Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang said Friday that China would “never back down” on the issue of Taiwan, which Beijing views as its own territory, in a warning aimed at the US and the government in Taipei.
Qin made the comments toward the end of a speech on China’s contributions to the global economy. “The Taiwan problem is at the core of China’s core interests,” he said. “We will never back down in the face of any act that undermines China’s sovereignty and security. Those who play with fire on the question of Taiwan will burn themselves.”
China’s military recently conducted three days of major live-fire exercises around Taiwan in response to President Tsai Ing-wen’s meeting with US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) in California. Beijing views such high-level contacts as a violation of Washington’s one-China policy.
China has stepped up the military pressure on Taiwan in recent years in direct response to growing ties between Washington and Taipei. Despite the rise in tensions, the US also isn’t backing down and continues to boost support for Taiwan in different ways.
Qin also responded to accusations that Beijing is looking to change the “status quo” across the Taiwan Strait. “It is not the Chinese mainland but the Taiwan independence separatist forces and a handful of countries attempting to disrupt the status quo,” he said.
Since taking his post as China’s foreign minister at the end of December, Qin has explicitly warned the US and China are on a path toward war if things don’t change. “If the United States does not hit the brake, but continues to speed down the wrong path, no amount of guardrails can prevent derailing, and there surely will be conflict and confrontation,” he said in March.
“Conflict and Confrontation”, between two of the world’s SUPER (Nuclear) POWERS?
China must do everything in its power – soft power to remove the pro US party in Taiwan. This party endangers the entire Taiwanese nation just as Zelensky has been at the forefront in destroying Ukraine. The US is dying slowly because it has lost any sense of rational discourse, and the uni-party have decided that Americans can suffer at their expense.
The US has lost any sense of what is moral and good.
Yellen lays out economic war against China
Yellen insisted that “our national security” is an area where we “will not compromise.” As usual, this was coupled with the claim that the US was determined to protect human rights – the phrase US imperialism turns off and on as it suits its geopolitical objectives. Human rights must be protected in China but not in Saudi Arabia, for example, or in a host of other countries with dictatorial regimes with which the US has vital economic and strategic links… Competition with China and other countries can be tolerated so long as it is conducted within a framework where the US predominates…. At another point in the speech, she said the measures imposed against China were not designed to “stifle China’s economic and technological modernisation.” And that even though “these policies may have economic impacts they are driven by straightforward national security considerations”, “we will not compromise on these concerns, even when they force trade-offs with our economic interests.”…
There are two points to be made here. The first is that national security, the preparation for war, trumps everything and the technology bans are also very much directed to gain economic advantage, which is inextricably tied in with military objectives….
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/04/24/excg-a24.html
Historically, how many wars have started out with economic ramifications and then evolved into actual fighting?… Dropping bombs? Killing people, mostly innocent people?…..
You can tell when the “cause” of the war is bullshit. Iraq? Turned out there was no WMDs, but we got to re-open oil wells to US corporations and murder someone who tried to drop the petrodollar.
Afghanistan? Did we really go to war there trying to catch a guy in Pakistan (that we later caught *without* a war)? Or was it controlling the area long enough to control pipeline routes to Europe?
Ukraine. The USA cares SO MUCH about “national sovereignty” that I’m sure this has nothing to do with pipelines and the petrodollar. And Russia’s motives: starting WW3 on top of Ukraine to save Russian speaking Ukrainians is also mostly bullshit.
So most wars seem to be caused by cartels and oligarchs.
Thanks ZM.
(that we later caught *without* a war)
Well, we caught someone. And “caught” is a generous term.
All US wars are about economic dominance. Whether they start as sanctions and end with death, they are always under the pretext of noble cause like human rights but really about greed. Then we are all propagandized within an inch of our lives about how “they” (fill in the blank) are threatening us into war.
When you have time, please watch the Pilger documentary I posted. It maps out the US bases surrounding China among other important facts and history.
China and bellicose statements are really their forte.
The Philippines (like Malaysia, Vietnam, and Brunei) have territorial disputes with China even though they support the “One China” policy and China really likes to make some “pronouncements” about them too.
I honestly don’t pay much attention to these type of admonishments from China nor Washington.
So why shouldn’t China be allowed to incorporate an island off its coast, an island full of Chinese-speaking people? The US has been grabbing islands well away from its coast for years.
The US counter to China for this means war, China has made that clear. So people visiting this antiwar site who are pro-war are in the wrong place.
The people of Taiwan don’t want to absorbed by the mainland, but the US is insuring that they will or be obliterated in the process.
The Coming War With China
Or here:
https://johnpilger.com/videos/the-coming-war-on-china
Thanks for the post, but I no longer can force myself to watch the vile sewerage that pours out of American media about the empire. Just cannot.
Thanks for posting it.
It’s worth seeing how far back the psychopaths were operating. There’s also @ about 1:44:55 an explanation of what will happen if China drops nukes on the US. All these chest beating warmongering gorillas are completely ignorant, stupid and mad.
This is equivalent to “US Saying Washington will Never Back Down on Hawaii”…!
Well, except that the US has ruled Hawaii for the last 125 years, while China hasn’t ruled Taiwan at any time in the last 128 years.
The people ruling in Taiwan have a death wish encouraging the notion that inviting the US military to intervene is going to result in anything other than what is happening to Ukraine.
Are they perhaps under the impression that Taiwan will resemble something other than the landscape in the aftermath of Bush’s 2003 Iraq war?
Well leaders get to skim and get paid off and they think they can steal away to some safe space.
Now, that is a bloody fact.
Literally bloody.
First level: individual corporate toadies who wants to be in an even more unregulated environment. If Taiwan can be liberated, we can make sure the labor and environmental laws are so bad they would dismay even China. More $$, all that matters.
Second level: bureacrats that are paid by corporate toadies to push for the deregulation and alignment with the USA, who have seen the wicked prosper and the liberated murdered in similar nations the USA has taken an interest in.
Third level: World leaders and diplomats who serve the “rules based system” of US hegemony. If the USA cannot grow and cannot destroy competitors, it will fail, and they will lose their positions and those they have exploited will be empowered.
Fourth level: US government that has been devoted to mass murder of any inconvenient people since inception, pretending that human rights is what will push us to eliminate our chief economic rival, so as to prevent any real labor or environmental reform, so as to keep our profit margins high and plastic crap cheap so we citizens will fail to notice the bone-dry sodomy being inflicted upon us by our oligarchs.
Fifth level: the mainstream press, now filled with crooks from MIC telling you that all of the above is normal and healthy. No really. Oof, if you’re not a fan of imperiling the human species and only known planetary biosphere, why you must be getting paid to lie. We must tolerate no naysaying, which could only be motivated by traitorous impulses.
And lately, it’s getting to be almost impossible to see past the press anyway. They can tell us that the Taiwanese people would love to sacrifice themselves and their kids. How would we know different? Talking to foreign agents who disagree and are clearly working for China?