New Delhi :
Chinese President Xi Jinping threatened Taiwan on the last day of the year. He said Taiwan’s reunification with China was “unstoppable” and he would continue his efforts. He said this while addressing the nation on New Year’s Eve. Beijing has been saying for a long time that the whole of Taiwan is part of China. It has once again given a very clear and strong signal through Air Force and Naval exercises around Taiwan.
China and Taiwan seem to stand at two opposite poles. While Taiwan is a democracy, China is a communist country. In recent times, China has increased pressure on Taiwan and has made every possible effort to isolate this country from other areas of the world.
China is increasing pressure on Taiwan
China has also conducted three rounds of major military exercises since President Lai Ching-te came to power following Taiwan’s democratic elections in May. Angered by the election, Beijing has said that it will not abandon the use of force to bring Taiwan under its control. Earlier this month, China conducted military exercises. According to Taiwanese officials, this was the largest military exercise in the last few years. However, Beijing has remained silent on this maneuver. China has also violated Taiwan’s airspace several times.
“The Chinese people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are one family. No one can break our blood ties or stop the historical trend of reunifying the motherland,” Chinese President Xi Jinping said in a New Year’s speech. Is.” Jinping’s comments have come at an important time when Donald Trump is about to take charge as the President of America after three weeks.
Taiwan is close to America
Taiwan is a major point of dispute between China and America. It is also a strategic ally of America in Asia. At the same time, America is also the largest arms supplier to Taiwan. Protecting democracy over communism has also been America’s principled decision and the Cold War with Russia was completely based on this principled stance.
The Taiwan Strait separates China and Taiwan. It is a waterway that connects the South China Sea to the East China Sea between the two countries.
China was a democratic nation for some time
China was a democratic nation for some time before the Communist Revolution under the leadership of Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong. At that time, there were three presidents in the region known as the Republic of China (now the official name of Taiwan). The Republic of China became a sovereign nation after the fall of the Manchu-led Qing dynasty in 1912, ending the imperial empire in China.
Between 1912 and 1949, China saw four governments. Provisional or interim government in 1912, the Beiyang Government from 1912 to 1928, led by the military; Nationalist government led by the Kuomintang from 1925 to 1948 and constitutional government from 1948 to 1949. Due to civil war in China, the constitutional government was overthrown. The Communist Party, under the leadership of Chairman Mao, overthrew the government, which later spread to Tibet and Xinjiang as well. After this the leaders of the constitutional government had to flee to Taiwan.
Forced to flee Taiwan
Between the mid-1920s and the late 1930s the Kuomintang originally controlled China (without the currently occupied nation of Tibet and then Xinjiang (part of the Republic of East Turkistan) in the west and the areas of Soviet-controlled Manchuria in the east – The region separating the rest of Russia and Mongolia from present-day North Korea was unified. Due to the Russo-Japanese War, Russia handed over Southern Manchuria to Japan in 1905 and decades later in 1931, Japan occupied the entire Manchuria. After this, Japan attacked China during World War II.
The Kuomintang was led by Chiang Kai-shek, who was elected President of the Republic of China until Mao Zedong’s revolution forced him and his Kuomintang party to flee to Taiwan in 1948 and establish a government-in-exile in 1949. By 1971, Chiang Kai-shek’s government was recognized as the legitimate government of China. It was Chiang Kai-shek’s Republic of China (Taiwan) that originally received a permanent seat on the UN Security Council.
Taiwan is a democracy today, but many countries in the world do not have diplomatic relations with it due to pressure from the People’s Republic of China, which was led by Chairman Mao’s party since 1949 and is now led by Xi Jinping.