On Christmas Eve, Biden signed the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2024. Next year's US military budget will reach $886 billion, an increase of nearly $30 billion over this year's record and a new record high。Because the bill contains a lot of Taiwan-related content, the island is quite concerned about it, and many people on the island shout "inappropriate cannon fodder".
Taiwan has always been regarded as a "pawn" by the United States, a fact that even Tsai Ing-wen, the leader of the Taiwan region, has tacitly acquiesced. Eight years ago, she argued, "Don't forget, we're also chess players. But whether it is a "chess piece" or a "chess player", in the past eight years, the people have their own judgment in their hearts.
Looking back in recent years, Tsai Ing-wen's "chess player dream" has become a "chess player" that allows the United States to "play its own hands" against Taiwan. What is even more tragic is that with the United States' "plan to destroy Taiwan", Taiwan's most frequently mentioned image has changed from a "chess piece" to "cannon fodder". In particular, Lai Qingde, who openly clamored that he would not change in any position, still has a chance to remain in power in 2024, which makes the positioning of Taiwan society on the threat of war and "cannon fodder" more and more clear.
The passage of the US National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2024 can be called a reconfirmation of Taiwan's image as "cannon fodder", and the most obvious feature is the comprehensive "puppeting" of Taiwan's military. The bill stipulates that the US Secretary of Defense, with the consent of the US Secretary of State, shall do the following.
The first is the "future-proof" part. The US military is required to "formulate a comprehensive training, consultation, and institutional capacity building plan" for the Taiwan military. This has broken through the level of "playing chess" and has become a very specific and detailed comprehensive control, pointing directly to the institutional side.
This is followed by the "Looking Back" section. The bill requires that within 90 days, the US military submit a confidential report to Congress, which explains the absorption of military capabilities provided and approved by the Taiwan military to the United States over the past 10 years, including operation, maintenance, and deployment.
The report was labeled "confidential", indicating that the US side did not intend to make it public. This can be regarded as a "10-year thorough examination" conducted by the US military against the Taiwan military, but the results are not announced. As for the reason for not making it public, it is to save face for the Taiwan military?Or to prevent the mainland from knowing the details?Or both, only the American side itself knows.
However, judging from the actual situation, it can be roughly guessed that the "test results" are likely to be "failed" by the Taiwan military. This is because if it "passes" or even does a good job, the US military will lose its legitimacy as a controller, and it will no longer need to directly intervene in the training and institutional building of the Taiwan military.
Since the Taiwan military has the problem of "poor absorption of US support," it needs to be solved. The "operation, maintenance, deployment, etc." mentioned in the bill have outlined the areas where the military needs to be reinforced.
If you are not familiar with the operation of the purchased US military equipment, you need to have American instructors go to Taiwan or Taiwan military personnel to go to the United States to strengthen training, "training fee +1";If the level of equipment maintenance is not up to standard, it will be necessary for the US military logistics maintenance personnel to participate in replacing old parts and supplementing new functional modules, and "maintenance and upgrade costs +1";If the deployment situation is not ideal, then it is necessary to increase the deployment positions, increase the procurement of launch systems and ammunition, and "+1 for arms sales".
If we have clearly calculated these accounts, we will find that the record high budget of the US military is only superficial information, but what is actually hidden is that the "protection fee" paid by the Taiwan side to the United States will rise sharply.
The green media on the island continued the "funeral celebration" method, hyping up "the United States strongly supports Taiwan's defense", the evidence is that the United States will invest $14.7 billion in the "Pacific Deterrence Plan" in the Indo-Pacific region in 2024, "The object of deterrence is of course China, and Taiwan is the focus of the focus." The implication is that the $14.7 billion will be spent on Taiwan.
If this is planned by the US Department of Economy, the Taiwan side may still be able to stir it up, but this is the plan of the US Department of Defense, which specializes in creating war. Isn't Taiwan being regarded as the "key point of the key" precisely where the conflict is most likely to occur?Is this "vigorously supporting Taiwan's defense" or "consolidating the positioning of cannon fodder", do the authorities really think that the people can't see it?
In addition, the bill also calls for the expansion of so-called US-Taiwan military cybersecurity cooperation. When it comes to the Internet, the notorious tricks of the United States, such as "surveillance", "eavesdropping" and "hacking", are bound to escalate further. Taiwan's "China Times" commented thatThe United States intends to control Taiwan's political, military, and economic power, and "the United States is turning Taiwan into a powder keg, and in the end it is the vast number of small people in Taiwan who will suffer." ”
The United States has manipulated, hollowed out, and even destroyed Taiwan from a conspiracy under the table to a "clear card" known to passers-by. Ironically, when the "suspicion of the United States" has become the mainstream consensus of Taiwanese society, Lai Qingde, the *** 2024 candidate who is suspected by the United States, continues to show loyalty to the United StatesAnd the slogan shouted by the common people "vote for *** youth to go to the battlefield" is called "China's mediation".
On the evening of the 24th, many Taiwanese youths took to the streets of Taipei to oppose the extension of military service and express their opposition to "leading the war and demanding peace in the Taiwan Strait." Some young people in Taiwan asked the authorities, "Do the two sides of the strait want to go to war?"Why cannibalism?Why use taxpayers' money to feed the United States, which instigates the war?Under pressure from the United States, the people of Taiwan are forced to go to the battlefield of "fighting for no reason" and to be "cannon fodder."
Ji Xin, president of Taiwan's "Observation" magazine, and Qi Jialin, chairman of the United Alliance Party, also came to the scene to support Taiwan's youth activities. Ji Xin saidWe want the two sides of the strait to develop peacefully, not to face war, and we want a place of peaceful development and stability. Qi Jialin pointed outWe oppose the extension of military service and the exaggeration of war.
Compared with the operation of "anti-China" and "hate-China" to cheat votes, Lai Qingde's more fatal mistake is that when he was crazy, he ignored the strong public opinion of the people on the island to "not want war" and "not be cannon fodder", and this public opinion is the greatest consensus regardless of party and color. When Lai Qingde uses the "ostrich mentality" to face the call of public opinion, the "hateful *** rejection of the war party" will swell again. (vigorously).