No Joe, Taiwan becoming a separate independent country is NOT up to Taiwan, it is up to the USA and the whole world knows that. American military, economic, and political policies are all now designed to contain, threaten, and diminish China without actually escalating the language to a new increasingly dangerous Cold War II. American policies to weaponize Taiwan and take steps to further encourage Taiwanese de facto if not yet de jure independence are the most crucial factor at play. American policies to form a kind of Pacific NATO to encircle and threaten China are forcing the Chinese to greatly escalate their own military buildup including a 5x increase of China’s strategic nuclear forces which until now they have always resisted.
The American relationship with China, of which the Taiwan situation has been one of the key centerpieces from the beginning, are now in total contradiction to the repeated promises and assurances given to China ever since the Nixon visit to Beijing in 1972 and the widely heralded and repeatedly reaffirmed “One-China Policy” then and since. The violator and aggressor is the United States; the victim, aggrieved and threatened, past and now present, is China.
Biden and his liberal warhawk administration have now been quasi-publicly warned once again from the highest authority in China that American policies are driving the US and CHINA toward confrontation, toward war one way or another, even potentially now world nuclear war. The so-called virtual summit Monday evening in Washington has further set the stage for increasing confrontation and belligerency. If Biden gives the OK for some kind of diplomatic boycott of the Chinese Olympics now just a few months away that will further anger the Chinese, and rightly so. Expect more counter-measures from Chinese President Xi in the weeks ahead.
Mark Bruzonsky 