Some Facts About Pelosi's Visit to Taiwan(10)

Fact No. 10: Pelosi’ s visit to Taiwan has seriously undermined the political foundation of China-U.S. relations and created obstacles to exchanges and cooperation between the two sides. The U.S. must take full responsibility for it.

The Taiwan question is at the very heart of China’s core interests. The U.S., while seriously undermining China’s core interests, is asking for China’s cooperation where they need it. The U.S. expects China to accept a fait accompli and swallow the bitter fruit of having its core interests seriously damaged. This is typical hegemonic mentality and gangster logic.

The most important thing in cooperation is mutual respect and mutual benefit. For cooperation to happen, there needs to be the right atmosphere and conditions. Prior to Pelosi’s visit, China put forward cooperation proposals in eight areas and a substantial list for dialogue and cooperation, which fully demonstrated China’s willingness to cooperate. However, the U.S. only wants cooperation in areas of interest to itself and lacks sincerity about China’s cooperation proposals. Moreover, the U.S. has kept introducing negative measures on China, which has seriously disrupted China-U.S. exchange and cooperation.

The current U.S. administration has on multiple occasions articulated to China the “five-noes” commitment (i.e. the U.S. does not seek a new Cold War with China, that it does not aim to change China’s system, that the revitalization of its alliances is not targeted at China, that it does not support “Taiwan independence”, and that it has no intention to seek a conflict with China). However, it says one thing and does another, and has been constantly interfering in China’s internal affairs and damaging China’s interests on issues concerning China’s core interests and major concerns.

Clinging to the Cold War mentality and hegemonic logic, the U.S. has sought bloc politics and concocted the “democracy versus authoritarianism” narrative. It has roped in other countries into its small circles, bolstered the Five Eyes alliance, peddled the Quad, created AUKUS, and stepped up bilateral military alliances. It has also tried every possible means to build an Asia-Pacific version of NATO and advanced “integrated deterrence” against China.

The U.S. has enacted the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, which prohibits chip funds from being used for investment in China and Chinese companies from participating in the Manufacturing USA network. It also calls for strengthening security precautions for scientific research against China and assessing China’s “threat” to U.S. science and technology. The Trump administration seriously violated WTO rules and launched a large-scale trade war with China. Citing the so-called Section 301 investigation, the U.S. has imposed three rounds of additional high tariffs on about 360 billion U.S. dollars worth of Chinese goods. This erroneous move has not been rectified yet.

China, while firmly opposing all kinds of egregious actions by the U.S. that undermine cooperation, has always sought to advance the sound and steady development of China-U.S. relations for the sake of the welfare of the people of both countries and the world as well as the expectation of the international community and people of the rest of the world. It is the U.S., not China, that undermines China-U.S. relations and exchanges and cooperation. The U.S. should seriously reflect on what it has done.