No One Can Stop China Reuniting With Taiwan
Hindustan Times Thane|January 01, 2025
No one can stop China's "reunification" with Taiwan, Chinese President Xi Jinping said in his New Year's speech, on Tuesday, laying down a clear warning to what Beijing regards as pro-independence forces within and outside of the island of 23 million people.
Reuters

BEIJING:

In the past year, Beijing has stepped up military pressure near Taiwan, sending warships and planes almost daily into the waters and air space around the island in what Taiwanese officials view as a creeping effort to "normalize" China's military presence. China regards democratically-governed Taiwan as its own territory. But Taiwan's government rejects Beijing's claims and says only its people can decide their future and Beijing ought to respect the choice of the Taiwanese people.

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