Chinese President Xi Jinping said the troops should “maintain a high state of alert”.
New Delhi:
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called on his troops to “prepare for war,” the state-run Xinhua news agency reported today. “The troops should” maintain a high state of alert … Put all (your) mind and all your energy into preparing for war, “Xi Jinping said as quoted by Xinhua.
The troops must be “absolutely loyal, absolutely pure and absolutely reliable,” the Chinese president said during his visit to the PLA Marine Corps in the city of Chaozhou.
Sources said President Xi’s remarks were “not specifically directed against India,” even though they come amid the Ladakh border dispute.
This remark coincides with Chinese claims about the passage of a US Navy warship through the Taiwan Strait – an area to which China is sensitive.
Beijing is claiming sovereignty over parts of the South China Sea, where Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines, Brunei and Taiwan have filed counterclaims.
The traditionally thorny relationship between Beijing and Washington has intensified in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak and open US support for Taiwan, which is trying to increase its influence in the Indo-Pacific area.
US President Donald Trump has made numerous references to the “Wuhan virus” and blamed China for the epidemic.
At the recent Quad meeting – the four great Indo-Pacific democracies of India, the United States, Japan and Australia – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the crisis caused by the ” Wuhan virus “had been” made worse by the Chinese Communist. Party blanket. “
“We are also resolving the precious freedoms and sovereignty of the various nations in the region,” Pompeo said, to “protect” them from the “coercion, exploitation, corruption” of the Chinese Communist Party.
“We have seen it in the seas of southern and eastern China, in Hong Kong, in the Himalayas, in the Taiwan Strait… these are just a few examples,” he added.
