Self-ruled Taiwan, which China considers its own, wants an extradition, not a voluntary surrender, of the suspected murderer from a Chinese-ruled territory, reinforcing its status as self-ruled and separate to China.
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Beijing regards the self-ruled democratic island as a breakaway province.
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The Taiwan Strait separates the self-ruled island of Taiwan from China.
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Rojava is the name of the self-ruled area of northeastern Syria.
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The self-ruled island expressed serious concern on Thursday over the mainland's broadcast.
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The Vatican is the self-ruled island's last remaining diplomatic ally in Europe.
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The Vatican is the self-ruled island's last remaining diplomatic ally in Europe.
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There are also delegates for self-ruled Taiwan, made up of defectors and their descendents.
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Hong Kong does not have an extradition agreement with Taiwan, a self-ruled island democracy.
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Cambodia, one of China's closest allies, does not have official relations with self-ruled Taiwan.
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China claims Taiwan as its own and considers the self-ruled island a wayward province.
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China deems self-ruled Taiwan a renegade province to be taken back by force if necessary.
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Democratic Taiwan, self-ruled since 1949, has no interest in being ruled by the autocratic mainland.
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The status of self-ruled Taiwan is possibly the most sensitive issue between Washington and Beijing.
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There are also delegates for self-ruled Taiwan, mostly made up of defectors and their descendants.
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China considers self-ruled and democratic Taiwan a wayward province ineligible for state-to-state relations.
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Taiwan is a self-ruled and democratic island that Beijing considers to be part of China.
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China regards self-ruled Taiwan as a breakaway province to be united with the mainland eventually.
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The territory is mostly self-ruled, but its foreign policy and security decisions are made in Denmark.
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Under the Chinese Communist Party's "One China" policy, the self-ruled island is part of mainland China.
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China is also suspicious of Singapore's good military relations with the United States and self-ruled Taiwan.
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Beijing is deeply suspicious of U.S. intentions toward self-ruled Taiwan, which China claims as its own.
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But the technology transfer between China and self-ruled Taiwan has raised concerns amid the Sino-U.
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On certain key core issues including the self-ruled island of Taiwan, China will not back down.
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China claims self-ruled Taiwan as its sacred territory, to be taken back by force if necessary.
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China claims sovereignty over all four of territories, though Taiwan is self-ruled and has democratic elections.
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China's hostility has risen after the self-ruled island elected Tsai Ing-wen as president in 2016.
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China claims self-ruled and democratic Taiwan as its own and views it as a wayward province.
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China considers self-ruled Taiwan to be part of its territory, and does not recognize its government.
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Such passages typically upset China, which claims democratic and self-ruled Taiwan as part of Chinese territory.
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Taiwan, the self-ruled island that China claims as its own, set up an epidemic response centre.
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In self-ruled Taiwan, fears of a military invasion from the world's second-largest economy are growing.
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Singapore also has close though unofficial ties with self-ruled Taiwan, which Beijing regards as a Chinese province.
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Central America and the Caribbean have long supported self-ruled Taiwan, which China views as a wayward province.
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China considers self-ruled Taiwan a wayward province, to be brought under its control by force if necessary.
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Beijing is also deeply suspicious of U.S. intentions towards self-ruled Taiwan, which China claims as its own.
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Taiwan scrambled aircraft to drive away the Chinese planes on Sunday, the self-ruled island's defense ministry said.
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Beijing has threatened before to use force against Taiwan if the self-ruled island moves toward formal independence.
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China considers self-ruled Taiwan a wayward province, to be brought under Beijing's control by force if needed.
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The country was previously a diplomatic ally of Taiwan, the self-ruled island China claims as its own.
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Beijing disapproves of other counties maintaining military ties with self-ruled Taiwan, which Beijing considers a breakaway province.
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China claims self-ruled and democratic Taiwan as its territory and has threatened to annex it by force.
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Taiwan, a self-ruled, democratic island, is also feeling pressure from China, which considers it a breakaway province.
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China considers self-ruled Taiwan sovereign territory and Cambodia is one of China's closest allies in Southeast Asia.
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China, which views self-ruled Taiwan as a wayward province, has ramped up pressure to assert its sovereignty.
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Instead, Chinese representatives challenged the self-ruled island's proposal this summer, saying China should take over the events.
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Following civil war in China, Nationalist forces fled in 1949 to Taiwan which has been self-ruled ever since.
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The Soviet-built Liaoning sailed in waters near self-ruled Taiwan, which China claims as its own, in January.
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The ruling Democratic Progressive Party that swept national elections in the self-ruled island last year supported the change.
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Beijing has never renounced the use of force to bring the self-ruled and democratic island under its control.
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China considers self-ruled and democratic Taiwan to be merely a wayward province, with no right to diplomatic relations.
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China claims self-ruled Taiwan as a wayward province, to be brought under its control by force if needed.
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The self-ruled island has been battered by a U.S.-China trade war and stalled diplomatic relations with Beijing.
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The sausage was one of 306 meat products smuggled into the self-ruled island between late August and Oct.
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China views self-ruled Taiwan as a wayward province, to be bought under its control by force if necessary.
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All 341 Taiwan tourists in 19 tour groups were safe, the government of the self-ruled island said, however.
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There are other tricky issues too, including the self-ruled island of Taiwan which China claims as its own.
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China and self-ruled Taiwan underwent a rapprochement under the outgoing government which was run by China-friendly Nationalists.
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The small island is a self-ruled democracy that Beijing insists be treated as part of its "one China" initiative.
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China claims Taiwan as its own and sees U.S overtures to self-ruled Taiwan as meddling in its internal affairs.
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China considers self-ruled Taiwan to be a wayward province, to be brought under Beijing's control by force if necessary.
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Another source of friction is the Vatican's official ties with self-ruled Taiwan, which Beijing sees as a renegade province.
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China has warned the US against arms sales to the self-ruled island in order to avoid harming bilateral relations.
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People from the mainland need permission to travel to the self-ruled island that Beijing regards as a renegade province.
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China has offered the "one country, two systems" formula for self-ruled Taiwan, an island Beijing considers a breakaway province.
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Another issue that will have to be resolved is self-ruled Taiwan, which maintains formal diplomatic ties with the Vatican.
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Earlier on Sunday Taiwan scrambled aircraft to drive away the two Chinese planes, the self-ruled island's defense ministry said.
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A switch would be a prize for China in its campaign to secure allies from self-ruled and democratic Taiwan.
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China was reportedly angered by the move, as it has long-viewed the self-ruled island as a wayward province.
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Beijing regards the self-ruled island as a wayward province, to be brought under its rule by force if necessary.
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He then suggested he might abandon Washington's "one China" policy, which accepts the self-ruled island as part of China.
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Earlier on Sunday Taiwan scrambled aircraft to drive away the two Chinese planes, the self-ruled island's defence ministry said.
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Beijing regards self-ruled Taiwan as part of China and has vowed to use force if necessary to keep the island.
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But the number of mainland tourists visiting Taiwan, a self-ruled island China considers a breakaway province, has taken a tumble.
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China claims self-ruled and democratic Taiwan as a wayward province, to be brought under its control by force if needed.
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China refers to Mandarin as "Putonghua", or "common speech", while in self-ruled Taiwan it is called "Guoyu", or "national language".
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China considers self-ruled Taiwan to be part of its territory and says it must eventually be united with the mainland.
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China, which claims the self-ruled island as part of its territory, tries to block its leaders from visiting other countries.
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The Vatican is one of only 20 states that still recognise self-ruled Taiwan, officially known as the Republic of China.
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China considers the island — now a self-ruled democracy — part of "One China," demanding that the US and others accept that.
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China regards self-ruled and democratic Taiwan as a wayward territory, to be brought under Beijing's rule by force if necessary.
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In Taiwan, where an increasingly assertive China presents an existential threat, the self-ruled island's relationship with the mainland loom large.
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China regards self-ruled and democratic Taiwan as a wayward province, to be brought under Beijing's rule by force if necessary.
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China claims self-ruled and democratic Taiwan as its own territory, to be brought under Beijing's control by force if necessary.
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In January, self-ruled and proudly democratic Taiwan, claimed by the party as China's sacred territory since 1949, holds presidential elections.
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Taiwan, the self-ruled island that China claims as its territory, elected its first female president, Tsai Ing-wen, last year.
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Beijing has never renounced the use of force to take over self-ruled Taiwan, which it regards as a recalcitrant, breakaway province.
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China considers self-ruled Taiwan a breakaway province of "one China", ruled in Beijing, ineligible for country status or its own flag.
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There are also delegates for self-ruled Taiwan, mostly made up of defectors and their descendants but not elected by Taiwan's people.
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China has long described self-ruled Taiwan, claimed by Beijing as its sacred territory, as the most sensitive issue in Sino-U.
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Beijing claims self-ruled Taiwan as its own and has vowed to bring the island under Chinese control, by force if necessary.
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China deems Taiwan its own and has never renounced the use of force to bring the self-ruled island under its control.
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It follows months of recriminations spanning trade, U.S. accusations of Chinese political interference, the disputed South China Sea and self-ruled Taiwan.
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The deportations have raised fears in Taiwan that China is using its international clout to put pressure on the self-ruled island.
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In self-ruled Taiwan, which China claims as its own, the Presidential Office expressed "great admiration and support" for the election result.
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China considers democratic and self-ruled Taiwan to be a wayward province, to be brought under Beijing's control by force if necessary.
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Same-sex marriage in Taiwan: Lawmakers for the self-ruled island voted today to legalize same-sex marriage, a first for Asia.
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China claims self-ruled Taiwan as its own and has vowed to bring the island under its control, by force if necessary.
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Singaporean troops have trained in self-ruled Taiwan, an island China claims as its own, which had been an irritant in ties.
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The new diplomatic relationship is a sign of China's growing influence in the Pacific and a setback for self-ruled, democratic Taiwan.
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China considers self-ruled and democratic Taiwan to be a wayward province to be taken back by force one day, if necessary.
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Relations across the Taiwan Strait have slumped since President Tsai Ing-wen rose to power in the self-ruled island in 2016.
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China considers self-ruled Taiwan a wayward province and has never renounced the use of force to bring it under its control.
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The Pacific is also an area of competition between China and self-ruled Taiwan, which maintains formal diplomatic ties with several island nations.
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Taiwan, the self-ruled island claimed by Beijing, has accused China of luring smaller countries to its side with offers of generous aid.
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Taiwan has been self-ruled since 1949 when the defeated Nationalists fled to the island after a civil war with the Chinese Communists.
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Taiwan, a self-ruled island that China considers its own, lies near the junction of two tectonic plates and is prone to earthquakes.
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China is deeply suspicious of Taiwan president-elect Tsai Ing-wen, whose Democratic Progressive Party espouses formal independence for the self-ruled island.
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The self-ruled island's Justice Ministry said authorities have launched a probe into Tsang and his two companies, Taiwan's Central News Agency reported.
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Wang urged the United States to deal with issues related to self-ruled Taiwan, which China regards as a wayward province, with caution.
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The self-ruled island legalized same-sex marriage in May while Thailand has drafted a bill that would recognize same-sex civil partners.
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Yu Zhengsheng, the ruling Communist Party's fourth ranked leader, was speaking at an annual work conference on policy towards the self-ruled island.
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Taiwan has been self-ruled since 1949, when Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang troops fled after losing China's civil war to Mao's Communist Party.
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The Asian powerhouse, which claims Taiwan under a policy known as "One China," opposes other countries pursuing relations with the self-ruled island.
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China regards self-ruled Taiwan as a wayward province and has never renounced the use of force to bring it under its control.
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China considers Taiwan to be part of its territory, and it has sought to limit the self-ruled island's international relationships and recognition.
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China claims self-ruled Taiwan as part of its territory and has threatened to use force to prevent it from pursuing formal independence.
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China regards self-ruled Taiwan as a wayward province and Kenya said it was deporting the 45 back to where they came from.
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Beijing has never renounced the use of force to take over neighboring, self-ruled Taiwan, which it regards as a recalcitrant, breakaway province.
