By Xinghui Kok and Fanny Potkin SINGAPORE (Reuters) -The prospect of peaceful “reunification” with Taiwan is being increasingly “eroded” by Taiwanese separatists and external forces, Chinese Defence Minister Dong Jun said on Sunday, promising to ensure independence never happens. China views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, over the strong objections of the government […]
BEIJING (Reuters) – China will boost defence spending by 7.2% this year, the same rate as last year, but higher than the government economic growth forecast, according to an official work report reviewed by Reuters on Tuesday. The budget showed 1.67 trillion yuan ($230.60 billion) allocated to military spending. The defence budget is closely watched […]
North Korea has allegedly destroyed the Arch of Reunification, according to South Korea, a monument symbolizing the potential reconciliation between the two countries, in the capital Pyongyang. A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Unification in Seoul on Thursday said that the authority assumes the arch no longer stands. The ministry said it could not initially […]
North Korea appears to have torn down a huge arch in its capital that symbolised reconciliation with South Korea, satellite images show. The move comes a week after the North’s leader Kim Jong Un dismissed decades of hopes for peaceful reunification with the war-divided peninsula’s South. South Korea’s military said on Wednesday that North Korea […]
TAIPEI (Reuters) – The head of China’s Taiwan Affairs Office on Tuesday called on Taiwan’s people to promote the process of “peaceful reunification”, saying it was the common desire of people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. Song Tao’s message, which comes less than two week’s before Taiwan holds presidential and parliamentary elections on […]
STORY: President Xi Jinping says China’s “reunification” with Taiwan is inevitable. Xi’s comments, made during his New Year’s Eve address, come just days before the self-ruled island heads to the polls to elect a new leader. In his speech, Xi said that compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan strait must share in the glory […]
BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s “reunification” with Taiwan is inevitable, President Xi Jinping said in his New Year’s address on Sunday, striking a stronger tone than he did last year with less than two weeks to go before the Chinese-claimed island elects a new leader. The Jan. 13 presidential and parliamentary elections are happening at a time […]