Reunion with Taiwan “inevitable” and will “certainly” happen in the near future, the president said ChinaXi Jinping.

The Chinese president’s statements were made as part of the 130th anniversary of the birth of the founder of modern China, Mao Zedong.

“The complete reunification of our Motherland is an inevitable trend. just cause and common desire of the people. “Our motherland must be reunited, and this will definitely happen,” he said during a speech at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

Xi Jinping recalled that he “resolutely opposes anyone who uses any means to separate Taiwan from China” and also called on “maintain the vitality and energy” of the Communist Party Chinese to achieve its “mission”, according to the newspaper “South China Morning Post‘.

The situation around Taiwan has worsened starting last year, following a visit by now-former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, followed by a visit to Washington by a Taiwanese delegation.

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Ties between China and the island of Taiwan, which it considers another province under its sovereignty, were severed in 1949 after the forces of the Nationalist Kuomintang Party was defeated in the civil war against the Communist Party and moved to the archipelago. Relations were restored only at the business and informal level in the late 1980s.(Europe Press)