Transcript: President Xi Jinping’s report to China’s 2022 party congress

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On October 22nd, 2022, General Secretary Xi Jinping, as a representative of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, submitted a report to 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

It drew wide attention in the media coverage as the report indicated that China “will never promise to renounce the use of force”. Yet the report also discusses Taiwan as follows: “This is directed solely at interference by outside forces and the few separatists seeking “Taiwan independence” and their separatist activities; it is by no means targeted at our Taiwan compatriots”. If they decide to resort to force, its ramification is likely to spread across a wide area. Yet it has to be kept in mind that the targets here are very limited in the PRC’s perspective. The transcript is published by Nikkei Asia.

Remarks by Adm. Phil Davidson at the 2022 US Congress

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On March 9th, 2021, then Adm. Phil Davidson argued the threat of PRC’s invasion of Taiwan is “manifest during this decade, in fact in the next six years” (01:04:10- in the video). The remark was reported sensationally, gaining huge attention from the world. Yet the fact that the statement was based on budgets and made close to his retirement should not be neglected.

Denying Remarks by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley at the US Congress on June 17th, 2021

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On June 17th, 2021, at the Senate Appropriations Committee, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley testified about the Cross-Strait unification as follows:

Firstly, the PRC is currently pursuing “actual no kidding capability” in order to carry out an operation for PRC’s military domination of Taiwan.

Secondly, as the PRC does not have much intent or motive of seeking Cross-Strait unification in the immediate future, and it does not have enough capacity for that either, there is no reason to use military means. (27:50- in the video). While he acknowledged that Chinese unification is the core interest of the PRC, he suggested the probability of the PRC employing means other than force, correcting the remark by Adm. Phil Davidson on March 9th.

Statement regarding Pelosi’s Visit to Taiwan on August 2nd, 2022 by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China

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On August 2nd, 2022, Nancy Pelosi, then Speaker of the United States House of Representatives visited Taiwan.

Media spent much time reporting the news, and it also attracted worldwide attention that the PRC was strongly opposed to the visit and conducted military exercises around Taiwan.

You can look at the “​Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China” below. A large portion of the statement is used to repeat that the United States should respect the one-China policy; “ reunification of the motherland” is “the common aspiration and sacred responsibility of all Chinese sons and daughters”.

At the same time, in the last paragraph, it is argued that China and the United States should treat each other with “mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, no-confrontation and win-win cooperation”, and argued that the US has to stop using the “Taiwan card” as a leverage on China.