The president of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinpingasked his country’s armed forces on Thursday “to deepen war and combat planning and build a strong joint command system,” state television channel CCTV reported.
During an inspection by the People’s Liberation Army’s Eastern Theater Command, which oversees the issue of taiwanXi said that “the world has now entered a new era of upheaval and change, and our country’s security situation has become more volatile and uncertain.”
Xi visited the troops on the day US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen arrived in Beijing, according to the ANSA news agency.
China maintains a tense relationship with USA not only in the commercial aspect (since the Asian giant argues on an equal footing with the American power) but also specifically for the territory of Formosa, or the so-called island of taiwan.
taiwanlocated in the Pacific Ocean, forms an autonomous territory with respect to the continental one, since the civil war of the 50s, after which China he became a communist, and displaced the nationalists towards that territory.
China for decades it has been demanding the incorporation of the island, which has the protection of the United States. Curiously, the country presided over by Joe Biden recognizes China in the United Nations, and not Taiwan.
Source: Ambito
