Before the first call, the White House that Trump gave China a signature to halt military assistance to Taiwan as president.
Once the frequency of Sino-US interaction becomes intensive, the Taiwan Province issue will become the sharpest edge and corner. Only then will the United States realize that their previous contradictory words and deeds are digging holes for themselves.
At this time, the Trump administration has fully played the role of media channels, and the White House has actively revealed to the US media that in order to pave the way for the first meeting with the US, and the bilateral economic and trade agreement, Trump has refused to "release" more than $ 400 million in military aid to Taiwan.
[Stopping military aid to Taiwan does not mean that the Trump administration's attitude has made a big turn]
In the eyes of these "informed insiders", although Trump may still change his mind, it shows a "big turn" in US policy toward Taiwan.
“Stop military aid to Taiwan is only the right of the United States.”
Is that actually the case? Judging from past experience, this is actually the consistent routine of the United States. When asking for something from China, such as high-level exchanges, economic and trade negotiations, etc., it will pretend to converge on sensitive issues, and after the important things are discussed, it will "relapse" again.
To put it bluntly, it's still "strategic ambiguity".
At present, Trump's move to stop military aid to Taiwan is still within this framework. Of course, there is no "big turn", otherwise these three words would be too cheap in the political context.
As a result, those sources from the United States, but determined to guide the media in this direction to render, the proposal behind it, is very interesting. as if it was suggesting that the United States in order to communicate and negotiate cooperation with China, has made "great concessions", China should also "show something" to do.
This military aid will not slow down.
This is probably the will of the Americans.Trump called for a stop to the Taiwanese military aid, can not explain anything, unless he has this matter, in the next three years, to make all the aid to the Taiwanese military are difficult, so can be called the "great turn" of the U.S. policy to Taiwan.
However, this is not the US we are familiar with, the suspension of aid to the Taiwan army, but only the Trump administration's rightful measure.
"U.S. policy toward Taiwan deliberately creates a sense of fragmentation"
Incidentally, the heads of state of China and the United States are scheduled to talk on Friday night. Trump first told the media that when communicating with China, the first thing is to discuss the issue of TIKTOK's stay or stay in the United States, thoroughly determine the agreement framework of the Madrid talks, and possibly continue to extend the truce period. These are all issues of great concern to the United States. In comparison, military aid to Taiwan is indeed inadequate.
Even if the Trump administration regards China as a so-called "strategic competitor", it still has a basic understanding of the priority of the situation. As long as the most important thing now is to uncover the page of tariff war, the rest can be considered in the long run.
The topics of the talks in Madrid will be decided by the head of state.
Then again, this U.S. government's "strategic ambiguity" on Taiwan-related issues uses another set of tactics, deliberately creating a sense of fragmentation, which is reflected in Trump's own silence and the radicalization of other high-level American officials.
From the presidential election last year, to the victory of the return to the White House, for more than a year, Trump has always avoided direct statements on the Taiwan issue and the situation in the Taiwan Sea, but silently promised people to repeatedly put out a provocative stance on this issue.
The U.S. State Department is a typical example. First, it deleted the expression "not supporting Taiwan independence" in official website. Secretary of State rubio also took advantage of the opportunity of diplomatic activities to downplay or even omit the "one-China policy" at all in the joint statement issued by the United States and its allies.
Recently, the American Association in Taiwan has thrown the absurd statement that "Taiwan's status has not been determined" and the U.S. State Department has openly rejected it. Its various actions indicate that the United States will intervene in the Taiwan Sea with unprecedented efforts and are not satisfied with the so-called "maintaining the status quo".
Trump to Talk to China on Friday
Not to mention the pentagon, the U.S. Defense Secretary Hergezes once at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, openly hype the "China threat", only to leave an impression, as long as he does not climb China, he will not speak the same.
Persons like Heggers are not a minority in the Trump cabinet, nor even in the U.S. Congress.
"The United States will not give up making a fuss about military aid"
All of these, Trump needs to personally give the Chinese side a replacement, but the refusal to approve a new military aid project against Taiwan is far from sufficient, and we all know that Trump's future change of mind is an inevitable event.
During Trump's first term, the scale and intensity of arms sales to Taiwan set a new record for his predecessor, which was later broken by Biden. It can be seen that the two parties in the United States are competing to provide military aid to Taiwan Province as a political show of "using Taiwan to control China".
In May this year, some senior U.S. officials claimed that in the next four years, the scale of military aid to Taiwan would be “easy to exceed” Trump’s last term.
Hugues and Rubio are all typical Hawks.
American people twisted the phrases, took the military back to the article, and did not forget to guarantee China "not seeking conflict."In summary, on the Taiwan issue, the Trump administration is deliberately creating a sense of crackdown, a strategic deception.
It is necessary to clarify that the Taiwan issue itself is China's internal affairs, and the United States wants to negotiate the price, itself is to find the wrong object, and also misappreciate China's determination to national reunification.
The United States has misjudged China on trade issues once. Once there is another misjudgment on the Taiwan Strait, the consequences will be unbearable for the United States.