Some Facts About Pelosi's Visit to Taiwan(6)

Fact No. 6: It is legitimate and lawful for the Chinese military to conduct military exercises and training in the waters near China’s Taiwan Island.

The U.S. move to use Taiwan to contain China is the root cause of troubles that undermine peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait and even the world.

Taiwan is an inalienable part of China’s territory. The military exercises and training by the Chinese side in the waters near China’s Taiwan Island were conducted in an open, transparent and professional manner. The Chinese side has issued safety reminders and navigational warnings in advance. China’s activities fully comply with its domestic law, international law and customary international practice.

The normal military exercises and training by the Chinese military in the waters near China’s Taiwan Island are aimed at safeguarding China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, deterring the U.S. attempt to use Taiwan to contain China, shattering the Taiwan authorities’ fantasy of seeking U.S. support for “Taiwan independence”, and maintaining peace across the Taiwan Strait and stability in the region.

It is the U.S. that has exacerbated tensions in the Taiwan Strait. The U.S. has been flexing its muscles and provoking troubles at will in waters near China. The U.S. National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 proposed to “continue regular transits of U.S. Navy vessels through the Taiwan Strait”, and “encourage allies and partners to follow suit in conducting such transits”.

The U.S. has so far sold weapons and equipment worth tens of billions of dollars to Taiwan and clamored to help Taiwan enhance its “asymmetrical warfare” capability. A senior U.S. Department of Defense official claimed that the U.S. could use Taiwan as a strategic fulcrum of the first island chain and threatened to block China’s reunification process. In the “Indo-Pacific Strategy” released in February 2022, the U.S. claimed that it will support Taiwan’s self-defense capabilities, thus introducing the Taiwan question into its regional strategy. This is an attempt to play geopolitical games, exaggerate tension and provoke confrontation, which fully exposes its sinister intention to undermine peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific.

It is also the U.S. that threatens world peace and stability. The U.S. has launched military operations around the world, wreaking havoc on innocent civilians. Throughout the 240-plus years of U.S. history, there were only 16 years in which the U.S. was not at war. According to incomplete statistics, from the end of the Second World War to 2001, 248 armed conflicts occurred in 153 regions, of which 201 were initiated by the U.S.. Since 2001, wars and military operations waged by the U.S. have killed more than 900,000 people, about 335,000 of them civilians, injured millions and displaced tens of millions. U.S. magazine The National Interest quoted Dakota Wood, a senior research fellow for defense programs at the Heritage Foundation, who wrote that the U.S. consistently needed to deploy military force every 15 years or so. The U.S. is proved to be “the most warlike nation in the history of the world”.