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Beijing sees self-ruled Taiwan as a wayward province to be taken back by force if necessary, particularly if it makes moves toward independence.
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The call raised consternation in Beijing, which sees the self-ruled island as a renegade province and objects to other governments dealing with it.
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Beijing maintains that self-ruled Taiwan is a wayward province of China and has never renounced the use of force to take it back.
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The Miyako Strait is between Japan's islands of Miyako and Okinawa, to the northeast of self-ruled Taiwan, which China claims as its own.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - China flew several fighter and reconnaissance aircraft near Taiwan in a training exercise, the self-ruled island's defense ministry said on Friday.
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On Monday, Brownback again urged China to give its people religious freedom, a reform he said could help gain trust from self-ruled Taiwan.
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China, in turn, sees self-ruled Taiwan as fit to be taken back by force if necessary, particularly if it makes moves toward independence.
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Defeated Nationalists fled to Taiwan in 1949 after losing a civil war with Mao Zedong's Communists, and the island has been self-ruled since.
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U.S. military sales to self-ruled Taiwan, which China claims as its territory, are an irritant in ties between the world's two largest economies.
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In 2005, China offered the pair to Taiwan, but the government of the self-ruled island, which China claims as its own territory, demurred.
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The fraud has spread overseas, with Chinese speakers recruited in neighboring self-ruled Taiwan increasingly setting up operations in East Africa or Southeast Asia.
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China claims self-ruled and democratic Taiwan as its own and has never renounced the use of force to bring it under Beijing's control.
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Beijing regards Taiwan as a renegade province under its One China Policy, and opposes other countries pursuing diplomatic ties with the self-ruled island.
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Taiwan has been self-ruled since then, but Beijing regards the island as a renegade province to be taken back by force if necessary.
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Smaller vigils are held in the former Portuguese territory of Macau and the self-ruled island of Taiwan, which China claims as its own.
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The island nation cut off its ties with Taiwan, a self-ruled island which China views as a wayward province, Taiwan said on Friday.
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Self-ruled Taiwan is claimed by Beijing as Chinese territory, and has become one of China's most sensitive issues and a potential military flashpoint.
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That makes its domestic arms industry crucial in assembling a modern military that can enforce claims over self-ruled Taiwan and disputed maritime territories.
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Beijing has insisted that self-ruled Taiwan is part of its territory, and it has not renounced the use of force to achieve unification.
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The world's largest economy has been cozying up to Taipei, bolstering arms sales to the self-ruled island in a move that's increased Beijing's anger.
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China claims self-ruled Taiwan as its own and has never renounced the use of force to take back what it deems a wayward province.
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The voyage will be viewed by self-ruled Taiwan as a sign of support from the Trump administration amid growing friction between Taipei and Beijing.
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In Taiwan's capital Taipei, youthful supporters rallied to denounce the convictions and growing pressure from Beijing on both their self-ruled island and Hong Kong.
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In 1974, Singapore and Taipei initiated "Project Starlight", which gave Singaporean troops much-needed physical room to carry out exercises on the self-ruled island.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - One of Taiwan's representatives stationed in Japan's western city of Osaka committed suicide this week, the government of the self-ruled island said.
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U.S. military sales to self-ruled Taiwan, which China claims as its territory, is an irritant in the relations between the world's two largest economies.
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Taiwan, a self-ruled island that China considers part of its territory, lies near the junction of two tectonic plates and is prone to earthquakes.
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" The leader of the self-ruled island regarded by Beijing as a renegade province wrote that Liu "has no enemies, because democracy has no enemies.
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China views self-ruled Taiwan as a wayward province and said last week Taiwan would face the "punishment of history" for any attempt at independence.
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Another issue to be resolved is self-ruled Taiwan, with which the Vatican maintains formal diplomatic ties, although China claims it as a wayward province.
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Deutsche Welle opened an office in Taipei on the self-ruled island of Taiwan three months ago to better cover the region, a spokesman said.
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The self-ruled island of Taiwan, which is overwhelmingly opposed to a "one country, two systems" formula for itself, has voiced support for Hong Kong.
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Self-ruled Taiwan is claimed by Beijing as a Chinese territory, and has become one of China's most sensitive issues and a potential military flashpoint.
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It is also worried about self-ruled Taiwan, claimed by China as its own and run by a government Beijing fears is intent on independence.
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Worried they won't be treated fairly in court, some demonstrators are seeking refuge on the self-ruled island, where they live in a legal limbo.
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"Ahmad Tibi says don't operate in Gaza, Gantz will not be able to operate in Gaza," he said, referring to the self-ruled Palestinian territory.
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The Solomon Islands and Kiribati last month became the latest countries to ditch Taipei, bringing the self-ruled island's number of diplomatic allies to 15.
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The defense ministry of self-ruled Taiwan said a Chinese carrier ship passed through the Taiwan Strait on Sunday, tailed by U.S. and Japanese ships.
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In self-ruled Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its own, about 100 people gathered for a candlelight walk in Liberty Square in Taipei, the capital.
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It views the self-ruled island as a wayward province and has not ruled out the use of force to return it to the fold.
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It also comes amid several recent successes by China in luring away some of the few nations that diplomatically recognize the democratically self-ruled island.
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China&aposs aviation regulator ordered airlines operating in China to refer to self-ruled Taiwan as "Taiwan, China" on its website, or risk facing legal action.
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China's Foreign Ministry said last month when the possible sale was first reported that it was seriously concerned about U.S. arms sales to self-ruled Taiwan.
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Syria's Kurds on the other hand hope to unite Afrin with the rest of their self-ruled region, which they call Rojava, across the country's northeast.
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Washington has no formal ties with self-ruled and democratic Taiwan but is bound by law to help provide it with the means to defend itself.
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The U.S. Department of Defense is also committed to working with Taiwan so the self-ruled island can maintain sufficient self defense, the defense secretary continued.
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The legislation, approved by both chambers of the U.S. Congress, has angered China, which regularly calls self-ruled Taiwan the most sensitive issue in Sino-U.
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Beijing claims a number of contested territories, but is particularly sensitive about Taiwan, a self-ruled island that it considers to be a province of China.
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Beijing has been quick to quash any suggestion that Tibet, a region of China, and Taiwan, a self-ruled democratic island, are independent from the country.
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In December, after winning office, he upended protocol by taking a call from the president of self-ruled Taiwan, which China regards as its own territory.
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The Solomon Islands and Kiribati have become the latest countries to switch relations to China, leaving self-ruled Taiwan with formal ties to only 15 countries.
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Self-ruled Taiwan, which China claims as part of its territory, dispatched aircraft and ships to monitor the group's passage, its Ministry of National Defense said.
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While the United States itself has formal diplomatic relations with China and not Taiwan, it sees a self-ruled Taiwan as a valuable check on China.
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The two countries are also at odds over regional security, including Washington's overtures to the self-ruled island of Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its own.
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The two countries are also at odds over regional security, including Washington's overtures to the self-ruled island of Taiwan, which China claims as its own.
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Since Tsai and the DPP won Taiwan's presidential and parliamentary elections by a landslide in January, Beijing has been stepping up pressure on the self-ruled island.
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That in turn has revived their long-sought dream of turning their province into a self-ruled region like the one in Kurdistan in Iraq&aposs north.
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The ruling Communist Party considers the self-ruled, democratic island a wayward province and refuses to renounce the threat of force to bring it into the fold.
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China's military modernization comes as Beijing takes a more assertive line over territorial disputes in the East and South China Seas and especially over self-ruled Taiwan.
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In a speech on Friday, President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan, viewed by Beijing as a breakaway province, expressed confidence the self-ruled island can protect itself.
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China's hostility towards self-ruled Taiwan has grown since Tsai Ing-wen from the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party won presidential elections on the island in 2016.
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Tsai said she doesn't want her small, self-ruled nation, which China considers its territory and fears could be seeking full independence, to be enmeshed in conflict.
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Over the past year or so, China has ramped up military drills around democratic Taiwan, including flying bombers and other military aircraft around the self-ruled island.
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In December, after winning office, he upended protocol by taking a call from the president of self-ruled Taiwan, which China regards as its own sacred territory.
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China claims self-ruled and proudly democratic Taiwan as its sacred territory, and has never renounced the use of force to bring the island under Beijing's control.
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Self-ruled and democratic Taiwan is claimed by Beijing as a Chinese territory, and has become one of China's most sensitive issues and a potential military flashpoint.
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China's hostility toward self-ruled Taiwan has grown since Tsai Ing-wen from the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party won presidential elections on the island in 2016.
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The Western Pacific exercise comes amid new tension over self-ruled Taiwan, following U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's telephone call with the island's president that upset Beijing.
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China considers self-ruled Taiwan to be a renegade province, and has never ruled out the option to regain control of the island by force if necessary.
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But his proposal appeared unlikely to win over residents of the self-ruled island, who have seen Hong Kong's freedoms in rapid retreat under a similar deal.
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BEIJING, June 27 (Reuters) - China's Defence Ministry said on Thursday that Canadian navy ships sailed through the Strait of Taiwan, which separates self-ruled Taiwan from China.
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The State Department notified Congress this month that it has approved a $2.2 billion arms sale to the self-ruled Taiwan — which China regards as a breakaway province.
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Taiwan simulated repelling an invading force and used civilian-operated drones for the first time as part of annual military drills on the self-ruled island on Thursday.
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The self-ruled island has previously seen citizens accused of crimes in countries that do not recognize Taiwan diplomatically being handed to Chinese custody, despite objections of Taipei.
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Communist Party leaders in Beijing regard fiercely democratic, self-ruled Taiwan as a breakaway province and have not ruled out using force to bring it under China's control.
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While Taiwan has been self-ruled since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949, Beijing has not given up its desire for reunification through political negotiations.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China has lodged a diplomatic protest with India over a visit by a parliamentary delegation from self-ruled Taiwan, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.
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Relations between the self-ruled island and the mainland, which regards Taiwan as a renegade province, have become strained since President Tsai Ing-wen took office in May.
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That came a day after a U.S. warship sailed through the strait that separates the communist mainland from Taiwan, the self-ruled island Beijing claims as its territory.
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It also skirted self-ruled Taiwan, then sailed across the South China Sea to a base in the southern Chinese province of Hainan, according to Taiwan's defence ministry.
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The United States has no formal ties with self-ruled and democratic Taiwan but is bound by law to help provide it with the means to defend itself.
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They look longingly to Taiwan, where a recent decision to legalize same-sex marriage on the self-ruled island of 24 million is being celebrated throughout the world.
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The alleged cyber attacks come as Beijing increases diplomatic and economic pressure on the self-ruled island, which China claims as its own and considers a wayward province.
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Self-ruled Taiwan now has formal relations with only 15 countries, many of them small, less developed nations in Central America and the Pacific, including Belize and Nauru.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan — With greater frequency, China is using its growing air and sea power to try to intimidate Taiwan, the self-ruled island that it hopes to annex.
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Taiwan's parliament passed a bill in May that endorsed same-sex marriage, after years of heated debate over marriage equality that has divided the self-ruled and democratic island.
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China warned Wednesday that it is ready to go to war to retake control of Taiwan if the U.S. continues to push for independence for the self-ruled island.
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The efforts have made Trump popular among many of Syria's autonomy-minded Kurds, with some praising him as a patron of their project to build a self-ruled enclave.
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The Solomon Islands is among 17 nations to recognize self-ruled and democratic Taiwan, which China regards as a wayward province with no right to state-to-state ties.
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TAIPEI, July 7 (Reuters) - Two U.S. warships passed through the Taiwan Strait on Saturday, the island's Defence Ministry said, amid heightened tensions between the self-ruled island and China.
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In June, Panama established diplomatic ties with China, breaking with self-ruled Taiwan in a major victory for Beijing, the second most important customer of its key shipping canal.
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China on Monday unveiled its largest defence spending increase in three years, fuelling an ambitious military modernisation programme and making its neighbours, particularly Japan and self-ruled Taiwan, nervous.
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Beijing is also suspicious about Tokyo's stance on the disputed South China Sea and over self-ruled Taiwan, once a Japanese colony and claimed by China as its own.
