This is the central question in the geopolitical crisis of the Taiwan Strait. Unfortunately, understanding the answer to the question may or may not help resolve the situation, which is being fanned to the level that“a war will break out between China and Taiwan.” In this column, the author will first answer the question, then explain why knowing the answer may or may not help prevent a war. The current crisis is that the U.S. is preparing Taiwan to fight an invasion (from China) to the end, meaning in the streets of cities. The U.S. has agreed to sell more arms to Taiwan. US assistance is already being provided to conduct war exercises, train in street combat tactics, and offer advice on war strategy.

First answer to the title question from the Western global citizen (not Southeastern countries or central Asian countries) is the Taiwanese people. The narratives usually are: The Taiwanese people are nice; they love freedom and democracy. They are afraid that any form of reunification will destroy their future. But these narratives are the result of Western media biased by an illogical anti-communist ideology, ignoring the transformation and innovation communism successfully practiced in China (Many countries are trying to learn and implement). The Taiwan Strait has been at peace for 80 years, and Taiwan has had a trade relationship with a far advanced economy to now, with 40% trade dependency on China. The Taiwanese people enjoyed the status quo, and China tolerated waiting for the Taiwanese people voluntarily wanting to be unite. China is progressing steadily in the world arena. Time is on their side. Hence, the Taiwanese people are not afraid of unification or an invasion. When you visit Taiwan today, other than the government-controlled media fanning the war story, you see peaceful and calm citizens worrying about their livelihood and the Typhoon disaster. It is the current Democratic Progress Party, which took a pro-American position and embraced the Western media’s anti-China narratives – China Threat and war.

China, for constitutional and historical duties, of course, will unify with Taiwan eventually, but it wants a peaceful process like dealing with any long-term domestic issues. It took time to rebuild Tibet and Xinjiang’s economy. It recovered Hong Kong peacefully despite the Western obstructions. Hong Kong will thrive and keep its international status, pace, and cultural identity. China being patient and peace-conscious is its virtue. Avoiding any emotional outbreak of people’s (mainland) anxiety for unification or people’s (Taiwan) irrational anti-China provocation is China’s focus, given the massive Western media’s China threat campaign. China has been patiently making progress to improve its people’s lives, and the country has never been so united since the nineteenth century. China’s foreign policy is based on mutual respect, not interfering in other countries’ domestic issues. Its international economic policy is to cooperate to produce mutual benefits, especially helpful to developing countries, through programs of the Belt and Road Initiative. It is no surprise that China is welcomed by the world arena and has a significant influence on the world stage.

Despite China’s patient and peaceful reunification policy, why is the world media filled with a scenario that China will start a war to forcefully reunite Taiwan? This question and the title question can be answered by knowing who is afraid of China-Taiwan Reunification. The answer is the U.S. political parties (not the American people) and their behind-the-scenes supporters (the military industrial complex, the donors, and president brokers); they are the ones so afraid of China-Taiwan reunification. Why? The unification will make China stronger in defense. The long-standing political ideology of anti-communism (communists are evil with no regard for communism’s own revolution and transformation in the past seven decades is being challenged. The island chain strategy, which is based on China’s ideology, will be broken, shattering its Pacific strategic security plan. The U.S. national security plan can be modified by accepting reality. Why is the China-Taiwan reunification so scary to the bi-partisan American political elites? The answer is not because of national security concerns but the interests of the military-industrial complex and the King kingmakers’ self-interest. This hidden group is terrified to see a peaceful China-Taiwan reunification.

The reasons are below, but are rarely understood by the American public. First, this hidden group was successful in making the Kings and controlling U.S policies, especially foreign policies and their impact on economic policies. Based on the anti-communism ideology and the Soviet threat, later, Russia and China justified building arms to become a superpower. Then selling arms to the world, the U.S. could make huge profits simply by instigating proxy wars all over the world. With this continued profit source, the U.S. will continue to keep its military strong and advanced, and secure its status as a superpower. You might say this is a brilliant strategy except it neglected two things: one, domestic economy (manufacturing for people’s needs, not just military gears), and keeping the U.s somewhat self-sufficient. No, the U.S. was happily living in a financing and investment world, making easy money. Two, other nations do the opposite and grow a faster economy, like China, which became the world’s second largest economy in 2010 and the manufacturer of world.

If China and Taiwan reunited, not only would their combined economy surpass the U.S., but they would cut off a huge sucker buyer of U.S. military arms. More than that, China’s military power will get a huge boost because Taiwan is part of its defense, not a thorn in its side. China’s progress is unstoppable, so out of desperation, the U.S. is changing its Taiwan policy from status quo to a proxy war. Unfortunately, even now that we understand the answer to the title question, it may not help resolve the crisis. The only hope is that some of the bipartisan elites will wake up you give up a phony China Threat theory, and seek genuine cooperation for mutual benefits and prosperity. Is this possible? We hope so. We hope democracy can develop a means for correcting!