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

[Eugene]

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

[flying_wahini]

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

[vapor2]

2. What could possible go wrong?

[wcmagumba]

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

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]

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

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.

[eppur_se_muova]

5. Big Lie about Chinese history. Taiwan was free of China for centuries. it was controlled by Chinese pirates, then by the

Dutch and Spanish, then the Japanese, then the Kuo Min Tang. Mainland China held a tenuous grip on Taiwan for the latter part of the 19th century. This "historical linkage" between Taiwan and the mainland is about as solid the US linkages to Cuba or the Philippines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Taiwanese_history (The Qing tried to claim Taiwan beginning in the late 18th century, but had to constantly suppress rebellions by the natives, who did not care for the Qing ! ) The details get complicated, but on-again, off-again partial control is closer to the truth than any complete control by China.