> China’s “reunification” with Taiwan is inevitable, President Xi Jinping said in his New Year’s address on Sunday, striking a stronger tone than he did last year with less than two weeks to go before the Chinese-claimed island elects a new leader.<p>"striking a stronger tone" is simply factually incorrect. He said reunification is a "historical inevitablity" (历史必然), which is word-for-word the exact same language he's been using since as far back as 2014. [1]<p>[1] <a href="http://politics.people.com.cn/n/2014/0927/c70731-25745785.html" rel="nofollow">http://politics.people.com.cn/n/2014/0927/c70731-25745785.ht...</a>
East and West Germany merged when it became advantageous to both.<p>Communist China and the Republic of China will merge when it becomes advantageous to both.<p>And it's nobody else's business but theirs.
This is the same thing that has been said umpteen times before. It's code for <i>"Just wait, foolish Westerners. If either Ukraine loses support because COTUS lunatics can't grok geopolitics or stromgman-loving, Kremlin-owned Trump becomes POTUS because of Ruth Bader Biden, we're going full Wolf Warrior and will take Taiwan by force. What do you think those 3 islands were for in the South China Sea? [Evil laugh here]"</i>