CHINA has vowed to create an “overwhelming strategic advantage” over neighbour Taiwan as invasion fears up another gear, it has emerged.
Express
Date: Mon, Dec 25, 2017
By: Joseph Carey
China has vowed to create an ‘overwhelming strategic advantage’ over neighbour Taiwan
China has vowed to create an ‘overwhelming strategic advantage’ over neighbour Taiwan
Liu Junchuan, the head of the liaison office of China’s policy-making Taiwan Affairs Office, declared that Beijing favours a “one country, two systems” approach to reunification it claims would be attractive to the Taiwanese people.
He said: “The swift development and massive changes in the mainland of the motherland are creating an increasingly strong attraction for the people of Taiwan.
“The contrast in power across the Taiwan Strait will become wider and wider, and we will have a full, overwhelming strategic advantage over Taiwan.
“The economic, political, social, cultural and military conditions for achieving the complete reunification of the motherland will become even more ample.
“The basic situation of the Taiwan Strait continuing to develop in a direction beneficial to us will not change, and time and momentum are on our side.” [FULL STORY]