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But with rising public anxiety over China's influence on the island, sentiment has turned against the Beijing-friendly approach. Tense relations with China have warmed since Ma was elected in 2008 on a platform of improving cross-strait ties and reviving the slowing economy. In March and April this year Taiwanese students staged a mass three-week sit-in in the parliament building in Taipei in protest at a proposed trade pact with the mainland. In face of the recent shakeup in Taiwan's political landscape, China "should not fear the storm" and has formed "new judgements and countermeasures", the Global Times paraphrased Liu as saying. The KMT's move to forge warmer ties with Beijing, and its perceived secrecy in forging deals with the mainland, was one of the core issues at stake in polls seen as foreshadowing the 2016 presidential race. Taiwan's ruling Kuomintang (KMT) was dealt a crushing blow in local polls in late November when it lost five out of six large municipalities on the island, prompting Premier Jiang Yi-huah to resign and President Ma Ying-jeou to step down as KMT chairman. Taiwan and China split in 1949 at the end of a civil war, but Beijing still claims the island as part of its territory awaiting reunification - by force if necessary. "Whoever has political power in Taiwan, the only path (for the island) is to preserve the development of peaceful relations between the two sides of the strait, and eventually to bring about reunification," the general said. He retired from active service with the People's Liberation Army in 1997. We will not abandon the possibility of using force according to the law, it is also an option to resolve the issue by military means if necessary," said Liu, a former president of the influential Chinese Academy of Military Sciences. "The Taiwan issue will not remain unresolved for a long time. Liu Jingsong told the annual conference of the Global Times newspaper that the Chinese government would not be afraid to use force to resolve "the Taiwan issue", the Chinese-language paper reported Saturday on its website without specifying further. Lin took personally charge of Liu's funeral arrangements because Liu was one of the best assistants and staff officers in his military career.An army general has warned that China will not leave the Taiwan problem "unresolved for a long time", after the island's Beijing-friendly ruling party suffered a bruising election defeat, a state-run newspaper said. After one year, Liu died in Shanghai in 1965. Lin Biao never visited the sick before, but only exception when he learnt Liu had liver cancer, Lin then visited Liu for the first time in the hospital. At that time the Chinese air force only possessed 15 Mig fighter planes. Mao ordered Liu to go to Soviet Union to lobby for their aid and started to train Chinese pilots based on the Soviet model, so Liu was appointed 1st Chief commander of the People's Liberation Army Air Force in 1949. In August Liu returned to China by following Soviet Marshal Aleksandr Vasilevsky's troops to invade Manchuria during Operation August Storm before joining communist Manchurian field army and became Lin Biao's chief of staff.Īfter the establishment of People's Republic of China, Mao Zedong prepared to support North Korea in the Korean War. Liu was sent to study in Frunze Military Academy in 1939-1941, and was commissioned as a major in the Soviet Red Army and participated in the Soviet-German War, and wrote several important essays on Battle of Stalingrad. During the Second Sino-Japanese War he became Lin Biao's chief assistant in the Red Army University in Yan'an. Like many late communist commanders, Liu was also a veteran of the Long March. He join the CPC in Jinggangshan Mountains in August 1929, and participated in the Encirclement Campaigns on the communist side. Liu was born in Wuping, Fujian province of China. 2 Created CPC air force and missile troops.