{"id":4265,"date":"2026-11-12T12:03:56","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T07:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4265"},"modified":"2026-11-12T12:03:56","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T07:03:56","slug":"chinas-xi-says-taiwan-reunification-must-happen-as-history-cannot-be-stopped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4265","title":{"rendered":"China’s Xi says Taiwan ‘reunification’ must happen as history cannot be stopped"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The tide of history cannot be stopped, Chinese President \u200bXi Jinping said on Thursday, as he urged complete \u201creunification\u201d of Taiwan with the motherland and pledged to do so peacefully, making \u200cno mention of the use of force.<\/strong><\/p>\n

China views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, despite Taipei\u2019s strong rejection of that claim, and has repeatedly offered a \u201cone country, two systems\u201d model of autonomy not supported by any major Taiwanese political party.<\/p>\n

Resolving the Taiwan question is an \u201cunwavering historical mission\u201d of China\u2019s Communist Party, Xi said in a speech in \u200bBeijing\u2019s Great Hall of the People.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe tide of history cannot be stopped,\u201d Xi added. \u201cThe complete reunification of the motherland must be realised, \u200band it will certainly be realised.\u201d<\/p>\n

Xi\u2019s comments came in a speech on the 160th birthday of revolutionary hero Sun \u2060Yat-sen, who helped lead a 1911 revolt that ended centuries of rule by emperors and empresses and ushered in the Republic of China.<\/p>\n

Xi said \u200bChina adheres to \u201cpeaceful reunification and the policy of \u2018one country, two systems\u2019\u201d and is willing to talk to Taiwan while upholding the \u201cone-China principle\u201d, or Beijing\u2019s position \u200bthat both sides of the Taiwan Strait are one country.<\/p>\n

All Chinese, including those in Taiwan, should join hands to jointly oppose Taiwan independence \u201cseparatist\u201d forces and strive for peaceful development of cross-Strait ties, Xi added.<\/p>\n

Taiwan\u2019s government did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Despite Xi not mentioning the use of force, which China has never renounced for \u200bTaiwan, its military operates around the island daily and is extending its reach further into the Pacific<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Taiwan tells people to stay away<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Xi\u2019s \u200bspeech comes a week ahead of the APEC<\/a> summit in China\u2019s southern tech hub of Shenzhen, where he is due to again meet US President Donald Trump, and also \u200ca \u2060little more than two weeks before important local elections<\/a> in Taiwan.<\/p>\n

Last month, Taiwan called on its people to steer clear of any of China\u2019s events to mark the Sun anniversary<\/a>, saying China had a distorted view of him and his legacy.<\/p>\n

Beijing calls Sun a great national hero and patriot, as well as the forerunner of the 1949 communist revolution that forced the defeated Republic of China government to flee to Taiwan, where it remains to this day.<\/p>\n

Xi said \u200bSun was a great national hero, \u200ba great patriot and a \u201cgreat \u2060pioneer of China\u2019s democratic revolution\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cMr Sun Yat-sen consistently upheld the unity of the country and the solidarity of the nation, and he firmly opposed all words and actions that split the country or the nation,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

<\/a>\u2018Father of the nation\u2019<\/strong><\/h3>\n

In Taiwan, Sun is officially considered the \u201cfather of the nation\u201d, and his portrait hangs in the \u200bpresidential office, though his \u2060political philosophy, \u201cThree Principles of the People\u201d, is no longer a required text for schoolchildren.<\/p>\n

While Taiwan President Lai Ching-te and his ruling Democratic Progressive Party champion Taiwan\u2019s separate identity from China, they have been striking a tougher tone with Beijing on the role of the Republic of China.<\/p>\n

Taiwan has been particularly upset by \u2060Beijing\u2019s effort \u200bto claim credit for the victory in World War Two<\/a>, saying it was the Republic of \u200bChina government that fought alongside the allies, as the People\u2019s Republic of China did not exist at the time.<\/p>\n

China says Lai is a \u201cseparatist\u201d and has refused to speak with him. Lai \u200bsays only Taiwan\u2019s people can decide their future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The tide of history cannot be stopped, Chinese President \u200bXi Jinping said on Thursday, as he urged complete \u201creunification\u201d of Taiwan with the motherland and pledged to do so peacefully, making \u200cno mention of the use of force. China views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, despite Taipei\u2019s strong rejection of that claim, and has repeatedly offered a \u201cone country, two systems\u201d model of autonomy not supported by any major Taiwanese political party. Resolving the Taiwan question is an \u201cunwavering historical mission\u201d of China\u2019s Communist Party, Xi said in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}