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October 20, 2022

At the annual National Day ceremony on October 10, Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen pledged to maintain peace across the Taiwan Strait, called on Beijing to not resort to war to achieve its goal of “reunification with Taiwan,” and reiterated the Taiwanese people’s unwavering stance on defending its democracy.

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Tsai’s matter-of-fact statements seems to have fallen on deaf ears.

In Beijing, the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council accused the Tsai’s administration of “kidnapping Taiwan’s public opinion” and “inciting confrontation” by “seeking secession.” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson warned at a press briefing that China “will never leave any room for Taiwan secessionist activities.”

Beijing’s reactions to Tsai’s National Day’s speech came as no surprise. China has long laid out a path for Taiwan’s future — namely, a “reunification with China,” regardless of the will of Taiwan’s 23 million people, who by a large margin identify themselves as Taiwanese, not Chinese.

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For China, seizing Taiwan is the ultimate goal. If the planned reunification can be done peacefully, it’s merely the icing on the cake. And a war with a appropriately timed could be even better, because a nationalistic zeal ignited by a war against Taiwan would make the people in China forget their misery and resentment against the cruelties inflicted upon them by the Chinese government.

Beijing’s Taiwan approach, i.e. peace as bait and force in the making, is consistent with the behavioral pattern of the Chinese Communist Party. Throughout its history, the CCP has never been a peace-loving organization, and the People’s Republic of China under the CCP has never stopped stirring up conflicts with neighboring countries.

Before rising to power in 1949, the CCP twice (1924-1927, and 1937-1945) made peace with the ruling Nationalist Party (KMT) in the form of collaboration. In both initiatives, the CCP’s objectives were to utilize the KMT’s resources to nourish its own political organization and armed forces, which were in their infancy. And both peace pacts ended ugly when the CCP and its armed forces grew strong enough to undermine and sabotage KMT’s implementation of its blueprint for the nation. The second breakup led directly to the three-year Civil War and the subsequent ouster of the KMT from the mainland.

The CCP has continued practicing the same old “bait-exploitation” trick to this day.

The Soviet Union, which nurtured the CCP and was the sole patron during the first decade of the PRC’s existence, was the first to be bitten by its vicious little brother, who had grown strong enough to claim for the leadership of the world communism revolution after the Sino-Soviet split in the 1960s.

The United States, which led the capitalist world in pulling China out of the economic ruin left by Mao Zedong and helped China grow into the world second largest economy, became the latest victim of Communist China’s time-tested exploitative practice. It turned out that the CCP has always regarded the U.S. as its biggest enemy, even during the U.S.-Sino’s “honeymoon” years in the 1980s-1990s.