{"id":27709,"date":"2019-01-02T06:22:36","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T06:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27709"},"modified":"2019-01-02T06:22:36","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T06:22:36","slug":"xi-warns-taiwan-independence-is-a-dead-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27709","title":{"rendered":"Xi warns Taiwan independence is &#8216;a dead end&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Hong Kong (CNN)<\/cite>Xi Jinping called on Taiwan to reject independence and embrace &#8220;peaceful reunification&#8221; with China, in a conciliatory speech that nevertheless took a hard line on the self-governing island&#8217;s political sovereignty and freedoms. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The Chinese President&#8217;s Wednesday address was a far cry from one he gave in March last year, in which he said &#8220;not a single inch of our land&#8221; could be ceded from China, adding the country was prepared to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/03\/19\/asia\/china-xi-jinping-speech-npc-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">fight the bloody battle against our enemies<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">By contrast, the latest speech &#8212; marking 40 years since a key policy document opened the door for rapprochement between Beijing and Taipei &#8212; was largely procedural, even outlining how a future system would respect Taiwanese people&#8217;s &#8220;private assets, religions, beliefs and legitimate rights,&#8221; as Xi attempted to portray the future unification of China and Taiwan as an inevitability. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong (CNN)Xi Jinping called on Taiwan to reject independence and embrace &#8220;peaceful reunification&#8221; with China, in a conciliatory speech that nevertheless took a hard line on the self-governing island&#8217;s political sovereignty and freedoms. The Chinese President&#8217;s Wednesday address was a far cry from one he gave in March last year, in which he said&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":27710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}