Xi Seeks ‘Patriots’ to Boost Taiwan Anti-Independence Fight
- President meets with political group during key conference
- Xi wants joint advance of peaceful reunification with Taiwan
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Chinese President Xi Jinping called for the mobilization of “patriots” in Taiwan and abroad to fend off pro-independence efforts on the self-governing island, in a meeting tied to China’s highest profile annual political gathering.
Xi met on Wednesday with the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang, a political group that’s based on the mainland and distinct from Taiwan’s main opposition party KMT. Xi urged the group, an ally of the dominant Communist Party, to unite “all patriots from home and abroad, in and out of Taiwan” to step up opposition to Taiwanese independence and to jointly advance the peaceful reunification of China.