New Delhi:
Chinese President Xi Jinping ended the year with a threat over Taiwan, saying “no one can stop the unification” with China. He said this when addressing the nation on New Year’s Eve. The Chinese government has long maintained that all of Taiwan is part of China. The island nation also shows off its muscular stance by conducting air force and navy training in various parts of the island nation.
Beijing and Taipei represent two diametrically opposed ways of life. Taiwan is a democratic country, but China is a communist country. Recently, the Chinese government has increased pressure on Taipei, making every effort to isolate the island nation from the rest of the world.
China has also conducted three large-scale military exercises since Taiwan’s democratically elected President Lai Ching-de took power in May. The Chinese government, frustrated by the recent election, has said it will not abandon the use of force to bring Taiwan under its control. The last military exercise, held earlier this month, was what Taiwanese officials say was the largest in years, but Beijing has remained silent about it. China has also violated Taiwan’s airspace several times.
In his New Year’s address, Chinese President Xi Jinping said, “Chinese people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are one family.No one can sever the blood ties and no one can stop the flow of history toward the reunification of the motherland.” said. Xi’s comments come at a critical time, just three weeks before Donald Trump takes office as US president.
Taiwan is a key point of contention between the Chinese and US governments. Taiwan is a strategic ally of the United States in Asia, and Washington is also Taipei’s largest arms supplier. Defending democracy against communism was also a principled decision of the United States, and the Cold War with Russia was entirely based on this principled position.
A brief history of China and Taiwan
China and Taiwan are separated by the Taiwan Strait, a waterway that connects the South China Sea and East China Sea between the two countries.
Before the communist revolution led by Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong, China was briefly a democracy. The country then known as the Republic of China (now Taiwan’s official name) had three presidents. The Republic of China became a sovereign state in 1912 after the collapse of the Manchu-led Qing Dynasty. This ended the history of the Chinese Empire.
From 1912 to 1949, China had four governments. The Provisional or Provisional Government of 1912, the military-led Beiyang Government from 1912 to 1928, and the Beiyang Government from 1912 to 1928. The Kuomintang government was led by the Nationalist Party from 1925 to 1948. The constitutional government was overthrown by China’s civil war. The Communist Party, led by Mao Zedong, overthrew the government in a devastating revolution that later spread to Tibet and Xinjiang. The constitutional government had no choice but to flee to Taiwan.
From the mid-1920s to the late 1930s, the Kuomintang unified the former China (excluding Tibet, which is now occupied), as well as the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (part of the Republic of East Turkestan) in the west and Soviet-controlled Manchuria in the east. did. – the area separating the rest of Russia and Mongolia from present-day North Korea). As a result of the Russo-Japanese War, Russia ceded southern Manchuria to Japan in 1905, and decades later, in 1931, Japan occupied all of Manchuria. Then, during World War II, Japan invaded China.
The Kuomintang was led by Chiang Kai-shek, who was elected president of the Republic of China, but in 1948 Mao Zedong’s revolution forced him and the Kuomintang to flee to Taiwan, where they established a government in exile in 1949. recognized Chiang Kai-shek’s government as the legitimate government of China until 1971. Originally, it was Chiang Kai-shek’s Republic of China (Taiwan) that obtained statehood. A permanent member of the United Nations Security Council.
Taiwan is currently a democratic country, but many countries around the world do not have diplomatic relations with Taiwan due to pressure from the People’s Republic of China. The People’s Republic of China has been led since 1949 by Chairman Mao’s party, now by Xi Jinping’s party.
