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aquamar2 | 1 year ago

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ein0p|1 year ago

> repeatedly threatens to take Taiwan by force

See, the problem with this is that he never did threaten that. It's CIA propaganda. Indeed such a threat would make zero sense even logically, since from the standpoint of China (and the US State Department) Taiwan _is_ China.

TeaBrain|1 year ago

The US's official public position on the One China Policy is a diplomatic front for the benefit of US relations with the PRC. The US maintains diplomatic relations with Taiwan through the American Institute in Taiwan, an organization owned by the US government and staffed by members of the state department.

aquamar2|1 year ago

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/China-s-party-congress/Xi-v...

Xi Jinping opened the Chinese Communist Party's twice-a-decade National Congress on Sunday by pledging to never renounce using force to take control of Taiwan

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/10/chinas-xi-says-outs...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has met former Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou and said that outside influence cannot stop the “family” reunion between Beijing and Taipei....Beijing views the self-ruled island as a province that must be reunited with mainland China, and it has not ruled out using force to assert its claims to Taiwan.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/china-calls-taiwa...

China's "reunification" with Taiwan is inevitable, President Xi Jinping said in his New Year's address on Sunday, striking a stronger tone than he did last year

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/china/xi-warned-biden-summit-be...

Chinese President Xi Jinping bluntly told President Joe Biden during their recent summit in San Francisco that Beijing will reunify Taiwan with mainland China but that the timing has not yet been decided