President Xi Jinping ratcheted up the pressure on Taiwan’s pro-self-rule government on Wednesday, asserting China’s right to use military force against “foreign powers” that intervene on the issue of independence for the country.
Mr Xi said Taiwan “must be unified, will be unified” with China in a sharp rebuke to President Tsai Ing-wen, who this week said that her people wanted to maintain self-rule and has courted closer ties with the US.
“Chinese people do not fight other Chinese,” Mr Xi said, but added that Beijing would take “necessary measures” against foreign interference and “a small number of Taiwanese independence activists and separatist activities”.
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