Either due to national pride or economics, Beijing is determined to take Taiwan by force if the island won’t willingly reunify with the mainland. In a speech in October to the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, President Xi Jinping had this to say regarding Taiwan: “Solving the Taiwan question and realizing the complete reunification of the Motherland is the unswerving historical task of the Party, the common aspiration of all Chinese sons and daughters, and an inevitable requirement for realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.”
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