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China has viewed self-ruled Taiwan as a wayward province to be brought under its control, by force if necessary, since a civil war divided the two in 1949.
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Taiwan has been self-ruled since 1949, when the Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek fled the Chinese mainland after losing a civil war to Mao Zedong's Communist forces.
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China, which claims self-ruled and democratic Taiwan as its own and views it as a wayward province, has offered the Solomons financial assistance if it were to switch.
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The recommendation is likely to help Beijing peel away another ally from self-ruled Taiwan, which Beijing considers a wayward province with no right to state-to-state ties.
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Officially known as the Republic of China, Taiwan is viewed as a breakaway province by Beijing -- which vows to take the self-ruled island back, by force if necessary.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on Monday condemned China's "dollar diplomacy" to squeeze the self-ruled island's international space after the Solomon Islands switched allegiance to Beijing.
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Cambodia does not have official relations with self-ruled Taiwan and considers the island part of "one China", in line with Beijing which considers the island a breakaway province.
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The United States has sanctioned Huawei, sent its navy into the disputed South China Sea and Taiwan Strait, and made other public shows of support for self-ruled Taiwan.
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China claims sovereignty over self-ruled Taiwan, and has pledged to make life easier for Taiwanese companies and people living in China, who the government views as essentially Chinese citizens.
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Invented by Taiwan, a self-ruled island considered by Beijing as a renegade province, bubble tea is a flavored milk tea topped with chewy tapioca balls, also known as pearls.
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Indigenous people make up 2% of Taiwan's 23 million people, the majority of whom trace their ancestry back to China, which regards the self-ruled island as a wayward province.
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Invented by Taiwan, a self-ruled island considered by Beijing as a renegade province, bubble tea is a flavoured milk tea topped with chewy tapioca balls, also known as pearls.
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The epidemic brushed up against geopolitics when the United States and China clashed over the issue of self-ruled Taiwan's exclusion from WHO meetings, where it is represented by China.
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IRBIL, Iraq – A Kurdish official says the president of self-ruled Kurdish region, Masoud Barzani, has informed parliament that he&aposll not stay in office as his term expires Nov.
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Self-ruled Taiwan now has formal relations with only 17 countries, almost all of them small and less developed nations in Central America and the Pacific, including Belize and Nauru.
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Another source of friction is the Vatican's maintenance of official ties with self-ruled Taiwan, which Beijing sees as a wayward province to be taken back by force if necessary.
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"We've not got around to discussing that yet," Chen Yunying, a senior defector from self-ruled Taiwan who is married to Justin Yifu Lin, the World Bank's former chief economist.
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China, which regards the self-ruled island as a wayward province, is deeply suspicious of Tsai, who took office last month, since Beijing suspects she will push for formal independence.
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Another flag was taken down this week when tiny West African state Sao Tome and Principe severed ties with the self-ruled island that China claims as a renegade province.
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A further headache for Xi this year has been January's election in self-ruled and democratic Taiwan of a president from the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party, Tsai Ing-wen.
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China, which considers self-ruled Taiwan to be part of its territory, tries to limit international recognition of the island and is harshly critical of expressions of Taiwan's own identity.
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More than 160 same-sex couples married on Friday, according to government data, after years of heated debate over marriage equality that has divided the self-ruled and democratic island.
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More than 360 same-sex couples married on Friday, according to government data, after years of heated debate over marriage equality that has divided the self-ruled and democratic island.
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In the past he has vowed not to cede "a single inch of our motherland," and increased military drills around the self-ruled and democratic island of 23 million people.
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China on Monday unveiled an 8.1 percent rise in defense spending for 2018, fuelling an ambitious military modernization program and making its neighbors, particularly Japan and self-ruled Taiwan, nervous.
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Taiwan's Tsai Ing-wen is expected to continue her pro-growth policies after a decisive victory in the self-ruled island's presidential election on Saturday, an entrepreneur said on Monday.
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Escaping to Taiwan: Some demonstrators, worried they won't be treated fairly in Hong Kong's courts, are seeking refuge on the self-ruled island, where they live in a legal limbo.
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The U.S has no formal ties to the self-ruled island, and its involvement in Taiwan is a touchy subject for the Chinese government, which considers Taiwan a breakaway province.
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Self-ruled Taiwan has formal relations with only 16 countries worldwide, but China claims Taiwan as its territory and says it has no right to formal ties with any nation.
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Every African country is represented at the business forum apart from eSwatini, self-ruled Taiwan's last African ally that has so far rejected China's overtures to ditch Taipei and recognize Beijing.
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The voyage risks further heightening tensions with China, which considers Taiwan its own and has not ruled out the use of force to bring the self-ruled island under its control.
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Still, Tsai's trip will be scrutinized by Beijing for any signs that Trump's team will risk its ire by further engaging with the self-ruled island that China considers its territory.
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While Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on China and raised questions over the "one China" policy, which sees Beijing claiming the self-ruled island of Taiwan as part of China.
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The U.S. naval maneuver risked further heightening tensions with China, which considers Taiwan its own and has not ruled out using force to bring the self-ruled island under its control.
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The voyage risks raising tensions with China further but will likely be viewed by self-ruled Taiwan as a sign of support from Washington amid growing friction between Taipei and Beijing.
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Kenya, however, does not have official relations with the democratic, self-ruled island, and considers it part of "one China", in line with the position of Communist Party leaders in Beijing.
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China claims Taiwan as its own and considers the self-ruled island a wayward province, which Xi said on Tuesday would face the "punishment of history" for any attempt at separatism.
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BEIJING, April 26 (Reuters) - Chinese aircraft flew around self-ruled Taiwan on Thursday, China's air force said, the latest in a series of recent exercises Taiwan has described as military intimidation.
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China's Taiwan Affairs Office, which is in charge of Beijing's relations with the self-ruled island, said China was willing to provide help if needed, Chinese state news agency Xinhua said.
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The air force will organize regular exercises that fly past the "first island chain", the air force said, referring to an area that includes Japan's Ryukyu Islands and self-ruled Taiwan.
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The voyage risks further raising tensions with China but will likely be viewed by self-ruled Taiwan as a sign of support from Washington amid growing friction between Taipei and Beijing.
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Relations between China and Taiwan have cooled since Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen took power last year, because she refuses to concede that the self-ruled island is part of China.
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China views self-ruled Taiwan as a renegade province and has not ruled out the use of force to bring it under its control, although relations have improved in recent years.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Police in China have detained a man who asked on social media what law prevented anyone calling self-ruled Taiwan a country, questioning a fundamental principle of China's sovereignty.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Monday it has complained to Japan after a Japanese minister visited self-ruled Taiwan over the weekend, warning this could hurt relations between Beijing and Tokyo.
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Trump had campaigned with strident anti-China rhetoric and had angered Beijing before taking office by talking to the president of Taiwan, the self-ruled island Beijing claims as its own.
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The Miyako Strait is a body of water between Japan's islands of Miyako and Okinawa that also sits to the northeast of self-ruled Taiwan, that China claims as its own.
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China claims self-ruled Taiwan as its own - known as Beijing's "one China" policy - and has never renounced the use of force to take back what it deems a wayward province.
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Beijing has in recent months stepped up a campaign to peel away more allies of self-ruled Taiwan, which Beijing considers its territory and therefore ineligible for state-to-state relations.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday it had lodged stern representations with the United States about the unveiling of the new de facto U.S. embassy in self-ruled Taiwan.
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China claims self-ruled and proudly democratic Taiwan as its own and has vowed to bring the island, which it regards as sacred territory, under Beijing's control, by force if necessary.
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The government of the self-ruled island of Taiwan, which China claims as its territory, said in response to the parade that China was a serious threat to peace and democracy.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China increased diplomatic pressure on Taiwan on Saturday by urging the self-ruled island's last African ally, Swaziland, to align with Beijing as Burkina Faso re-established Chinese ties.
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It was the fourth time that the Liaoning has sailed near self-ruled Taiwan, which China claims as its own, in recent months for what Beijing has said were routine drills.
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China claims self-ruled Taiwan as Chinese territory that must one day be reunited with the mainland and Beijing has never renounced the use of force to take Taiwan by force.
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The Trump administration's comments are its strongest pushback to date on China's efforts to curb the international recognition of Taiwan, the self-ruled democracy Beijing claims as part of its territory.
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Beijing considers self-ruled Taiwan a wayward province of China and the former British colony of Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule in 1997 and operates as a semi-autonomous territory.
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China claims self-ruled Taiwan under its "one China" policy and Beijing has never renounced the use of force to bring what it sees as a wayward province under its control.
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China considers self-ruled and democratic Taiwan to be its sacred territory and has never renounced the use of force to bring what it views as a wayward province under Chinese control.
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BAGHDAD, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Iraq's new oil minister Jabar Ali al-Luaibi on Monday said a solution to the Iraqi government's conflict over oil with the Kurdish self-ruled region was possible.
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November's election trouncing presents a major challenge to Tsai, who faced mounting domestic criticism over her reform agenda while facing renewed threats from China, which considers the self-ruled island its own.
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While the United States and China are currently working to end a bitter trade war, they have numerous other areas of disagreement, including human rights and U.S. support for self-ruled Taiwan.
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Self-ruled and democratic Taiwan now has formal relations with only 17 countries, almost all of them small and less developed nations in Central America and the Pacific, including Belize and Nauru.
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But it will be self-ruled Taiwan, proudly democratic and claimed by China as its own, that will be the focus of Xi's first important, pre-announced public event of the year.
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The United States is the sole arms supplier to Taiwan, which China deems its own and has never renounced the use of force to bring the self-ruled island under its control.
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Drills over the past few months have mostly focused on flying near self-ruled Taiwan, claimed by China as its own, and by Japan's southern island chain to the north of Taiwan.
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The United States has no formal relations with self-ruled Taiwan, claimed by China as its territory, but is bound by law to provide the island with the means to defend itself.
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The United States is the main arms supplier to Taiwan, which China deems its own and has never renounced the use of force to bring the self-ruled island under its control.
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The countries have also been at loggerheads over issues ranging from human rights to the disputed South China Sea and U.S. support of self-ruled Taiwan, which China claims as its own.
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BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) - China warned self-ruled Taiwan on Wednesday that it would "reap the consequences" of promoting formal independence, a red line for Beijing which claims the island as its own.
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Trump later agreed in a phone call with Xi to honor the "one China" policy in a diplomatic boost for Beijing, which vehemently opposes criticism of its claim to self-ruled Taiwan.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's new premier, William Lai, vowed on Friday to work towards luring greater investment to the self-ruled island, while sticking to the policies of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party.
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Taiwan is China's most sensitive territorial issue and Beijing, which considers it a wayward province, has in recent months become increasingly critical of how companies refer to the self-ruled, democratic island.
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China is also deeply opposed to U.S. arms sales to self-ruled and democratic Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its sacred territory, to be brought under its control by force if necessary.
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China has ambitious plans to overhaul its armed forces as it ramps up its presence in the disputed South China Sea and around self-ruled Taiwan, an island China considers its own.
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Chinese state media has blamed weak punishments in the self-ruled island, and reported that Chinese-speaking fraudsters recruited in Taiwan were increasingly setting up operations in East Africa or Southeast Asia.
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Flying across the Miyako Strait, which also sits to the northeast of the self-ruled island of Taiwan that China claims as its own, accorded with international law and practice, it added.
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Chinese state media has said the drills were a direct response to "provocations" by Taiwan leaders related to what China fears are moves to push for the self-ruled island's formal independence.
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On January 20003, as Beijing's perceived authoritarian overreach in Hong Kong hung over Taiwan, the self-ruled island reelected Tsai Ing-wen as president, dealing another blow to the Chinese Communist Party.
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In self-ruled Taiwan, which China claims as its own, the presidential office expressed "great admiration" for the election result which it said demonstrated Hong Kong's will to persue freedom and democracy.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan has broken relations with Burkina Faso after the African nation said it had cut diplomatic ties with the self-ruled island, Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said on Thursday.
