![]() ![]() ![]() In recent years Beijing has ramped up military pressure on Taiwan, as well as its rhetoric on “reunification,” which Chinese leader Xi Jinping has declared “must be achieved.” The Taiwan delegation at the opening ceremony of the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, on September 23, 2023. The animation shows one elf, representing the scroll piece in Taipei, deciding to visit her counterpart in Hangzhou, reminiscing on when he had “come to visit me 12 years ago” - a reference to when China loaned Taiwan its half of the scroll for a joint exhibition of the complete work in 2011, during a brief period of warmer ties between the neighbors. Painted in the 14th century, the scroll was damaged by a fire in 1650 and split into two - with one part now kept at the National Palace Museum in Taipei, and the other at the Zhejiang Provincial Museum in the Chinese city Hangzhou.Īs a result, the scroll has long been seen as a living symbol of the division between China and Taiwan. In the animation, two cartoon elves represent the two halves of the famous artwork “Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains,” by Song dynasty painter Huang Gongwang. The Chinese painting "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" displayed in its entirety in the National Palace Museum Taipei on June 1, 2011. ![]() It has long vowed to “reunify” Taiwan with the Chinese mainland, by force if necessary.Īt the very center of that threat sits the Eastern Theater Command, the wing of China’s enormous military force that handles operations in the Taiwan Strait, and which routinely conducts military exercises including simulated precision attacks on the island. The animation was released by the Eastern Theater Command of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to mark National Day, the anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, and is the latest short film to capitalize on nationalist sentiment over historic Chinese treasures held overseas.Ĭhina’s ruling Communist Party claims Taiwan, home to 24 million residents, as its territory - despite never having controlled it. China’s military released an animation on Sunday depicting the journey to reunite two halves of a torn scroll across the Taiwan Strait, a thinly veiled reference to the country’s longstanding goal of “reunification” with the democratic, self-ruled island. ![]()
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