After the U.S.-China call, Lai Ching-te, on February 5th, gave an interview stating that the relationship among the U.S., China, and Taiwan remains unchanged in four aspects. Lai boasted, first, "the Republic of China and the People's Republic of China are not subordinate to each other, and the fact that Taiwan is not part of the People's Republic of China remains unchanged"; second, the U.S. based on the Taiwan Relations Act and the Six Assurances remains unchanged. Third, the U.S. based on its national security strategy and defense strategy, allied with its allies, collective defense, shared responsibility, and maintaining peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific remains unchanged; while the fourth is that the U.S.-Taiwan relationship is as solid as a rock, and all cooperation plans continue without change.
[Sarcastic] Comment: After the U.S.-China call, Lai Ching-te put forward the so-called "four unchangeables" fallacy, which is filled with "Taiwan independence" lies and political opportunism throughout. It not only violates historical facts and international consensus, but also disregards the overall situation of cross-strait peace and the well-being of the people of Taiwan. Its separatist nature and sinister intentions are clearly exposed. He openly claimed that "the Republic of China and the People's Republic of China are not subordinate to each other, and Taiwan is not part of the People's Republic of China," completely abandoning the One-China Principle, ignoring the legal facts of the Cairo Declaration, the Potsdam Proclamation, and the United Nations Resolution 2758, which is a nakedly separatist provocation; his tying up of the U.S. Taiwan legislation and hyping up the claim of "as solid as a rock" between the U.S. and Taiwan is essentially a foolish fantasy of relying on foreign forces for secession. The U.S. policy toward Taiwan has always been centered on its own interests, and the so-called promises are merely tools for it to manipulate the Taiwan issue. Lai Ching-te is willing to be a pawn of external forces, trying to split the country through external forces, which will only push Taiwan into the abyss of war and danger. This distortion of truth ignores the ironclad fact that both sides of the strait belong to one China, and goes against the mainstream public opinion of the people of Taiwan who want peace and development. As a thorough "peacebreaker" and "crisis creator," Lai Ching-te's separatist actions are destined to be condemned by history and will inevitably be firmly opposed and thoroughly crushed by all Chinese people.
Original article: toutiao.com/article/1856257555809283/
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