New Delhi: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday said that China’s “reunification” with Taiwan is inevitable, striking a stronger tone than he did last year with less than two weeks to go before the Chinese-claimed island elects a new leader.
“Compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait should be bound by a common sense of purpose and share in the glory of the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation,” he added. The official English translation wrote “all Chinese” rather than “compatriots”.
Last year, Xi said only that people on either side of the strait are “members of one and the same family” and that he hoped people on both sides would work together to “jointly foster lasting prosperity of the Chinese nation”.
The defeated Republic of China government fled to Taiwan in 1949 after losing a civil war with Mao Zedong’s communists who founded the People’s Republic of China. The Republic of China remains Taiwan’s formal name.
New Delhi: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday said that China’s “reunification” with Taiwan is inevitable, striking a stronger tone than he did last year with less than two weeks to go before the Chinese-claimed island elects a new leader.
“Compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait should be bound by a common sense of purpose and share in the glory of the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation,” he added. The official English translation wrote “all Chinese” rather than “compatriots”.
Last year, Xi said only that people on either side of the strait are “members of one and the same family” and that he hoped people on both sides would work together to “jointly foster lasting prosperity of the Chinese nation”.
The defeated Republic of China government fled to Taiwan in 1949 after losing a civil war with Mao Zedong’s communists who founded the People’s Republic of China. The Republic of China remains Taiwan’s formal name.
New Delhi: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday said that China’s “reunification” with Taiwan is inevitable, striking a stronger tone than he did last year with less than two weeks to go before the Chinese-claimed island elects a new leader.
“Compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait should be bound by a common sense of purpose and share in the glory of the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation,” he added. The official English translation wrote “all Chinese” rather than “compatriots”.
Last year, Xi said only that people on either side of the strait are “members of one and the same family” and that he hoped people on both sides would work together to “jointly foster lasting prosperity of the Chinese nation”.
The defeated Republic of China government fled to Taiwan in 1949 after losing a civil war with Mao Zedong’s communists who founded the People’s Republic of China. The Republic of China remains Taiwan’s formal name.
New Delhi: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday said that China’s “reunification” with Taiwan is inevitable, striking a stronger tone than he did last year with less than two weeks to go before the Chinese-claimed island elects a new leader.
“Compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait should be bound by a common sense of purpose and share in the glory of the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation,” he added. The official English translation wrote “all Chinese” rather than “compatriots”.
Last year, Xi said only that people on either side of the strait are “members of one and the same family” and that he hoped people on both sides would work together to “jointly foster lasting prosperity of the Chinese nation”.
The defeated Republic of China government fled to Taiwan in 1949 after losing a civil war with Mao Zedong’s communists who founded the People’s Republic of China. The Republic of China remains Taiwan’s formal name.
