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  • 2021-10-11 (xsd:date)
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  • including our compatriots in Taiwan."Taipei condemned Xi’s speech as "one-sided distortion of historical facts" and President Tsai Ing-wen said Taiwan will not "bow to pressure" from China for reunification in her October 10 speech on Taiwan’s National Day.Complicating this fundamental dispute is confusing policy. Hence this fact check of Ma Hui (en)
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  • The world saw an intense uptick in tensions across the Taiwan Strait this month.China flew warplanes a record 149 times toward Taiwan over four days, starting October 1, as China celebrated its National Day holiday. Taiwan responded by dispatching its own fighter jets. War talk invaded some of the rhetoric, adding a further chill on top of the saber-rattling flights.What’s it all about? Taiwan’s status.The communist government in Beijing has claimed Taiwan as part of its territory ever since the nationalist government fled the mainland in 1949, ending a civil war. Meantime, Taipei regards the self-governing island as a sovereign nation with no need to declare independence.Just days after the military drills near Taiwan, Chinese President Xi Jinping on October 9 vowed to achieve complete reunification" with Taiwan (en)
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