There aren’t many ways to interpret Beijing’s sentiments here. I’ve been thinking recently of some analysis I have read that suggests the coming decade will be the one in which China makes its big moves on Taiwan etc. The theory is as follows:
Beijing has apparently calculated that the US/West has a short memory. The CCP supposedly realises that following the Tiananmen Square massacre in 89, it took around 20 years for this to be forgotten, which was marked by the 08 Olympics, the theorists claim.
They claim that the latest that Beijing can militarily retake Taiwan, and other territory, is 2030, as this will give the west time to forget, and allow a celebration in 2049 of National Rejuvenation. This decade is therefore called the “Decade of Concern.”
It could be argued therefore that this sort of rhetoric is to be expected, as Beijing looks to reunify Taiwan with the mainland - one way or another.
This is of course a snippet of a 34 page article called White Warships and Little Blue Men, published in 2018 by the Project 2049 Institute. It is openly available if you would like to read more.
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