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BEIJING - President Xi Jinping vowed on Tuesday to resolutely prevent anyone from "splitting Taiwan from China in any way", the official Xinhua news agency reported, a little more than two weeks before Taiwan elects a new leader.
China views democratically governed Taiwan as its territory, despite the strong objections of the government in Taipei, and has ramped up military and political pressure to assert its sovereignty claims.
Taiwan holds presidential and parliamentary elections on Jan. 13 and how the island handles relations with China is a major point of contention on the campaign trail.
At a symposium commemorating the 130th anniversary of the birth of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong, who in 1949 defeated the Republic of China government in a civil war which then fled to Taiwan, Xi said "The complete reunification of the motherland is an irresistible trend".
"The motherland must be reunified, and inevitably will be reunified," Xinhua cited Xi as telling senior officials from the Communist Party.
China must deepen integration between the two sides, promote the peaceful development of relations across the Taiwan Strait, and "resolutely prevent anyone from splitting Taiwan from China in any way", he said.
The report made no mention of using force against Taiwan, though China has never renounced that possibility. It also did not mention the upcoming election.
China says the Taiwan election is an internal Chinese affair but that the island's people face a choice between war and peace and any attempt at Taiwan independence means war.
Over the past year and a half, China has staged two rounds of major war games around Taiwan and regularly sends warships and fighter jets into the Taiwan Strait.
The Chinese government has repeatedly denounced the frontrunner to be Taiwan's next president, Lai Ching-te from the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), as a dangerous separatist and has rebuffed his calls for talks.
Both the DPP and Taiwan's main opposition party the Kuomintang (KMT), which traditionally favours close ties with China but denies being pro-Beijing, say only the island's people can decide their future.
Source: Reuters
習近平主席承諾制止任何企圖將台灣從中國分裂出去的人
北京 - 根據官方新華社報道，距離台灣選舉新領導人兩週多一點，國家主席習近平周二誓言堅決阻止任何人「以任何方式將台灣從中國分裂出去」。
儘管台北政府強烈反對，中國仍將民主治理的台灣視為自己的領土，並加強了軍事和政治壓力以維護其主權主張。
台灣將於1月13日舉行總統選舉和國會選舉，台灣如何處理與中國的關係是競選過程中的一大爭論點。
在紀念中國前領導人毛澤東誕辰130週年的研討會上，習近平表示「祖國完全統一是不可阻擋的潮流」。毛澤東於1949年在內戰中擊敗了中華民國政府，隨後逃往台灣。。
新華社引述習近平對共產黨高級官員的演講稱，「祖國必須統一，也必然會統一」。
他說，中國必須深化兩岸融合，推動台海關係和平發展，「堅決防止任何人以任何方式把台灣從中國分裂出去」。
該報告並未提及對台灣使用武力，但中國從未放棄這種可能性。 它還沒有提及即將舉行的選舉。
中國表示，台灣選舉是中國的內政，但台灣人民面臨戰爭與和平的選擇，任何台獨企圖都意味著戰爭。
過去一年半來，中國在台灣週邊舉行了兩輪大型軍演，並定期派出軍艦和戰鬥機進入台灣海峽。
中國政府一再譴責台灣下任總統的領跑者、執政的民進黨的賴清德是危險的分離主義者，並拒絕了他要求進行談判的呼籲。
民進黨和台灣主要反對黨國民黨傳統上主張與中國大陸保持密切關係，但否認親北京，都表示只有台灣人民才能決定他們的未來。
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