China will ‘surely be reunified’ with Taiwan, says Chinese president Xi Jinping

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Chinese president Xi Jinping said in his televised new year address that China will ‘surely be reunified’ with Taiwan. Photograph: Ju Peng/Xinhua/AP Chinese president Xi Jinping has said in his televised new year address that China will “surely be reunified” with Taiwan, renewing Beijing’s threats to take over the self-ruled island, which it considers its own. Taiwan split from China amid civil war in 1949, but Beijing continues to regard the island of 23 million people with its high-tech economy as Chinese territory and has been ramping up its threat to achieve that by military force if necessary. “China will...