China's national reunification inevitable

After Democratic Progressive Party candidate Lai Ching-te and his running mate Hsiao Bi-khim won the leadership election in Taiwan recently, some foreign media began claiming the risk of military conflicts across the Taiwan Strait has increased.

China is a big country that has achieved rapid economic and social development, yet it has not realized national reunification. It wants to realize the reunification of the Taiwan island with the motherland through peaceful means, for example, by following the "one country, two systems" principle.

But "Taiwan independence" forces on the island have been opposing this with the help of some countries and by "internationalizing the Taiwan question". This has compelled Beijing to reiterate its position that it does not "renounce the use of force" to achieve the goal of national reunification.