前台湾总统马英九最近访问中国——这是自1949年战败的中华民国政府逃往台湾以来，首位前台湾总统访问中国——这对不希望以和平方式解决中台两岸对峙关系的美国和少数国家，肯定掀起了冲击波。
根据西方媒体不多但备受关注的新闻报导中，马英九强调，中国大陆和台湾必须尽一切可能避免战争，确保和平是双方领导人的责任。
马英九访中的代表团由学者和青年组成，马英九通过其办公室发表文告指出：
“两岸人民都是中国人，都是炎黄子孙。”
尽管有共同的血统，但马英九承认两岸统一面对著艰钜挑战：
“我们衷心希望双方共同努力，求和避战，为振兴中华而努力。”
“这是两岸中国人义不容辞的责任，我们必须努力。”
反统势力
马英久没有说的是，反对中国大陆和台湾统一的势力正处于历史上最恶毒和最敌对的时刻。在美国主导和西方及其他盟友的支持下，反统一势力正在利用台湾颠覆中国的崛起，并阻止任何和平统一的前景。
对于反统势力来说，重要的不是台湾的命运，也不是中国和台湾民众对于统一问题的看法。对他们而言，重要的是团结在美国之下，努力孤立中国并遏制其崛起，确保其不会威胁到美国对世界的垄断权力、财富和主导地位，在美国领导的单极世界中，任何挑战美国霸权的企图，都会理所当然的被描述为对美国而非联合国定义的“民主”、国际世界体系“规则”的不合理攻击。
西方媒体和分析人士不愿承认的是，中国大陆和台湾的统一将极大地改变世界秩序，从目前西方主导的秩序转变为一个更公平地反映国际社会不同利益和价值观的新秩序；这不仅仅是有利于中国的。
正是这种“生存恐惧”驱使特朗普和拜登以及西方媒体发动起如评论员詹德拉奈尔所描述的“无情”、“不合理”的大规模歇斯底里的反华活动。
“中国必须与每一项可能影响西方的全球事件联系起来，或者为西方提供一个抨击机会，同时提升西方作为国际关系中是非对错的所谓仲裁者地位。从疫情到俄乌战争，再到碳排放、海平面上升、稀土争夺、非洲基础设施建设、疫苗生产，一定要有一个妖魔化国家、给西方国家制造恐惧的角度——如1800年代后期的“黄祸”般。这并非一种微妙和细微的手段。反之，是一种全面的，而且常常是公然的种族主义——但现在于西方媒体上对中国人进行的这种种族歧视是可以接受的。”（https://johnmenadue.com/anti-china-rhetoric-is-off-the-charts-what-explains-the-mass-hysteria-in-the-west/）
于是，西方不断的通过挑起西藏课题；香港课题；维吾尔族课题；南海课题；和台湾的反统一牌。
反统势力的力量不容小觑。西方媒体、政客和西方民众的民主爱好者不仅是要让台湾成为对华代理人战争的牺牲品。这也是为了确保中国——以及世界其他地区——继续从属于并受制于西方主导的世界体系。
在佩洛西、麦卡锡等两党反华新人的抢眼行为背后，是美国军工集团和一众反华商业利益集团为了保住自己的利益和钱袋子，以及担忧美国失去在全球经济和地缘政治中领导地位，而一致的喧嚷举动。
特别值得注意的是美国和英国的军火工业集团，将台湾视为提款机，为他们，台湾军方、立法者、政府官员提供了数十亿美元利益。这群体在加剧台湾海峡的紧张局势同时，也欺骗台湾人，让他们相信中国放弃和平统一路线时，美国愿意为台湾开战，而台湾也能够自保。
以下为美台近期军售表
拜登政府——35.06亿美元
2023年3月1日：6.19亿美元购买数百枚导弹和其他F-16飞机弹药
2022年12月28日：1.8亿美元火山（Volcano）布雷反坦克系统
2022年12月6日：3.3 亿美元飞机标准备件，9800万美元用于购买支持F-16、C-130、本土防御战斗机（IDF）以及产自美国其他飞机和系统或子系统的非标准备件。
2022年9月2日：6.654亿美元监视雷达计划，3.55亿美元用于购买60枚AGM-84L-1Block II鱼叉导弹及相关支援设备，8560万美元用于100枚AIM-9X Block II Sidewinder战术导弹。
2022年7月15日：1.08亿美元用于坦克和战车的技术支援。
2022年6月8日：1.2亿美元用于船舶备件。
2022年4月5日：9500万美元用于承包商技术援助以支持爱国者系统。
2022年2月7日：1亿美元用于爱国者系统五年的支援服务
2021年8月4日：7.5亿美元购买M109A6 Paladin 155毫米自行榴弹炮及相关车辆/设备
特朗普政府——182.7亿美元
2020年：58.6亿美元
鱼叉导弹（23.7 亿美元，10月26日）
AGM-84H SLAM-ER导弹（10.08 亿美元，10月21日）
PAC-3导弹重鉴测（6.2亿美元，7月9日）
MQ- 9B遥控飞机（6亿美元，11月3日）
HIMARS火箭发射器、支援系统和设备（4.361亿美元，10月21日）
MS-110侦察吊舱（3.672 亿美元，10月21日）
全面综合通讯系统（FICS）（2.8 亿美元，12月7日）
Mk-48重型鱼雷（1.8 亿美元，5月20日）
2019：107.2亿美元
F-16战斗机和相关支援（80亿美元，8月20日）
F-16飞行员培训和后勤支援（5亿美元，4月15日）
M1A2艾布拉姆斯坦克（20亿美元，7月8日）
毒刺导弹（2.23 亿美元，7月8日）
2018年（9月24日）：3.3亿美元：外国军事销售订单II
2017年（6月29日）：13.63亿美元
雷达（4亿美元）
AGM-154C JSOW导弹（1.85亿美元）
AGM-88B HARM导弹（1.47亿美元）
SM-2 Block IIIA导弹（1.25 亿美元）
Mk-54轻型鱼雷改装套件（1.75亿美元）
Mk-48重型鱼雷（2.5亿美元）
AN/SLQ-32电子战系统升级（8000万美元）
根据斯德哥尔摩国际和平研究所（SIPRI）的军火贩卖数据库，从1979年到2020年，台湾进口的主要常规武器中有77%来自美国。上述的数据并不包括直接销售的军备。资料来源：https://www.forumarmstrade.org/ustaiwan.html
