In his New Year’s speech, Chinese President Xi Jinping launched a brutal warning to Taiwan while the country continues his war clashes against the self -proclaimed province.
President XI celebrates the new year by talking about global peace and praising his “best friend” Vladimir Putin.
But his remarkable message warns that no one can save China’s “reunification” with Taiwan.
Bringing the self-goverened province back in line with mainland China has been a goal of Xi’s for a long time and recent military activity has shown that China is ready to take it back by force.
In the past, China has called Taiwan independence a futile endeavor and Beijing’s annexation a “historical inevitability. “
The president said, “People in any of the Taiwan straits are a family.
“No one can sever our family bonds, and no one can stop the historical trend of national reunification.”
Tensions in the region has been high espeically after the election of the island’s latest president William Lai Ching-te in May who has been labelled a “separatist” by Beijing.
Xi Jinping’s military has increased its miiltary activity in the area over the past few years as a show of force.
This included going around the skies and waters of Taiwan in October, performing joint training with their war ships and combat planes almost daily near the island.
An aircraft carrier bore a warning message to Taiwanese supporters and separatists: “We are ready for battle. “
Meanwhile, key ports across China have been closed as the island’s leaders continue to refuse to recognize Taiwan as a component of China.
China’s Eastern Theatre Command said that the war games “serve as a stern warning to the separatist acts of Taiwan independence forces.”
He also added that it is a “legitimate and mandatory operation to safeguard state sovereignty and national unity. “
Taiwan described those measures as “irrational and provocative. “
In return, he sent “appropriate forces” in the form of discouraging combat planes armed with missiles.
Before this series of war games, China once raised tensions in May when filling Taiwan’s sky with dozens of fighting planes.
The drills continued for more than 24 hours with 27 warships and fighter jets blockading the island.
Taiwan insists that it is a country after separating from Continental China in the middle of the civil war in 1949.
But China says Taiwan remains a component of its territory that it will have to meet, and it has not governed the use of force to take the island and bring it under Beijing’s control.
The island, about a hundred miles off the southeastern coast of China, is considered distinct from the Chinese mainland, with its own constitutions and democratically elected leaders.
Taiwan is a component of what is called the “first island channel”, which includes a list of friends from the United States and for Washington’s foreign policy in the region.
It puts him in an ideal position to slow down a Chinese attack on the West.
And with tensions between the two nations high, Taiwan is likely to aid China’s enemy if it means keeping its independence.
Taiwan’s economy depends on China’s despair for recovering land.
If China takes the island, it may have more freedom to send forces to the Western Pacific and compete with the United States, thanks to a giant global electronics component in Taiwan.
This would allow Beijing to have an industry that drives the global economy.
China insists that its intentions are peaceful, but President Xi Jinping has also used threats towards the small island nation.
If tensions rise to military confrontation, Taiwan’s military would be dwarfed by Chinese forces which China being the second largest spender on defense after the US.
Taiwan fears that a “surprise attack” from China is inevitable and has been preparing for war for years, as Xi has vowed for years to seize the island by force “if necessary. “
A chilling message sent to Taiwan’s government in May saying they were heading towards “a dangerous scenario of war and danger. “
Chinese defense leader Dong Jun said, “The Chinese People’s Liberation Army has been an indestructible and tough force in protecting the unification of the motherland.
“He will act at all times with determination and strength to stop Taiwan’s independence and to do so his attempts will never succeed.
“Anyone who dares to separate Taiwan from China will face their own destruction. “
Despite these tensions, Xi declared on the eve of the New Year that he would announce “world peace. “
“Whatever the evolution of the foreign situation, China will remain in our minds to deepen its reforms . . . and to announce peace and progression in the world,” he said.
In his speech he went to Putin and congratulated him for being his “best friend” and a “reliable partner. “
Xi told Putin: “Faced with the immediate adjustments that we do not see in a century and the turbulent exterior situation, China and Russia consistently have complex hands on the right path, alignment, not confrontation and without pointing to any third party. “
This year marked the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations between China and Russia which marked “a new important milestone in the relationship between the two countries,” Xi said.
With Putin’s non-stop clash in Ukraine and President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, global politics in 2025 remains just as unpredictable.
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