Lithuania has made a good start, and the EU has followed suit. The Indo-Pacific strategy includes upgrading trade relations with Taiwan.

Since the trade war started when Trump took office to now, the disputes and confrontations between China and the United States have continued for several years. At first, the United States tried to use economic sanctions and other means to suppress China, but after a few years, it found that China's economy was still full of vitality. Then the "black swan" event of the global COVID-19 epidemic hit the U.S. and European economies hard, but China stood out. Its importance in the global economic system continues to rise.

After these "soft" measures failed, the United States and its Western allies began to take desperate risks and played the most dangerous card of the Taiwan issue. Among Western countries, the small Baltic country Lithuania is taking the lead on the front line. This country is not big, but it is a smelly and hard-hitting country. As long as the West gives some benefits, it can immediately work for it.

Thirty years ago, when the Soviet Union collapsed, Lithuania was one of the first countries to have problems with the Soviet Union. Now, Lithuania has taken the lead in publicly provoking the "One China" red line and allowed Taiwan Province to establish a so-called "One China" in Lithuania. The "Taiwan Representative Office" has once again become a pawn used by Western powers to contain China. Lithuania is not the only small country that is willing to play the Taiwan card to receive meal tickets from Western powers. There is also the Czech Republic.

In August 2020, Czech Senate President Vedzy ignored the opposition of mainland China and the obstruction of the Czech president, foreign minister and others, and brazenly visited Taiwan, and threatened that he was "not afraid of sanctions from mainland China." And seeing how hard the younger brothers were working, the United States, the evil mastermind behind the scenes, began to take action himself.

According to the British "Financial Times", Washington is seriously considering Taiwan's request to change the name of Taiwan Province's representative office in Washington from "Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office" to "Taiwan Representative Office", and It was supported by Campbell, the US White House Coordinator for Indo-Pacific Affairs.

At the same time, according to a report by the Japanese media "Nikkei Asia" on the 14th, the European Union is about to release its first draft "Indo-Pacific Strategy" document, which will announce the "development of closer trade" with Taiwan Province of China. Investment Relations”. As for Japan, which has coveted China's position as the leader in Asia for thousands of years, not to mention, it will regard China as its main strategic opponent whether it is provoked by the United States. Of course, it will not forget the Taiwan issue. Obviously, Lithuania got off to a bad start, triggering a series of chain reactions.

In just a few years, the United States, the European Union, Japan and other countries and regions have collectively challenged the "One China" principle and walked a tightrope on China's core interests. This is not accidental, but has deep-seated reasons. A few decades ago, the United States' method of dealing with China was very simple, that is, military deterrence. Although it does not have the guts to actually invade China, the US military often displays its troops in areas surrounding China and often uses its powerful military advantages to harass China.

In 1993, the U.S. military blatantly seized Chinese merchant ships on the high seas. In 1996, the Seventh Fleet blatantly sailed into the Taiwan Strait to prevent the People's Liberation Army from regaining Taiwan. In 1999, it bombed the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia and in 2001, it rammed into China. The aircraft are all typical incidents in which the United States exerts pressure on China based on its military superiority.

But in the past 20 years, this kind of thing has disappeared. This is not because the United States has restrained itself, but because China’s military strength has increased rapidly. If the United States commits such hooligan behavior again, it can no longer bear the pain of China's counterattack, so it is gradually forced out of the first island chain by China in a peaceful way; after military means failed, the United States began to launch various forms of attacks against China. economic sanctions, which turned into a trade war between the two countries during Trump’s term.

However, a few years later, the United States discovered that sanctioning China could not cause any real harm to China. On the contrary, it accelerated China's development in semiconductors and other fields, and its own vitality was greatly damaged. During the 2020 COVID-19 epidemic, China single-handedly supplied goods to the world. There is no other economic engine as powerful as China in the world.

In order to deal with China, the United States and the Western world have only the "Taiwan issue" as the last card left. This is the fundamental reason why the United States has frequently stirred up the sensitive nerve of the Taiwan Strait in the past year or so. The Taiwan issue is not only related to China's great cause of reunification, but also determines the survival of the United States in the Western Pacific.

Once Taiwan and mainland China are reunified, our last worries and personal concerns will be completely resolved.

The world will also see how powerful an unfettered China is. At the same time, without the strategic fulcrum of the Taiwan Strait, the "island chain" strategy that the United States has worked hard for 70 years will collapse in an instant. By that time, the United States will see Chinese naval vessels cruising around Guam and Hawaii.

Since its dominance after World War II, the United States has never been forced to withdraw from the Western Pacific. Frequently stirring up the Taiwan issue shows that the United States has exhausted almost all the cards in its hand and can only count on Taiwan Province to slow down China's development path. But China also wants to break through its own ceiling through unification and present a complete China to the world.

The duration of this struggle will not be short, nor will the intensity be low. But now China's development speed is no longer something that the United States can interfere with. By the end, people will not only see a powerful China that has finally completed its great cause of reunification, but also a United States that has retreated to the Americas and become a regional power. As for small countries like the Czech Republic and Lithuania, which have no position or ethics, they will change their surnames.