IN his New Year’s address, China’s President Xi Jinping issued a brutal warning to Taiwan as the nation continues its war games against the self-ruled province.

President Xi rings in the New Year with talks about global peace and joining in his compliment for his “best friend” Vladimir Putin.

But his remarkable message is a warning that no one can save China’s “reunification” with Taiwan.

Approaching the Autonomous Province of Continental China is a long -standing purpose of XI and the recent activities of the Army have shown that China is in a position to assume strength.

China has previously called the independence of Taiwan a futile effort and that annexation by Beijin is a “historical inevitability.”

The President said: “The people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are one family.

“No one can sever our family bonds, and no one can stop the historical trend of national reunification.”

Tensions in the region have been high, especially after the election of the island’s last president, William Lai Ching-te, in May, which he called “separatist” through Beijing.

Xi Jinping’s army has increased its military activity in the region in years as a sample of force.

This included the sky and the waters of Taiwan in October, carrying out joint training with its war ships and its almost combat aircraft near the island.

An aircraft carrier adorned with a precautionary message from Taiwan and its separatist supporters: “We are in a position for battle. »

Meanwhile, key ports have been closed through China while the island leaders continue to refuse to make Taiwan part of China.

China’s Eastern theater command said that war games “serve as a serious precaution for separatist acts of Taiwan’s independence forces. “

He also added that it is a “legitimate and mandatory operation to safeguard state sovereignty and national unity. “

Taiwan “irrational and provocative” measures.

In return, he sent “appropriate forces” by sending combat aircraft armed with missiles.

Before this of war games, China raised tensions back in May when it filled the skies over Taiwan with dozens of war clocks.

The drills continued for more than 24 hours with 27 warships and 62 warplanes blockading the island.

Taiwan insists it is a country after breaking away from mainland China amid civil war in 1949.

But China affirms that Taiwan remains a component of its territory with which it will have to meet in all likelihood, and has not excluded the use of force to take the island and position it under Beijing.

The island, about a hundred miles off China’s southeast coast, is considered distinct from the Chinese mainland, with its own charter and democratically elected leaders.

Taiwan sits in the so-called “first island chain”, which includes a list of US-friendly territories that are crucial to Washington’s foreign policy in the region.

This places it in an ideal position to stop 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 is another factor in China’s desperation to reclaim the land.

If China takes the island, it can be freer to assign its strength to the Western Pacific and compete with the United States, thanks to the fact that a giant component of global electronics is done in Taiwan.

This would allow Beijing to an industry that is the engine of the global economy.

China insists that its intentions are peaceful, President Xi Jinping has also used the opposing threats to the small island nation.

If tensions escalate into a military confrontation, the Taiwanese military would be dwarfed by Chinese forces, with China being the second-biggest defense spender after the United States.

Taiwan fears that a “surprise attack” of China is inevitable and has been for years, with XI promising for years to resume the island through the force “if necessary. “

A terrifying message sent to the Taiwan government in May, saying that it is aimed at “a dangerous situation of war and danger. “

Chinese defense leader Dong Jun said: “The Chinese people’s liberation army has been an indestructible and hard force to protect the unification of the homeland.

“It will act resolutely and forcefully at all times to curb the independence of Taiwan and to ensure that it never succeeds in its attempts.

“Whoever dares to divide Taiwan from China will be crushed and suffer their own destruction. “

Despite these tensions, XI declared on the eve of the New Year that it would promote “world peace. “

“No matter how the international situation changes, China will remain steadfast in further comprehensively deepening reform … and promoting world peace and development,” he said.

He addressed Putin in his speech and praised the Russian for being his “best friend” and a “reliable partner. “

XI told Putin: “Given the unprecedented immediate adjustments in a century and the turbulent foreign situation, China and Russia have walked hand in hand in the right trace of non -alignment, not confrontation and no symphrive. Party. “

This year he marked the 75th anniversary of diplomatic ties between China and Russia, which marked “another milestone in the dating between the two countries,” XI said.

As Putin’s standoff in Ukraine and President Donald Trump’s return to the White House continues, global politics in 2025 are more unpredictable than ever.

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