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

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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.

Chinadaily.com.cn

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.

Taipei Times