At a time when the situation in the Taiwan Strait is becoming increasingly tense, a scene that United States does not want to see has finally happened, and the mainland has been making substantial preparations for the recovery of Taiwan.
Recently, a foreign media report on China's hoarding of strategic materials has attracted the attention of Western countries, especially United States. The content is roughly that China has imported a large amount of food, energy products and metal resources from around the world in the past 20 years.
(China imports a large number of strategic materials)
These imports are obvious strategic commodities that are of great importance to the development of a country, not only in the event of a possible disaster, but also as a hedge against possible industrial development from shocks in the international market, and even to ensure the normal functioning of the entire country in the event of a war.
A special company has estimated that China's current natural gas reserves reach 25 billion cubic meters, which can meet at least 23 days of consumption, and the oil inventory is even larger, close to 1.3 billion barrels, which is worth more than 100 days of China's foreign imports, while United States has only 800 million barrels.
In addition, China's stocks of agricultural products such as wheat and corn account for 51% and 67% of the global total, and China has been stockpiling some metal raw materials for industrial development for several years.
Through relevant data, it can be found that the scale of China's imports of bulk materials and commodities has been increasing in an orderly manner, even if some bulk commodities are affected by the market and their prices have risen, but China has not stopped related import trade. In addition, some foreign media pointed out that in the past 18 months, China has also hoarded hundreds of tons of gold.
(China's large-scale imports of commodities may offset the impact from the United States)
In the eyes of some, China's move is a hedge against threats from United States, which maintains a certain level of commodity imports in the United States, but has also become very volatile due to frequent changes in the relationship between the two countries.
In addition United States it is possible that it will continue to fight a "trade war" with China at any time, so in order to avoid these effects, China is prepared in advance to prevent United States from taking any opportunity.
However, some voices believe that although the factor of United States exists, in recent years, Sino-US relations have changed greatly, but China still maintains the style of hoarding strategic materials, which shows that China has other purposes, may be preparing for war, and more specifically, perhaps to recover Taiwan.
If this is the case, then there will really be a war in the Taiwan Strait? In fact, these speculations are still too serious, this is not the first time that the outside world has reported that "the mainland is hoarding materials and preparing for war", these analyses generally have a characteristic, that is, they are too alarmist, China has a large population and vast territorial waters, in fact, it is necessary to do some strategic material reserves, and China can support such a large-scale material reserves, the most important reason is that the economic strength is getting stronger and stronger, and there are sufficient financial resources, since China has the conditions, and there is demand, then why can't it do this?
(The outside world speculates that the mainland is preparing for the takeover)
It can be seen from this incident that the Western media still have great malice towards China, and from time to time they will exaggerate the "China threat", but since they have such energy, why can't they focus on resolving the differences in the current global situation, but instead focus on a war that is only gossip?
However, from another point of view, even if the mainland does not send any signal that it is ready to take over Taiwan, the Taiwan authorities will still be worried, just like Lai Qingde, who has just come to power, has already found an escape route for himself.
The "Han Kuang Exercise," which ended hastily not long ago, was emphatically emphasized by the Taiwan authorities, saying that it is necessary to practice "decentralized command and control" and to enable the Taiwan military to practice tactics that are closer to "actual combat." In fact, in other words, it is to let the Taiwan military fight independently in a possible war, instead of obeying the orders of the "supreme command."
(Taiwan leader Lai Ching-te)
Then why this result is only two situations: either the "supreme command" of the Taiwan army is "beheaded," or the Taiwan army is left behind and flees for his life alone. It can be seen from this that Lai Qingde actually understands very well how big the gap between the military strength of the two sides of the strait is, and also knows that he will be the primary target.
Generally speaking, if the mainland makes any move on the Taiwan Strait issue, no other external forces have the right to interfere, so there should be no alarmism; as for the Taiwan authorities, if they do not want to live in the days of fear, then it is best to give up "seeking independence" as soon as possible, and perhaps the mainland's punishment will be lighter.