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Eugene

(66,757 posts) Wed Dec 31, 2025, 05:53 PM 2 hrs ago

Xi Jinping vows to reunify China and Taiwan in New Year's Eve speech

Source: The Guardian

Xi Jinping vows to reunify China and Taiwan in New Year’s Eve speech

Reunification ‘is unstoppable’, says Chinese president, a day after the conclusion of intense military drills

Amy Hawkins Senior China correspondent
Wed 31 Dec 2025 13.47 GMT
Last modified on Wed 31 Dec 2025 19.39 GMT

China’s president, Xi Jinping, has vowed to reunify China and Taiwan in his annual New Year’s Eve speech in Beijing.

Speaking the day after the conclusion of intense Chinese military drills around Taiwan, Xi said: “The reunification of our motherland, a trend of the times, is unstoppable.”

China claims Taiwan, a self-governing island, as part of its territory and has long vowed to annex it, using force if necessary.

US intelligence is increasingly concerned about the advancing capabilities of China’s armed forces to launch such an attack if Xi decides the time is right.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/31/xi-jinping-vows-reunification-china-taiwan-new-years-eve-speech

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Xi Jinping vows to reunify China and Taiwan in New Year's Eve speech (Original Post) Eugene 2 hrs ago OP

I fear it's going to get really ugly this next year. Hope I am wrong. flying_wahini 2 hrs ago #1

What could possible go wrong? vapor2 2 hrs ago #2

The US and EU need to increase funding for Taiwan's military. Make the island nation an impregnable fortress... wcmagumba 2 hrs ago #3

I'm not sure what we could really do JBTaurus83 2 hrs ago #4

flying_wahini

(8,245 posts)

1. I fear it's going to get really ugly this next year. Hope I am wrong.

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Wed Dec 31, 2025, 06:01 PM

2 hrs ago

vapor2

(3,684 posts)

2. What could possible go wrong?

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Wed Dec 31, 2025, 06:04 PM

2 hrs ago

wcmagumba

(5,567 posts)

3. The US and EU need to increase funding for Taiwan's military. Make the island nation an impregnable fortress...

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Wed Dec 31, 2025, 06:04 PM

2 hrs ago

Taiwan needs to be so strong that China might lose their interest...China is so greedy, they have a huge effing country but want more...hmmm, who does that remind me of? Our Presidunce in Chief I think...

JBTaurus83

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4. I'm not sure what we could really do

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Wed Dec 31, 2025, 06:09 PM

2 hrs ago

If China makes a move. We like to pick on third world nations that cannot defend themselves. The American people would never accept thousands of American deaths and trillions in more debt for a war over Taiwan.

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