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China considers self-ruled Taiwan to be a wayward province, ineligible for state-to-state relations, and has slowly managed to cut the dwindling number of countries which maintain ties with Taipei.
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U.S. backing for self-ruled Taiwan have also fueled China's suspicions in recent months, as the current U.S. administration has signaled fresh support towards the island that Beijing claims as its own.
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In central Taipei, capital of self-ruled Taiwan, a massive inflatable version of the iconic "Tank Man," who defied the military as they entered Tiananmen Square, has been on display for several weeks.
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China on Monday unveiled an 8.1 percent rise in defense spending at the opening of parliament, fuelling an ambitious military modernization program and making its neighbors, particularly Japan and self-ruled Taiwan, nervous.
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Every African country is represented at the business forum apart from eSwatini, self-ruled Taiwan's last ally on the continent, which has so-far rejected China's overtures to ditch Taipei and recognise Beijing.
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The virus is also stirring animosity in the decades-old dispute between self-ruled Taiwan and China, with the island complaining that China is providing the WHO with wrong information about its cases.
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Taiwan is gearing up for presidential elections in January at a time of heightened tensions across the Taiwan Strait, with Chinese bombers and warships conducting drills around the self-ruled island on Monday.
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China's navy has been taking an increasingly prominent role over the last year, with its first aircraft carrier sailing around self-ruled Taiwan and new Chinese warships popping up in far-flung places.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan – Taiwanese media say Burkina Faso is breaking diplomatic ties with Taiwan in the latest blow to the self-ruled island that Beijing has been trying to isolate on the global stage.
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BAGHDAD – Iraq&aposs prime minister is calling for calm in the self-ruled northern Kurdish region after rioting the previous night following the Kurdish regional president&aposs decision not to seek re-election.
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But the self-ruled island will hold a series of public votes on same-sex marriage on November 24, after its election authority approved separate referendum petitions from both conservative and rights groups.
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China regards self-ruled Taiwan as sovereign territory and regularly calls it the most sensitive and important issue between it and the United States, complaining to Washington about transit stops by Taiwanese presidents.
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Beijing on Wednesday warned that attempts by Taiwan to resist unification with the mainland would be in vain, as the PLA's aircraft carrier conducted drills off the coast of the self-ruled island.
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Trump's administration has also accused China of interfering in U.S. politics, charges China strongly denies, and the two have sparred over the disputed South China Sea and self-ruled Taiwan, which China claims.
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The voyage risks further raising tensions with China but will likely be viewed by self-ruled Taiwan as a sign of support from the Trump administration amid growing friction between Taipei and Beijing.
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BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) - China has condemned a Taiwan government probe into a tiny but passionately pro-China opposition party, the latest flashpoint between Beijing and a self-ruled island it considers its own.
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The voyage will be viewed by self-ruled Taiwan as a sign of support from the Trump administration amid growing friction between Taipei and Beijing, which views the island as a breakaway province.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan president-elect Tsai Ing-wen said on Saturday she would not be provocative in relations with China, the self-ruled island's giant neighbor that claims Taiwan as an errant province.
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It deflected other potentially politically charged questions when asked about self-ruled Taiwan, which China claims as its own, and Liu Xiaobo, the imprisoned Chinese Nobel laureate who died from cancer last month.
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A trickier question is how Washington will manage seeking Beijing's cooperation on North Korea while simultaneously reining in its behavior in the South China Sea and over self-ruled Taiwan, which China claims.
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Since Tsai Ing-wen and her independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party won Taiwan's presidential and parliamentary elections by a landslide in January, Beijing has been stepping up pressure on the self-ruled island.
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China's air force last week conducted "island encirclement patrols" near Taiwan, after a senior Chinese diplomat threatened that China would invade the self-ruled island if any U.S. warships made port visits there.
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Chen Ya-Mei, the ministry's senior executive officer, said that a boom in foreign tourists to Taiwan also boosted growth despite the travel ban for individual Chinese tourists to the self-ruled island.
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China's navy has been taking an increasingly prominent role over the last year, with its first aircraft carrier sailing around self-ruled Taiwan and new Chinese warships popping up in far-flung places.
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Although Taiwan holds exercises regularly, the latest war games sharpened their focus on combat readiness as Chinese President Xi Jinping heightens pressure on the self-ruled and democratic island of 23 million people.
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More than 3.4 million people have already been forced by conflict to leave their homes across Iraq, taking refuge in areas under control of the government or in the self-ruled Kurdish region.
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The passage by the U.S. ships will likely be viewed in Taiwan as a sign of support from U.S. President Donald Trump's government amid growing friction between the self-ruled island and Beijing.
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Tsai said that the biggest gap between Taiwan and China was democracy and freedom, needling Beijing at a time when relations between China and the self-ruled island are at a low point.
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" Something similar has confronted Taiwan, the self-ruled island that is officially known as the Republic of China, but that has long been compelled to compete in international sporting events as "Chinese Taipei.
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During his tenure, Mr. Ma focused on improving relations with China, which claims self-ruled and democratic Taiwan as its territory and has threatened to attack the island if it formalizes its independence.
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Every African country is represented at the business forum apart from eSwatini, self-ruled Taiwan's last ally on the continent, which has so-far rejected China's overtures to ditch Taipei and recognize Beijing.
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As a state councillor, Wang would also have responsibility for another tricky issue - self-ruled Taiwan, claimed by China as its own and which Beijing fears is on the road to formal independence.
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China on Monday unveiled an 8.1 percent rise in defense spending at the opening of parliament, fuelling an ambitious military modernisation programme and making its neighbours, particularly Japan and self-ruled Taiwan, nervous.
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Friday's voyage risks further raising bilateral tensions stoked by a bitter trade war, but will likely be viewed by self-ruled Taiwan as a sign of support from the administration of President Donald Trump.
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The state of ties between Beijing and the self-ruled island has since become more tense, with China announcing that it would stop issuing individual travel permits for Taiwan to Chinese travellers last week.
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Trump later agreed in a phone call with Xi to honour the "one China" policy in a diplomatic boost for Beijing, which vehemently opposes criticism of its claim to self-ruled, proudly democratic Taiwan.
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Chi Chia-wei, who was the first person to come out publicly as gay in 1986 on the self-ruled island, has mounted numerous legal challenges for gay unions in a three-decade fight.
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BEIJING, Nov 28 (Reuters) - China's Foreign Ministry said on Monday it had lodged a protest with Singapore after Singaporean armoured troop carriers were seized by Hong Kong customs en route from self-ruled Taiwan.
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Tsai Ing-wen, the president of self-ruled Taiwan which China regards as a wayward province, said on her Facebook page the island hoped China could now show self-confidence and promote political reform.
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Zhang noted that aside from the trade dispute, the two countries also regularly clash over issues like human rights, the disputed South China Sea and self-ruled Taiwan, which China claims as its own.
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Monday's legislation also calls "long-term strategic competition with China" a top priority for the United States, which should improve the defense capabilities of self-ruled Taiwan, claimed by China as a wayward province.
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The voyage risks further heightening tensions with China but will likely be viewed in self-ruled Taiwan as a sign of support from President Donald Trump's government amid growing friction between Taipei and Beijing.
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China has proposed using the "one country, two systems" formula, under which Hong Kong returned from British rule in 1997, for Taiwan, in case of a "reunification" of the self-ruled island and China.
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The school's decision is seen as reinforcing the self-ruled island's reputation as a beacon of liberalism in Asia, which became the first place in the region to legalize same-sex marriage in May.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - A Taiwanese naval "Friendship Flotilla" of warships dropped anchor in Nicaragua on Monday just weeks after China urged Taiwan's dwindling diplomatic allies to ditch the self-ruled island in favor of Beijing.
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The nine troop carriers were impounded in Hong Kong last week, sparking a rebuke to Singapore from China's foreign ministry about maintaining military ties with self-ruled Taiwan, which China considers a breakaway province.
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The issue is sensitive in self-ruled Taiwan - and could play into how people vote - where many people resent China's claims on their island and feel proud to be called Taiwanese rather than Chinese.
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In the shorter term, some diplomats and analysts believe Beijing will not want to further dent the image of "one country, two systems" ahead of presidential elections in neighboring self-ruled Taiwan in January.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's president rebuked China on Thursday over its decision to ban individual travel permits for Chinese visitors to the self-ruled island, saying the move aimed to manipulate presidential elections in January.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan has assured the United States it has no intention of causing trouble in the Taiwan Strait, the self-ruled island's envoy to a summit of Asia-Pacific leaders said on Monday.
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China has since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949 regarded self-ruled Taiwan as a breakaway province, to be taken back by force if necessary should it make moves towards independence.
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The carrier formation has in the past 10 days carried out military exercises in the western Pacific, South China Sea and Taiwan Strait, which drew criticism from self-ruled Taiwan as amounting to "intimidation".
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Taiwan's parliament this month legalised same-sex marriage and more than 360 gay couples married on May 24 after years of debate over marriage equality that has divided the self-ruled and democratic island.
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Monday's legislation also calls "long-term strategic competition with China" a top priority for the United States, which should improve the defense capabilities of self-ruled Taiwan, claimed by China as a wayward province.
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The neighboring Solomon Islands and Kiribati decided to recognize China earlier this month, dropping self-ruled and democratic Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its own province with no rights to state-to-state relations.
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China has proposed adopting the "one country, two systems" formula, under which Hong Kong returned from British rule in 1997, for Taiwan, in case of a "reunification" of the self-ruled island and China.
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But many listening students showed little interest, arguing national service was a "waste of time" and prospects of the self-ruled island standing up economically or militarily to an increasingly aggressive China were slim.
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As president-elect, Trump broke with protocol and accepted a congratulatory phone call from the Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen in December, angering China, which claims the self-ruled island as integral Chinese territory.
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U.S. President Donald Trump, who was inaugurated on Friday, upset Beijing before taking office by casting doubt on the "one China" principle, under which Washington acknowledges Beijing's position of sovereignty over self-ruled Taiwan.
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Taiwan has been self-ruled since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949, which saw the Communist Party take control of the mainland and the Nationalist government forced to flee to the island.
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The U.S. Navy conducted a similar mission in the strait's international waters in July and any repeat would be seen in self-ruled Taiwan as a fresh expression of support by President Donald Trump's government.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan authorities detained a Chinese student on Friday on suspicion of breaching national security laws, a court official said, in an unusual espionage case involving a Chinese student on the self-ruled island.
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The voyage risks further heightening tensions with China but will likely be viewed in self-ruled Taiwan as a sign of support from U.S. President Donald Trump's government amid growing friction between Taipei and Beijing.
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"We won't recognize any kind of ... self-ruled, semi-autonomous zones in Syria," State Department spokesman Mark Toner said at his daily briefing, referring to reports that the Syrian Kurds were considering a federal structure.
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China has heaped pressure on Tsai since she took office in 2016, believing she wishes to push for the island's formal independence, a red line for Beijing which claims self-ruled Taiwan as its own.
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Fears Beijing has always reacted angrily towards any promotion of independence for its special administered regions of Hong Kong and Macau, or suggestions from self-ruled Taiwan that the island should seek full legal independence.
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China, which claims democratic and self-ruled Taiwan as its territory, has a thriving gay scene in major cities, but there has been little sign that the ruling Communist Party will legalise same sex marriage.
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The situation surrounding a Hong Kong man accused of murder in Taiwan has become a diplomatic dispute — and it concerns the sensitive issue surrounding Taiwan's sovereignty as the self-ruled island enters its election season.
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BEIJING/OTTAWA (Reuters) - China's Defence Ministry said on Thursday that Canadian navy ships sailed through the Strait of Taiwan, which separates self-ruled Taiwan from China, an act that could inflame already bad bilateral relations.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese television station has apologized after showing a map on a talent show which did not include self-ruled Taiwan as being part of China, one of Beijing's most sensitive political issues.
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The two countries have been at loggerheads over a series of other issues, from human rights to the disputed South China Sea and U.S. support of self-ruled Taiwan, claimed by China as its own.
