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Secretary of State Blinken is scheduled to meet with Chinese officials in the U.S. next week
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Ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping has told the country s military and armed police force to get combat ready to defend national sovereignty and security, amid fears that Beijing may be planning an invasion of democratic Taiwan in the next few years. The entire army needs to strengthen its performance so as to do a good job of ensuring a good start to the 14th Five-Year Plan, and of celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the party, Xi told People s Liberation Army (PLA) and People s Armed Police (PAP) leaders, according to a Mar. 10 report in the official CCP newspaper, the
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Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwan s democratically elected President (Image: GETTY)
Ketian Zhang, an Assistant Professor at George Mason University s Schar School of Policy and Government, underlined China’s hardline stance on the issue in an interview with Express.co.uk last year.
She said: I would say the tension surrounding Taiwan has worsened since Trump took office, and the worsening of cross-strait relations is a gradual process. China does have a red line, which is that Taiwan should not declare de jure independence. If it does so, it is highly likely that China will resort to the use of force.
China s military power in numbers (Image: Express)