Reunification with Taiwan is “inevitable” and will “certainly” happen in the near future, Chinese President Xi Jinping said.
The Chinese president’s statements come in the context of the 130th birthday of the founder of modern China, Mao Zedong.
“The complete reunification of our homeland is an inevitable trend, a just cause and the common aspiration of the people. “Our motherland must be reunited, and it certainly will be,” he said during a speech at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
Xi recalled that he is “strongly opposed to anyone who uses any means to separate Taiwan from China,” while urging “maintaining the vitality and strength” of the Chinese Communist Party to to fulfill its “mission”.
The situation around Taiwan has deteriorated, starting last year after the visit of the now former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, followed by a visit to Washington by a delegation from Taiwan.
Relations between China and the island of Taiwan, which China considers another province under its sovereignty, were severed in 1949, following the collapse of the forces of the nationalist Kuomintang party. suffered a defeat in the civil war against the Communist Party and moved to the archipelago. It was not until the late 1980s that relations at business and informal levels were restored (Press Europa)
Source: La Neta Neta
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