For the first time in over two decades, China released a new white paper on Taiwan that lays out Beijing’s goals for the island.
The document emphasizes that China’s goal is for “peaceful reunification” but also makes clear that it won’t rule out military force if foreign intervention and “separatist forces” go too far.
“We will work with the greatest sincerity and exert our utmost efforts to achieve peaceful reunification,” the document reads. “We will only be forced to take drastic measures to respond to the provocation of separatist elements or external forces should they ever cross our red lines.”
The white paper was issued shortly after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan, which China responded to by holding its largest-ever military exercises around the island. As the US has increased support for Taiwan in recent years, Chinese officials have stepped up their warning against US support for the island’s “independence forces.”
The paper directly addressed US intervention in Taiwan. “Some forces in the US are making every effort to incite groups inside Taiwan to stir up trouble and use Taiwan as a pawn against China,” it says.
The document says that if US intervention is “left unchecked, it will continue to escalate tension across the Straits, further disrupt China-US relations, and severely damage the interests of the US itself.”
The paper calls for more cross-Strait communication and says China wants to work toward a “one country, two systems” arrangement with Taiwan, referring to the governing systems of Hong Kong and Macau.
“We will continue working with our compatriots in Taiwan to explore a two-systems solution to the Taiwan question and increase our efforts towards peaceful reunification,” the document reads.
China’s first white paper was published in 1993, and another was issued in 2000. The new white paper signals that Beijing is stepping up its efforts to unify with Taiwan amid an increase in US support for the island.
If US intervention remains unchecked it would only encourage the Biden people to double down and provoke some more. In Ukraine it was almost 10 years of provocations, including NATO military exercises inside Ukraine, not even a NATO member, near the Russian border. Plus funding and arming and training Ukrainian Azov and regular troops by the UK/USA/France, even now there are hundreds of NATO instructors in Ukraine.
NATO has been involved long before the Russian invasion.
NATO is a naughty four letter word..
I really believe that after the Ukraine war there will be no more NATO. I can’t believe there will be an EU left, Europe will self-destruct on orders from Washington.
There is only one problem Renate, even if NATO faces its demise something worse will come along to replace it…
Expect fireworks … they don’t have ten years with China. In ten years, its economy will be almost double ours and that “can’t be allowed.”
And if you believe that white paper, I have a bridge in Brooklyn you might want to buy. Just look at the treaty China signed with the UK over Hong Kong when the Brits turned over that former colony to China. That treaty is now a nostalgia piece, as China has violated it six ways from Tuesday with its 2020 “Hong Kong national security law.” Calling the Taiwanese “Chinese,” and referring to the pro-independence forces as “secessionists” tells us all we need to know about China’s intent. Despite Taiwan’s majority favoring independence or status quo, China’s agenda is reunification, like it or not.
Bill Holter: Credit and Currency Chaos.
At around 31:55, the discussion centers around China seeking US Treasury redemptions. He claims it’s around $3 trillion. I’ve read where its slightly above $1 trillion.
Can you imagine the effect on global sovereign treasury yields and gold if the US government initially balked at redemptions? That’s not information that could be hidden for long in either Washington, New York, or China.