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Relations with China are already fraught, with a bitter trade war between the world's two largest economies adding to tensions over cyber spying, self-ruled Taiwan and freedom of navigation in the South China Sea.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan will allow visa-free entry for visitors from the Philippines in hopes that the Southeast Asian nation will reciprocate the gesture, a spokesman for the self-ruled island's cabinet said on Thursday.
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The Chinese territory of Hong Kong, which has seen continued demands from pro-democracy advocates for full suffrage, and self-ruled Taiwan, which elected an independence-leaning president last year, will probably be discussed, too.
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Discounting 12 players competing for China, Hong Kong and self-ruled Taiwan, 27 of the 140 entrants in the singles were born in China but will represent nations like Portugal, Qatar and Republic of Congo.
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Analysts said Gou's election bid might be weighed down by his ties to a Chinese leadership that refuses to renounce the use of force to unify with self-ruled Taiwan it considers a wayward province.
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China, which claims self-ruled and democratic Taiwan as its own and views it as a wayward province, had called on the United States not to allow Tsai to transit there on her overseas tour.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Chinese military aircraft carried out two rounds of drills around Taiwan at the weekend, flying past its southern tip and then around its north near Japan, the self-ruled island's defense ministry said.
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The drills also come at a time of heightened strain with self-ruled Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its own, following U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's telephone call with the island's president that upset Beijing.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - China has sailed a carrier group into the sensitive Taiwan Strait led by its first domestically build aircraft carrier as election campaigning kicked into high gear on the self-ruled island on Sunday.
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China regards self-ruled and democratic Taiwan as its sovereign territory and regularly calls it the most sensitive and important issue between it and the United States, strongly objecting to transit stops by Taiwanese presidents.
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China's air force is taking an increasingly active role in power projection, with exercises over both the disputed South and East China Seas and near to self-ruled Taiwan, which China claims as its own.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - China has sailed a carrier group into the sensitive Taiwan Strait led by its first domestically built aircraft carrier as election campaigning kicked into high gear on the self-ruled island on Sunday.
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China claims self-ruled Taiwan as its sacred territory, under its "one China" policy, and Beijing has never renounced the use of force to bring what it sees as a wayward province under its control.
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The voyage risks further raising tensions with China but will likely be viewed by self-ruled Taiwan as a sign of support from U.S. President Donald Trump's administration amid growing friction between Taipei and Beijing.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's military will take action "at any cost" to foil any attempt to separate the self-ruled island of Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its own, the country's defense minister said on Thursday.
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Two United States warships traversed the waters between self-ruled Taiwan and mainland China, which considers the country to be under its jurisdiction, earlier this month amid tensions around President Trump's trade war with China.
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The U.S. Navy conducted a similar mission in the strait's international waters in July and any repeat would be seen in self-ruled Taiwan as a fresh expression of support by President Donald Trump's government.
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Last year, Zara was criticized on Chinese social media for placing Taiwan, a self-ruled island that China sees as a break-away province, in a pull-down list of countries on its Chinese website.
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Last year, Zara was criticized on Chinese social media for placing Taiwan, a self-ruled island that China sees as a break-away province, in a pull-down list of countries on its Chinese website.
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A switch would be a prize for China in its campaign to secure allies from self-ruled and democratic Taiwan, which Beijing considers a wayward Chinese province with no right to state-to-state ties.
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Taiwan, which is self-ruled but which China claims is part of its territory, complained on Sunday that it was being punished with flight restrictions because the World Health Organization considers it part of China.
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China suspects Tsai, from the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party, wants to push for the self-ruled island's formal independence, a red line for Beijing, which considers Taiwan a wayward province and sacred Chinese territory.
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Politics has long been perilous for Chinese-language artists, with self-ruled and democratic Taiwan - considered by China to be a wayward province - also a potential minefield, especially as many famous singers come from there.
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China's navy has taken an increasingly prominent role in recent months, with a rising star admiral taking command, its first aircraft carrier sailing around self-ruled Taiwan and a new aircraft carrier launched last month.
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Taiwan has been self-ruled since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949, which saw the Communist Party take control of the mainland and the Nationalist government forced to flee to the island.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China called on Wednesday on Taiwan to stay out Hong Kong's affairs, saying self-ruled Taiwan was "talking nonsense" about the former British colony and warning it not to damage Hong Kong's stability.
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China has not liked U.S. freedom of navigation patrols near Chinese-controlled islands in the disputed South China Sea and U.S. arms sales and support for self-ruled Taiwan, which China claims as a province.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Several thousand pro-independence demonstrators rallied in Taiwan's capital on Saturday to protest against Beijing's "bullying" and called for a referendum on whether the self-ruled island should formally declare independence from China.
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The voyage risks further raising tension with China but will likely be viewed in self-ruled Taiwan as a sign of support from U.S. President Donald Trump's government amid growing friction between Taipei and Beijing.
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The South China Sea is one of a growing number of flashpoints in the U.S.-China relationship, which include a trade war, U.S. sanctions and self-ruled Taiwan, which is claimed by China as its own.
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Self-ruled Taiwan, which China claims as its own, now has formal relations with only 17 countries, almost all of them small and less developed nations in Central America and the Pacific, including Belize and Nauru.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Bombers and fighter jets from China's air force conducted encirclement drills around Taiwan on Friday, the latest round of increasingly frequent military maneuvers near the self-ruled island that Taipei has denounced as intimidation.
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Responding to questions about reports that Syrian Kurds are preparing to announce a federal system in northern Syria, State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Washington would not recognize any self-ruled, semi-autonomous zones in Syria.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan has protested to Indonesia for sending more than 100 telecoms fraud suspects, including 22 Taiwan nationals, to China, the self-ruled island said on Thursday, the latest in a series of such deportations.
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Tsai&aposs comments Sunday in responses posted online to questions from the public follow mounting pressure by Beijing, which claims the self-ruled island as its own territory and has sent fighter jets near its coast.
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China on Wednesday warned that it is ready for war if there was any move toward Taiwan's independence, accusing the United States of undermining global stability and denouncing its arms sales to the self-ruled island.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Japanese retailer Muji has been fined 200,000 yuan (23,445 pounds) in Shanghai for using packaging that lists Taiwan as a country, underscoring China's growing sensitivity to how companies refer to the self-ruled island.
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China has been particularly incensed by recent moves by President Donald Trump's administration to increase support for self-ruled and democratic Taiwan, including U.S. Navy sailings through the Taiwan Strait that separates the island from China.
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The troop carriers were impounded last week as they passed through Hong Kong from Taiwan, sparking a rebuke from China's foreign ministry about maintaining military ties with self-ruled Taiwan, which Beijing considers a breakaway province.
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November's election losses presented a major challenge to President Tsai Ing-wen, who faced mounting criticism at home over her reform agenda while facing renewed threats from China, which considers the self-ruled island its own.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - A Taiwan court on Friday jailed a mainland Chinese man for 14 months for breaching national security laws, following months of strained relations over China's detention of a national from the self-ruled island.
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Panama has established diplomatic ties with China and broken with Taiwan in a major victory for Beijing, which continues to lure away the dwindling number of countries that have formal relations with the self-ruled island.
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Beijing (CNN)China has lodged a protest with the US following the official opening of Washington's new de facto embassy in Taiwan, a self-ruled island off China's southeastern coast that Beijing considers a renegade province.
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TAICHUNG, Taiwan (Reuters) - Taiwan simulated repelling an invading force on Thursday and used civilian-operated drones for the first time as part of annual military drills on the self-ruled island amid escalating tensions with China.
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China's military build-up has unnerved its neighbors, particularly because of its increasing assertiveness in territorial disputes in the East and South China Seas and over Taiwan, a self-ruled territory Beijing claims as its own.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council said on Monday China should not veer away from its responsibility in promoting positive cross-strait exchanges, after China warned the self-ruled island it would not tolerate separatist activities.
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China has been pouring aid and investment into the Pacific islands, raising the question of whether Beijing could strip Taiwan of more of its few remaining diplomatic allies and shrink the self-ruled island's international presence.
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Mr. Gou's entrance into the presidential race shakes up Taiwan's political playing field and draws into sharp focus the self-ruled island democracy's strained relations with China, where his consumer electronics giant, Foxconn, has large investments.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's first aircraft carrier will carry out drills in the Western Pacific, in what the navy called part of routine exercises, amid renewed tension over self-ruled Taiwan that Beijing claims as its own.
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In Taipei, a spokeswoman for Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party said Wang's information, as reported in the Australian media, was a reminder that China was getting involved in the self-ruled island's presidential election next year.
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BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China expressed anger on Thursday after the U.S. Senate passed a bill promoting closer U.S. ties with Taiwan, but the step drew praise from the self-ruled island which pledged to deepen cooperation.
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The Pentagon this week withdrew an invitation for China to take part in a major naval exercise in Hawaii, and Beijing has ramped up pressure on self-ruled Taiwan, armed by Washington but claimed by Beijing.
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Tsai told reporters in Taipei that Taiwan supported Hong Kong's fight for freedom, and that the self-ruled island would not accept a "one country two systems" model proposed by China, which considers Taiwan its own.
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His election bid might be weighed down by his ties to a Chinese leadership that refuses to renounce the use of force to unify with self-ruled Taiwan it considers a wayward province, analysts have said.
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The nine troop carriers were impounded in Hong Kong last week en route back from Taiwan, sparking a rebuke to Singapore from China about maintaining military ties with self-ruled Taiwan, which Beijing considers a breakaway province.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China has lodged "stern representations" with the United States after President Barack Obama signed into law a U.S. defense policy bill that suggests a plan to conduct high-level military exchanges with self-ruled Taiwan.
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However, in a phone call with Chinese leader Xi Jinping last week, Trump agreed to honor the "one China" policy, a major diplomatic boost for Beijing, which brooks no criticism of its claim to self-ruled Taiwan.
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Beijing distrusts the DPP because it traditionally advocates independence for Taiwan, which has been self-ruled since Chiang Kai-shek's defeated Nationalists fled to Taiwan in 1949 after losing the Chinese civil war with Mao Zedong's Communists.
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Last year, companies ranging from Delta Air Lines to Muji were criticised by the Chinese government and netizens for the language they used to describe Taiwan, a self-ruled, democratic island that Beijing considers a wayward province.
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BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan will gradually get used to Chinese air force drills that encircle the island, China said on Wednesday, while Taiwan's premier reiterated the self-ruled island's desire for peaceful relations with its giant neighbor.
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The China News Service is run under the auspices of the cabinet's Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, and is designed to serve as a news source for Chinese communities in places like Hong Kong and self-ruled Taiwan.
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It was the third time that the Liaoning has sailed near self-ruled Taiwan, which China claims as its own, in recent months for what Beijing has said were routine drills in December and again in January.
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China also expressed anger after the U.S. approved the sale of spare parts for F-16 fighter planes and other military aircraft worth up to $330 million to self-ruled Taiwan, which China considers a renegade province.
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Trump, who was inaugurated last month, said in December the United States did not necessarily have to stick to the "one China" policy, by which Washington acknowledges China's position that it has sovereignty over self-ruled Taiwan.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Monday that it would never tolerate any separatist schemes for self-ruled Taiwan and would safeguard China's territorial integrity with the aim of "reunification" with an island it considers its sacred territory.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China warned on Wednesday it was ready for war if there was any move toward Taiwan's independence, accusing the United States of undermining global stability and denouncing its arms sales to the self-ruled island.
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In recent weeks, the Global Times and other state-run Chinese news outlets have issued several warnings of possible retaliation if the Trump administration carries out threats of tariffs or undermines Beijing's claims on self-ruled Taiwan.
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China has been angered by U.S. freedom of navigation patrols near Chinese-controlled islands in the disputed South China Sea and U.S. arms sales and support for self-ruled Taiwan, which China claims as a wayward province.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's president will visit three diplomatic allies in the Pacific next week and could stop-over in U.S. territory, potentially angering China as it seeks to snatch away the self-ruled island's few remaining friends.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan on Wednesday called on China to renounce the use of force against the self-ruled island, hours after Beijing warned that it was ready for war if there was a move toward Taiwan's independence.
