BeijingXi vowed Taiwan’s reunification without mentioning force.
China has never renounced force, and 29 military aircraft patrolled around Taiwan the same day.
Xi spoke on Sun Yat-sen’s 160th birthday, restating “one country, two systems,” which no major Taiwanese party supports.
“It isn’t much different from the past,” said Liang Wen-chieh, spokesperson for Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council.
Xi meets Trump at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Shenzhen next week, and Taiwan holds local elections two weeks later.
How each outlet framed it
- Daily Maverick leans critical
- quotes the Mainland Affairs Council's line that the unification wording 'isn't much different from the past', framing the speech as rhetorical continuity
Sources: Daily Maverick