Beijing (AsiaNews/Agencies) – The communist leadership is ready to write up a new, harsh strategy to deal with the Taiwan question. The details will be revealed during the nest Communist Party Congress, the 17th, which will be held in the Chinese capital next October. According to many experts, the new guidelines will be set to face a “worst case scenario”.
Taiwan Affairs Office spokesman Li Weiyi said yesterday that Taiwan would be among the key issues “discussed at the party congress”, and that a “new strategy would be formed.”
In September President Hu Jintao warned that Beijing would “stop at nothing to prevent Taiwan moving towards independence”. He was responding to Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian's bid to seek a UN seat for the island, a move widely seen as a step towards Taiwan becoming a fully independent nation.
Beijing-based Renmin University professor Shi Yinhong said he believed the leadership would take he opportunity to form a consensus on a harsh line to follow should the island seek independence. And Hu Jintao’s declarations have not ruled out the use of force”.
The academic clarified “We must remember that the mainland now is totally different from Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin's eras. With more than two decades' economic development, our military power has reached a certain level”.