Xi Jinping ‘too busy with internal affairs’ to invade Taiwan
China is dealing with rising youth unemployment and a flagging property sector
President Xi is so “overwhelmed” by economic crisis and international pressure that he is unlikely to invade Taiwan, the island’s president said, despite reports of menacing exercises by Beijing’s military forces.
However, President Tsai added that China is attempting to interfere in Taiwan’s forthcoming presidential election, and that international support is essential to deterring an invasion of the democratic self-ruling island that Beijing claims as its own.
“I think the Chinese leadership at this juncture is overwhelmed by its internal challenges,” she said in remarks in a teleconference organised by The New York Times. “And my thought is that perhaps this is not a time for them to consider a major invasion of Taiwan. Largely because the internal economic and financial as well as political
