Posted on 03/02/2023 12:03:40 AM PST by Angelino97
Beijing will speed up its “reunification” plan for Taiwan, a deputy to the top legislature said ahead of its annual meeting that starts this weekend.
“The [Communist] Party’s overall strategy for resolving the Taiwan issue in the new era has basically taken shape, and the strategic goals and focus of the future reunification cause have also become very clear,” National People’s Congress deputy Li Yihu said.
“The mainland will promote national reunification on a fast development track,” Li told China Review News Agency in an interview published on Monday. Tensions have escalated across the Taiwan Strait, which separates the island from mainland China. Photo: Xinhua Tensions have escalated across the Taiwan Strait, which separates the island from mainland China. Photo: Xinhua
It comes as tensions are soaring across the Taiwan Strait and amid speculation that Beijing could attempt to take the self-ruled island – which it claims as part of its territory – by force in the next few years.
Li made the remarks days before this year’s meetings of the top legislative and political advisory bodies – known as the “two sessions” – begin on Saturday.
A series of new policies, including on Taiwan, are expected to be unveiled during the gathering, along with the defence budget and a government reshuffle. Comments made by NPC deputies such as Li can provide some insight into Beijing’s policymaking, which remains largely secretive.
In the interview, Li – who is also dean of the Taiwan Research Institute at Peking University – said 2022 was an “extraordinary” year for cross-strait ties and that its major events would “have a certain impact on the future direction” of the relationship.
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This is where the troops and weapons are needed not in Ukraine
Brandon is a traitorous piece of filth.
Blah blah you are incapable of discussing an external threat to your nation without going on and on about all the crimes of the leftist Americans. We have a country here to protect that includes your family and mine and blathering on about how bad Biden is is not going to protect us from China.
As for your mocking the “neocon’s solution” to an attack by China, a neocon’s solution would be exactly what’s needed.
Which is a strong national defense.
Isn’t it ironic that the party of peace marches just might destroy the world?
Yeah, the plans are coming together. The invasion force is nearly all kitted out and ready to go to war. Navy, Air Force and Army are ready to slaughter a much smaller nation and the ENTIRE world community, from the UN, on down, with not do ONE DAMNED THING ABOUT IT!!! If the US sits on its hands, they are toast. The Reds will bomb it flat and start over there with an influx of people with GOOD SOCIAL CREDIT SCORES.
“ If the US sits on its hands, they are toast.”
The U.S. is toast any way that this goes…the American political class sold out the country decades ago for their own personal wealth and have been supping on the carcass of the dead Golden Goose all these years since. The carcass is about picked clean…and all that’s left is the character and features of the final denouement.
We could stop the whole thing right now if we gave Taiwan nukes!
Taiwan is 67 miles from the nearest Japanese island, and “neutered” Japan has a better navy than China does. Apart from that, Brandon has publicly pledged (while visiting Japan) to defend Taiwan. A Chinese invasion ain’t gonna happen anytime soon. Threads like this one are just red meat to get gullible people excited.
People get so worked up about everything around here.
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Heck. I thought that was an integral part of their plan, along with depleting the Strategic Petroleum Reserves.
“So China will not storm the beaches at San Diego, rather it will subvert every political, economic, academic and cultural institution in America and simply accept our surrender because we will fear the nukes and buy the promises of enlightened cooperation from the Chinese. Think of Stalin’s promises to Roosevelt.” China is already doing a good job of subverting the pols, media and academic life as i type this and no push back by any thinking citizen.
So what are the Neocons’ plans?
To put the U.S. on the same level as Somalia.
Which is a strong national defense.
The Neocons actually destroyed our strong national defense by squandering it on useless Mideast wars.
If you want a strong national defense, then don't waste your resources on every tinpot foreign tyrant who's no threat to the U.S.
I think China plans on reunification using peaceful negotiations and an increasing One China Taiwan Legislature. A lot of their emphasis will be to place doubt in Taiwan of their reliance on the U.S. and West.
I always thought China would strive to orchestrate conditions (locally and perhaps globally) that Taiwan reunifucation with the mainlaind would be a desired state: A powerful economy; a capable military; programs (such as their continuing efforts in space) with the capability to achievegrest things; erstwhile allies that are economically, culturally, and militarily bankrupt... Why _wouldn’t_ Taiwan want to rejoin the mainland?
I thought China might even sweeten the idea by allowing the two Koreas to reunify under the South’s government. Perhaps leaving a small buffer state between the South and the China/Russia borders to prevent...misunderstandings.
But China seems to be in a bellicose phase, despite the West’s troubles, and is leaving reunification via military operations the foremost option.
They are doing well using Fentanyl. For those doubting it is their intent, they fought the Opium Wars and lost. What better retribution for them than to bring down the US with drugs.
yes they are...
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