Xi Jinping calls for peaceful reunification with Taiwan

Taipei, Taiwan (Associated Press) Chinese leader Xi Jinping said on Saturday that despite China’s threats to attack the island, the reunification of Taiwan must and will be achieved peacefully.

Xi Jinping delivered a speech at an official celebration held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, focusing on the need for the ruling Communist Party to continue to lead China as the country’s power and influence rise.

National reunification must be achieved, and it will certainly be achieved. Peaceful reunification is most in line with the overall interests of the Chinese nation, including Taiwan compatriots.

Celebrating the 110th anniversary of the Chinese Revolution in 1911, overthrowing the Qing Dynasty and establishing the Republic of China led by Sun Yat-sen. Celebrating the National Day in Taiwan on October 10, Xi Jinping’s speech touched on the common desire for a unified future, despite the clear difference between China’s authoritarian one-party system and Taiwan’s vibrant multi-party democracy.

Just a few days after the number of military aircraft dispatched by the Chinese military hit a record high, Xi Jinping made the above remarks. Fly to Taiwan in what this autonomous island calls a threat exercise. In the four days since last week, the PLA has dispatched fighter jets, bombers, and early warning aircraft to Taiwan 149 times, with the largest maneuver of 52 sorties.

Taiwan and China split in the civil war in 1949, the ruling Kuomintang fled to Taiwan, and the Communist Party led by Mao Zedong came to power on the mainland.

Since then, Taiwan has been self-governing, but its sovereignty has been denied by Beijing, and Beijing has refused to give up the choice of using force to place the island under its control. Beijing has also tried to prohibit Taiwan’s entry into the United Nations and other international organizations, and to oppose official contacts between its government and countries that recognize China, especially the United States, which is legally obliged to treat the threat against Taipei as a serious problem. Isolate Taiwan internationally. concern.

Xi Jinping also said that Taiwan separatism is the biggest obstacle to the reunification of the motherland, and those who advocate Taiwan independence will be condemned by history.