As the U.S. has reached a bipartisan consensus to show toughness toward China ... close military ties between the U.S. and the island of Taiwan will only strengthen.
Several important U.S. officials have visited Taiwan this year, and China has been responding to these events with aircraft carrier exercises of increasingly large scale...
Any conflict between [China and Taiwan]... will severely impact Asia, and may force the United States, which has played a key role in raising temperatures, to intervene.
American officials planning to visit Taiwan should think twice. You should understand the weight of the Taiwan question in the hearts of Chinese people.