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The leader of China’s communist regime, on Sunday, urged Taiwan’s main opposition party to help what he called “national unification.”
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China views self-governing democratic Taiwan as part of its territory and vows to retake it one day, even by force if necessary.
Xi Jinping has been the most belligerent leader since Mao Zedong. He often called on the Chinese army to be on alert for war.
In a congratulatory letter to Eric Chu — the newly elected leader of the Beijing -friendly Kuomintang (KMT) party — Xi said the Chinese Communist Party and the KMT should collaborate under a “common political policy.”
“In the past, our two sides insisted on the ‘1992 consensus’ and opposed ‘Taiwan independence’…to promote the peaceful development of cross-strait relations,” Xi said in a letter released by the KMT, as reported by the KMT. AFP, Monday (27/9/2021).
“Currently, the situation in the Taiwan Strait is complicated and bleak,” he said, urging the parties to work together to find peace and “national unity.”
Relations between Taiwan and China rose sharply under former KMT president Ma Ying-jeou between 2008 and 2016, culminating in an important meeting between Xi and him in Singapore in 2015.
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