china on wednesday published its first white paper on taiwan since xi jinping came to power refusing to rule out force in its bid for unification and blaming the islands independence seeking ruling party for deepening the dispute with beijingthe paper which stated china will tolerate no foreign interference in taiwan comes days after china held unprecedented military drills around the island in the wake of a visit to taipei by us house speaker nancy pelosiheres the white paper in fullthe taiwan question and chinas reunification in the new erathe peoples republic of chinathe taiwan affairs office of the state council and the state council information officepreambleresolving the taiwan question and realizing chinas complete reunification is a shared aspiration of all the sons and daughters of the chinese nation it is indispensable for the realization of chinas rejuvenation it is also a historic mission of the communist party of china cpc the cpc the chinese government and the chinese people have striven for decades to achieve this goalthe 18th national congress of the cpc in 2012 heralded a new era in building socialism with chinese characteristics under the strong leadership of the cpc central committee with xi jinping at the core the cpc and the chinese government have adopted new and innovative measures in relation to taiwan they have continued to chart the course of crossstraits relations safeguard peace and stability across the taiwan straits and promote progress towards national reunification however in recent years the taiwan authorities led by the democratic progressive party dpp have redoubled their efforts to divide the country and some external forces have tried to exploit taiwan to contain china prevent the chinese nation from achieving complete reunification and halt the process of national rejuvenationthe cpc has united the chinese people and led them in fulfilling the first centenary goal of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects as scheduled and in embarking on a new journey towards the second centenary goal of building china into a modern socialist countrythe chinese nation has achieved a historic transformation from standing upright to becoming prosperous and growing in strength and national rejuvenation is driven by an unstoppable force this marks a new starting point for reunificationthe chinese government has published two previous white papers on taiwan one was the taiwan question and reunification of china in august 1993 and the other was the onechina principle and the taiwan issue in february 2000 these two white papers provided a comprehensive and systematic elaboration of the basic principles and policies regarding the resolution of the taiwan question this new white paper is being released to reiterate the fact that taiwan is part of china to demonstrate the resolve of the cpc and the chinese people and their commitment to national reunification and to emphasize the position and policies of the cpc and the chinese government in the new erai taiwan is part of china this is an indisputable facttaiwan has belonged to china since ancient times this