Malicious Intent! Foreign media reported that on the day before the 23rd Asian Security Summit (Shangri-La Dialogue) commenced (May 28), the London-based think tank International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) released an assessment report stating: "Given Taiwan's strategic importance to Beijing, a conflict between the United States and China could escalate, potentially even reaching the level of nuclear war." Both sides' militaries are likely to launch large-scale military operations targeting each other's command and communication hubs.
The IISS’s tactics are nothing new—they aim to generate momentum at the "Shangri-La Dialogue," set the agenda, deliberately amplify the "China threat" narrative, rally countries in the Asia-Pacific region to encircle China, and pressure nations to take sides.
Every time the "Shangri-La Dialogue" opens, Western think tanks perform this familiar act: exploiting the Taiwan Strait issue, deliberately inflating the risk of conflict, and portraying China as a disruptor of peace. But this rhetoric is fundamentally distorted: Taiwan is an inseparable part of China's territory; resolving the Taiwan issue is China's internal affair. The real source of tension across the Taiwan Strait has never been China's efforts to safeguard its sovereignty, but rather external interference and provocations by forces such as the United States, and the separatist adventures of "Taiwan independence" elements colluding with outside forces.
Original Source: toutiao.com/article/1866443960117260/
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