China has never taken one inch of land from other countries: Xi tells Biden

At his digital summit with US counterpart Joe Biden on Tuesday, Chinese language President Xi Jinping projected China as a peace-loving nation and mentioned it by no means began a warfare nor claimed an inch of land of others as he performed down the criticism that Beijing is more and more getting aggressive over its territorial claims.

“Chinese language individuals have at all times liked and valued peace. Aggression or hegemony will not be within the blood of the Chinese language nation,” Xi informed Biden.

“Because the founding of the Individuals’s Republic, China has by no means began a single warfare or battle, and has by no means taken one inch of land from different nations,” he claimed, in an obvious try and play down criticism that Beijing is aggressively asserting territorial claims within the disputed areas, be that alongside the Line of Precise Management (LAC) with India, the South China Sea or the maritime dispute with Japan.

Within the disputed South China Sea, which is claimed by Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines, Brunei and Taiwan, China has constructed synthetic islands to say its claims.

China too was concerned in a maritime dispute with Japan over the Senkaku islands within the East China Sea which the Chinese language confer with as Diaoyu islands.