I dont believe that in a totaliarian system like China an highranking official just burst that kind of statements from his mouth.Im pretty sure they are for real.Taiwan is a thorne on Chinas flesh and they see it as an rebellious province that needs to be taken.How ever with US backing Taiwan up they really dont have the muscle to take it with conventional measures.Chinese arent stupid and they know that nuclear war cant be won.So i say this is an terrible bluf.
Im pretty worried that EU is thinking to pull off the weapons sell ban to China.Because when and if China gets modern weapons enough they are trying to take Taiwan by force.If not,they will get frustrated.Worst case scenario could even be that they Nuke Taiwan.