Despite the fact that China places strong emphasis on its own territorial integrity, a strong reaction from Beijing over McCarthy’s visit would work against its long-term interests. It has been made clear by US politicians multiple times that they are ideally seeking to replicate the “Ukraine model” in East Asia. This means provoking a rival state into a conflict which allows Washington to exert military influence in the region, break up regional economic integration, and rope in allies.
The US is actively using the Taiwan issue to foment instability in Asia. For example, it is
forcing the Philippines to take a positionon a potential Taiwan conflict. In doing so, it seeks to thwart Manilla’s increasingly “non-aligned” attitude towards China and break growing economic ties between the two. The more insecurity and instability the US can create around Taiwan, the more leverage it will attain over others. The US does not want Asian countries to pool their economies with China, it wants to create a NATO-like system of containment whereby its hegemony is forced on them through dependency.
Therefore, if Beijing reacts forcefully, even to assert its position, it gives momentum to other anti-China causes. It is no coincidence that, after the Taiwan crisis in August 2022, scores of new anti-China sanctions were pushed through by both the White House and Congress. Likewise, the misleading comparison between Taiwan and Ukraine will be used to garner greater sympathy, support and attention for Taipei in other Western countries. It is a lose-lose scenario for China to overreact, especially if, thanks to Western media scaremongering, Beijing is all but expected to pursue war – anything less than that will then depict China as spineless (as happened following Pelosi’s visit). RT
The above is from RT explaining how the US plan to provoke a war with China using Taiwan as the scapegoat and an excuse to coerce countries into another anti China military alliance in East and SE Asia. Asean states would be under tremendous pressure from the Americans to take sides. American stooges in Asean would be the first to join the American camp and the region would be as good as in a state of war. The 'friendly and peaceful' American savages would point the finger at China as the aggressor. And American stooges would say aye aye. And they would blame China and even accused China for coercing them into a war. It is definitely not the Americans' fault.
However, the geography of Taiwan is different from Ukraine. China is different from Russia. Taiwan would be cobbled within a few days. Any silly American stooges would face the same fate. The geography and the Chinese weapons would put the Americans at a great disadvantage. The Americans cannot win a war against China in this region. The first two casualties would be Japan and South Korea. Next would be the Americans stooges in Asean. Their economies would be in ruins.
And the Americans would love it as all would become wounded doggies and desperately needing the Americans to protect them for their anti China stand, coerced or not by the Americans and partially also being willing partners of the anti China camp. They deserve to suffer the consequences for moving away from their neutral not taking sides position.
Would the countries in Asia and SE Asia like to be like Ukriane and Europe now, nothing better to do than to be baited by the Americans into another world war?