*BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping sends stern warning, vows to crushthe enemy in parts if it tried to divide China.*
Chinese President Xi Jinping warned on Sunday that any attempt to divideChina will be crushed, as Beijing faces political challenges in months-longprotests in Hong Kong.
“Anyone attempting to split China in any part of the country will end incrushed bodies and shattered bones,” he told Nepal’s Prime Minister KPSharma Oli in a meeting on Sunday, according to China’s state broadcaster*CCTV*.
“And any external forces backing such attempts dividing China will bedeemed by the Chinese people as pipe-dreaming!” he was quoted as saying.
Xi, the first Chinese president to visit Nepal in 22 years, arrived inNepal on Saturday on a state visit. Both sides are expected to sign a dealexpanding a railway link between the Himalayan nation and Tibet.