U.S. military spending has reached record levels after Biden recently signed the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2024, which he signed.
Unlike in the past, this bill is more targeted and aggressive, targeting China and giving the US Secretary of Defense the right to set up a comprehensive training, advisory, and institutional capacity building program to support Taiwan's military development.
In addition, this bill will also promote cooperation between relevant departments of the United States and Taiwan in the fields of cyber and defensive cyber security.
The US defense bill, but there has been a lot of propaganda on the Taiwan Strait issue, should the United States be prepared for war in the Taiwan Strait?In a recent interview, Russian Minister Sergei Lavrov could not help but say that according to the character and appetite of the Americans, as well as the latest military spending, they will absolutely not give up on the Taiwan Strait issue.
Since last year, China and the United States have conducted countless contests and dialogues on the political red lines of the Taiwan Strait, and in the alternation of "stubbornness" and "caution" in the United States, Biden has been trying his best to avoid confrontation with China, and emphasized that the two sides should have more dialogue and control contradictions.
This has led the outside world to believe that while the United States is expanding its military power in the Pacific, it will always be confined to the tipping point of contradictions and conflicts with China, and will not cross the line.
However, its 2024 "National Defense Authorization Act" lists the deepening of military cooperation between the United States and Taiwan as an important issue, and according to this agreement, the United States will not only continue to provide military support to Taiwan, but also successively launch military support programs for Taiwan and increase military armaments against Taiwan.
On the one hand, Biden is emphasizing that China and the United States should control the contradictions, and on the other hand, he is increasing military support for Taiwan and enhancing its strength of "resisting reunification by force".
For example, on 15 December, the US Defense and Security Cooperation Agency announced that the United States had approved an arms sales plan worth $300 million for the operation and maintenance of the "speed security system."
The Xun'an technology can improve the efficiency of the Taiwan military's coordinated operational command and management, and assist the Taiwan military in accurately grasping and linking up various materials, which makes people wonder whether the United States intends to assist the Taiwan military in carrying out the current C4I modification, so as to lay the foundation for the future integration of the Taiwan military into the Asia-Pacific region.
Not only Taiwan, but also the United States has new deployments in the first and second island chains in the Western Pacific, and the U.S. Air Force has just repaired Tinian Island in the Mariana Islands, where it was abandoned during the nuclear bombing of Japan during World War II.
Now, China has restarted those abandoned airports, which means that the United States has sensed that China's long-range attack capabilities are rapidly increasing, and they have shifted from the original strategy of encircling China to the first island chain and responding accordingly.
A spokeswoman for China's Ministry of National Defense responded to the U.S. action, saying that the bill was unwarranted"China's threat of force"It is a brutal intervention in China's internal affairs and a great harm to China's sovereignty, security and development interests, and China is strongly dissatisfied with and opposes this practice, so China will absolutely not allow any external forces to intervene in the Taiwan issue as the goal.
The fact that China and the United States are in a long-term game over the Taiwan Strait issue is that Russia is paying more and more attention to this issue, which also shows that the influence of the Taiwan Strait continues to grow, which is the reason for Lavrov's speech.
Lavrov's words are very interesting, the fierce war between the United States and Russia in Ukraine has now evolved into a tunnel war, and from the standpoint of a veteran, Lavrov seems to have seen the war between Russia and Ukraine in the Taiwan Strait.
Everyone knows that what the United States is best at is to use violence to solve problems, but the United States has not sent troops to Ukraine, but used military force to weaken China, which is completely different from before, if the United States also uses the same way to deal with China and delay China's withdrawal, then will Russia interfere and support in other ways?
However, based on China's view of the Taiwan Strait and Russia's own strategic capabilities in the Asia-Pacific region, Russia will not intervene, and its power will not be able to surpass South Korea, Japan, and the United States in the Pacific Ocean and extend its tentacles into the Taiwan Strait.
Therefore, it is unlikely that Russia will intervene, but it will put pressure in the Asia-Pacific region to attract the attention of the United States and South Korea from the Pacific Ocean, and with Russia's strong support for China, there will be more people who will agree with China.
But on the other hand, we also have our own power to deal with these issues, so when the United States and the West start to condemn China, we will not allow any country to intervene, because this battle is simple, but it is very difficult to stop this battle.
After all, if China wants to settle the Taiwan Strait issue once and for all, it cannot embark on a confrontational mentality.