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Now on bbc news, its time for a special programme. Global questions the taiwan, china conflict. Hello, welcome to global questions with me, zeinab badawi, from Liberty Square in taipei, the capital city of taiwan. The main island of taiwan lies about 160 kilometres across the waters from china. In the past few months, china has stepped up its military exercises, and fired missiles over taiwan, in growing tensions with the government here. The chinese president , xijinping, has reiterated the claim that taiwan belongs to china, and he says he does not rule out the use of force to take it over. Meanwhile, the United States, which supports taiwan, has hardened its position with President Biden saying he would send american troops to defend it. So, if china did invade taiwan, it would be a conflict with huge global dimension ....
Beijing does have a preferred winner. they would hope the kmt nationalist party take the presidency and the parliament, because the kmt typically has a more pro china stance. they advocate more dialogue, and they accept the one china policy this idea that taiwan is a part of china. so china has a preferred winner. they re really hoping that the current ruling party doesn t get an unprecedented third term. that ruling party, the democratic progressive party, has ruled for the last eight years. unprecedented if they were to win again, we ll see how it plays out later today. how has the china taiwan relationship evolved under xi jinping? relationship evolved under xi jinuin? , g , ....
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