Reporter : Luo Tingting / Editor: Zhu Xinrui / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2021/01/21/a103036808.html / Direct translation
Image : On January 20, Biden was sworn in at the Capitol. (Andrew Harnik-Pool/Getty Images)
The 46th President of the United States, Biden, was formally sworn in at noon on January 20. Taiwanese representative to the United States, Xiao Meiqin, was invited to attend the inauguration ceremony. This is the first official invitation since the US and Taiwan broke off diplomatic relations 42 years ago.
The Taiwan Representative Office in the United States issued a press release on the 20th, stating that Xiao Meiqin accepted the invitation of the Joint Committee of Congress for the Inauguration Ceremony (JCCIC) to represent the Taiwan government to attend the Oath of Inauguration of the US President on the West Lawn of the US Congress.
According to the press release, Ambassador Xiao and colleagues from this office were invited to attend, fully demonstrating the precious friendship between the United States and Taiwan and demonstrating the solid foundation of friendly cooperation between Taiwan and the new US government.
The press release also stated that Taiwan looks forward to continuing to deepen exchanges and cooperation with the Biden administration in various fields and further strengthen the friendly partnership between Taiwan and the United States.
The Central News Agency quoted people familiar with the matter as saying that this is the first time Taiwan has been formally invited by the preparatory committee for the inauguration ceremony of the United States since the breakup of diplomatic relations between the United States and Taiwan in 1979.
Previously, whether Taiwan’s ambassador or the "congratulations group" from Taipei attended the inauguration ceremony of the US president, they were all tickets provided by members of the US Congress. This is an admission ticket that the US "general public" can also apply for.
Because this presidential inauguration banned the participation of the general public on the grounds of epidemic prevention and safety, Taiwan could no longer obtain admission tickets through members of Congress as before. After some efforts, Xiao Meiqin received an invitation letter from the preparatory committee last week.
According to regulations, the CCP virus screening must be carried out in advance to enter the venue. The person familiar with the matter said that Xiao Meiqin had "implied" on Facebook on the 19th that she passed the screening.
The US Secretary of State nominee Antony Blinken said at a congressional hearing on the 19th that the United States has long-term and non-partisan commitments to Taiwan, such as the "Taiwan Relations Act" and the US-China Joint Communiqué.
He promised that the Biden administration "absolutely will continue" America's non-partisan commitment to Taiwan's security. He also claimed that if the CCP used force against Taiwan, it would be a "serious mistake."
Blinken also said that with regard to US-Taiwan relations, the outgoing Secretary of State Pompeo has taken some measures to relax the regulations. He hopes to complete the legislative process of the Taiwan Assurance Act of 2020, and to facilitate the exchanges between the US and Taiwan and "create more space".
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Trump's gift to Biden: anti-communist legacy
Editor : Wen Xin / Reposted from The Epoch Times / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2021/01/21/a103036752.html / Direct translation
US President Trump's efforts to counter the CCP, CCP agents and other communists during the past four years in power have become his legacy and is the core idea of the White House.
Therefore, "America First" is a suitable slogan, which has played an important role in combating communist opponents and in their attempts to replace the United States in decades and the various undertakings that it cooperates with.
For decades, the CCP has used theft of trade secrets, protectionist trade policies, and market distortions to plunder the wealth of the United States, and use these wealth to fund a huge soft power movement, undermining the interests of the United States in various fields, and gaining support. The influence of multinational institutions.
Despite major interference from within the federal government, Trump has directly faced this threat in the United States, in China, and around the world. When he announced his re-election campaign in 2019, communism and freedom became one of the important themes of the US election. But with the economic disaster and global catastrophe caused by the CCP virus in 2020, other priorities have become the focus.
Nevertheless, Trump's efforts to oppose communism continue.
The Trump administration directly countered the CCP in many ways
From 2016 to early 2021, the Trump administration directly countered the CCP in many ways, including supporting the people of Taiwan and Hong Kong, cutting off the source of income of private companies associated with the CCP's military, and preventing the threat of espionage from Chinese technology companies.
During this period, the U.S. government began to normalize relations with Taiwan, regardless of the agreements made over the past few decades. Taiwan’s democracy is opposed to Beijing’s communist repressive regime. The CCP has long dwarfed Taiwan on the international stage.
