Comment by tikwidd | Hacker News Reader

Comment by tikwidd | Hacker News Reader

The ROC also 'vows reunification' with the Chinese mainland. It's a standard line in the One China diplomatic framework which both states follow.

Edit: can we get the title changed to "Xi vows 'peaceful reunification' with Taiwan"? This better reflects the content of the article:

  BEIJING, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed on Saturday to achieve "peaceful reunification" with Taiwan, and did not directly mention the use of force after a week of tensions with the Chinese-claimed island that sparked international concern.

> The ROC also 'vows reunification' with the Chinese mainland.

Source please. All I've heard about from Taiwan in the past decade are simply calls for independance, especially since Tsai won presidency (twice).

There are calls for independence, but ROC maintains a claim over the Chinese mainland which constitutionally requires a referendum to change. Source: ROC constitution.

Declaring your intentions while sharpening your weapons is never peaceful. It's already an act of aggression.

And I thought the current ROC line (at least, the leading party's line) has no interest in "One China".

Declaring peaceful intentions strikes me as the opposite of aggression.

In isolation. Saying it days after flying an air-to-ground-assault-capable wing of aircraft in the day, and a smaller strike force in the evening shows that it's nonsense.

You don't run operations against people you have peaceful intentions towards.

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