'All necessary means': Xi Jinping reserves right to use force against Taiwan [View all]

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Source: The Guardian

Chinese leader calls for reunification and says independence would be a ‘disaster’

Taiwan’s unification with China is “inevitable”, President Xi Jinping said on Wednesday, warning against any efforts to promote the island’s independence and saying Beijing would not renounce the option of using military force to bring it into the fold.

Speaking at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People on the 40th anniversary of a key Taiwan policy statement, Xi said reunification must come under a one-China principle that accepts Taiwan as part of China, anathema to supporters of Taiwan independence.

All people in Taiwan must “clearly recognise that Taiwan independence would only bring profound disaster to Taiwan”, Xi said.

“We are willing to create broad space for peaceful reunification, but will leave no room for any form of separatist activities,” he said.

“We make no promise to renounce the use of force and reserve the option of taking all necessary means,” he said, adding that the issue is China’s internal affair and that it would permit “no external interferenc




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Hey Xi, how did that reunification thingy go with Hong Kong, you really are full of shit, in fact your fucking communist dictator, if you have looked lately, and better yet, you and your state of Communism, thinks that independent unions should be quashed right along with the Tibet's religion.

So the only thing I would worry about is your expansionist bull shit........... and hegemony................