Taiwan president welcomes exchanges with China as Xi says no one can stop 'reunification'
NBCDEC 2024
China's Xi Says 'National Reunification' With Taiwan Will Happen
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Above: China's Pres. Xi Jinping delivers a New Year message through China Media Group and the internet Tuesday evening in Beijing to ring in 2025. Image copyright: Ju Peng/Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images
The Spin
Pro-China narrative
It doesn't matter how the situation in Taiwan develops or who is in charge of the island, China's process of rejuvenation and reunification will eventually be completed. The people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are part of a single nation, and any attempts to split the motherland are doomed to fail.
Anti-China narrative
Despite Beijing's wishful thinking, it's about time for it to face reality and acknowledge Taiwan's sovereign independence. Calls for reunification under a foreign, socialist regime are unimaginable to the island's people and are merely proxies for Chinese Communist Party's tyrannical claims, which lack any historical legitimacy.
Metaculus Prediction
There's a 35% chance that China will launch a full-scale invasion of Taiwan by 2035, according to the Metaculus prediction community.
