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Xi: Nobody can change fact Taiwan is part of China

2019-01-03

[Al Jazeera] Chinese President Xi Jinping has said that no one can change the fact that Taiwan is "part of China", adding that Beijing will not give up the use of military force as an option to ensure "reunification".

Xi made the comments on Wednesday in a speech marking the 40th anniversary of a policy statement that eventually led to a thaw in relations with the self-ruled island.

"We are firmly against those who conspire behind the ideo of 'Two China', or 'One China-One Taiwan', or Taiwan Independence," Xi said in a part of his first major speech addressing the people of what Beijing considers a breakaway province.

"We have achieved great victory on defeating any pro-independence or separatist activities. Nobody, and no party, can change the historical and legal that Taiwan is part of China and that both sides of the strait belong to China," Xi said in Beijing.

China "reserves the option of taking all necessary measures" against outside forces that interfere with peaceful reunification and Taiwan independence separatist activities, he added.

Posted by:Fred

#7 Taiwan is also part of the Pacific. So what?

It is newspeak anyway.

Posted by: Angaiper Slinerong2336 2019-01-03 18:08

#6 If you had a truly free, secret and democratic referendum in both China and Taiwan:

a) Would the people of Taiwan want to join China?
b) Would the people of China want to join Taiwan?

Posted by: European Conservative 2019-01-03 18:06

#5 For most of its history, the inhabitants of Formosa were aboriginals and not ethnic Chinese.

The Chinese (other than a few farmers) had no real interest in Formosa/Taiwan until the mid-1600's. One of the emperors actually called it "a ball of mud beyond the pale of civilization".

The Spanish and Dutch were there as settlers (trading ports) a half-century before the Chinese, so do Madrid and Amsterdam have a say in this too?

Posted by: Mullah Richard 2019-01-03 11:24

#4 Formosa has not been part of China since the medieval period. The fact that Formosa was invaded by Japanese and later ethnic Chinese doesn't change that according to international law as far as I know.

Posted by: rjschwarz 2019-01-03 10:13

#3 conflating race/culture with country.
Sort of like the UK claiming all English speaking countries.

Posted by: 3dc 2019-01-03 06:27

#2 The Taiwanese can.

Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-01-03 03:59

#1 Unless they suddenly built several thousand amphibious assault craft, Taiwan has nothing to fear. They don't call the theoretical Chinese invasion "the million man swim" for nothing.

Posted by: Herb McCoy 2019-01-03 02:53

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