
Chinese President Xi Jinping urges Taiwan to follow Hong Kong model for unification
2019-01-03 09:58:25 source:South China Morning Post
January 3, 2019
Chinese President Xi Jinping called on Beijing and Taipei to start talks on unification and adoption of “one country, two systems” in Taiwan, laying out steps to settle the 70-year-old divisions between the two sides.
In a speech on Wednesday to mark the 40th anniversary of a call from Beijing to end military confrontation across the Taiwan Strait, Xi said unification was key to “national rejuvenation”.
“The political division across the strait … cannot be passed on from generation to generation,” he said, apparently signalling his determination to end the separation between the self-ruled island and mainland China.
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