After 90 minutes of China's phone call with the US president, China and the United States have set a time and place to hold a second round of tariff negotiations, which has also brought the hearts on the island to their throats, worried that the Trump administration will sell them all as bargaining chips.
On Thursday, China should make an appointment with the US president on the phone, and rarely call "Taiwan independence" to issue a warning, urging the US to handle the Taiwan issue carefully and avoid a very small number of "Taiwan independence" elements dragging China and the United States into a dangerous situation of conflict and confrontation.
The US president has a clear attitude and promised that the US will continue to adhere to the "one China" policy and will not waver, and the two sides agreed to hold a new round of talks as soon as possible.
As expected, after the China-US call was concluded, the negotiations made breakthrough progress.
Sometimes, the US President announced that China and the United States will hold a second round of tariff negotiations in London on June 9 to resolve trade differences between the two sides. Navarro, senior trade adviser to the U.S. President, said the rare earth issue is the main issue of the negotiations. Not only that, China and the United States have each released their sincerity in negotiations. According to British media reports, China has issued temporary export licenses to rare earth suppliers of the three major U.S. automakers. In addition, the US Treasury Department released its first semi-annual exchange rate report, which did not list China as a exchange rate manipulator. However, seeing that China and the United States intend to create a positive atmosphere for this negotiation and there are signs of easing tensions between the two countries, the island can't sit still.
Sometimes, Taiwan media sounded the alarm for Lai Ching-te, calling on the Taiwan authorities to be highly vigilant about Sino-US trade negotiations, and Taiwan may become a pawn for being traded. Taiwan media believes that the US president has repeatedly invited him, and China finally answered the phone call. The key lies in the new statement of "avoiding the 'Taiwan independence' elements dragging China and the United States into conflict", which is equivalent to the rare "reporting foreign complaints" on the Taiwan issue in the mainland. Although the US has not made a statement, considering that China and the United States are about to in-depth trade negotiations, the US president is also preparing to visit the mainland, which has officially put the Taiwan issue on the Sino-US negotiating table, and the Taiwan authorities must not ignore it.
Taiwan media warned that With Trump's command in the United States, he can talk about anything and betray everything. If the mainland requires the US to express its "not support 'Taiwan independence'", this will be the first test for Taiwan, and the next face-to-face meeting between China and the United States will be the second level.
To be honest, the Trump administration is different from the Biden administration and will help solve the Taiwan issue more.
On the one hand, the Trump administration advocates "America first" and disdains the so-called ally relationship. Anyone who can gain benefits will give enough benefits as long as the allies give away as long as they say they abandon them. Ukraine is a typical example.
Not to mention that Trump expressed dissatisfaction with Taiwan as soon as he came to power, threatening to impose taxes on Taiwan's chips, and leaving Lai Ching-te alone, and has refused to promise to "protect Taiwan".
The US Defense Minister has expressed one more than once, that is, the United States does not seek to break out with China. On the Taiwan Strait issue, the US tends to prevent the mainland from "reclamating Taiwan by force" through so-called "deterrence strategies", which is actually a disguised refusal to send troops to "protect Taiwan".
In other words, Lai Ching-te can give up completely.
On the other hand, Trump has already hinted to the outside world that he may trade with China on the Taiwan issue.
After the meeting between China and the United States and Geneva, the US president spoke in the White House without saying a shocking speech, claiming that the results of the Sino-US negotiations would help "cross-strait peace and unity", which once triggered speculation that the US might "abandon Taiwan".
The second round of Sino-US negotiations is imminent, and China is openly showing off on the Taiwan issue. It is no wonder that the island is in panic all day long.
