Speaking today at a New Years celebration in Taipei, Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen said she will defend her country’s sovereignty against Communist China, now breathing down Taipei’s neck. “We must remind the Beijing authorities to not misjudge the situation to prevent the ‘military expansion of adventurism,” Tsai said at a New Year’s speech broadcast on Facebook. Tsai put Beijing on notice that Taipei will not rollover for Beijing. Chinese President Xi Jinping has been warning the U.S. and Taipei not to assert Taiwan’s independence. Xi has been sending waves of military bombers into the Taiwan Strait to let Tsai know that she’s walking on thin ice trying to assert independence from Beijing. President Joe Biden, 79, and his 59-year-old Secretary of State Antony Blinken have warned Beijing to back off its attempt to revert to a two-China policy.
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Since taking office, Biden and Blinken have slammed China for genocide against Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang Province, including its treatment of pro-Democracy protesters in Hong Hong, only recently cracking down on the only remaining pro-Democracy publication in Hong Kong. Blinken demanded today the Beijing released “But if Taiwan’s independent separatist forces continue to provoke, coerce any and cross any Chinese red lines, we will have to take decisive measure,” waring Taipei to stop asserting with U.S. backing their sovereignty. “We are willing to strive for prospect of peaceful negotiation,” said Zhu Zenglian, spokesperson for the Taiwan foreign office in Beijing. Tsai’s statements today does nothing to stop the belligerent rhetoric now reaching a fever’s pitch. Telling Beijing that Taiwan will defend its sovereignty with the help of the U.S. is counter-productive.
Once former President Jimmy Carter signed the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act, it superseded the 1954 Sino-American mutual defense treaty. Carter agreed that the United States going forward would recognize only one China, not the one known as the Democratic Republic of China [ROC]. When it comes to antagonizing Beijing, nothing irks Beijing more of U.S. strategic ambiguity with regard to Taipei. But maintaining strategic ambiguity whether the U.S. or its allies would commit troops to defend Taipei antagonizes Beijing. Beijing has put Biden and Tsai on notice that continued talk of defending Taiwan/s sovereign is a provocative threat to the Chinese Communist Party [CCP.} Biden hasn’t admitted that the U.S. or its allies won’t defend Taiwan under any circumstances. No U.S. allies or partners in the Indo-Pacific region want war with Beijing.
Biden’s been playing with a loaded gun accusing Beijing of genocide against Muslim Uyghurs, crack down in Hong Kong and bullying in Taiwan. Biden and Blinken haven’t figured out what Beijing knows with certainty that Biden is bluffing when it comes to military intervention to defend Taiwan. If Biden wants to improve world peace and stability, he’d immediately cease-and-desist his belligerent accusations against Beijing. Biden and the Pacific Rim partners have no real evidence that Beijing that tried to exterminate the Muslim Uyghur population in Western China. Biden has no proof of Beijing genocide only some reeducation and indoctrination camps to help make Uyghurs find into Chinese society. Muslin Uyghurs have at times been responsible for suicide bombing on Chinese citizens in Xinjiang province, prompting Chinese authorities to crack down.
Tsai admitted that the Taiwan military can solve a border dispute with Beijing. She wants to resolve remaining issues amicably but isn’t inclined to surrender Taiwan democracy “The military is not an option for resolving cross-Strait disagreements. Military conflicts would impact economic stability,” Tsai said, admitting that there was no military solution. But Tsai also needs to stop taking U.S. offensive and defensive weapons, antagonizing Beijing. Tsai’s public remarks about Taiwan’s independence and sovereignty waves red flag into Xi Jinping’s face. Nothing antagonizes Xi more that listening to Taiwan and the U.S. talks about how Taiwan would, with U.S. weapons, repel any CCP attack on Taipei. U.S. official position under the Taiwan Relations Act makes no provision for the U.S. defending Taiwan with troops or supplying offensive and defensive weapons.
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-Wen showed that she needs lessons in PR, telling China that the island nation, considered part of Mainland China, would defend itself from a Beijing invasion. Tai needs to button her lips before Chinese President Xi Jinping decides to make good on his promise to unify Taiwan with Communist China. Biden and Blinken have overplayed their hands when it comes to China, knowing that U.S. will not defend Taiwan under any circumstances, nor will U.S. allies in the Pacific Rim support any U.S. belligerent rhetoric or activity. Biden and Blinken know that the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act prohibits the U.S. from a Mutual Defense Treaty, meaning that the way to maintain the status quo with Taiwan operating independent of Beijing is with strong U.S.-China diplomacy . Biden has done everything possible wreck U.S.-Chinese relations.
