China’s Xi Jinping ramps up threats against Taiwan warning ‘reunification’ is inevitable

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Chinese President Xi Jinping has said in his televised New Year address that his country's "reunification" with Taiwan is inevitable, renewing Beijing's threats to take over the self-ruled island. Taiwan split from China amid civil war in 1949, but Beijing continues to regard the island of 23 million people as its territory. In recent years, Mr Xi and his officials have been ramping up military pressure to assert its sovereignty claims over democratically governed Taiwan. "China will surely be reunified, and all Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Strait should be bound by a common sense of purpose," Mr...