Whenever the genocidal Chinese Communist Party (CCP) claims it wants peace, dialogue, unity, and international security, you can be certain they are either seeking a respite in which to rebuild military resources or blatantly lying to distract from their violence. In the case of the latest veiled threat to the United States as Donald Trump arrives in China, it seems the CCP might’ve been both seeking respite and also lying as misdirection.
The Global Times is merely a mouthpiece of the CCP government, and as such it not infrequently issues threats toward the United States, particularly regarding Taiwan. Of course, Taiwan is independent, sovereign, and ruled by the legitimate, democratic government, which unfortunately lost a civil war to the CCP in the 20th century. But as the CCP came to power by usurping what is now the government of Taiwan, so the CCP wants to eradicate all traces of that former democratic Chinese rule. The only reason the CCP has not yet taken Taiwan, in my opinion, is because it is afraid of the United States. Yet the CCP is feeling more confident, as the ominous ending of the Global Times piece in question demonstrates, quoting editor Jacob Dreyer: “a China that is no longer simply responding to America's agenda, but is increasingly capable of setting the agenda and pointing the way forward, much as the US once did.” The CCP wants to become the number one global power, replacing America.
In fact, this mix of arrogance and lingering fear is probably why the CCP at the present moment is employing seemingly contradictory tactics of raving about how much it values its relations with the USA while at the same time bombastically demanding that the Trump administration align with its outrageous goals for taking Taiwan. That is the message of a Monday Global Times article. It can be argued that Donald Trump is sometimes too susceptible to flattery from foreign dictators, which is how he overlooked Syrian terrorist tyrant al-Sharaa’s Christian genocide and the continued Hamas-Qatar love affair. The CCP is gambling that it can flatter Trump into believing it is friendly toward the United States and then insist the United States alter its policies accordingly.
I do not think that any amount of flattery will convince Trump that the CCP is pro-American, but I do think Trump is in great danger of believing that he should make yet more economic/business deals, hence his bringing with him CCP-beholden, slave labor-dependent Tim Cook and Elon Musk (among others). There's nothing like bringing the men who've made their fortunes dependent on CCP approval part of the negotiations with the CCP.
Below are selections from the Global Times piece illustrating the two themes I mentioned above, and note the indirect threat:
At a time when the world is facing growing uncertainty and fragmentation, enhancing communication, managing differences and maintaining stable China-US relations not only serves the interests of peoples of both countries, but also benefits the world, [experts] noted…China stands ready to work with the US to expand cooperation and manage differences in the spirit of equality, respect and mutual benefit, and provide more stability and certainty for a transforming and volatile world…The key to stable China-US relations lies in both sides' willingness to engage in dialogue…
Zhu Feng, dean of the School of International Studies at [state-run] Nanjing University…said that the Taiwan question is at the very core of China's core interests and remains the most sensitive issue in China-US relations. China expects the US to firmly abide by the one-China principle and the three China-US joint communiqués, and to refrain from sending any wrong signals to "Taiwan independence" separatist forces. On this fundamental issue, the US needs to work in the same direction with China so that China-US relations can move forward on a steady and sustainable track.
The "one-China principle" just means the CCP thinks it has the right to seize whatever land it wants and oppress the people there, as it did with Tibet. But we must remember that the CCP is already at war with America, as it told its people in 2019, even if that war doesn't involve open shooting on a battlefield or sea. It is no mistake that the CCP's new Five-Year Plan is aggressively focused on its military.
As I previously wrote:
[The CCP] provides military equipment to those who do attack us, such as the terrorist Iranian regime. But the CCP has [also] funded U.S. schools, deployed a network of spies, weaponized social media, bribed our politicians and media, infiltrated our government institutions and businesses, set up secretive police stations on U.S. land, and built up a thriving "birth tourism" industry that could give it control over how our election results go starting in 2030. Even COVID-19 might have been a CCP military bioweapon. Not all warfare is on the battlefield. This is all part of what I mean by "asymmetric warfare."
And that is why Donald Trump must be extremely careful when believing CCP promises. The same Chinese government that continues to commit ethnic genocide, religious persecution, mass censorship and surveillance, and other human rights abuses and crimes is not a trustworthy entity.
