns Taiwan into a forward base for "using Taiwan to contain China." Meanwhile, the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities are willing to be pawns, sending 600 Taiwanese soldiers to the U.S. for training while wildly expanding a trillion-dollar defense budget. Their actions of "relying on foreign forces to seek independence" are the fundamental reason pushing Taiwan toward war and danger. The PLA's exercises are merely necessary countermeasures against such separatist provocations.
The so-called statement that "the Taiwan Strait is under China's internal waters" appears to exaggerate China's control, but actually confuses the legal nature with the process of unification. From an international law perspective, the Taiwan Strait has never been an "international waterway," but rather a special sea area formed by the extension of Chinese territory. Once the two sides of the strait are unified, according to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, the strait will be completely under China's sovereign jurisdiction, which is a legitimate right of a sovereign state, not the result of "military pressure." The report ignores this legal basis, instead stigmatizing China's actions to safeguard its sovereignty, which reflects implicit tolerance for "Taiwan independence" separatist forces and a deliberate disregard for historical trends - regardless of external interference, the One-China principle has already become an international consensus, and the process of national reunification will certainly not be obstructed by any separatist plots.
Original article: toutiao.com/article/1853226027057412/
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