{"id":75825,"date":"2025-12-31T22:47:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T13:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/31\/xi-jinping-vows-reunification-china-taiwan-new-years-eve-speech"},"modified":"2025-12-31T22:47:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T13:47:55","slug":"xi-jinping-vows-to-reunify-china-and-taiwan-in-new-years-eve-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75825","title":{"rendered":"Xi Jinping vows to reunify China and Taiwan in New Year\u2019s Eve speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reunification \u2018is unstoppable\u2019, says Chinese president, a day after the conclusion of intense military drills<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s president, Xi Jinping, has vowed to reunify China and Taiwan in his annual New Year\u2019s Eve speech in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking the day after the conclusion of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/30\/trump-not-worried-china-military-live-fire-drills-taiwan\">intense Chinese military drills<\/a> around Taiwan, Xi said: \u201cThe reunification of our motherland, a trend of the times, is unstoppable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/31\/xi-jinping-vows-reunification-china-taiwan-new-years-eve-speech\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reunification \u2018is unstoppable\u2019, says Chinese president, a day after the conclusion of intense military drillsChina\u2019s president, Xi Jinping, has vowed to reunify China and Taiwan in his annual New Year\u2019s Eve speech in Beijing.Speaking the day after the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,74,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75826,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75825\/revisions\/75826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}