the island. taiwan has strongly rejected beijing s sovereignty claims and it has its own democratically elected government. tensions have been on and off for many decades but especially this year we have seen that release biking, especially after nancy pelosi s visited taiwan and it feels like a lot of the regional powers as well as the united states are just monitoring how china may react. after russia s invasion of ukraine some observers in this part of the world were saying that beijing might be watching how russia has treated russia is treated very closely. so we will see how it goes in the new year but tensions remain high at the end of 2022. china s national health commission is no longer releasing daily covid 19 case figures, and will only report what it calls releva nt data , despite a new surge