三是美方坚持“一中”政策没有变,这是美方在各种中美关系对话中说得很顺口的一句话,然而一个时期以来,美国更多强调中国大陆一方首先破坏了台海现状,以此掩盖它更积极主动全面强化美台关系的言行,以增强台湾牵制和抵抗大陆的能力。《2018财年国防授权法案》具有分水岭意义,它不仅涉及美台军舰互访内容,还要求国防部在收到台湾方面军售请求半年之内向国会提交答复建议报告。这无异于把对台军售作为一项强制性法规固化,预示美国的对台政策朝着官方化方向向前迈出了一步。紧随其后的《台湾旅行法》出台,更为美国官方赴台出席各类活动埋下伏笔。美国还在国际舞台上为台湾撑腰,拉拢日本、澳大利亚等盟友支持台湾,甚至炒作商签美台自贸协定,把台湾列入其印太战略的一枚棋子。美国激活“不沉航母”制约中国的动向令人深思,它不仅在南海借航行自由侵犯中国主权,还叫嚷要穿越台湾海峡,挑战中国核心利益。这说明美国在以更具进攻性的方式与中国进行战略博弈。
Third, the US insists its one-China policy has not changed. This is something the US has paid lip-service to during various dialogues on China-US relations. Nevertheless, for some time now, the US has claimed that the Chinese mainland was the first to upset the status quo in the Taiwan Strait. This is an attempt to conceal US ambitions to strengthen US-Taiwan relations to make Taiwan better able to resist and contain the mainland. The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 was a watershed document. It not only allows ports of call by the US navy in Taiwan and for US Pacific Command to receive ports of call by Taiwan, it also requires the Pentagon to submit a report of recommendation to Congress within six months of receiving an arms sale request from Taiwan. This is tantamount to making arms sales to Taiwan a compulsory regulation and indicates that the US's Taiwan policy is becoming more official. Moreover, shortly after the Taiwan Travel Act was adopted, US officials travelled to Taiwan to attend various functions. The US has also supported Taiwan on the international stage and rallied allies including Australia and Japan to the cause. The US has even suggested that a US-Taiwan free trade agreement could be signed and that Taiwan could be included in the US's Indo-Pacific Strategy. The US is intent on having an unsinkable aircraft carrier to restrict China's movements. It is not only seeking to violate China's sovereignty by insisting on freedom of navigation in the South China Sea, but also dreams of crossing the Taiwan Straits to challenge China's core interests. The US is adopting an offensive approach in its strategic game with China.
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