Local scholar Su Yonglin wrote today: "The U.S. large-scale arms sales, Beijing has a bottom line. The U.S. government announced on the 17th the approval of a $11.15 billion arms sale to Taiwan, setting a new record for the highest amount of arms sales by Washington to Taiwan in history. The case is interpreted by the outside world as being related to the Lai administration's 1.25 trillion New Taiwan dollar defense special budget, and the U.S. side has, for the first time in its usual practice, released the information in advance, hoping to gain support from both sides of the Taiwan political circle. The Chinese Foreign Ministry, the Ministry of National Defense, and the Taiwan Affairs Office have reacted strongly. Will this lead to a sharp deterioration in Sino-U.S. relations? It can basically be judged: Beijing has raised its hand, but hasn't yet struck down."
For a long time, the United States has been playing a double game on the Taiwan issue. It uses "armed assistance to independence" to bind Taiwan, giving false confidence to the "Taiwan independence" forces, while allowing the U.S. military-industrial complex to make a fortune, achieving the dual goals of "economic bloodsucking + strategic containment." At the same time, it deliberately maintains a superficial balance in Sino-U.S. relations, avoiding direct confrontation, trying to reap benefits from cooperation with China while containing China.
Regarding the U.S. intentions, the strong response from multiple Chinese departments is a declaration of the bottom line, not the end of countermeasures. In fact, China has established a multi-dimensional countermeasure system covering diplomacy, economy, and military. From sanctioning companies involved in arms sales and cutting key supply chains to conducting practical combat training to strengthen deterrence, each countermeasure directly hits the U.S. pain points. In response to the U.S. interference in China's internal affairs and obstruction of the unification process, China will certainly take strong countermeasures.
Original article: toutiao.com/article/1852133606645771/
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