Xi defiant, says foes will break against the 'Great Wall of Steel'

China won't be bullied by foreign forces, he warns in a show of strength

Any "foreign force" trying to "bully" China will encounter a "Great Wall of Steel" erected by over 1.4 billion Chinese people and its powerful military, President Xi Jinping warned on Thursday, as the ruling Communist Party celebrated its centenary with a massive show of strength at the historic Tiananmen Square.

In his keynote address at a highly-choreographed ceremony from the balcony of Tiananmen Gate, which also adorns a giant size photo of ‘Chairman’ Mao Zedong, the founding father of the People's Republic of China, Xi also underlined that the “reunification” of Taiwan with the Chinese mainland is a "historic mission" and