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Dire Straits – After Taiwan’s election, could China attempt a stealth takeover?

Dire Straits – After Taiwan’s election, could China attempt a stealth takeover?

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Tensions are rising across the Taiwan Strait. China is enraged that
the Taiwanese people have chosen a man Beijing calls a
“troublemaker”, William Lai, as their President. Now Xi Jinping has
become personally invested in regaining the territory. While a hot
military conflict would be disastrous far beyond the region, China
has many other options from trade blockades to naval harassment. So
how far will Beijing go to achieve what it calls the “historical
inevitability” of reunification with Taiwan? Gavin Esler talks to
journalist William Yang in Taipei and China expert Richard McGregor
of the Lowy Institute in Sydney about a decades-old conflict that
is heating up alarmingly. • “China tried to drum up rhetoric
that the election was a choice between war and peace… This
sabre-rattling only worked among the older generation.”
– William Yang • “There’s not much the US could do in the
short-term if China decided to move.” – Richard McGregor
• “Xi has a ton of enemies, from people whose careers he
destroyed in his anticorruption campaign to more liberal Chinese…
They are waiting for him to stumble.” – Richard McGregor
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