“Difficult times await us.” This is the warning from Xi Jinping at the opening of a keynote speech to around 2,300 delegates. The president warned of “potential dangers” while calling for China to be “prepared for worst-case scenarios.” “We must adapt and prepare to withstand strong winds, choppy waters and even dangerous storms,” said Xi, stressing that the next five years will be crucial, including internationally, where “global changes that have not been seen for a century” will take place. .
Hong Kong from chaos to stability
“We have shown great ability against Taiwanese independence,” he said of the island issue. In the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic “we put people and their lives first, launching a” people’s war “against the virus”. Hong Kong “has gone from chaos to stability”, putting the city administration “in the hands of patriots,” he said, adding: “We have strengthened and implemented the” one country, two systems “model”, regarding the scheme that regulates relations between the two former colonies Hong Kong and Macao and Beijing. “We have helped Hong Kong to enter a new phase,” he added.
18.5% of the world economy
China’s GDP rose from 54,000 billion yuan to 114,000 billion (about 16,000 billion dollars), accounting for 18.5% of the world economy (+ 7.2%). President Xi Jinping said that China must aim for “high quality” development, between “high-level hi-tech and a mechanism of technological innovation”. “We need to be aware of the potential dangers and be prepared for worst-case scenarios. We must exploit our indomitable fighting spirit for our cause “, bearing in mind that the CCP” has led China from rising and prosperous to becoming strong “, to signal the steps from Mao to Deng to Xi.
Taiwan: there will be reunification
The Taiwan question could not be missing from Xi Jinping’s speech. The reunification “of the homeland will take place and will certainly be achieved,” said the president, snatching the standing ovation of the delegates.
During his speech, Xi returned several times to mention the Taiwan issue. In particular, he reiterated that the CCP has never promised to give up the use of force for “reunification”, just two months after the controversial visit of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, which infuriated Beijing to the point of giving birth. to unprecedented military maneuvers around the island. Taiwan, in fact, is considered by the People’s Republic to be an “inalienable” part of its territory to be reunified even by force, if necessary, even though it has never controlled it.
