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The Great Hall of the People in Beijing, where Xi Jinping delivered the speech, pictured in October 2025.

Xi says reunification with Taiwan "will certainly be achieved" and offers talks under the one-China principle

The Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning in Hong Kong waters in July 2017.

Taiwan says China is running "area denial" drills in the Western Pacific with the carrier Liaoning

Typhoon Champi at peak intensity, in an image from the Himawari-9 satellite taken on 20 October 2026.

Typhoon Champi leaves one dead and 527 injured in Taiwan, and the land warning is due to be lifted on Saturday