{"id":37836,"date":"2017-08-01T06:23:16","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T06:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=37836"},"modified":"2017-08-01T06:23:16","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T06:23:16","slug":"chinas-military-confident-prepared-safeguard-sovereignty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/chinas-military-confident-prepared-safeguard-sovereignty.html","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s military confident, prepared to safeguard sovereignty"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">China&#8217;s military confident, prepared to safeguard sovereignty<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">China&#8217;s military confident, prepared to safeguard sovereignty:- China&#8217;s military is &#8220;confident, capable and fully prepared&#8221; to protect the country&#8217;s sovereignty and territorial integrity, the state-run China Daily on Tuesday quoted Defence Minister Chang Wanquan as saying in reference to Taiwan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Despite decades of growing trade across the Taiwan Strait, China has never renounced the use of force, if needed, to gain control of Taiwan, which it considers a breakaway province.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Democratic, self-governed Taiwan has shown no interest in being run by Communist-ruled China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The People&#8217;s Liberation Army is &#8220;confident, capable and fully prepared to resolutely safeguard state sovereignty and territorial integrity&#8221;, the newspaper quoted Chang as saying on Monday at a reception to mark the 90th anniversary of the military&#8217;s founding.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Adherence to the &#8220;1992 consensus&#8221; between Beijing and Taipei and opposition to Taiwan independence are the &#8220;political foundation of peace and development of cross-Straits relations&#8221;, Chang said, according to the newspaper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The &#8220;1992 consensus&#8221; acknowledges Taiwan and China are part of a single China but allows both to interpret who is the ruler.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen has angered Beijing by refusing to recognize the &#8220;1992 consensus&#8221;, as the previous China-friendly Nationalist government did.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The Nationalists fled to Taiwan after their defeat by the Communists in a civil war in 1949.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-china-taiwan-defence-idUSKBN1AH2OU<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/chinas-military-confident-prepared-safeguard-sovereignty.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s military confident, prepared to safeguard sovereignty China&#8217;s military confident, prepared to safeguard sovereignty:- China&#8217;s military is &#8220;confident, capable and fully prepared&#8221; to protect the country&#8217;s sovereignty and territorial integrity, the state-run China Daily on Tuesday quoted Defence Minister Chang Wanquan as saying in reference to Taiwan. 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