As Chinese President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Joe Biden during their recent summit in San Francisco, Xi told Biden that Beijing is all set to reunify Taiwan with mainland China, according to media reports. However, the timing has yet not been decided.What Xi Jinping told Joe Biden on Taiwan tensionReportedly, the Chinese president told Biden in a meeting attended by a dozen officials from both sides that Chinas preference is to take Taiwan peacefully and not by force.The reports claimed, “The Chinese leader also referenced public predictions by US military leaders who say that Xi plans to take Taiwan in 2025 or 2027, telling Biden that they were wrong because he has not set a time frame.”Chinese officials also asked in advance of the summit that Biden make a public statement after the meeting saying that the United States supports Chinas goal of peaceful unification with Taiwan, it added.Heres how Xi held talks with the US President:According to the officials, Xi Jinping was “blunt and candid, but not confrontational” with his US counterpart.“His language was no different than what he has always said. He is always tough on Taiwan. Hes always had a tough line,” a US official said as per the report.At the 2022 Chinese Communist Party Congress, Chinese President Xi Jinping said that China would attack Taiwan militarily if it declared independence with foreign support. The Chinese leader had then said that the threat of force “is directed solely at interference by outside forces and the few separatists seeking Taiwans independence.