林德宜《如果中国和台湾和平统一？》原文：What If China and Taiwan Agree on Peaceful Reunification
The recent visit to China by former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou - the first time a Taiwanese president has visited the country since the defeated Republic of China government fled to Taiwan in 1949 - must have set off shock waves in the United States and the few other countries that are bent on a non-peaceful resolution of the China Taiwan
stand-off.
According to reports emerging on the under-reported but much watched visit by the western media, Ma stressed that China and Taiwan must do everything possible to avoid war and it was the responsibility of both sides' leaders to ensure peace.
In his private visit accompanied by a delegation of academics and college students, Ma in comments provided by his office noted:
"People on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are Chinese people, and are both descendants of the Yan and Yellow Emperors."
Despite the common ancestry, Ma acknowledged the magnitude of the reunification challenge:
“We sincerely hope that the two sides will work together to pursue peace, avoid war, and strive to revitalise China”.
“This is an unavoidable responsibility of Chinese people on both sides of the Strait, and we must work hard.”
Anti Reunification Forces
Left unsaid by Ma is that the forces opposed to reunification of China and Taiwan are at their most virulent and most hostile point in history. Led by the United States and a supportive cast of Western and other suppliant allies, the anti reunification forces are using Taiwan to subvert the rise of China and to forestall any prospect of peaceful reunification.
What matters for the anti reunification forces is not the the fate of Taiwan or the opinions of the Chinese and Taiwanese population on the reunification question. What is at stake for them is to rally round the US in its effort to isolate China and check its rise against the US monopoly of power, wealth and dominance taken for granted in a US led unipolar world in which any attempt to challenge American hegemonic control is portrayed as an unacceptable assault on a ‘democratic’‘rules-based’ international world system defined by the US but not by the United Nations.
High Stakes Behind Forestalling Reunification
Western media and analysts do not want to admit it but reunification of China and Taiwan will dramatically change the world order from the current Western dominated one to a new one which will more fairly reflect the diverse interests and values of the international community of nations; and not those only of China.
