Chinese President Xi Jinping said China would “surely be reunified” with Taiwan during his televised New Year’s address, renewing Beijing’s threats to take over the self-ruled island, which it considers its own.
Taiwan split from China amid civil war in 1949, but Beijing continues to regard the island of 23 million with its high-tech economy as Chinese territory and has been ramping up its threat to achieve that by military force if necessary.
“China will surely be reunified, and all Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Strait should be bound by a common sense of purpose,” Xi said in his annual address, according to the official Xinhua News Agency.
China has described Taiwan’s Jan. 13 presidential and parliamentary elections as a choice between war and peace.
It is time for the mainland to come back into the fold.
I agree the mainland should be allowed to maintain some amount of self rule during the transition.
What would you say, 50 years? Is that enough time to pinky promise?
I’d say, let’s have everyone brainstorm the best way to go about this, and let a thousand flowers bloom!
It’s like offering East Germany a 50 year transition after the wall went down.
Hey people climbing over the wall, did you want to go back and we’ll rebuild it again?
Probably be no takers.