By Jun Sheng
Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi visited China’s Taiwan region on August 2. It was a nasty move that seriously violated the one-China principle and maliciously infringed upon China’s sovereignty.
With the US midterm elections nearing, Pelosi decided to play the Taiwan card at such a moment partly to play the old trick of “containing China with Taiwan”, but mostly to add her chances in the election, cumulate political legacy, and seek personal gains. Such an ugly and dangerous provocation once again proved Pelosi and other American politicians like her are the world’s “trouble makers”.
In the eyes of the people in many countries and regions, Pelosi is a self-willed, reckless politician. She bragged about the US being the “beacon” of democracy and the rule of law on the one hand, and, on the other, wantonly trampled upon the international law and the basic norms governing international relations and frequently interfered in other countries’ internal affairs. In the eyes of many Americans, Pelosi and her family are known as the “Buffett on capitol hill” who exercise public power and double standards for their private gains. They make every investment move “precisely and timely” just before the House of Representatives released good news about certain industries.
The visit to China’s Taiwan region is another political farce driven by Pelosi’s selfish purposes. Her provocation posed a serious threat to regional peace and stability and aroused widespread opposition and concern in the international community. Former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating called the visit a gamble that’s “foolish, dangerous and unnecessary”. Days ago, Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong urged Pelosi to strive for “stable” ties with Beijing as he met her during her visit to Singapore. But such criticism and advice of course fell on the deaf ears of this politician completely blinded by personal gains. She doesn’t care if her willful and unscrupulous move will jeopardize China-US relations, disrupt international order, harm America’s credibility, and leave a nasty mess to her successor – those are not her concerns. Pelosi’s hysteria, absurdity and selfishness make the perfect self-portrait of a heartless and heinous American politician.
She is not alone. There are plenty of self-centered, unattractive inside politicians like her in Washington in recent years. Having lived in the dirty political “house of cards” for long years, they have completely forsaken their bottom line and morality. They are constantly meddling in the issues of Hong Kong and Xinjiang and blatantly interfering in China’s internal affairs in order to contain China’s development, and scoop up political capital for themselves by playing the anti-China vanguard. They are putting up such a high profile on the Taiwan question because they want to divert conflicts and gather more “bargaining chips” while paying no heed to the China-US relations and the long-term interests of their peoples.
China must be and will be reunified. This is an unstoppable historical trend. Both the plot to “contain China with Taiwan” and the illusion to “rely on the US to seek Taiwan independence” are wishful thinking. For the Chinese people, nothing is more sacred than safeguarding national sovereignty and territorial integrity, and nothing is more important than preserving and realizing national reunification. Pelosi and her likes cannot stop the historical trend of China becoming stronger and more prosperous, achieving rejuvenation, and reunifying the two sides of the Taiwan Strait. At the end of the day, they will find their names on the historical pole of shame.
