It is building an airport on a claimed spit of land in the sea between the Dasha and Xiaosha Islands, off the east coast of Pingtan County. And he warned that if there are American troops on the island of Taiwan, “we will crush them by force.”
A tweet – later deleted – by Republican John Cornyn on the 30,000 American soldiers stationed in Taiwan has raised the whole world. If Taiwan hosted US troops, Beijing would unleash the anti-secession law “by destroying and expelling American troops and reunifying the island by force.” Because he considers it a violation of the agreement that in 1979 established bilateral diplomatic relations with an anti-USSR function, cutting those with Taipei.
For the Chinese it would be as if the US directly declared war on China and, with these premises, anyone who touches Taipei gets burned. The passage of President Xi Jinping’s speech on July 1, the hundredth birthday since the founding of the Communist Party, comes to mind: “We will no longer be bullied, we will crush our heads on a wall of steel”.
The fuse of joining the CPTPP
Beijing does not recognize Taipei’s sovereignty and therefore any membership in international organizations is a provocation. Such as Taiwan’s accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), one week after the letter sent by China, moreover in the midst of the crisis of the Aukus submarine agreement.
The move has deeply angered the Chinese. The CpTpp is the commercial pact signed in 2018 by Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam, born on the ashes of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (Tpp) wanted by Barack Obama, but sensationally defected by his successor, Donald Trump.