China has made sure to make “the greatest possible effort” to achieve success. A peaceful “reunification” with Taiwan after weeks of raids on the Taiwan Air Defense Identification Area (ADIZ) by military aircraft and ships.
Taiwan Affairs Office Spokesperson Ma Xiaoguang said at a press conference in Beijing, less than a month before the start of the war. 20th Congress of the Communist Party of China (CCP) that the country is willing to make “the maximum possible effort” to achieve “peaceful reunification”.
“Mother Earth must be reunited and will inevitably reunite.” As is customary in the statements of all Chinese spokespersons, Ma added that “China’s determination to protect its territory is unwavering.”
According to Ma, both sides will be able to “benefit” from “peaceful, democratic and good-for-both reunification” Consisting of the application of the ‘One country, two systems’ principle as governing Beijing’s relations with Hong Kong.
But this rRelations through the throat Taiwan to be “peaceful and stable” The spokesperson added that this “depends on the authorities giving up their ideas of independence”.
The statements coincide with other statements from a spokesperson for the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Eastern Command. units “on high alert” due to the passage of two warships, In the second of these crossings carried out by the USA in a month, it belongs to the US and Canadian navies that sailed in the international waters of the Taiwan Strait on Tuesday.
on the edge, Taiwan Ministry of Defense On Tuesday, he denounced the presence of nine aircraft and five Chinese military ships in the Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) on Monday, four of which crossed the midline of the Taiwan Strait.
the midline of the Formosa Strait, The practice is an unofficial border that has been implicitly respected by Taipei and Beijing in recent years.has been consistently overtaken by Chinese forces during military exercises in recent weeks.
Taiwan on Saturday condemned another raid on China’s ADIZ. The novelty of being the first to detect the presence of the CH-4, a new type of armed surveillance drone.
Nancy Pelosi’s visit
in the last year China increased the number of raids, Actions condemned by both Taiwan and the United States.
These movements reached their highest frequency in October last year, when Beijing celebrated New Year’s Eve. Anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, It remains to be seen whether the PCCH will continue during the XX Congress, which began on October 16, when Chinese President Xi Jinping elected an unprecedented third term among his predecessors.
The visit of US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi in early August deeply disturbed the Chinese government, which responded with economic sanctions and the announcement of military maneuvers in the waters surrounding Taiwan.
China claimssovereignty over the island and considers Taiwan a rebellious province because the Kuomintang nationalists withdrew from there in 1949 after losing the civil war against the communists.
Taiwan, which has no official relationship with the USA, One of the biggest causes of conflict between China and the USA, This is mainly because Washington is the island’s main arms supplier and is its biggest military ally in the event of a war with the Asian giant.