In September last year, the then Undersecretary of State Keith Krach, who was in charge of the important tasks of US economic growth, led a delegation to visit Taiwan, which became the visit to Taiwan since the United States broke diplomatic relations with Taiwan in 1979 and transferred diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing. The highest-level State Department official. According to the interpretation of the outside world, this historic visit signifies that the United States continues to increase its support for Taiwan and despise the CCP. And Beijing did not ignore the significance of this visit.
Krach said that Beijing violated Taiwan’s airspace at least 46 times during his visit to Taiwan. He said, “We are greeted by fighter jets and bombers.”
In the last few days of the Trump administration, the State Council removed all self-restrictions on interaction between the executive branch and Taiwanese officials, laying the foundation for a closer relationship with Taiwan. Secretary of State Pompeo said on January 9 that the U.S. government has taken these self-restrictive actions for decades to appease the Chinese Communist regime. From now on, the U.S. "will not do this again."
The author Orlando Gutierrez Boronat, co-founder of the Cuban Democracy Bureau, told The Epoch Times that Trump’s Taiwan policy is of immortal significance to American democracy.
"I think (the United States) support for Taiwan is huge in all aspects: politics, economy, military." Boronat said.
"The Republic of China (Taiwan) is a long-term ally of the United States and there is no reason to treat it differently. For decades, they have been at the forefront of the struggle for democracy and freedom, and their achievements in Taiwan are incredible. As a human achievement , His support for Taiwan is outstanding."
The CCP virus broke out globally
Considering Taiwan’s resolute opposition to communism and the continued occurrence of low-level SARS-CoV-2 (CCP virus, novel coronavirus) epidemic, this may not be a coincidence. Before the Taiwan authorities controlled the entry of foreign tourists, the region’s tourism industry relied on a large number of mainland tourists to thrive, but since the outbreak of the epidemic, only 7 people in Taiwan have died from the CCP virus.
Indirect evidence shows that how close a place is to the CCP may have something to do with the severity of the epidemic.
Trump's response and remarks surrounding the virus have caused the world to have a major impact on the views of the Chinese Communist regime.
On January 31, 2020, less than two weeks after the first confirmed infection was discovered in the United States, Trump banned all Chinese passenger planes from traveling to and from the United States. Since then, he has called the virus "China virus" many times and denounced the CCP for suppressing the early warning of the epidemic. While blocking Wuhan internally, he allowed international flights to leave Wuhan, spreading the plague to the world.
Combating CCP theft of U.S. secrets and CCP espionage
In the United States, Trump’s Department of Justice launched an unprecedented crackdown on the CCP’s theft of trade secrets and related crimes.
The then Attorney General Jeff Sessions launched this "China Initiative" at the end of 2018, which aims to strengthen the investigation and prosecution of cases involving Chinese spies, and to combat Chinese hacking. , Keeping a close eye on the CCP’s overseas talent plan, and at the same time countering the national security risks caused by the CCP’s penetration and the acquisition of Chinese enterprises.
From the end of 2018 to February 2020, the FBI conducted approximately 1,000 investigations into China's alleged theft of trade secrets. According to a press release to the Department of Justice, since 2019, the number of prosecutions related to the CCP’s penetration of the United States has been filed by the department more than the Obama administration has taken in eight years.
John Brown, deputy director of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Department, said: “We believe that no country poses a greater threat than the Chinese Communist Party. From our point of view, since the Soviet Union’s Cold War, the United States has not Faced similar threats."
He said, "Today, investigations related to the Chinese (CCP) government account for a larger proportion of our counterintelligence workload than at any time in FBI history."
Crack down on Chinese companies associated with the CCP
The Trump administration has targeted China's so-called private enterprises, all of which are directly affected by the CCP. US officials have long warned that because China's (CCP) Security Law requires companies to cooperate with Chinese intelligence agencies, Chinese technology (including software and hardware) may be used by Beijing for espionage activities, thereby threatening US national security.
To this end, the Trump administration has used two different sanctions blacklists to target Chinese companies and related companies that have ties to the Chinese Communist regime. One entity list is compiled by the Ministry of Commerce; the other is the Chinese military-industrial blacklist. Department of Defense summary. Each target company has different sanctions. Among them, the entity list includes hundreds of Chinese companies, many of which are included because of their ties to the Chinese military.
At the end of December last year, the Trump administration tightened restrictions on these companies and prohibited Americans from holding stocks in these companies. This was a major economic blow to companies related to the Chinese military.
Secretary of State Pompeo said in a statement: "(This ban) will ensure that U.S. capital will not contribute to the development and modernization of the military, intelligence, and security services of the People’s Republic of China (CCP)."