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He also told journalists he had not yet received an official invitation to visit Taiwan, but it was up to the government of the self-ruled democratic island which Beijing claims is an integral part of China.
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Beijing is also deeply suspicious of U.S. intentions toward self-ruled Taiwan, which China claims as its own, with the Trump administration crafting a big new arms package for the island that is bound to anger China.
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Chinese naval forces have passed through waters south of Taiwan and carried out military exercises in the western Pacific, the latest in a series of military drills that self-ruled Taiwan has criticized as amounting to "intimidation".
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Terry Gou, chairman of Apple supplier Foxconn, said on Wednesday he will contest Taiwan's 2020 presidential election, shaking up the political landscape at a time of heightened tension between the self-ruled island and Beijing.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Chinese bombers and warships conducted drills around Taiwan on Monday, the latest military maneuvers near the self-ruled island that a senior U.S. official denounced as "coercion" and a threat to stability in the region.
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The scams have become a headache for both China and Taiwan, bringing cooperation between them, but also objections from Taiwan because of the deportation of suspects from the self-ruled island to face trial on the mainland.
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A source familiar with the situation told Reuters the "Kolkata" had sailed through the Taiwan Strait to get to Qingdao, a sensitive waterway that separates China from self-ruled Taiwan, claimed by Beijing as sacred Chinese territory.
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While Kurdish autonomy was suggested in the first post-war treaty, those terms were renegotiated after the Turkish war of independence and set the borders of modern Turkey and left the Kurds without a self-ruled region.
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But China's military build-up has unnerved its neighbors, particularly because of its increasing assertiveness in territorial disputes in the East and South China Seas and over Taiwan, a self-ruled territory Beijing claims as its own.
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The self-ruled island became a beacon of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights in Asia after its top court last year ruled in favour of same-sex marriage - the first such ruling in the region.
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Out of 19 million eligible voters in self-ruled Taiwan, under 7 million of them are between the ages of 20 and 39, according to data from the Central Election Commission cited by Taiwan's Central News Agency.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - The U.S. ambassador for religious freedom on Monday again urged China to give its people religious freedom, a move he said could help gain trust from self-ruled Taiwan, an island China considers its own.
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Mr. Xi gave Taiwan two options: He could use military force if the self-ruled territory grasped for independence, or he could offer a "one country, two systems" deal, similar to the framework used in Hong Kong.
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Last year, companies ranging from Delta Air Lines to Muji were criticized by the Chinese government and netizens for the language they used to describe Taiwan, a self-ruled, democratic island that Beijing considers a wayward province.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Thursday dismissed accusations from Taiwan that it engaged in "dollar diplomacy" to get Sao Tome and Principe to ditch ties with the self-ruled island, saying a petty Taiwan was besmirching China's good name.
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The election losses in November presented a major challenge to President Tsai Ing-wen, who faced mounting criticism at home over her reform agenda while facing renewed threats from China, which considers the self-ruled island its own.
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BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) - China said on Wednesday it was reasonable to have a delegation from self-ruled Taiwan removed from a conference in Australia about conflict diamonds, as Taipei accused Beijing of playing politics for its own ends.
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China on Thursday dismissed accusations from Taiwan that it had engaged in "dollar diplomacy" to get Sao Tome and Principe to ditch its ties with the self-ruled island, saying a petty Taiwan was besmirching its good name.
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TAIPEI/HONGKONG (Reuters) - Taiwan will step up its investigation of pro-Beijing newspapers accused by politicians on the self-ruled island of spreading fake news and surveillance activities that infringe national security, a security official said on Friday.
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The WHO considers self-ruled Taiwan a part of China, listing the island under China for virus case numbers, which Taiwan said gave a misleading impression that it had the same rampant outbreak of the disease as China.
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The self-ruled island has long been popular with Hong Kong tourists, but its open support for the city's pro-democracy movement and apparent commitment to liberal values has made it an increasingly attractive destination to move to.
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Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam had repeatedly cited Chan's case as justifying the proposed amendments to the extradition legislation, saying he could not be sent to the self-ruled island because there was no extradition agreement in place.
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His promotion comes as relations with the United States sour over trade disputes and U.S. support for self-ruled Taiwan, and as China hopes to ensure talks with unpredictable and nuclear-capable North Korea get back on track.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's air force scrambled aircraft on Friday as Chinese bombers flew around the self-ruled island, just a few hours after Taiwan vowed not to be cowed having lost another diplomatic ally amid growing Chinese pressure.
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The China News Service is run under the auspices of the Chinese cabinet's Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, and is designed to serve as a news source for Chinese communities in places like Hong Kong and self-ruled Taiwan.
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China lodged a diplomatic protest on Saturday after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump spoke by phone with President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan, but blamed the self-ruled island Beijing claims as its own for the "petty" move.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - A senior Chinese official on Friday described ties with self-ruled Taiwan as "extremely sensitive and complex" and warned of uncertainties ahead, after Taiwan last month elected an independence-leaning opposition leader as its new president.
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China's navy has been taking an increasingly prominent role in recent months, with a rising star admiral taking command, its first aircraft carrier sailing around self-ruled Taiwan and new Chinese warships popping up in far-flung places.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - A formation of Chinese warships has been holding daily combat drills for more than a week in waters near Taiwan, China's state media said on Tuesday, amid heightened tension between Beijing and the self-ruled island.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen said on Monday the self-ruled island would not bow to pressure after her high-profile trip to Latin America, including stops in the United States, which drew criticism from China.
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He made no direct mention of issues like the trade dispute between China and the United States, North Korea, or self-ruled Taiwan, claimed by Beijing as its own and considered China's most sensitive territorial and diplomatic issue.
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While China has not fought a war in decades, it is taking an increasingly assertive line in the disputed East China Sea and South China Sea, as well as over self-ruled Taiwan, which is claimed by China.
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TAIPEI/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Taiwan's aviation regulator has stalled applications for new flights from China Eastern Airlines and Xiamen Airlines amid a row between Beijing and the self-ruled island over air routes, a regulatory official said on Friday.
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The results will be closely watched in China, which claims self-ruled and proudly democratic Taiwan as its own and which has ramped up pressure on President Tsai Ing-wen and her administration since taking office in 2016.
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China's defence ministry warned on Wednesday that it was ready for war if there was a move toward Taiwan's independence, accusing the United States of undermining global stability and denouncing its arms sales to the self-ruled island.
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On Monday, China unveiled measures to further open its markets to firms from self-ruled Taiwan, including raising capital, and to make life easier for people from Taiwan both in China and abroad, including offering them consular protection.
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At home, it contends with what it says are separatist movements in its western regions of Tibet and Xinjiang, and has repeatedly expressed concern that self-ruled Taiwan, claimed by Beijing as its own, could declare formal independence.
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Beijing and Washington are currently in talks to end a bitter trade war, but have also sparred over other issues such as human rights and U.S. support for self-ruled Taiwan, which China claims as its sacred territory.
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The nine troop carriers were impounded in Hong Kong last week upon their return from Taiwan, sparking a rebuke from China's foreign ministry about maintaining military ties with the self-ruled island, which Beijing considers a breakaway province.
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China has heaped pressure on self-ruled Taiwan, which Beijing views as a breakaway province ineligible for state-to-state relations, since Tsai Ing-wen of the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party won a presidential election last year.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's government said on Wednesday that it would propose a draft law to allow same-sex marriage in Asia's first such bill amid a heated debate over marriage equality that has divided the self-ruled island.
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Details: Mr. Xi gave Taiwan two options: He could use military force if the self-ruled territory grasped for independence, or he could offer a "one country, two systems" deal, similar to the framework used in Hong Kong.
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President Tsai Ing-wen also vowed in a National Day speech to defend Taiwan's sovereignty, saying her government would safeguard freedom and democracy as Beijing ramps up pressure on the self-ruled island it considers a wayward province.
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday signed legislation that encourages the United States to send senior officials to Taiwan to meet Taiwanese counterparts and vice versa, angering China, which views the self-ruled island as a wayward province.
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Self-ruled Taiwan has close economic and cultural links with China and has so far reported nine cases of the virus, which started in the central Chinese city of Wuhan and where most of the deaths have occurred.
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Gou, 68, announced on Wednesday that he would contest Taiwan's 2020 presidential election, seeking to represent the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) party - a vote that comes after a period of increasing tension between Beijing and the self-ruled island.
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The United States is concerned about China's attempts to influence Taiwan's presidential election, the top U.S. official in Taiwan said on Friday, as China stepped up pressure on the self-ruled island ahead of the vote in January.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping warned self-ruled Taiwan on Tuesday that it will face the "punishment of history" for any attempt at separatism, offering his strongest warning yet to the island claimed by China as its sacred territory.
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China regards self-ruled Taiwan as a wayward province to be taken back by force if necessary and wants the new government to stick to the "one China" policy agreed upon with the outgoing China-friendly Nationalist government.
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Self-ruled Taiwan is set to hold presidential and legislative elections in January amid a delicate time with its giant neighbour China, which considers the island its own and has been ramping up pressure to squeeze Taiwan's space.
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Beijing considers the self-ruled island, officially the Republic of China, part of its territory, and has not ruled out military action to reclaim it, even as support for full-independence from the mainland has grown among Taiwanese.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Taiwan Affairs Office said on Tuesday that Taiwan should make a "wise choice" on recognizing the one China principle, after Panama dropped ties with the self-ruled island in favor of formal relations with Beijing.
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China will never give up an inch of its territory, whether the self-ruled island of Taiwan it claims as its own, or in the disputed waters of the South China Sea, the country's defense minister said on Thursday.
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Taiwan scrambled jets and navy ships on Wednesday as a group of Chinese warships led by China's sole aircraft carrier sailed north through the Taiwan Strait, the latest sign of heightened tensions between Beijing and the self-ruled Taiwan.
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Taiwan will not bow to Chinese pressure and called for international support against Beijing's "out-of-control actions", a presidential spokesman said on Thursday, after Beijing urged companies to change the way they refer to the self-ruled island.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang warned self-ruled Taiwan on Wednesday that efforts to boost trade between the two could only happen if there was political stability, though adding he felt confident in the peaceful development of relations.
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In a phone call with Chinese leader Xi Jinping last week, Trump changed tack and agreed to honor the "one China" policy, a major diplomatic boost for Beijing, which brooks no criticism of its claim to self-ruled Taiwan.
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Beijing considers self-ruled Taiwan a wayward province to be brought under its control by force if necessary, and says that separatists are seeking to split the western regions of Tibet and Xinjiang from the rest of the country.
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Taiwan has only reported 11 cases, compared to more than 24,000 in China, but as the World Health Organization considers self-ruled Taiwan part of China, it has included it in its advice that China is "very high risk".
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Wong was speaking during a visit to Taipei at a time of increased hostility between the self-ruled island and Beijing and just a day after Chinese President Xi Jinping issued his strongest warning against Taiwan separatism to date.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's growing economic, political and diplomatic power means it is achieving an "overwhelming advantage" in bringing self-ruled Taiwan to heel, and time is on China's side, a senior official said in a comments published on Monday.
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TAIPEI, April 17 (Reuters) - Terry Gou, chairman of Apple supplier Foxconn, said on Wednesday he will contest Taiwan's 2020 presidential election, shaking up the political landscape at a time of heightened tension between the self-ruled island and Beijing.
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Tsai Ing-wen and her Democratic Progressive Party won a victory in both presidential and parliamentary elections last week, in what could usher in a new round of instability with China, which claims self-ruled Taiwan as its own.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen said that she does not exclude the possibility of China attacking the self-ruled island, amid heightened tensions between the two sides including an increasing number of Chinese military drills near Taiwan.
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The "228 Incident", as it is known in Taiwan, has in recent years become a rallying point for the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which favors formal independence for the democratic, self-ruled island China claims at its own.
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On the issue of self-ruled Taiwan, which China claims as its own, the Pentagon said Chinese reforms to improve joint operations by different parts of its military would help in the event of any operation against the island.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's military is holding exercises this week in waters near Taiwan, China's maritime safety agency said days after Beijing reiterated it was ready to fight if there was any move towards independence for the self-ruled island.
