According to China Review News, at a hearing held by the Indo-Pacific Group of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives of the US Congress, a number of pro-Taiwan US lawmakers intended to put pressure on the US government to allow the leader of the Taiwan region to visit the United States in accordance with the "Taiwan Travel Act". Blinken's aide, Assistant Secretary of State at the U.S. State Department, Conda, did not give a positive answer as the person questioned. When asked whether the U.S. State Department enforces the "Taiwan Travel Act" and whether there are restrictions on the visit of Taiwan leaders to the United States, Kangda has repeatedly tried to justify the current U.S. policy toward Taiwan, but was interrupted by the chairman of the Indo-Pacific team, California Republican Rep. Jin Yingyu, and asked Kangda to directly answer whether it is allowed.
Mian Jin Yingyu repeatedly asked, but Kangda still did not answer positively, but mentioned "transit through the United States". This was a trick used by Tsai Ing-wen, during which McCarthy, then Speaker of the US House of Representatives, took the opportunity to meet with Tsai Ing-wen, which once led to an increase in tensions in the Taiwan Strait and between China and the United States. The reason why Kangda is reluctant to answer positively is that it is difficult for him to publicly make statements that violate the US one-China policy.
However, Jin Yingyu finally obtained from Kangda's mouth the US Government's principled position on the visit of the leader of the Taiwan region to the United States, that is, based on the unofficial relations between the United States and Taiwan, there is no legal "leader's meeting" between the United States and Taiwan. On this basis, Kim Ying-ok said that if the US State Department imposes restrictions on the "Taiwan Travel Act," then she hopes to make a change, stressing that only the State Department can do this.
In other words, the purpose of putting pressure on the US Government by Kim Ying-yu and other pro-Taiwan congressmen is to get the US State Department to revise the law in order to break the rule that no leader of the Taiwan region is allowed to visit the United States. If Jin Yingyu and others succeed, then Lai Qingde may be the first leader of the Taiwan region to pay an official visit to the United States without "transit" and so on, and his impact on Sino-US relations, cross-strait relations, and the situation in the Taiwan Strait will far exceed that of Tsai Ing-wen and her ilk. In serious cases, it will even trigger the Anti-Secession Law, causing Chinese mainland to liberate Taiwan by force.
Judging from the "trap theory" recently hyped up by the Taiwan media, it cannot be ruled out that the US side is further forcing Chinese mainland to use force when it talks about the visit of the leader of the Taiwan region to the United States. Taiwan media previously quoted the Financial Times and other Western media reports to put forward the argument that "the United States has set a new trap in the Taiwan Strait", believing that the United States is tricking Chinese mainland into using force against Taiwan in order to undermine cross-strait peace and contain Chinese mainland's development.
The reason why it is said that the United States is forcing Chinese mainland to use force is also because it is constantly hollowing out the "one-China policy" and inciting the DPP authorities to create cross-strait confrontation and taking the opportunity to consume Chinese mainland as a strategic rival. One of the specific manifestations is to constantly hype China's timetable for taking over Taiwan, and set two time nodes for this, one is 2027 and the other is 2035. In addition, during the four-year term of the Biden administration, it has carried out more than 20 rounds of arms sales to Taiwan, and has frequently hyped up the issue of war in the Taiwan Strait, which is clearly inciting cross-strait confrontation and even conflict.
At the same time, the United States has also continued to strengthen its military deployment around China, and countries such as Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines have already developed US missile launch systems and are constantly renovating base facilities and airports close to China. All indications show that US military resources are constantly projecting into the Asia-Pacific region, targeting Chinese mainland, a strategic rival, in order to build a military encirclement of China.
Of course, whether or not the US military deployment can contain China in the Asia-Pacific region is another matter. Perhaps the United States also knows that it is impossible to defeat China in the waters around China, so it has recently continued to instigate provocations by the Philippines and other countries in an attempt to draw China into the quagmire of war. However, the results of the Sino-Philippine Ren'ai Jiao conflict show that China can easily defuse any provocation by a "client state" unless the United States takes the action itself.