In
calculable
 Loss
 --
 US-Taiwan Relations 
During COVID-19,Author: Zhong Yan, 
Senior Researcher of The Senstrat,,WAKi
 International Media Center
 
(
2020 May 26
), ,,In late May, the United States was still severely threatened by the
coronavirus
 
COVID-19
. To mourn the Americans who passed away in the 
pendemic
, 
T
he New York Times publish
ed
 a list of thousands people 
with names and details 
on
 the cover and inside pages
 
of May 24
, just a day before 
the 
Memorial
 Day
.,The cover headline of this mainstream newspaper "
U.S.
D
eaths 
Near 
100,000, 
A
n 
Incalculable
 
L
oss", plus the subtitle "They
Were
 
N
ot 
Simply
 
N
ames on 
a
 
L
ist
. T
hey 
Were
 
U
s"; the meaning is profound and shocking! Anyone with a conscience who sees the names of the deceased printed on black and white 
on the
newspaper
, 
he
 must 
have
 "
a special feeling in the heart
".,However, the US Presidential 
convey
 set off from the White House early that morning to a golf course 
of many 
dozens of kilo
-
meters away. 
Donald 
Trump, wearing a white jersey and 
without
 a mask, was comfortably swinging and playing golf under the escort of a large number of secret agents ...,,According to CNN, th
at wa
s the first time Trump has returned to the golf course since the outbreak of 
COVID-19 
in 
US
 
since
 March. The report counts that Trump has been in power for less than 4 years and played a total of 265 times. Now he has reappeared in his 
favourite
 golf course.,During
 the moment of mourning 
the pandemic
, US Democratic 
P
residential 
C
andidate 
Joe 
Biden seized the opportunity and posted a video of Trump's eagerness 
of
 play
ing Golf
 through Twitter and 
he 
wrote: " 
The death toll is still rising. T
he 
P
resident 
is playing golf
.
” 
Of course, as 
the
 Republican
P
residential 
C
andidate, Trump immediately sneered: "
Biden was constantly vacationing, relaxing & making shady deals with other countries, & that 
(Obama) 
Barack was always playing golf, doing much of his traveling in a fume spewing 747 to play golf in Hawaii
.",In fact, U.S. 
P
residential 
E
lection 
will be 
held in November this year, how could such a 
pandemic
 that threaten
ing
 the lives of every American seriously 
would not be 
affect
ing
 the increasingly competitive elections? A recent poll show
n
 Biden leads Trump by
about 
5%, but there are still 20 to 30% voters who are unclear. They are the two parties fighting at any cost.,,Anti-
COVID
 is like war, election is 
a
 battlefield. When Trump 
i
s caught in a "life-and-death battle", he 
i
s not 
very
 sure about his victory. Secretary of State 
Mike 
Pompeo, who is currently performing foreign affairs on 
behalf of the President
, has recently been busy 
in 
putting his muzzle 
out
, and 
trying
 to divert the attention of the American to serve his master.,This former director of the Central Intelligence Agency is using Taiwan's Tsai Ing-wen to provoke trouble on both sides of the strait. He first beautified how the Taipei Act 
has 
strengthened US-Taiwan relations and claimed how to promote closer US-Taiwan economic cooperation. 
Later h
e said
 US
 and Taiwan shar
ing
 a common vision 
in
 the Asia-Pacific region, and 
suggested
COVID-19
 is
 
an opportunity to let the international community understand how Taiwan's epidemic prevention model is worth emulating.,US
 praised Tsai Ing-wen for h
er
 continuous improvement of the US-Taiwan relations. 
With that
, Pompeo publicly congratulated Tsai Ing-wen for h
er
 
second term 
on behalf of the Trump administration, blatantly ignoring the "
O
ne-China 
Policy
" and the provisions of the three Sino-US 
J
oint 
C
ommuniques. This unprecedented move 
is obvious
 that Pompeo has learned the contents of Tsai Ing-wen's speech beforehand.,In h
er
 speech on May 20, Tsai Ing-wen did not mention 
The
92 Consensus, which was 
questionable
. In 
her
 long 
text
, she mentioned that both sides of the strait have a responsibility to avoid widening opposition and differences, claiming that she will maintain an open attitude to solving problems.,However, Singapore 
media
 Lianhe Zaobao quoted Ma Ying-jeou’s office as saying
 
