Xi: China Will ‘Surely Be Reunified’ With Taiwan

Voice of America News reports: “Chinese President Xi Jinping said in a New Year’s address that China would ‘surely be reunified’ with the self-ruled territory of Taiwan, renewing Beijing’s threat to militarily take over the island but setting no timetable for gaining control.

Xi’s remarks came just ahead of Taiwan’s January 13 presidential and parliamentary elections that China has described as a choice between war and peace.

William Lai, who currently serves as vice president from the ruling Democratic People’s Party, is the presidential front-runner, but China considers him a ‘separatist’ and has accused him and Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen of trying to provoke a Chinese attack on the island.

Taiwan split from China amid civil war in 1949, but Beijing continues to regard the island as Chinese territory and has long coveted Taiwan’s technology-heavy economy even as the island governs itself. China has regularly sent fighter jets on flights in airspace close to the island and warships near Taiwanese waters…”

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