The tide of history cannot be stopped, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Thursday (November 12, 2026), as he urged complete “reunification” of Taiwan with the motherland and pledged to do so peacefully, making no mention of the use of force.
Mr. Taiwan’s government did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Mr. President Donald Trump again, and also a little more than two weeks before important local elections in Taiwan. Beijing calls Mr. Mr. they have been striking a tougher tone with Beijing on the role of the Republic of China While Taiwan President Lai Ching-te and his ruling Democratic Progressive Party champion Taiwan’s separate identity from China.
Sun a great national hero and patriot, as well as the forerunner of the 1949 communist revolution that forced the defeated Republic of China government to flee to Taiwan, where it remains to this day. Xi’s speech comes a week ahead of the APEC summit in China’s southern tech hub of Shenzhen, where he is due to meet U.S.
Resolving the Taiwan question is an “unwavering historical mission” of China’s Communist Party, Mr. Xi said in a speech in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People. Xi said China adheres to “peaceful reunification and the policy of ‘one country, two systems'” and is willing to talk to Taiwan while upholding the “one-China principle”, or Beijing’s position that both sides of the Taiwan Strait are one country. Xi said Mr. Sun was a great national hero, a great patriot and a “great pioneer of China’s democratic revolution”.