This is the existential fear which has driven Trump and Biden, and Western media, to engage in what has been decribed by one commentator as the “relentless”, “off the chart”, anti China mass hysteria bashing taking place on a daily basis.
Thus the resort to the Tibet card; the Hongkong card; the Uygher card; the South China Seas card; and the Taiwan anti-reunification card.
The strength of the anti reunification forces should not be underestimated. It is not only western media, politicians and 'democracy' lovers of the public in the West that are intent on making Taiwan the sacrificial pawn in a proxy war against China and to ensure that China -and the rest of the world - remain subordinate and shackled to the prevailing western dominated world system.
Behind the publicity grabbing actions of individuals such as Nancy Pelosi, Kevin McCarthy, and other anti China newbies from both Democrat and Republican parties stands the US military industrial complex and a cohesive and vociferous array of anti China financial, business and technological interest groups looking at their positions and pocket books, and spooked by the loss of US leadership in the global economy and geo-politics.
Especially noteworthy are US and British arms industry companies who see Taiwan as their ATM generating billions of dollars of profits for them and their Taiwanese military, lawmakers, government officials counterparts; and significantly enflaming tensions in the Taiwan Straits whilst deluding Taiwan into the belief that the US is willing to go to war over Taiwan, or that Taiwan is able to defend itself should China abandon its bid for peaceful reunification.
US - Taiwan Recent Military Sales
Biden administration - $3.506 billion
● March 1, 2023, $619 million for hundreds of missiles and other F-16 munitions
● December 28, 2022, $180 million for Volcano anti-tank systems
● December 6, 2022, $330 million for aircraft standard spare parts and $98million for non-standard spare parts that would support "F-16, C-130, Indigenous Defense Fighter (IDF), and all other aircraft and systems or subsystems of U.S. origin."
● September 2, 2022 - $665.4 million for support to Surveillance Radar Program, $355 million for 60 (sixty) AGM-84L-1 Harpoon Block II missiles and related support, and $85.6 million for one hundred (100) AIM-9X Block II
Sidewinder tactical missiles and related equipment. July 15, 2022 - $108 million for technical support for tank and combat vehicles.
● June 8, 2022 - $120 million for ship spare parts.
● April 5, 2022 - $95 million for contractor technical assistance to support
Patriot systems.
● February 7, 2022 - $100.0 million for support services for Patriot systems for five years
● August 4, 2021 - $750 million: M109A6 Paladin 155mm Self-Propelled Howitzers and related vehicles/equipment
Trump administration - $18.27 billion
● 2020 (multiple dates) - $5.8631 billion:
Harpoon missiles ($2.37 billion, Oct. 26)
AGM-84H SLAM-ER Missiles ($1.008 billion, Oct. 21)
PAC-3 missile recertification ($620 million, July 9)
MQ-9B remote piloted aircraft ($600 million, Nov. 3)
HIMARS launchers, support, and equipment ($436.1 million, Oct. 21)
MS-110 Recce Pods ($367.2 million, Oct. 21)
Field Information Communications System (FICS) ($280 million, Dec. 7)
Mk-48 Heavy Weight Torpedoes ($180 million, May 20)
● 2019 (multiple dates) - $10.72356 billion:
F-16s and associated support ($8billion, August 20)
F-16 pilot training & logistics support ($500 million, April 15)
M1A2 Abrams tanks ($2 billion, July 8) and Stinger missiles ($223.56million, July 8)
● 2018 (all on Sept 24) - $330 million: Foreign Military Sales Order II ($330million)
● 2017 (all on June 29) - $1.363 billion:
radar ($400 million)
AGM-154C JSOW Missiles ($185.5 million)
AGM-88B HARM Missiles ($147.5 million)
SM-2 Block IIIA Missiles ($125 million)
Mk-54 Lightweigh Torpedo Conversion Kits ($175 million)
Mk-48 Heavyweight Torpedoes ($250 million)
AN/SLQ-32 Electronic Warfare System upgrades ($80 million)
From 1979 to 2020, 77% of major conventional arms imported by Taiwan were of U.S. origin, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)’s arms transfers database.
Note: The data here does not include direct commercial sales.Source: https://www.forumarmstrade.org/ustaiwan.html
