Chinese scholar calls for ‘Smart Unification’ with ‘Targeted Strikes’ on Taiwan

Firstly, China must adopt a peaceful, democratic consultation dialogue with Taipei to realize unification, and table a newly formulated constitution framed on the one nation – two systems model. Secondly, Beijing must eliminate all ‘Taiwan Independence’ elements who are basically enemies of the Chinese people. China must use military, diplomatic, legal, and intelligence means to perform ‘targeted, fixed-point, timed strikes, to eliminate these elements

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New Delhi: Underscoring the art of war maxim – all warfare is based on deception – a Chinese scholar has asked Beijing to change its current strategy in attempts to reunify Taiwan with the mainland. China, which claims that Taiwan’s ‘reunification’ with the PRC is a ‘historic inevitability,’ continues to use diplomatic tactics and military muscle to establish the ‘one nation – two systems’ on the island nation.

However, while identifying such an approach as the ‘worst policy,’ Ni Yongjie, the Deputy Director of the Shanghai Institute of Taiwan Studies, proposed ‘smart unification’ strategies, one of which calls for ‘targeted, fixed-point, timed strikes, to eliminate Taiwan Independence elements.’

“The worst policy is unification by force, which achieves quick unification but at a great price. The medium strategy is peaceful reunification, which takes a long time, but everyone is happy; finally, there is a third path which might be the best strategy, that of smart unification, which is a civilized unification,” said Ni in his talk at the seminar on ‘Situation in the Taiwan Strait and China’s Peripheral Security,’ on 11 December.

The seminar was co-sponsored by the East China Normal University’s Institute of International Relations and Regional Development and the Shanghai Cross-Strait Research Association, organized by the East China Normal University’s Institute of Cross-Strait Exchanges and Regional Development.

While delivering his key address at the seminar Ni pointed out that the ‘unification’ is an already ‘ongoing activity,’ which needs an ‘accelerated progress’ to achieve success. He said that in addition to peaceful unification and unification by force, there is also a path that combines the civilized and forceful approaches. “There is a strategy with alternating discussion and fighting, using ‘zero casualties,’ no spilling of blood (not spilling the blood of Chinese people, not using force on other compatriots), to ‘win without fighting a battle,’ ‘to prevent the western military from attacking without China fighting a battle,” which is the civilized method of unification of Taiwan. This combines both civil and military components,” Ni claimed.

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Expounding his approach in front of a packed house, also attended by several Chinese high-ranking military officers and government officials, Ni said that the ‘smart unification’ approach is made up of three components. “Firstly, China must adopt a peaceful, democratic consultation dialogue with Taipei to realize unification, and table a newly formulated constitution framed on the one nation – two systems model. Secondly, Beijing must eliminate all ‘Taiwan Independence’ elements who are basically enemies of the Chinese people. China must use military, intelligence, diplomatic, and legal means to perform ‘targeted, fixed-point, timed strikes, to eliminate these elements, immediately after the unification is achieved,” Ni explained

As for the third component of his approach, Ni said it was all about ‘timing the unification.’ “Currently, there is a conflict ongoing between China and ‘foreign anti-Chinese’ forces. When the ‘positive energy’ for the unification of China is sufficient, Beijing must use it to block the negative energy of anti-China forces, and then the unification will happen as smoothly as water moves into a canal,” he added.

The academician even voiced that Beijing should give the Taiwanese leadership a list of negative behaviors they must at all costs avoid. The list demands, Taipei’s leadership not relying on the west to elevate their own position, for Taiwan to not collude with any ‘anti-China’ nation from the west, to not make any official visits to such nations, to not purchase or to reduce purchases of weapons from the west, to not play with the ‘Anti-Infiltration Act’ and the five national security laws.