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What to know about the escalating tensions between China and Taiwan

Since the beginning of October, Beijing has sent more than 150 military aircraft into Taiwan's air defense zone in an attempt to intimidate the Taiwanese government. In recent days, the People's Liberation Army also mounted large amphibious landing drills on the mainland side of the Taiwan Straits — an unambiguous show of force and a sign of escalating tensions in the region. Taiwan's Defense Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng even warned the Taiwanese legislature earlier this month that Beijing might be able to launch a “full-scale” invasion of the island by 2025. Tensions across the Taiwan Straits are now at the highest level in years and unforeseen error from either sides risks dragging the United States into a potential conflict with China. The spokesman for Beijing's Taiwan Affairs Office, Ma Xiaoguang, called the military exercises a “just” move aimed at “separatist activities” on the island and what it says is "collusion with foreign forces" by the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) — a not-so-veiled allusion to U.S. support for Taiwan. At the heart of the matter is Beijing’s view that Taiwan is a breakaway province of 23 million people that will eventually have to “reunified” with the rest of China. Beijing leaders… Read full this story

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