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the president of China, Xi Jinpingurged the country’s military to be “prepared for war at all times” in a reality in which the Asian giant, he said, “faces an increasingly unstable and uncertain security situation.”
“The task of the military struggle is arduous and heavy”, he claimed Xi this Tuesday in a visit to the command center of joint operations of the Central Military Commission (CMC), the body that controls the Chinese armed forces, reported the state chain CCTV.
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Xi, as chairman of the CMC, called on all the military to devote their energies to developing “combat ability”, in addition to “improving their ability to fight a war and win it”.
The president made the statements during his first visit to the headquarters of the Popular Liberation Army (EPL) after the celebration of the XX Congress of the Communist Party of China (CCP) last month, where he secured a third term as secretary general of the formation and of the CMC itself.
Xi He added that China’s national security faces “increased instability and uncertainty”, and hence the need for the Army to “strengthen military training and preparation for war”, in a context marked by the growth of tensions in the Strait of Taiwan.
The relationships between China and Taiwan They are the focus of constant disputes, tensions and dialectical crosses between both sides of the Strait.
In the speech that opened the 20th CPC Congress in Beijing, Xi mentioned the “separatist activities seeking ‘Taiwanese independence’” and the “gross provocations from abroad”.
“We will pursue a peaceful reunification but we will never promise to give up the use of force as an option,” he said before assuring that “reunification will be achieved”.
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For its part, the Presidential Office of the Taiwanese president, Tsai Ing-wen, reiterated that Taiwan is a country “democratic and sovereign” and that “Taiwanese clearly reject the ‘One country, two systems’ model” that Beijing would apply in the event of reunification and that is in force in the semi-autonomous region of Hong Kong.
China It claims sovereignty over the island, which it considers a rebel province since the Kuomintang nationalists withdrew there in 1949, after losing the civil war against the communists.
Source: EFE
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