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Recently, the United States claimed that during the San Francisco meeting between the leaders of China and the United States in November 2023, the Chinese leaders expressed to the US leaders China's position that Taiwan will be reunified, and hoped that the United States can abide by its commitment not to support China, completely stop arms sales to Taiwan, and support China's peaceful reunification with concrete actions. In this regard, the United States has made an analysis and generally believes that although the above statement is China's consistent principle in handling the Taiwan issue, and there are no substantive new changes, in the past, it was usually expounded by specific functional departments such as the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, and the top leaders of the two sides directly communicated during the meeting between the heads of state of China and the United States, which was the first time in history. This seems to mean that in the current complex international situation, especially when the United States is exhausted by the Russia-Ukraine war and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, China is determined to accelerate the process of national reunification.
The Chinese spokesman has made a solemn response to the above-mentioned remarks, which basically means that China's position on the Taiwan issue is clear and firm, and we will steadily advance the great cause of the reunification of the motherland in accordance with our own established principles. However, rumors can only stop at the wise, but not at the brains of those with ulterior motives. What's more, a foreign vote represented by Wall Street and the National Broadcasting News Network also linked this matter with China's decision not long ago to suspend tariff concessions on some products of the "Cross-Strait Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement", hyping up that China is taking the war against Taiwan as a precursor, actively preparing for forced reunification and eventual military reunification, and at the same time taking the opportunity to talk about clichés such as how to speed up decoupling from China and how to ensure de-risking.
All of the above behaviors have fully exposed that after the China-US summit in November 2023, the US side has not taken any sincerity and practical actions to promote the normalization of China-US relations, but has instead blamed China for the black pot that has led to the continued tension in China-US relations. Judging from the actual situation of the current cross-strait economic relations, there is no such thing as the so-called Chinese side engaging in a war against Taiwan, on the contrary, the Taiwan authorities have actively responded to the US strategy of decoupling from China, set up improper barriers, and maliciously restricted the import of mainland goods. According to survey statistics, the mainland is prohibited from exporting to Taiwan as many as 2,509 items, mainly involving agricultural products and manufactured goods, resulting in the mainland's annual deficit with Taiwan reaching 150 billion US dollars.
At present, China's decision to suspend tariff concessions for some products is only for 12 commodity items such as propylene and paraxylene, and it is not a ban on Taiwan's exports, but only the cancellation of tariff preferences. Comparing the two, it is not difficult for us to see how absurd and ridiculous the so-called war against Taiwan is by Taiwan and the United States. Seeing this, some netizens may think that China's ** countermeasures are too understated?Why does Taiwan ban more than 2,500 of our goods, and we cancel a little preferential tariff and forget it?The answer is that of course it won't end there, and this is the beginning of the shock. The suspension of tariff concessions on some products can be said to be a milestone event, marking the beginning of the mainland's adoption of a business-like strategy in handling economic and trade issues with Taiwan, and in the future, it will take punitive measures of a wider scope and greater intensity in a timely manner according to the changes in the world. Judging from the gap in economic size and economic and trade dependence between the two sides of the strait, Taiwan is fundamentally unable to engage in confrontation with the mainland.
China's cause of reunification has never been an isolated issue, and it is not only a political issue, but also a military issue, and more importantly, an economic issue. As the saying goes, "the economic base determines the superstructure," and effectively cracking down on the economic base that supports the ** forces can achieve twice the result with half the effort by speeding up the process of reunification. Therefore, the change of China's policy toward Taiwan will inevitably complement China's timetable for completing national reunification. The Chinese side has reiterated on many occasions that peaceful reunification is something that we need to do our utmost to strive for, and this is our greatest goodwill to the Taiwan compatriots, but such goodwill is absolutely not a hot pick on the mainland's side to shave its head, but requires frank cooperation between the two sides of the strait and a two-way approach. If the Taiwan authorities continue to stubbornly come to their senses, take reckless steps, and do not hesitate to collude with external forces to constantly undermine the foundation of cross-strait economic and trade exchanges and political dialogue, then in addition to the continuously escalating countermeasures, they will also be crushed by the irreversible wheel of history that pushes forward the process of reunification.