CCTV News: The Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council held a press conference on March 12, and asked a question to reporters: Regarding the mainland's defense budget this year's increase of 7.2%, the Mainland Affairs Council said that it hopes that "the mainland will be rational and restrained, communicate and talk with the Taiwan authorities, and jointly assume the responsibility of peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait and regional areas, and do not take military provocation." What is your comment on this?
Chen Binhua, spokesperson of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, responded: In accordance with the requirements of the National Defense Law, the Budget Law and other laws and regulations, the annual national defense expenditure budget is included in the government budget draft, reviewed and approved by the National People's Congress, managed and used in accordance with the law, and announced the total national defense expenditure budget. Mainland's defense expenditure is open, transparent, reasonable and moderate, which is completely a need to defend national sovereignty, security and development interests, and a need to maintain world peace.
The DPP authorities have repeatedly hyped up the mainland's "military threat", but have tried their best to please the external forces in exploiting Taiwan; they have constantly "relying on external affairs to seek independence" and "use martial arts to seek independence", but they have turned a deaf ear to the people on the island's call for improving people's livelihood and welfare and "avoiding war and peace." It is self-evident who is a cross-strait peace destroyer and a crisis maker in the Taiwan Strait.
The DPP authorities deliberately exaggerated the tension in the Taiwan Strait and tried to provoke cross-strait confrontation, but were just to blur the focus and avoid criticism and opposition from all walks of life on the island for their "selling Taiwan" and paying "protection fees" without bottom line. No matter how the DPP authorities put on makeup or mess around, they cannot change their nature and cowardice of "styling the United States and selling Taiwan". "Taiwan independence" is a dead end and unification cannot be stopped. No matter how much military expenditure is arranged by the DPP authorities or how much "protection fees" they pay, they cannot change the end of "resisting unification with force" and cannot stop the historical trend of inevitable unification of the motherland.