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He Lei, former vice president of China's Academy of Military Sciences, said "foreign forces" that attempted to prevent the unification of China and Taiwan could compel Beijing to use force to bring the self-ruled island under its control.
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Tension with China, which regards the self-ruled island as a wayward province, has increased in recent months, as Beijing has grown increasingly suspicious that the government of President Tsai Ing-wen wants to push for Taiwan's formal independence.
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The drills, to be held this coming Wednesday, will mark the first time the Chinese Navy has held drills with live ammunition in the strait since September 2015, in the lead-up to the self-ruled island's presidential election.
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The self-ruled island is set to hold its presidential election in January amid heightened tension with China, which considers it a wayward province and has never ruled out the use of force to return it to the fold.
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Beijing and Washington are locked in an increasingly bitter trade war and are at odds over other issues, such as U.S. support for self-ruled Taiwan which China claims, and U.S. sanctions on China's military for buying Russian weapons.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China hopes self-ruled Taiwan's only remaining African ally, Swaziland, will sever ties with Taipei before China hosts a summit of African leaders this year, the foreign ministry said on Friday, keeping up the pressure on Taiwan.
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China has in recent months stepped up a campaign to peel away more allies from self-ruled Taiwan, which Beijing considers its territory and so ineligible for state-to-state relations, ahead of a January presidential election in Taiwan.
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In Taiwan, a self-ruled island that Beijing also considers part of China, the unrest in Hong Kong has further undermined the appeal that Mr. Xi made in January to unify under the same "one country, two systems" arrangement.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - China has been pressuring the United Arab Emirates and four other countries to ask Taiwan to rename its representative offices in another sign of diplomatic pressure on the self-ruled island, Taiwan's foreign ministry said on Thursday.
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Chinese state media threatened on Friday that the country could go to war over Taiwan if the United States passes into law a bill promoting closer U.S. ties with the self-ruled island that China claims as its own.
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The self-ruled island is set to hold its presidential election in January, amid heightened tension with China, which considers it a wayward province and has never ruled out the use of force to return it to the fold.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - The United States unveiled a new $256 million representative office in Taiwan's capital on Tuesday, a de facto embassy that underscores Washington's strategic ties with the democratic, self-ruled island as it faces escalating tensions with China.
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China has been keen to highlight its cooperation with the U.S. military, despite a bitter trade dispute and Chinese suspicion about U.S. support for self-ruled and Chinese-claimed Taiwan, and U.S. involvement in the disputed South China Sea.
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Beijing and Washington are locked in an increasingly bitter trade war and are increasingly at odds over other issues, such as U.S. support for self-ruled Taiwan which China claims, and U.S. sanctions on China's military for buying Russian weapons.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan hopes countries around the world can show courage in the face of pressure from China on their companies to list the self-ruled island as part of China on their websites, Taiwan's foreign ministry said on Thursday.
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No other country has claims in China's busy waterway of the Bohai Sea, but the drills come amid new tension over self-ruled Taiwan, following U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's recent telephone call with the island's president that upset Beijing.
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Beijing has demanded that foreign firms, and airlines in particular, not refer to self-ruled Taiwan as non-Chinese territory on their websites, along with Hong Kong and Macau, a move described by the White House in May as "Orwellian nonsense".
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BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China lodged a diplomatic protest on Saturday after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump spoke by phone with President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan, but blamed the self-ruled island Beijing claims as its own for the "petty" move.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday signed legislation that encourages the United States to send senior officials to Taiwan to meet Taiwanese counterparts and vice versa, angering China, which views the self-ruled island as a wayward province.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Industry Minister, Miao Wei, said on Saturday that investment across the Taiwan Strait can help achieve China's aim of achieving unification with the self-ruled island, and called for Taiwan to be more open to Chinese businesses.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on Monday urged China to engage in talks, pledging to maintain peace with the island's giant neighbor, amid a near five-month impasse after Beijing halted official communications with the self-ruled island.
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TAIPEI, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen urged citizens to stay on alert for Chinese-financed media "infiltration" after a Reuters report of a Beijing-backed media campaign in the self-ruled island which China considers its own.
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The operation also comes as military ties between the two countries have dived, with China also angered by U.S. sanctions on China's military for buying Russian arms and by U.S. support for self-ruled Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its own.
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China's 1.3 billion people are united in their determination never to allow self-ruled Taiwan to become independent, China's top official in charge of ties with the island was quoted as saying on Thursday, in Beijing's latest blast at Taipei.
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The self-ruled island is set to hold its presidential election in January, amid heightened tension with China, which considers it a wayward province and has never ruled out the use of force to return it to the fold, if necessary.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen said on Saturday that Taiwan will be "calm" when dealing with China, but uncertainties in 2017 will test the self-ruled island and its national security team, even as she recommitted to maintaining peace.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan hopes to find a "natural way" to exchange views with Chinese President Xi Jinping at a summit of Asia-Pacific leaders that starts in Vietnam this week, the self-ruled island's envoy to the meeting said on Monday.
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The group, consisting of 26 Thais, six people from self-ruled Taiwan, and four Cambodians accused of online extortion from victims in China and Thailand, would be deported if there was no evidence of crimes committed in Cambodia, he added.
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BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) - A threat by a senior Chinese diplomat to invade Taiwan the instant any U.S. warship visits the self-ruled island has sparked a war of words, with Taipei accusing Beijing of failing to understand what democracy means.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's military recently carried out air and naval drills along its southeast coast, the Defence Ministry said on Sunday, following the latest arms sales from the United States to self-ruled Taiwan, which China claims as a renegade province.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's military is on a high state of alert following three straight days of drills by the Chinese air force near to the self-ruled island which Beijing claims as its own, Taiwan's Defence Ministry said on Tuesday.
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BEIJING/TAIPEI, May 3 (Reuters) - China said on Wednesday it was reasonable to have a delegation from self-ruled Taiwan removed from a conference in Australia about conflict diamonds, as Taipei accused Beijing of playing politics for its own ends.
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BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) - China has the resolve, confidence and ability to thwart any attempt by self-ruled Taiwan to declare independence, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Wednesday, prompting Taipei to retort that only its people could decide their future.
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Taiwan is set to become the first place in Asia to allow same-sex marriage following a 2017 ruling by the self-ruled island's Constitutional Court that to deny gay and lesbian couples the right to marry violated the constitution.
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China's Foreign Ministry said last month when the possible sale was first reported that it was seriously concerned about U.S. arms sales to self-ruled Taiwan, and it urged the United States to halt the sales to avoid harming bilateral ties.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Gambian President Adama Barrow told Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday that his country's previous ties with self-ruled Taiwan had been a "huge mistake", and he thanked China for all the help it had given subsequently, China said.
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Beijing could resort to military conflict with self-ruled Taiwan to divert domestic pressure if a slowdown in the world's second largest economy amid trade war threatens the legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party, the island's foreign minister has said.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan is prepared to defend itself against China if necessary, the self-ruled island's defense ministry said on Tuesday, in a strongly worded response to recent flybys by Chinese warplanes near the island China claims as a wayward province.
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The visit comes on the heels of the U.S. State Department recently approving a $2.2 billion sale of weapons to Taiwan— a self-ruled island viewed by Beijing as a breakaway province that has no right to state-to-state ties.
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Self-ruled Taiwan, which is claimed by China and was governed by Japan from 1895-1945, is another sensitive issue, and a maritime territorial dispute over small islands in the East China Sea has deepened mutual suspicion in recent years.
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WASHINGTON/TAIPEI (Reuters) - Two U.S. warships passed through the Taiwan Strait on Saturday on a voyage that will likely be viewed in the self-ruled island as a sign of support by President Donald Trump amid heightened tension with China.
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China and the United States are currently working to end a bitter trade war, but have numerous other areas of disagreement, including the South China Sea and U.S. support for self-ruled Taiwan, which Beijing claims as a wayward province.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping told self-ruled Taiwan on Tuesday that it would face the "punishment of history" for any attempt at separatism, offering his strongest warning yet to the island claimed by China as its sacred territory.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China will resolutely oppose and contain Taiwan independence, Premier Li Keqiang said in remarks prepared for delivery at the opening of the annual meeting of parliament on Sunday, amid heightened tension between Beijing and the self-ruled island.
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The self-ruled island is set to hold its presidential election in January amid heightened tension with China, which considers Taiwan a wayward province and has never ruled out the use of force to bring the island under its control.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - China is embarking on a divide-and-rule campaign on self-ruled Taiwan, offering to boost tourism to pro-Beijing towns and counties while giving the new pro-independence government the cold shoulder, government officials and politicians say.
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Her outgoing foreign minister, Sigmar Gabriel, irked China last year by calling on Beijing to follow a "One Europe" policy - a play on China's insistence that partners eschew diplomatic relations with self-ruled Taiwan, claimed by China as its own.
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President Xi Jinping is overseeing a sweeping plan to refurbish the People's Liberation Army (PLA) by developing everything from stealth jets to aircraft carriers as China ramps up its presence in the South China Sea and around self-ruled Taiwan.
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Hundreds of same-sex couples married on May 24 after President Tsai Ing-wen signed into law a bill endorsing same-sex marriage - a controversial move which has divided the self-ruled island, seen as a beacon of liberalism in Asia.
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The self-ruled island's political landscape was shaken up by voters who delivered a sharp rebuke to President Tsai Ing-wen's governing Democratic Progressive Party, or D.P.P., in elections contesting more than 11,000 seats from city mayors to neighborhood wardens.
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In the hope of seeing her become Taiwan's first one-term president, Beijing has poached Taiwan's diplomatic allies, increased military exercises near its borders and pressured companies to list the self-ruled democracy as a part of China on their websites.
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The trade war further strains Beijing-Washington ties, already overshadowed by U.S. freedom of navigation exercises near Chinese-occupied islands in the disputed South China Sea, and U.S. support for self-ruled and democratic Taiwan, which China claims as its own.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China will provide Panama with whatever help it needs after the Central American country ditched long-standing ties with self-ruled Taiwan in June, a senior Chinese diplomat said on Friday after talks between the two countries' presidents.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - The Solomon Islands will have unprecedented development opportunities now that it has ditched ties with Taiwan in favor of China, Beijing said on Tuesday, a major victory for China in its campaign to pressure the self-ruled, democratic island.
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China's navy has been taking an increasingly prominent role in recent months, with its first aircraft carrier, expected to serve more as a training vessel, sailing around self-ruled Taiwan and new Chinese warships popping up in far-flung places.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan voters were set to back a referendum that defines marriage as between a man and a woman, dealing a blow to the self-ruled island's reputation for liberalism in Asia amid a heated debate over marriage equality.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - China is interfering in Taiwan's elections "every day" as it seeks to damage the island's democracy, Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen said on Tuesday, after China sailed an aircraft carrier group near the self-ruled island on the weekend.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - The Chinese government warned self-ruled Taiwan on Thursday that it was courting "disaster", after the running mate for President Tsai Ing-wen in January elections said he was working toward the island's independence, a red line for Beijing.
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In a setback for self-ruled and democratic Taiwan, which China claims as a province with no right to state-to-state ties, Beijing this week won over two previous Taiwanese allies in the Pacific - the Solomon Islands and Kiribati.
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Relations between the two sides have cooled since Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen took power last year, because she refuses to concede the self-ruled island is part of China, and Beijing fears she wants to push it toward formal independence.
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President Tsai Ing-wen was sworn in with Taiwan's export-driven economy on the ropes and China, which views the self-ruled island as its own, looking across the Taiwan Strait for anti-Beijing sentiment that could further sour economic ties.
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The two countries are already embroiled in an acrimonious trade war and have continued to butt heads over a list of sensitive issues including the disputed South China Sea and self-ruled Taiwan, armed by Washington but claimed by Beijing.
