Chinese leader Xi Jinping in an annual New Year’s address on Tuesday sought to shore up confidence ​that Beijing can make an economic transition and resist foreign pressure weeks before Donald Trump is due to return to the White House.

Chinese President Xi Jinping in a New Year's address declared Taiwan and China to be one people and said no nation can stop China from annexing the island nation.

The Chinese President put out a clear warning to pro-independence forces in his New Year message. Read more at straitstimes.com.

"The people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are one family," Mr Xi said in a speech televised on China's state broadcaster CCTV. “No one can sever our family bonds, and no one can stop the historical trend of national reunification.”

New Years address, Chinese President Xi Jinping said Taiwan and China are "one family," and that "no one can prevent" the unification of the motherland.The comments are similar to remarks made last year,

In a bold New Year’s address, Xi Jinping asserted that China's reunification with Taiwan is unstoppable, intensifying military pressure on the island amidst rising tensions. The speech signals Beijing's firm stance against perceived independence movements while Taiwan's government insists on self-determination.

In a clear warning to what Beijing view as pro-independence forces within and outside of Taiwan, China's President Xi Jinping on Tuesday said that no one can stop China's reunification with Taiwan. While addressing his New Year's speech which was televised on China's state broadcaster CCTV,