China Taiwan Conflict: Jinping’s strict message in New Year’s address, merger will happen, if necessary…

During a televised New Year address, Chinese President Xi Jinping said China will definitely reunify with Taiwan. Jinping reiterated Beijing’s threats to annex the self-ruled island, which it claims as its own. Taiwan broke away from China in 1949 amid a civil war, but Beijing continues to regard the island of 23 million with its high-tech economy as Chinese territory and has escalated its threats to take it by military force if necessary. Used to be.

According to the official Xinhua news agency, Xi said in his annual address that China will definitely be reunified and that all Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Strait should be bound by a common sense of purpose. China has described Taiwan’s January 13 presidential and parliamentary elections as a choice between war and peace. Beijing currently considers William Lai, vice president and a strong presidential contender from the ruling Democratic People’s Party, a separatist and has accused him and Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen of trying to provoke a Chinese attack on the island.

Chen Binhua, spokesman for China’s Taiwan Affairs Office, described Lai as a destroyer of peace after a televised debate yesterday. Lai defended Taiwan’s right to rule as a democracy. Chen said Lai’s speech at the debate was full of confrontational thinking. He said the Vice President was provoking a potentially dangerous war across the Straits.