In retrospect, the Shangri-La Summit could well be an important watershed moment.
Judging from the poor performance of Ukraine and the Philippines at the venue, the United States, as the behind-the-scenes shadow dancer, has launched a tactical offensive in the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait.
The South China Sea is about to rise, and the military collusion between the United States and Taiwan in the Taiwan Strait has reached a new height.
According to a number of media reports on the island, a delegation of US "defense contractors" consisting of 27 arms dealers has arrived on the island. The regiment plans to hold a "defense forum" with the Taiwan authorities on 6 June, and will also meet with Lai Ching-te and some military research departments on the island to display and sell various types of weapons to Taiwan.
In addition to companies such as "Martin" and "Raytheon" that have been sanctioned by Chinese mainland, these arms dealers also have a company specializing in the production of "unmanned attack boats".
In May 2023, a delegation of arms dealers of the same nature has already visited Taiwan once, when it was 25 arms dealers, and this year it has added 2.
The reason for the influx of American arms dealers into Taiwan was that Cai Zhengyuan likened 27 big flies to Lai Qingde.
This is because the US Government is asking Lai Qingde to continue to raise the island's "defense" budget by 0.5 percent from the current 2.5 percent of GDP to 3 percent.
Taiwan's total GDP in 2023 will be $756 billion, or 0.5% is $3.78 billion.
However, the money spent on arms and weapons on the island is not only within this budget, but also through a special budget.
2023 delegation of U.S. arms dealers
Another reason why this "arms delegation" wants to visit the relevant military enterprises on the island is to try whether they can set up factories on the island in a "cooperative" way. Because for U.S. arms dealers, this model is a win-win situation, which can make a lot of money and meet the strategic policy needs of the U.S. government.
So what is Taiwan?
It has truly become an "ammunition depot" and a "arsenal".
In order to make money and realize their strategic ambitions in the Asia-Pacific region, US arms dealers and the US Government have reached the point where they are consumed by the desire for profit.
What is even more terrifying is that with the cooperation of Xiao Meiqin, a loyal puppet of the United States, Gu Lixiong, head of the civilian "defense" department, and others, the military and pragmatic nature on the island has been fully controlled by the United States.
This is an extremely dangerous reality on the island at the moment.
At the same time, the United States has also strengthened its military build-up efforts on the island.
According to the US Defense News Weekly, as early as 2022, the United States set up a "Taiwan Senior Integration Group" headed by US Deputy Secretary of Defense Hicks, which is mainly responsible for improving the efficiency of arms sales and aid to Taiwan and the coordination of weapons delivery.
The intention of the United States in disclosing this information at this time is nothing more than to help Lai Qingde form an overall atmosphere of confrontation with the mainland on the island, with the intention of forming an illusory imagination on the island that "the Americans will support Taiwan and will really fight for Taiwan."
Therefore, the above provocation shows the madness of the United States.
In this regard, it is not difficult to understand what Defense Minister Dong Jun said at Shangri-La: Whoever dares to separate Taiwan from China will surely be crushed to pieces and bring about its own destruction!
And the PLA's countermeasures are just here.
According to the latest airspace dynamics in the Taiwan Strait released by Taiwan's "defense" department, starting from 3 June, a large group of PLA aircraft entered the Taiwan Strait for two consecutive days.
From 06 a.m. on 3 June to 06 a.m. yesterday on 5 June, a total of 45 warplanes were dispatched into the Taiwan Strait.
As can be seen in the figure below, 19 PLA fighters entered the Taiwan Strait on the 3rd, of which 17 flew from three directions: northern, central, and southwest.
The fighter is 42 nautical miles from Keelung, 56 nautical miles from Taichung and 57 nautical miles from Eluanbi.
Airspace dynamics over the Taiwan Strait on June 3
According to a news released by Taiwan's "defense" department this morning, as of 06:00 on 5 June, a total of 26 PLA fighter planes had entered the Taiwan Strait, of which 19 had also approached Taiwan Island from two directions, north and southwest.
And the fighters are closer to Taiwan Island, the north is only 41 nautical miles from Keelung, and the south is 40 nautical miles from Eluanbi.
The intensity of this kind of fighter plane is close to that of the "Joint Sword" exercise on 23 and 24 May, but this is still only a rehearsal, and the B and C of the "Joint Sword" will not be absent.
With the People's Liberation Army (PLA) continuing to approach Taiwan in an irreversible and omnidirectional manner, it is hard to imagine that some people on the island are still continuing to stage apocalyptic madness in an unexplained way.
Shen Boyang, the founder of the so-called "black bear force" on the island and listed by Lai Qingde as the first place in the DPP's non-sub-district "democratic generation," suddenly clamored for a "fifth column" of 100,000 people on the island and said that it would be gradually cleaned up.
A prototype of the "Green Terror" is taking shape on the island.
However, the fact is that a new angle of the current situation in the Taiwan Strait has also been formed.
According to the "Lotus Theory", the day before the lotus flowers bloom in the Taiwan Strait, not 99% of the lotus flowers have already bloomed, but 50%.
This very interesting natural phenomenon also applies to the Taiwan Strait.