China's Xi confident of completely reunifying Taiwan with mainland

Chinese President Xi Jinping emphasized Saturday that the Communist-led government can completely reunify Taiwan with the mainland as his leadership steps up military pressure on the self-ruled, democratic island.But Xi also said, in a speech to commemorate Sunday's 110th anniversary of the 1911 revolution that ended 2,000 years of imperial rule in China, that national reunification "by peaceful means" serves Beijing's interests.His remarks came after six democratic nations -- Britain, Canada, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand and the United States -- carried out joint military drills nea…READ FULL ARTICLE