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Xi Says China Will Never Renounce Right to Use Force Over Taiwan as CCP Political Conference Opens

Xi Says China Will Never Renounce Right to Use Force Over Taiwan as CCP Political Conference Opens
Chinese leader Xi Jinping gives a speech during the opening session of a 5-year Chinese Communist Party political conference in Beijing on Oct. 16, 2022. Noel Celis/AFP via Getty Images
Dorothy Li
10/16/2022|Updated: 10/17/2022
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The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will never renounce the use of force on Taiwan, Chinese leader Xi Jinping said at the opening on Oct. 16 of an important Party meeting.

Held every five years, the CCP’s 20th Party congress kicked off in Beijing amid public frustration fueled by escalated COVID-19 restrictions at home and international criticism of the CCP aggression toward Taiwan.

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