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Beijing stern warning on Taiwan: China will fight any interference with reunification
China has been incensed by recent moves by US President Donald Trump's administration to increase support for self-ruled and democratic Taiwan 
Speaking at Asia's premier defense summit, Wei said China would “fight to the end” if anyone tried to split China from Taiwan China will fight anyone who tries to interfere in its “reunification” with Taiwan, Defense Minister Wei Fenghe said on Sunday in a combative speech peppered with threats against the United States over its military presence in Asia.
Speaking at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, Asia's premier defense summit, Wei said China would “fight to the end” if anyone tried to split China from Taiwan, which Beijing considers a sacred territory to be taken by force if necessary.
China has been incensed by recent moves by US President Donald Trump's administration to increase support for self-ruled and democratic Taiwan, including US Navy sailings through the Taiwan Strait that separates the island from mainland China.
“No attempts to split China will succeed. Any interference in the Taiwan question is doomed to failure,” said Wei, dressed in his uniform of a general in the People's Liberation Army.
“If anyone dares to split Taiwan from China, the Chinese military has no choice but to fight at all costs ... The US is indivisible, and so is China. China must be, and will be, reunified.”
The United States, like most countries, has no formal ties with Taiwan, but is its strongest backer and main source of weapons.
China translates the word “tong yi” as “reunification”, but it can also be translated as “unification”, a term in English preferred by supporters of Taiwan independence who point out the Communist government has never ruled Taiwan and so it cannot be “reunified”.
China-US ties have become increasingly strained due to a bitter trade war, U.S. support for Taiwan and China's muscular military posture in the South China Sea, where the United States also conducts freedom-of-navigation patrols.
On Saturday, acting US Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan told the Shangri-La meeting that the United States would no longer “tiptoe” around Chinese behavior in Asia.
In May, Taiwan's national security chief David Lee met White House national security adviser John Bolton, marking the first meeting in more than four decades between senior US and Taiwanese security officials.
Taiwan is gearing up for presidential elections in January, and Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen has repeatedly accused Beijing of seeking to undermine Taiwan's democracy and has vowed to defend the island and its freedoms.
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Read all commentsDon't worry China, you have Argentina's full support.
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Jun 04th, 2019 - 01:31 pm 0DT
Jun 04th, 2019 - 10:49 pm 0(Contn of “Bolsonaro calls protesting students, useful idiots..” (closed 1 week ago)
The ‘nordestinos’ accent is by far the worst…so much so, that sometimes it’s hard to understand them (the uneducated, well-understood…’n it’s no coincidence because the NE is the most backward region as far as education goes, with a few isolated exceptions).
I find that kids born here, of ‘nordestino’ parents, are already one step away from their parent’s accent.
In the US, you can hear various accents, and it’s not too difficult to detect their origin….Russian, Italian, Irish, Hispanic.
Don’t really know if “impregnating clothes with liquid cocaine” is common here…watch TV programs showing the fight against drugs in airports (Peru, Colombia, Guarulhos-SP, JFK, etc) and it’s still used, but when dogs are used to sniff the bags, it’s useless.
When we sometimes returned early from lunch, we’d sit around and talk about some current or interesting event that had caught someone’s attention…as we had no politically correct freaks in the office, we had the freedom to talk about anything without offending people’s sensitivity. If I recall correctly, that was the only thing that stood out like a sore thumb.
Most Portuguese spelling was easier as it’s more phonetic. Confusing ? not really, at that age you absorb things pretty easily, ‘n never really thought about it.
Two or 3 years later, started with French…then Latin…in a way, it was interesting to see where Portuguese ‘n French originated, and it all seemed to come together.
Indeed, using ‘whom’ incorrectly, i/o ‘who’ makes a red flag go up. When I was 13 or 14, I got pissed-off at myself for being scolded for making silly mistakes in French, simple things which I had never really bothered to learn properly, and used more instinctively. So, decided to take it more seriously…felt good getting it right.
Re “Silva”, it sounds better in Portuguese or Spanish, than trying to adapt it to English.
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