2023-12-31 17:00:49
The Chinese President stated this Sunday, December 31, that reunification with Taiwan is a “historical inevitability”. In his year-end speech, Xi Jinping also said that “the Chinese economy continued to recover and improve” in 2023.
Published on: 12/31/2023 – 16:00
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China will “certainly be reunified”, the Chinese President began by saying, stressing that this is a “historical inevitability”. “All Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Strait should be bound by a common goal, sharing the glory of the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.”he declared.
China considers Taiwan a province that has not yet managed to reunify with the rest of its territory since the end of the civil war in 1949. Beijing, which has not given up on conquering the island by force, has exerted strong military and economic pressure on Taiwan since the Tsai Ing-wen, from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), came to power in 2016, which, according to China, defends independence.
For Taipei, Beijing has increased military pressure in recent months, at a time when the island is preparing to hold presidential elections, scheduled for January 2024.
In his year-end speech, Xi Jinping also said that the “the Chinese economy continued to recover and improve” in 2023, pointing to a “overflowing dynamism of development” in the country, namely through the sale of domestically manufactured mobile phones and the progress of the second largest economy in the world in the manufacture of electric vehicles.
At the international level, Xi Jinping recalled that “there are still places in the world in the midst of war” and that the Chinese people “is very aware of the value of peace”. The Chinese head of state was available to “work with the international community to promote the building of a community with a shared future for humanity”.
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