The United States has tried to put blame on China after Beijing took a series of justified measures in response to US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's reckless visit to Taiwan last week.
On Friday, John Kirby, White House national security spokesman, said that the US has nothing to do about Taiwan and Beijing's moves are irresponsible, including military drills around the island, sanctions on Pelosi and suspending and cancelling exchanges with the US in various fields, including military and climate change.
In his speech to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Thursday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned of the grave nature of Pelosi's visit and said it would not sit idly by and allow room for Taiwan separatist forces. The consequences of her visit must be borne by the US.
The world knows that China is defending its sovereignty and territorial integrity, and it is Washington that is trying to justify further provocations. More than 160 countries have censured Pelosi's visit to the Chinese island.
She would not have done this if it were a US state that was trying to secede from the US and declare independence as a pawn of foreign powers. Her support of the secessionist-minded Tsai Ing-wen administration on the island was promoting her own ideologically motivated anti-China credentials.
Such pretexts are a result of the US politicians cover up the US trampling on international laws.
The promise that Pelosi made to Tsai that the US will not abandon Taiwan belies the true purpose of her visit, which was to reassure the secessionists on the island of Washington's support. It is the Chinese government, not the US government, that has steadfastly supported the well-being of people living on the island. They are as discardable as those in Iraq and Afghanistan, and many other places.
The cause and effect of the latest escalation of tensions across the Straits and the rights and wrongs on it are both clear. The fact that an aircraft carrier strike group escorted Pelosi on her visit shows that the US was aware that she was acting as a provocateur and creator of a crisis.
The US has also unilaterally drafted the so-called Taiwan Relations Act and paralleled it with the three Sino-US joint communiques, but also put the six assurances to Taiwan in its one-China policy statement. These practices show the US's steady hollowing out of its commitment to the one-China principle and willingness to make playing the Taiwan card a long-term practice to put pressure on Beijing.
Does the US really have anything to correct in Taiwan? If not, the Tsai administration would not be eating the Chinese meal that Washington ordered for it.