A Written Discussion of the U.S. motive for threatening Korea and China and securing Taiwan.

To the American imperialists, Taiwan is a vital link in the chain of bases from the Aleutians to the Mariannas, thrown aggressively across the 5,000 miles of the Pacific from the U.S. mainland, against the foreshores of Asia. America's "strategic frontier has shifted to embrace the entire Pacific Ocean", says MacArthur. The American proconsul in Japan had also the effrontery to say that Taiwan is necessary to the U.S. strategic plan to "dominate by air power every Asiatic port from Vladivostok to Singapore" from this island chain, that is to menace the People's Republic of China, the USSR, and the national liberation movements in Asia.

Knowing that their puppet Chiang will fall at the first well prepared blow of the PLA, who will be aided by the heroic islanders, the American imperialists have decided that they must drop the mask and resort to a naked act of aggression in order to retain control of Taiwan. This was the immediate reason for Truman's decision to send the U.S. 7th Fleet in an attempt to prevent the liberation of the island, with the further despatch of air and ground units, military missions and advisers. In taking this step, the U.S. President did not hesitate to swallow his own words of January 5th that "the United States has no predatory designs on Formosa or any other Chinese territory". He brushed aside solemn international agreements that the USA had freely entered into, namely, the Cairo and Potsdam Declarations of 1943 and 1945 respectively, by which the United States, in conjunction with the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union and China herself, guarantees the restoration of Taiwan to the Chinese people.

In an attempt to further cloud the issue, the U.S. imperialists are trying to instigate a few local quislings, such as the Liao brothers, to demand "independence" for Taiwan under the U.S. or U.N. trusteeship. But no amount of quibbling can change the fact that fact that Taiwan is Chinese territory.

The Chinese people have made it clear that no aggressive act of the USA can prevent the re-unification of Taiwan with the mainland. Premier Chou En-lai has stated: "The Chinese people who defeated Japanese imperialism and Chiang Kai-shek, the hireling of American imperialism, will surely be victorious in driving out the American aggressors and in recovering Taiwan and all other territories belonging to China".

Time and again, the Taiwan people have declared in unequivocal terms demand to be free and their determination to return to the fold of the mother country. Their whole history has shown that when the hour for the final liberation of Taiwan comes they will be true to their patriotic traditions and rise to throw the American imperialists and their lackeys into the pacific.

Source: People's China 1950