Taiwan presents frightening threat to China WashTimesOpEd
On the last day of 2022, Chinese leader Chairman Xi Jinping extended an olive branch to Taiwan in his New Year’s address: “The people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are members of one and the same family.”
But things changed unexpectedly for China since 2018. China found itself struggling with ever-stronger headwinds coming from all directions. With its economic and international political leverage over Taiwan diminishing, China was left with no other choice but to turn to military action as its last resort to keep the reunification scheme alive.
With a new era of China-Taiwan and China-West relationships unfolding, the only way for China to mitigate its down spiral is to make Taiwan halt its military readiness process and buy time for China to regain its superiority. And this is where Mr. Xi’s Taiwan-friendly speech came from and what it meant to achieve.
A free Taiwan is the biggest challenge to the CCP’s claim that its goal of staying in power is to bring prosperity to the land and to the people. And a free Taiwan is a deafening manifesto that a prosperous, democratic society can be successfully built and enjoyed by Chinese people, contrasting with what the CCP has being trying hard to convince the people in China that the universally accepted concept of democracy is not suitable and thus not good for China.
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