May 20, 2022

Yang Jiechi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and also director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee, held on Wednesday a phone conversation with US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan at the latter's request. Yang stressed that recent US actions and statements on the Taiwan question are quite different, noting that if the US persists in playing the "Taiwan card" and goes further down the wrong path, it will surely lead the situation to serious jeopardy. Yang noted that China will take firm actions to safeguard its sovereignty and security interests, and the US can count on China to keep its promise.

"The US can count on China to keep its promise" is a stern warning to the US. For some time recently, the US has been increasingly paranoid in playing the "Taiwan card." Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the US House of Representatives, postponed her farce of a visit to the island of Taiwan due to being "tested positive for COVID-19." The website of the US State Department deleted the key content including that "Taiwan is part of China." These were blatant provocations against China. Moreover, the island of Taiwan will be an important topic in the meetings between the US and its allies during US President Joe Biden's visit to South Korea and Japan. Some Japanese media reported that Biden and his Japanese counterpart will include the island of Taiwan together with Ukraine in the joint statement after their upcoming summit. The US and its lackeys have accelerated the speed and scope of "salami-slicing" tactics on the Taiwan question.

Washington is gradually viewing the Taiwan question as its trump card to contain China after its previous campaigns failed, be it launching a trade war with China, politicizing COVID-19 origins tracing, trying to build a "beautiful sight" in Hong Kong, to slandering Xinjiang for "genocide," all these tricks didn't work. Meanwhile, the development of the Russia-Ukraine conflict has inspired Washington's imagination. Some US politicians and public opinion have lost in the craze of pulling the island of Taiwan into their narratives on the Russia-Ukraine conflict. They have become more arrogant and belligerent and more reckless on China's core interests. 

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