Tsai Ing-wen 
not
 even mention 
The 
92 Consensus
, and 
s
he constantly manipulat
ing
 the feelings of 
anti-
China. As a result, 
both sides of the strait 
have lost the basis of dialogue
"
.,,The Taiwan authorities emphasized "pro-US anti-China" is worrying, not to mention that US support 
on
 Taiwan 
i
s always unreliable. Some scholars pointed out that it is never a good thing for Taiwan to put its future in 
US
. 
For the past 4 years, 
US-Taiwan relations have been "super asymmetric", and Taiwan often become
the loser
.,For example, 
at
 the World Health Organization Conference (WHA) in late May, Pompeo boasted he 
c
ould win the support of all countries in the world for Taiwan, and let Taipei participate as an observer in the conference and other 
related activities of the United Nations. 
But at
 
last
, Taiwan did not receive invitation to attend the meeting
, and later 
the Taiwan authorities found
 out
that 
US
 did not explicitly support in advance
,
 
o
nly a few "friends" of Taiwan submitted proposals
.
 
Therefore,
 those who conspired "
making 
us
e
 
COVID
 to seek independence" could not succeed 
yet
paying 
for 
the price . 
Later as expected, 
Pompeo turned 
the spear
to Beijing.,, 
Another example 
wa
s the outbreak of 
COVID-19
 in 
US
 
during
mid-March. Taiwan and 
US
 signed the "
Joint Statement on a Partnership against Coronavirus
 
", 
and u
nder the cooperation framework,
 
Taiwan will continue to provide US with 100,000 urgently needed face masks per week
, 
while 
US
 
agreed to ship
300,000 
units
 of protective clothing materials 
to
 Taiwan. After the news came out, it caused a fierce rebound among the people in Taiwan, because the supply of masks in Taiwan was very tight at that time, restricting people to buy, 
even
 a mask is hard to find everywhere. Taiwan also once banned the export of masks, forcing the Singapore factory in Taiwan to relocate back to 
the Lion City
.,In fact, the Trump administration pursues the "America First" policy. The 
US is
 severely attack by 
COVID-19
, 
the
 number of confirmed cases 
i
s always the world's top, and now 
more than 
1.7 million! In these days, 
US
 has been rushing to buy medical supplies all over the world
, e
ven the state governments governed by different political parties have been seized by the federal government for the purchase of supplies.,Obviously, the Taiwan authorities once exaggerated the US-Taiwan epidemic prevention cooperation, which simply cannot be equal. At 
the
 
time
 when 
US
 is 
in trouble
, Taiwan 
could
 only send masks to the States
 
unilaterally
. As for the raw materials for protective clothing in 
US
 which 
was in dispute
, o
nly in mid-April did the first batch of 
goods
 arrive
d
 Taiwan. According to media reports
,
 Taiwan
 spend money to
 purchase
 indeed
, rather than "
masks 
replac
ing
 protective materials" as earlier mentioned.,,At this moment, 
the 
US 
P
residential 
E
lection
 
Campaigning 
is in the heat of the battle
, American politicians often give priority to their own interests. Therefore, I advise th
ose
 
in Taiwan 
who want to be Trump ’s pawns: don’t overdo it, or be too self-inflated. Otherwise
 
a crisis occurs, it 
is 
the people of Taiwan 
to 
face “incalculable losses”
, 
and forc
ing them
 to pay the bill
 with
 huge price., ,免责声明,本文登载此文出于传递更多信息之目的，并不意味着赞同其观点或证实其描述。其原创性以及文中陈述文字和内容未经本站证实，对本文以及其中全部或者部分内容、文字的真实性、完整性、及时性本站不作任何保证或承诺，请读者仅作参考，并请自行核实相关内容。如有稿件内容、版权等问题请联系QQ:211544606