US EditionChina’s Xi hails nation’s technological progress and renews promise to take back Taiwan
Xi Jinping emphasized China’s technological advances and military drills around Taiwan, calling reunification an unstoppable trend amid tensions over U.S. arms sales worth $11 billion.
- During his New Year's Eve address Wednesday, Chinese President Xi Jinping reiterated Beijing's vow to reunify Taiwan, saying, `We Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Strait share a bond of blood and kinship.`
- Hours before Xi spoke, the PLA Eastern Theatre Command completed Justice Mission 2025, mobilising Army, Navy, Air Force and Rocket Force units and involving at least 89 war planes around Taiwan.
- Xi pointed to concrete achievements such as breakthroughs in large AI models and domestic chips, showcasing the Tianwen-2 probe, China's first aircraft carrier with an electromagnetic catapult, humanoid robots and drone light shows this year.
- Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council said Beijing's refusal to recognise Taiwan's sovereignty is the core problem, while Wellington Koo and President Lai condemned the drills and US intelligence warned of China's growing attack capabilities.
- Beijing said it will speed up tech self-reliance as the United States tightens controls on semiconductors, framing the coming years and 2026 as critical under the 15th Five-Year Plan.
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Cross-Strait Ties: Taiwan Affairs Office: national reunification is unstoppable
At a press conference, a spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council said the People's Liberation Army's, or PLA's, military exercises around Taiwan are a solemn warning to Taiwan independence forces and foreign interference. The spokesperson described the drills as necessary and just measures to defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity, adding that the trend toward national reunification is unstoppable and shoul…
"Reunification of our motherland unstoppable": Chinese President Xi Jinping's New Year message as drills around Taiwan end
The drills, codenamed 'Justice Mission 2025', saw the PLA Eastern Theatre Command dispatch its Army, Navy, Air Force, and Rocket Force troops to conduct joint military drills in the Taiwan Strait and in areas to the north, southwest, southeast, and east of Taiwan.
PEKIN.- China’s President Xi Jinping said this Wednesday in his New Year’s speech that “reunification” with Taiwan is an “unstoppable” trend that has no turning back because of the “blood” ties that unite its citizens. “The Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are united by blood and kinship. The reunification of our homeland, a trend of the times, is unstoppable,” the Chinese President said in the middle of the beginning this week of new …
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Compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are connected by blood ties thicker than water, Xi Jinping said, among other things.
China has announced the successful completion of its military exercises around Taiwan, including live-fire drills, while Xi Jinping declared that reunification is unstoppable.
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