THE Chinese Foreign Ministry Monday announced sanctions on Lockheed Martin, Boeing Defense, Raytheon, and individuals and entities involved in arms sales to the island of Taiwan. Since July 2019, China has taken countermeasures against US arms sales to the island. This is a declaration of China’s attitude. The effect of sanctions will gradually strengthen along with the times. The relationship between Taiwan and the US has rapidly developed in recent years. This is different from the earlier years when the two sides maintained a relationship. Now, the DPP authorities are trying their utmost to promote so-called de-sinicization, and Washington is planning to further use Taiwan to jeopardize the rise of the mainland. The two sides have greater motivation to strengthen their collusion. Thus, they are madly adopting “salami tactics” against the mainland. But Taiwan and the US are acting against the change of strength across the Taiwan Straits. The mainland’s economic and military strength has developed rapidly and its ability to control the cross-Straits situation has become stronger. The US has supported the DPP authorities’ secessionist activities. So how can the mainland not stop such a situation? The mainland will take decisive counterattacks. In fact, the mainland’s comprehensive counterattack has been launched on a large scale and is rapidly producing results.
The mainland has been implementing the strategy of peaceful reunification since the 1980s, but has never given up the use of force to solve the Taiwan question. Military means are the mainland’s trump card for restraining Taiwan secessionists. Recently, the mainland conducted military exercises in the Taiwan Straits, and its military aircraft have reached near the island of Taiwan, sending a clear signal to the DPP authorities that they must rein in at the brink. Mainland public opinion is widely expressing expectations for the PLA fighter jets to fly over Taiwan. It is obvious that the PLA is making full preparations to exercise sovereignty over Taiwan. This is beyond the DPP authorities’ expectations. They have been too arrogant. They took for granted that the Chinese mainland would only make oral threats instead of taking real action against their attempts to seek secession. Now they know how serious the situation is, while foreseeing the incoming punishment from the mainland. Media on the island believe that the two sides of the Taiwan Straits are reaching a “quasi war.” Sustained by the 1992 Consensus, the cross-Straits situation managed to keep peace and stable for quite a period in the past. After Tsai Ing-wen took office, she abandoned the consensus and deceived the people on the island of Taiwan and the international community, hyping her so-called “maintaining the status quo.” Without the 1992 Consensus, there will be no “status quo.”
– Global Times
