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Beijing says it reserves the right to use force on Taiwan as a last resort

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The reunification of China and Taiwan serves the interests of everyone, including Taiwanese compatriots, Sun Yeli told a press conference in Beijing.

China reserves the right to use force against Taiwan as a last resort and if there is compelling reason, although its first option is peaceful reunification, a Communist Party spokesman said today.

The reunification of China and Taiwan serves the interests of everyone, including Taiwanese compatriots, Sun Yeli told a press conference in Beijing.

Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to secure a third five-year term as the ruling party’s general secretary — the country’s most powerful position of power — at the Chinese Communist Party congress beginning Sunday in Beijing.

As Sun Geli, the representative of the conference, announced, the event will last until October 22.

A major five-year event in Chinese political life, the CCP congress is expected to renew China’s leadership team and give Xi Jinping a new mandate as head of the party and thus the state.

The day after its completion, on October 23, the composition of the new Politburo Standing Committee, that group of seven or nine figures at the highest pinnacle of power, including the party’s general secretary, currently Xi Jinping, should be revealed .

In total, some 2,300 delegates will meet behind closed doors after the conference’s opening ceremony at the Great Hall of the People on the west side of Tiananmen Square in central Beijing.

Xi Jinping, 69, will take stock of the past five years and lay out his roadmap for the next five years in a televised speech.

For the news coverage of the event, the press representatives have been asked to remain in a health “bubble” since yesterday Friday, as part of the strict measures linked to the country’s policy of zero cases of Covid.

At a distance from the venue of the conference, in a hotel in western Beijing, the journalists undergo a series of diagnostic checks.

“The epidemic is always there, it’s a reality that has to be dealt with,” explained the conference representative, when asked about the future of the economy-damaging zero-Covid policy.

This congress, the 20th since the founding of the CCP in 1921, should lead to a broad reorganization of the Politburo Standing Committee, the all-powerful seven-member body (currently, but their number may vary) that has the real power in China.

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