- "The army must comprehensively strengthen military training in preparation for war," is his message.

Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Xi Jinping orders China's military to "prepare for war"

Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered his army to concentrate its efforts on "preparing for war", according to a Communist Party spokesman in the British newspaper The Guardian.

"The army must comprehensively strengthen military training in preparation for war," was the message from President Xi, who already warned at the recent Chinese Communist Party Congress that "dangerous storms" were on the horizon.

This Tuesday, during a visit in military uniform to the command center of the Central Commission (CMC), the body that controls the Chinese armed forces, Xi also urged the country's military to be "prepared for war at all times" because the country "faces an increasingly unstable and uncertain security situation."

China faces an increasingly unstable and uncertain security situation."

Xi, as chairman of the CMC, called on all military personnel to devote their energies to developing "combat capability" as well as "improving their ability to fight and win a war."

It is not the first time that Xi has sent this message to his troops, since he also issued that order in 2013, shortly after coming to power, and in 2017, coinciding with the arrival of Donald Trump to the White House. However, The Guardian assures that analysts agree that this time Xi "has intensified his rhetoric".

"It's sending a message to the US and Taiwan," says Willy Lam of the Jamestown Foundation, a Washington-based think tank.

During his speech at the Communist Party Congress, Xi has already raised a harsh speech against Washington's support for Taipei, in which he went so far as to affirm that China "does not renounce the use of force" to regain Taiwan's sovereignty.

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