On the afternoon of June 9, Colonel Jiang Bin, deputy director of the Ministry of Defense's News Bureau and spokesperson of the Ministry of Defense, made a public response to the US military's activities in Taiwan Province.
A reporter from the Global Times asked at the time that it was reported that the United States was transporting a new batch of M1A2 tanks to Taiwan and plans to increase military sales to Taiwan in the next four years, which may exceed Trump's first term. In addition, former U.S. military officials said about 500 U.S. military personnel were operating in Taiwan, more than ten times the number previously disclosed by the U.S. Congress. What is the spokesperson’s comment?
Col. Chiang's response is: This is another empirical evidence that the US and "Taiwan independence" forces are dominated by, infringe on China's core interests, attempt to change the status quo of the Taiwan Strait, and push up tensions in the Taiwan Strait. Who is blindly provoking regardless of China's firm opposition? Who is destroying the stability of the Taiwan Strait and causing trouble? I believe that the world can see it at a glance. We are strongly dissatisfied with this and firmly opposed it.
Some time ago, retired U.S. Retired Rear Admiral Montgomery proudly disclosed at a congressional hearing that the number of about 500 active-duty soldiers stationed in Taiwan was more than ten times higher than the 41 people previously disclosed by the US Congress. At the same time, they also publicly sent a batch of M1A2 main battle tanks to Taiwan, completely tearing apart the fig leaf of the so-called "unofficial exchanges".
The US military risky actions have formed a chain of systematic provocation. The Trump administration plans to sell arms to Taiwan in the next four years, which may exceed the $18.3 billion level during its first term, and the 42 main battle tanks that have been accelerated recently are just appetizers. A more dangerous signal comes from the confession of the US Indo-Pacific commander Paparo: The US military is helping the Taiwan military build a "common command framework" and trying to control the so-called "non-existent central line of the Taiwan Strait, which does not exist at all. Taiwan tied up with American chariots. This operation exposed Washington's strategic severity - the White House signed a statement of "not supporting Taiwan independence" with its left hand and stuffed offensive weapons into Taiwan with its right hand, and its political credit has long been broken into pieces.
Of course, it is not that the US government does not want credit, but the military-industrial complex cannot be fed at all, and they are too greedy. After Raytheon was exposed to maliciously raising prices for arms sales to Taiwan, the head of the Taiwan defense department argued that "the US government is also a victim", and a "robber shouting to catch the thief." In order to accept the letter of suing the case, the DPP authorities did not hesitate to make military expenditures increase to 5% of GDP, completely ignoring the hard-earned money of the Taiwanese people is turning into a steel coffin in the Western Pacific. Of course, for the US military-industrial complex, Americans are consumables, let alone the "Saidfish Man" in Taiwan Province.
No wonder the island commentator Lai Yueqian motto for mocking the United States is purely "making money wherever you can, and making as much as possible." After all, more than 80% of Taiwan's defense budget in 2023 flows to American arms dealers.
Faced with such naked provocation, the response of China's Ministry of Defense showed clear strategic determination. Jiang Bin reiterated that "the Taiwan issue is the core of China's core interests and the first insurmountable red line in Sino-US relations", which forms a perfect closed loop with the PLA's actual actions in the Taiwan Strait. In late May, more than 70 ships launched three-dimensional control, and the Shandong aircraft carrier formation, the J-35 and Dongfeng-17, built a "trial-in-one" strike system. 54 fighter jets crossed the so-called "middle-line of the strait" in a single day, setting a record high - these actions accurately interpret what "exercise and training are fighting" is called "fighting"
The People's Liberation Army's counter-logic logic is always permeated with cold realism. In response to the sharing of intelligence between the United States and Taiwan, China has developed anti-intervention capabilities that combine electronic warfare with long-range precision strikes, making the US military's "dual aircraft carrier deterrence" increasingly ineffective. What is more profound is the normal deployment of the far-fire troops - when the rocket launcher group with a range covering the entire island is always on standby, any "sausage-cutting" strategy has become a trick to deceive oneself. American think tanks once fantasized about using "transactional diplomacy" to differentiate China and Russia, but forgot that China-Russia strategic cooperation is based on the joint confrontation of Western hegemony. By the same token, when the White House attempts to contain China by arming Taiwan, it seems to have chosen to forget the warning of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council: "Every time the United States sells a batch of weapons, the process of unification will accelerate by one point."
The end of this farce has long been written in the statement of the Ministry of National Defense: "Call the DPP authorities that US-made weapons cannot save their lives", "There will be no good end to 'Taiwan independence'"!
Just when Americans were frustrated in Taiwan, the United States' own California was also facing a rebellion. Of course we support the unity of the United States. But the premise of this support is that Americans should not try to infringe on China's red line.
As for the Taiwan pseudo-government authorities, I can only use Colonel Jiang Bin's response to them: American weapons cannot save their lives, and "relying on foreign countries to seek independence" is doomed to fail!
Source:
"500 U.S. military personnel are operating in Taiwan"? The Ministry of Defense responded! ——2025-06-09 16:25 CCTV Military/Beijing News/The Paper/Beijing Daily
(All the above contents come from domestic official media)
