Go to Media BankBEJING, Oct 16 will promise to renounce the use of force, Chinese President Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, said in his speech at the 20th Congress of the CPC.
"We sincerely and with all our might insist on the prospect of peaceful reunification, but We will promise to refrain from the use of force and reserve the possibility of taking all necessary measures against the interference of external forces and the extremely small number of pro-Taiwan independence separatists and their secessionist activities", he said.
According to According to the politician, such actions «will in no way be directed against the majority of the people of Taiwan.» The Chinese leader also announced his intention to continue reforming the army in order to achieve the intended goal by the centenary of the People's Liberation Army of China in 2027 — by receive world-class military forces. Official relations between the central Chinese government and its island province were interrupted in 1949 after the forces of the Kuomintang led by Chiang Kai-shek, who were defeated in a civil war with the Chinese Communist Party, moved to Taiwan. Business and informal contacts between the island and mainland China resumed in the late 1980s. Since the early 1990s, the parties began to contact through non-governmental organizations — the Beijing Association for the Development of Relations across the Taiwan Strait and the Taipei Cross-Strait Exchange Foundation. China opposed hegemonism in the international arena