“We Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Strait belong to one and the same family. No one can ever sever the bond of kinship between us,” Xi said while delivering his 2025 New Year Address televised on the state broadcaster.
China claims that the autonomous island of Taiwan is a component of its mainland and is “one China”, which sees Taiwan as an integral component, a mandatory diplomatic policy. In recent years, Xi, who has been in his third five-year term, has taken a primary military and diplomatic initiative to accentuate efforts to reintegrate Taiwan into China.
On the foreign policy front, Xi reiterated China’s commitment to promoting global governance reform and contributing to global peace and stability. “In a world of transformation and turbulence, China, as the primary culprit country, actively promotes global governance reform and deeper solidarity. and cooperation between the Global South,” he added.
The other main focus of Xi’s New Year message was to reassure the Chinese public about the economy, which has slowed considerably after COVID-19, resulting in the collapse of the lucrative real estate sector and job losses due to the closure of businesses across the country. China’s economy has rebounded and is on an upward trajectory, with GDP expected to cross the 130-trillion-yuan (about USD 18.08 trillion) mark in 2024. The grain output has surpassed 700 million tonnes, he said.
The country has responded proactively for the effects of the conversion of environments at the local level and throughout the world and has followed a wide variety of policies to achieve solid progress in the search for high quality progress during the next year, said.
Emphasizing China’s good fortune in new productive forces such as electronic automobiles, he said the country had favored new quality productive forces in soft genuine situations and has noticed new advertising sectors, bureaucracy and emerging models of annual automobile production. of new energy power across China surpassed 10 million for the first time in 2024, and the country realized % in embedded circuits, synthetic intelligence, quantum communications and many other fields, Xi declared.
China, however, has complicated its exports of electronic cars, while the United States and the EU have imposed high costs of imports. The biggest challenge for XI, however, is to face Trump 2-0. Trump, who threatened to apply deceptive policies against China, will assume the US presidency on January 20. During his first term, Trump introduced an industrial war against China by imposing costs on more than 380 billion dollars in Chinese imports in 2018-2019. , saying that China snatches from the United States. His successor, Joe Biden, continued with costs, balancing the benefits of China.
Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te pledged to strengthen the island’s defences in the face of escalating Chinese threats, saying in a New Year’s address on Wednesday that Taiwan was a crucial part of the “line of defence of democracy” globally. China claims Taiwan, a self-ruled democracy, is part of its territory and has vowed to annex the island by force if necessary. “Authoritarian countries such as China, Russia, North Korea and Iran are still collaborating to threaten the international order that is based on rules. This has severely influenced the Indo-Pacific region and the world’s peace and stability,” Lai said in his address.
Beijing has used a variety of tactics in recent years to increase pressure on Taiwan, from sending warships and fighter jets toward the island on a near-daily basis to pressuring Taiwan’s diplomatic allies to switch their recognition to China.
(With inputs from agency)
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