Xi Jinping seeks international “legitimization” of right to invade Taiwan to justify war with the United States

On June 23, 2024, the Chinese government published a new directive that should become the core of China’s policy of “reunification” with Taiwan. According to it, every “fighter for Taiwan’s independence” can be sentenced to death in absentia: by shooting or injecting death.

Like other Chinese punitive laws, the new directive is retroactive and extraterritorial (applies to the whole world). According to Xi Jinping’s instructions, foreign citizens and organizations accused by Beijing of “supporting Taiwan’s independence” may be subject to this directive. Earlier, China introduced similar rules for Hong Kong.

These negative trends confirm previous predictions by the Pentagon, the US National Intelligence Agency, and the US Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) that Xi Jinping plans to launch a regional war by the end of this decade.