Concerns are about Biden administration's intentions: China Daily editorial

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning was forced to give a history lesson in Tuesday's regular media briefing, as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's remarks on Taiwan the day before continued the US administration's deliberate twisting of historical facts on the Chinese island.

Pointing out that the one-China principle is a universally recognized norm in international relations and the important political prerequisite and foundation for China's diplomatic relations with other countries, she reminded the Joe Biden administration that the US stated in the Shanghai Communique that it "acknowledged that all Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain there is but one China and that Taiwan is a part of China", and that the US government "does not challenge that position".

And that in 1978, the US stated in the Joint Communique on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between the United States of America and the People's Republic of China that: "The United States of America recognizes the Government of the People's Republic of China as the sole legal Government of China."

And that the US stated in the August 17 Communique of 1982 that "it has no intention of infringing on Chinese sovereignty and territorial integrity, or interfering in China's internal affairs, or pursuing a policy of 'two Chinas' or 'one China, one Taiwan'".

Those are irrefutable facts and pledges written down in black and white. The Biden administration, however, is reneging on those commitments by significantly relaxing its restraint on official interactions, reinforcing military contacts with Taiwan, and touting "Ukraine today, Taiwan tomorrow" in a bid to portray the island as "a sovereign state" so that it can hype up Taiwan as a potential "flash point" in the "Indo-Pacific".

In his latest remarks, Blinken again sought to parallel the Ukraine crisis with the Taiwan question saying the whole world is "concerned about a crisis across the Taiwan Strait". But the whole world, including the US, as it clearly acknowledges in the three communiques, knows that the Taiwan question is China's internal affair.

What the rest of the world is actually concerned about is the warlust of Washington and its gang of lickspittle allies, as revealed once again in the reported remark of US President Joe Biden that the US has a plan for "the destruction of Taiwan".

It is not a crisis as a result of the Chinese mainland's "aggression" that is the cause of concern, as Blinken alleged, but rather Washington's eagerness to armchair-general yet another conflict that is causing alarm.

The US' allies should stop enabling it and get Washington to face up to the fact that it has an addiction that requires cold turkey. Like that of any addict trying to satisfy its craving, Washington's behavior is harmful to all around it. Those closest to it, should get it to stand on the right side of history, as set out in the three communiques, and honor the pledges it has made on the Taiwan question.