Sanctions against human rights violators
For a long time, the CCP has been extremely sensitive to the exposure of its abominable human rights record on the international stage. The Trump administration sanctioned CCP officials who participated in serious human rights violations, breaking the United States' silence on these violations for decades.
In July 2020, the United States sanctioned four CCP officials who participated in the persecution of Uighurs, Kazakhs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang.
In December 2020, the U.S. State Department sanctioned 17 current and former foreign government officials in accordance with Section 7031(c) of the State Department’s Foreign Action and Related Program Appropriation Act, including police officers from the Wucun Police Station of the Xiamen Public Security Bureau who persecuted Chinese Falun Gong practitioners. Huang Yuanxiong (Note: Chinese domestic media website reported that Huang served as the instructor of the Second Police Team of Wucun Police Station, Siming Branch of Xiamen Public Security Bureau).
The U.S. sanctions against Huang Yuanxiong are the first punitive action taken against the CCP in more than two decades since the CCP has launched a brutal persecution of about 100 million Falun Gong practitioners in China.
Oppose communism around the world
The influence of the CCP has far exceeded official institutions and private companies in China.
The Trump administration, by withdrawing from multinational institutions such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), has sent a clear message that the United States will not act for those international organizations that sacrifice established goals to cater to regimes such as the CCP. Contribute or participate in it.
When withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council, the US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley (Nikki Haley) called the council "an organization that does not fit the name" because its members include notorious human rights abusers such as China and Communist regime in Cuba.
Trump said that he withdrew the United States from the World Health Organization because the CCP put pressure on the health organization, causing the CCP authorities to mislead everyone to relax their vigilance against the CCP virus while blocking information and misleading propaganda.
Trump also used sanctions and other means to weaken the communist and socialist regimes in Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua. In some cases, Trump’s achievements in other parts of the world have hit the communist movement. For example, when supporting Israel, Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel to oppose the global opposition composed of communism and its allied regimes. The position of the Israeli movement.
Communism penetration expert Trevor Loudon told The Epoch Times: "The anti-Israel movement that has emerged around the world is essentially communism. When (Trump) took the stand of Israel, he It is from the standpoint of opposing communism, because Israel’s main enemy is communist regimes such as Iran, or regimes allied with communism.”
Oppose the penetration of communism in the United States
Communism advocates the complete abolition of private property and free enterprise, which seems difficult to implement in the United States, but over time, the ever-expanding tax and regulatory levels can also achieve this goal.
In terms of policy, Trump clearly opposed the infiltration of communism into the United States for decades, and successively implemented tax cuts and deregulation of enterprises to combat the government's incremental erosion of people's assets and enterprises.
Lower taxes, coupled with administrative orders to ensure the gradual reduction of regulations, pushed the U.S. economy to its heyday in 2018 and 2019. Unemployment rates hit record lows, wages rose, and the stock market soared. As economic conditions improved, millions of Americans withdrew from welfare programs.
Prior to the development of the US welfare system, the US was getting closer and closer to socialism, and socialism itself was the primary stage of communism.
Facts have proved that Trump is a staunch defender of tradition. He took action to promote religious freedom, restore respect for the founding principles of the United States, and defend the right to life of unborn children. At every step in this process, he respected the limits set by the Constitution and strengthened the documents that have guaranteed American freedom for hundreds of years.
Although many of Trump's administrative actions have been challenged in court, each time he allows the court to make a decision.
During Trump's tenure, the United States once again accepted to talk about communism, which caused an earthquake-like cultural shift. He raised this question in his 2019 State of the Union speech and told Congress in front of several listeners who considered themselves Democratic socialists, “The United States will never be a socialist country.”
Then he took these remarks to campaign rallies and Twitter, and when the Democratic Party turned to the left, it sparked a discussion about socialism.
Biden's platform was formed by merging with that of Democratic senator and socialist Bernie Sanders. Biden’s first legislative proposal is the CCP’s virus relief measures, including the $15 minimum wage task that Sanders has been promoting for many years.
In speeches to global leaders and Americans, Trump condemned communism as a deadly threat. In his speech on the National Victims of Communism Day, he denounced communism as an "oppressive ideology, which without exception leaves suffering, destruction and death."
Trump said: "Although Marxism promises equality, peace and happiness, in practice, its results are only inequality, violence and despair."
English Epoch Times reporters Cathy He, Mimi Nguyen Ly and Jack Phillips contributed to this article.
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