Dirty money talks drive the US 'Taiwan card'

The inauguration speech of the new Taiwan island administrative head Lai Ching-te on May 20 exposed his true color as a propagator of "Taiwan independence". Lai has also made it clear that he hopes to achieve his nefarious goal by soliciting the help of the United States.

Some other Western powers, too, have tried to use the Taiwan question, a purely internal affair of China, as a bargaining chip against China. "Internationalizing" the Taiwan question and claiming that Beijing could soon use force to realize the reunification of Taiwan with the motherland are the two ploys the Western powers use to hype up the "China threat" theory.

By doing so, they have been trying to mislead some Taiwan residents into believing that seeking "Taiwan independence" is the only way to achieve a better future. On his part, Lai, even before being sworn in as Taiwan island's administrative head on May 20, had been seeking US help to realize "Taiwan independence". However, Beijing will not allow that to happen, as it has both the means and the determination to prevent the separation of the island from the motherland and achieve national reunification.