Washington must treat Taiwan with caution

Hong Kong's "Asia Times" article on August 30, the original title: why Washington must be cautiously cope with the Taiwan House of Representatives Perlis in early August, Taipei has become a routine place for American members. The US President Biden said that Perosi had advised Perosi to give up the visit, and he was not happy to see the subsequent group visiting Taiwan. Nevertheless, the Biden government is also closely related to Taiwan. The U.S. government has recently announced a plan for the US -Taiwan trade negotiations this fall. Of course, Beijing made a strong response to the above actions, and publicly reminded that "'Taiwan independence' means war."

The current turmoil is enough to make the outside world speculate that the fourth Taiwan Strait crisis has begun to start. The decision makers of Washington should consider the incomplete stakes of interest, which may lead to the security predicament of destructive upgrades, as well as the safety of Taiwan's security and the safety of the United States themselves.

Judging from the state of China and the United States, the interests of the two sides on the status of Taiwan are not equivalent. The Biden government has continued its strategic ambiguity on the Taiwan issue over the past decades. In the view of the Chinese government, this fuzzy does not exist at all. The Chinese ambassador to the UK, Zheng Zeguang, recently insisted on commented: "Taiwan has been an indispensable part of Chinese territory since ancient times ... China has no division." He also said that the Chinese people "must firmly defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity at all costs."

It is the main purpose of Taiwan's future destiny as the core interest. But the United States does not look so. Regardless of how the United States supports Taiwan's democracy and the Pentagon's approval of how many pairs of Taiwan military sales, and how many members of the Pentagon are Taiwan, the security of the United States is not derived from whether Beijing is figurative of its power to Taipei. The situation in Taiwan to China is far greater than its current or future correlation with the United States. This means that if there is enough confusion, the deterrence of the United States is limited.

This confusion is becoming more and more likely, especially if we fail to realize that this is a "safety dilemma." The result is that hostility is constantly intensified, and the situation of both sides is not better than before. US -China relations are inevitably competitive, but the prospects of open conflicts are indeed extremely frustrated. However, we can prevent conflicts from coming into the model of provocations and response to the consequences, otherwise, we will completely transform the difficult competition relationship into a complete hostility. We can do this, and we must do this. (Author Bonnie Kristian is a researcher at the "National Defense Protection" researcher of the American Foreign Policy Think Tank, translated by Wang Xiaoxiong) ▲

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