China's President Xi calls for "reunification" with Taiwan - CBS News

[TexasTowelie]

China's President Xi Jinping made Taiwan a priority during a speech as he closed the National People's Congress in Beijing on Monday, saying China should oppose pro-independence influence on Taiwan and reiterating a push for "national reunification". CBS News senior foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer joined Anne-Marie Green on "CBS News Mornings" with the latest.

[Evolve Dammit]

1. Join Us. Joiiinn Us. Or we will kill you.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

2. Not what was proposed, but if make up hate appeases, go for it!

Peace proposal for Russian war, Peace between Saudi and Iran…Peace between China and Taiwan.

What will The Pentagon and it’s political puppets do to stir up Fear?…enough to justify its bloated budget?

Maybe an invasion of Mexico! U.S. Senators aren’t actually proposing that, are they?

Nothing says warmongering nation than senior politicians wanting war over…nothing that can’t be solved without violence…they do love violence.

Analyst China expert on video who listened to whole speech…

..not aggressive, fairly even…

Listen, learn or ignore, hate…individual choice.

[Evolve Dammit]

3. We know what Xi wants. The same as Putin wants. To restore what is "theirs". n/t

[Alexander Of Assyria]

4. You didn't listen to the whole video...or the analysts comments... the hostile

questioning by the Corporate Media script reader, the speech was not aggressive and fairly neutral.

Contrast with the wolves of war Republicans.

Listen again.

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

5. "Re-unified" means that something was once unified.

Does Xi not understand language ?

Taiwan has been held by the Dutch, the Japanese and even briefly by the Spanish. When exactly, is he referring to ?

[Warpy]

6. The only way that's going to happen is if China can offer them a better deal

than they have as an independent state. I think that will eventually happen if China can manage a stable economy without micromanaging everybody's life.

Xi is just impatient, which is why he made so many military noises before seeing what a brick wall Russia ran into in Ukraine showed him that might not be such a great idea, after all.

[Darwins_Retriever]

7. Reunification worked so well for Hong Kong

Why not Taiwan. Let China destroy another economy, kill dissent.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

8. It wasn't reunification...the Colonial lease of colonial Great Britain expired.

The East remembers all of the colonization of the West, which seeks to make everyone forget.

[TexasTowelie]

9. However, China reneged on its promises to not interfere with Hong Kong.

Under the Sino-British Joint Declaration of 1984, Beijing had promised to respect Hong Kong’s freedoms and “way of life” for at least 50 years, and the territory was to be governed under the so-called “one country, two systems” framework.

I suspect that the people of Hong Kong prefer Western imperialism over Chinese communism based upon the protests that occurred as China extended its control over Hong Kong. I also suspect that the people of Taiwan when faced with the option of maintaining its current political status or being another Chinese province they will choose the former over the latter.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

10. Colonial slave masters can cry me a river.

Prefer imperialism is like saying the raped preferred being raped.

[TexasTowelie]

11. I believe that the people in those countries are intelligent enough to recognize

the differences between democracy and authoritarianism. Furthermore, comparing imperialism to rape is OTT.

[ancianita]

12. Jinping paints a friendly big power picture. However. Like Ukraine, Taiwan is never going back.

China needs economic stability way more than Taiwan needs unity or economic stability.

Compared to Taiwan, China's manufacturing output as a percent of GDP has been falling since 2006, more because it's got the world's fastest aging society, and their consumption, growing disproportionately to output.

The Taiwanese and Japanese have been collaborating on all things industrial since the end of the Korean War. Combine Japanese tech and military strength and wealth with India and Southeast Asia's manufacturing, demographic, and industrial inputs, and together they are one of the greatest economic alliances of this century. And the main threat to China's own economic stability, which China couldn't match except for "unifying" with Taiwan.

Jinping pleasantly lays out military growth plans, but his huge navy (bigger in some surface ship categories than ours) still only projects into the Pacific and Indian oceans; while Japan's and Taiwan's navies (US trade and military allies) project formidable Pacific power; while our navy's seven fleets project into all five oceans.

People in global trade know that China's falling behind Taiwan, which, along with Japan and Korea, produce world class semiconductor chips while China's are bargain basement quality fit for smart appliances, but not for high end electronics and military use.

They also know that Jinping needs more food for what includes the highest retired non-working demographic on the planet. But all major countries of Asia are heating unevenly, seeing much more rainfall which especially hurts rice, along with other food production. Taiwan, Japan, and Korea have enough naval proximity to allies to import enough food; but China, having 7,000 mile import lines and no allies, will have big scale food shortages.