The China-US strategic game will definitely last long, but China has made a solid start, and we can be more confident and determined.
The Chinese mainland believes in peace. But it also has the courage and strength to safeguard its national unity, even through a war.
China's ability to diffuse any new cold war is more than the US' ability to launch one.
The US is the most petty-minded of all big powers. Many Western countries have Confucius Institutes, but only the US, the world's sole superpower, feels threatened. Where is the US' confidence? Where is its cultural tolerance?
The drills of the Eastern Theater Command show that the PLA is capable of launching a general offensive from all directions in the Taiwan Straits, and seize the island in hours. DPP authorities should use their final rationality. They should know that being a piece in the US chessboard could lead to checkmate. The day may come suddenly when they get swellheaded.
Whoever takes office, Washington's strategic malice toward Beijing won't decline. China must depend on itself to defend its own interests, rather than hope that Washington will change its mind.
Lee and his ilk want to be US pawns in Hong Kong and dedicated to turning Hong Kong into a pivot.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian announced sanctions on 11 US lawmakers and heads of nongovernmental organizations on Monday afternoon. The move is obviously a reciprocal retaliation against US sanctions announced Friday on senior Hong Kong officials including Carrie Lam, and central government officials related to Hong Kong, 11 of them in total. Beijing is once again sending a clear message to Washington that China will not compromise in the face of diplomatic crackdown from the US.
DPP authorities, while trapped in a whirlpool, should be clear-minded. They should get rid of their radical path and keep their strategic sense to avoid embarking on a path of no return.
The future prosperity of Hong Kong rests on the Chinese nation rather than the US. In an era of China-US strategic competition, don't pick the wrong side and become Washington's puppet.
China should leave some of the US' provocations be, while launching countermeasures against others. In the next few months, China should make the world, especially the Americans, feel the absurdity of playing the China card in election campaigns which is turning US national interests into partisan gains.
The Trump administration has displayed its ugly face that prevents any non-US company to break the US technological hegemony. The so-called “national security” is merely a shameless excuse used to destroy China's most successful globalized internet company.
The Chinese people must not be frightened by the Trump administration's aggressive anti-China posture, nor should they be misled by it. As long as China adheres to further opening-up, it won't get distracted or dance to the tune of the US, and it will be pretty difficult for Washington to carry out its Clean Network program.
The mainland has many cards, including the military card. More importantly, it is much more determined to play the cards than Washington.
In a world which lacks rules, the cost of interaction between countries will increase, and the subtle shift from a win-win result to a lose-lose one will be inevitable. At a time when people are experiencing an unprecedented pandemic, it will be tragic to lose rules.
By banning Huawei, the US would lag behind in 5G technology. By banning TikTok, the US would harm its own internet diversity and its belief in freedom and democracy. When similar things happen time and again, the US will take steps closer to its decline.
In the most barbaric way, the US is trying to solidify a high-tech world order in which it is the absolute center. Whether it ends up "killing" TikTok or forcibly taking the child out of Bytedance's arms, it is one of the ugliest scenes of the 21st century in the high-tech competition.
Pompeo's remarks impressed on the people that the US has made an unsuccessful start in launching a new cold war against China.