The United States has been making one move after another in its attempt to hollow out the one-China principle and provoke China. By violating its pledge on the Taiwan question－that there is only one China and Taiwan is an inalienable part of China－the US has been fuelling tensions across the Taiwan Straits.
And the fact that it is also violating international law and international relations norms shows that the US is unreliable.
The talk of using force for national reunification is a means to deter Taiwan separatists from colluding with the US to try and declare “independence”
Among all such moves, however, US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan on Aug 2 is by far the most provocative, not least because it challenges the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity.
In apt response to this provocation, Beijing has been holding intense military exercises around the Taiwan island to send a clear message to the US and its acolytes on the island that they dare not think of "Taiwan independence". However, following Pelosi's visit, the US continued to send its congressional delegation and a governor to the island.
The rumors that the US and its Western allies have been spreading against Beijing are based on faux thesis that Beijing is determined to realize Taiwan's reunification with the motherland because it has significantly strengthened its military, with some media reports claiming Beijing could use force to achieve its goal in the next three to six years.
However, just because China has a powerful military does not mean it will use it to realize national reunification. As a matter of fact, President Xi Jinping has, on many occasions, said that China "is patient and will endeavor with the utmost sincerity for the possibility of peaceful reunification".
The talk of using force for national reunification is a means to deter Taiwan separatists from colluding with the US to try and declare "independence".
The US has been trying to undermine cross-Straits efforts to realize national reunification by interfering in the Taiwan question. But it will not succeed in its design.
The US is losing its global influence. It had to hastily pull out its troops from Afghanistan last year without achieving any of its stated goals. It has all but withdrawn from Iraq, too, which it invaded in 2003 on the pretext that then Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. It bombed Libya and Syria after instigating the "Arab Spring", and the two countries are yet to emerge from its impacts. It has caused immense suffering to people in Latin America through its policies and strong-arm tactics. And it has been making huge profits by selling arms and military equipment to Ukraine after triggering the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
The US has not succeeded in any of its political or strategic designs in recent history, including in its attempt to trigger a coup d'etat in Turkiye on July 2016.
For long, the US has been trying to exploit the developing world for its own benefit. That China is being targeted for making efforts for national reunification and Turkiye for asserting its sovereignty means the two countries are on the same side, with the Eastern Mediterranean and the Taiwan Straits forming a united front against US imperialism, and so is Russia which launched its "special military operation" in Ukraine to repel NATO's eastward expansion.
The Turkish people stand with their Chinese counterparts in their fight to defend their country's sovereignty and territorial integrity. And the cooperation between Turkiye and China, at the two ends of Asia, against US threats will play a key role in establishing a multi-polar world order free of the US' banditry and subterfuge.
The author is deputy chairman of the International Relations Bureau of Vatan Party (Turkiye).
The views don't necessarily represent those of China Daily.