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TAOYUAN, Taiwan — China's increasing military projection around East Asia is undermining regional stability, Taiwan's president, Tsai Ing-wen, said at a year-end news conference on Friday just days after Beijing reiterated its goal of annexing the self-ruled democracy.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China should be prepared for crisis in the Taiwan Strait, the hawkish Global Times newspaper said in an editorial on Friday, amid rising tension between Beijing and Washington over the self-ruled island that China sees as a wayward province.
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BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) - China's film regulator on Wednesday said it was blocking the mainland movie industry from participating in Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards without a giving a reason, in the latest sign of rising tensions between Beijing and the self-ruled island.
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The platform, adopted on Monday, says China has been asserting "preposterous" claims to the South China Sea to distract its people from economic problems, practices "cultural genocide" in Tibet and Xinjiang, and reaffirms a commitment to sell weapons to self-ruled Taiwan.
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TAIPEI/HONG KONG (Reuters) - When Taiwanese businessman Jhang Yun-nan wanted to find buyers for his company's new cleaning products in China, he turned to an unconventional channel: A Taiwanese party that advocates the unification of China with the self-ruled, democratic island.
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The state of ties between Beijing and the self-ruled island has since become more tense, with China announcing that it would stop issuing individual travel permits for Taiwan to Chinese travellers last week, dealing a blow to the island's tourism industry.
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Taiwan accused China of using Sao Tome and Principe's financial woes to push its "one China" policy after the small West African state ended ties with the self-ruled island, with Taipei saying the move would not help relations across the Taiwan Strait.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's government said on Tuesday that China was stirring up its media to threaten the self-ruled island after a major state-run newspaper said China should issue an international arrest warrant for Taiwan's premier for his comments on independence.
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Taiwan announced Tuesday it was willing to send a delegation to bring Chan back to the self-ruled island for trial, but Hong Kong rejected the offer, saying the suspect should be allowed to fly unaccompanied to Taiwan to turn himself in.
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NEW DELHI, May 8 (Reuters) - Taiwan will strengthen ties with India's new government, including more official visits, a top official of the self-ruled island said on Wednesday, despite China's continuing efforts to isolate what it considers to be a wayward province.
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The Tiananmen crackdown is a taboo subject in China and 29 years later it remains a point of contention between China and many Western countries, as well as between China and democratic and self-ruled Taiwan, which China claims as its own.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday it is seriously concerned about U.S. arms sales to self-ruled Taiwan, after a source told Reuters that Washington was planning a $2 billion weapons sale to the island China claims as its own.
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BEIJING, July 14 (Reuters) - China's military recently carried out air and naval drills along its southeast coast, the Defence Ministry said on Sunday, following the latest arms sales from the United States to self-ruled Taiwan, which China claims as a renegade province.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China is willing to show utmost goodwill towards self-ruled Taiwan but won't allow its separation from China, the country's defense ministry said on Thursday after Taiwan's president said she does not rule out the possibility of a Chinese attack.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Defence Ministry said on Thursday that a recent series of air force exercises around self-ruled Taiwan were routine, after Taiwan's military said this month it was on a high state of alert following three straight days of drills.
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The Taiwan government has repeatedly said it has no intention of asking Hong Kong to return the suspected murderer of Poon even if the bill is passed amid concerns it could put citizens of the self-ruled island at risk of China's reach.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congress should move quickly with an $8 billion sale of F-16 fighter jets to Taiwan as the self-ruled island faces pressure from China's increased military presence in the region, leading U.S. Democratic and Republican lawmakers said on Friday.
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The self-ruled island is also set to hold its presidential election in January at a time of precarious relations with China, which considers it a wayward province and has never ruled out the use of force to bring it under Beijing's control.
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On the campaign trail, Trump railed against China, accusing it of stealing American jobs, and also angered Beijing by taking a call from the president of self-ruled Taiwan, which China views as a wayward province with no right to formal foreign ties.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - China's sole aircraft carrier has arrived at a naval base on the southern Chinese province of Hainan, a senior Taiwanese military officer said on Wednesday, after drills that took it around self-ruled Taiwan, an island China claims as its own.
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BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) - China unveiled measures on Monday to further open its markets to firms from self-ruled Taiwan, including capital raising, as Taiwan warned its people not to be taken in by moves at "enticement" ahead of a January presidential election.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Beijing could resort to military conflict with self-ruled Taiwan to divert domestic pressure if a slowdown in the world's second largest economy amid trade war threatens the legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party, the island's foreign minister has said.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Beijing could resort to military conflict with self-ruled Taiwan to divert domestic pressure if a slowdown in the world's second largest economy amid trade war threatens the legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party, the island's foreign minister has said.
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BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) - China will "fully respect" Taiwan's way of life and social system once it has been "peacefully reunified", as long as national security is protected, the ruling Communist Party said on Tuesday, in another overture to the self-ruled island.
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The Chinese military has stepped up operations in the Taiwan Strait and around the self-ruled island, which Beijing views as a separatist province, in response to so-called "pro-independence forces" in Taiwan and increased US military involvement in the area.
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Panama established diplomatic ties with China in June and broke with Taiwan in a major victory for Beijing, as it lures away the dwindling number of countries that have formal relations with the self-ruled island that China regards as a wayward province.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is closely watching Chinese intentions toward Taiwan, concerned that Beijing's growing military prowess may increase the risk it could one day consider bringing the self-ruled island under its control by force, a U.S. official said on Tuesday.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan unveiled its largest defense spending increase in more than a decade on Thursday amid rising military tensions with its giant neighbor China, which considers the self-ruled island its own and has not renounced the use of force against it.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Cambodia has detained seven Taiwan nationals suspected of running a telecoms scam, the self-ruled island said on Thursday, adding that it is trying to bring them home and avoid their deportation to China, which gave information for the crackdown.
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A group of Chinese warships led by the country's sole aircraft carrier entered the top half of the South China Sea on Monday after passing south of Taiwan, the self-ruled island's Defence Ministry said of what China has termed a routine exercise.
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TAIPEI, Nov 21 (Reuters) - The Chinese government warned self-ruled Taiwan on Thursday that it was courting "disaster", after the running mate for President Tsai Ing-wen in January elections said he was working toward the island's independence, a red line for Beijing.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - The United States is concerned about China's attempts to influence Taiwan's presidential and parliamentary elections, the top U.S. official in Taiwan said on Friday, as China stepped up pressure on the self-ruled island ahead of the vote in January.
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On self-ruled Taiwan, claimed by Beijing as its own, Xi said China would never allow the island to separate from China, adding that China would strive to fully transform its armed forces into a world-class military by the mid-21st century.
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In 2005, a Chinese military official told a group of foreign reporters that Beijing should consider using nuclear weapons against the United States if it intervened in a conflict over Taiwan, the self-ruled island China considers part of its own territory.
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MANAGUA (Reuters) - Nicaragua on Tuesday said it wanted to secure bigger international recognition for Taiwan during a visit by President Tsai Ing-wen at a moment of Chinese suspicions the leader of the self-ruled island is seeking formal independence from China.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan needs to protect its international space as its diplomatic position is precarious, president-elect Tsai Ing-wen said on Friday after China resumed ties with former Taiwan ally Gambia and anger over the move grew in the self-ruled island.
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KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan (Reuters) - Taiwan will build its own submarines, President Tsai Ing-wen pledged on Tuesday, as the self-ruled island looks to fresh arms sales by the United States, accompanied by key submarine technology, to counter a growing military threat from China.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Taiwan has a case of sour grapes, Chinese state media said on Wednesday, after the self-ruled island accused China of using a $3-billion aid pledge to persuade the Dominican Republic to switch long-standing diplomatic ties to Beijing.
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"I think that the Hong Kong of today might be the Taiwan of tomorrow," said church administrative assistant Alex Ko. China claims self-ruled Taiwan as its own and has vowed to bring the island under its control, by force if necessary.
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SHANGHAI/TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's foreign ministry said on Wednesday it had protested to Dubai-based airline Emirates over reports that the carrier asked Taiwanese cabin crew to stop wearing the flag of the self-ruled island on their uniforms, under pressure from Beijing.
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China is not putting any pressure on self-ruled Taiwan's last diplomatic ally in Africa, the Kingdom of eSwatini, to switch to Beijing, but believes it is just a matter of time before that happens, a senior Chinese diplomat said on Saturday.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's air force carried out another round of long-range drills on Monday, flying into the Sea of Japan and prompting South Korean and Japanese jets to scramble, and again around self-ruled Taiwan amid growing tension over China's assertiveness.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is closely watching Chinese intentions toward Taiwan, concerned that Beijing's growing military prowess may increase the risk it could one day consider bringing the self-ruled island under its control by force, a U.S. official said on Tuesday.
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Exercises by the ships, in particular the aircraft carrier Liaoning, since last month have unnerved China's neighbors, especially at a time of heightened strain with self-ruled Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its own, and given long-running territorial disputes in the South China Sea.
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The overall message is clear: China faces serious challenges, from U.S. President Donald Trump's threats of force against nuclear-armed North Korea to an increasingly tense border dispute with India and what Beijing sees as efforts by self-ruled Taiwan to assert its sovereignty.
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After a month-long review, the commission decided November 24 as the date of the referendum, coinciding with mayoral and magisterial elections on the self-ruled island, two commission officials, who are familiar with the referendum plan but declined to be identified, told Reuters.
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Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen said another direct phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump could take place again and she urged the self-ruled island's political rival China to step up to its global responsibility to keep the peace as a large nation.
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China's military has not fought a war in decades, but faces what the government calls a complex security environment, such as nuclear-armed North Korea and territorial disputes in the South China Sea and over self-ruled Taiwan, claimed by China as its own.
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Why it matters: China regards the self-ruled Taiwan as a breakaway province and the USS Curtis Wilbur and U.S. Coast Guard cutter Bertholf ships' passage through the strait that divides Taiwan from the Chinese mainland comes as Washington holds key trade talks with Beijing.
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Much of the horse-trading for who will get in, and who will miss out, happens behind closed doors, with generally speaking none of the overt campaigning that happens in places like neighboring Taiwan, the proudly democratic self-ruled island China claims as its own.
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TAIWAN-ELECTION/ (TV) Taiwan's opposition party to announce candidate for 2020 presidential election Taiwan's China-friendly opposition Nationalist Kuomingtang Party (KMT) announces its candidate for the self-ruled island's presidential election in January after a hotly contested primary that includes Foxconn founder Terry Gou.
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The unpredictable U.S. president upset protocol in December when weeks before being sworn into office he took a telephone call from the leader of self-ruled Taiwan, which China regards as a renegade province, only to last week rebuff Taiwanese suggestions of another call.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Taiwan's lawmakers must back the government's draft same-sex law and make the self-ruled island the first place in Asia to allow such unions, LGBT+ campaigners said on Monday, ahead of a key vote in parliament this week.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan faces a more complicated task this year in seeking to attend a U.N. health agency meeting than it has in the past, a senior official said on Tuesday, as the self-ruled island braces for another setback in ties with rival China.
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The world's two largest economies are in the middle of a bruising trade war, but also have broader military disagreements, including over Chinese island building in the disputed South China Sea and U.S. support for self-ruled Taiwan, claimed by China as its own.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - A group of Chinese warships led by the country's sole aircraft carrier entered the top half of the South China Sea on Monday after passing south of Taiwan, the self-ruled island's Defence Ministry said of what China has termed a routine exercise.
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The shooting put a new strain on ties between Beijing and Taipei which have cooled since Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen of the independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party took power last year, because she refuses to concede the self-ruled island is part of China.
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BEIJING, Dec 18 (Reuters) - China's air force carried out another round of long-range drills on Monday, flying into the Sea of Japan, prompting South Korean jets to scramble, and again around self-ruled Taiwan amid growing tension over China's assertiveness in the region.
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The dispute has become increasingly bitter, with both sides trading accusations after two Chinese airlines canceled extra flights to self-ruled Taiwan over the Lunar New Year, the most important holiday in the Chinese calendar, potentially leaving thousands of Taiwanese without tickets to go home.
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The United States has said it opposes Syrian Kurds acting now to form an autonomous self-ruled region because the long-term goal of the United Nations talks is a national unity government that does not include President Bashar al-Assad and keeps Syria united.
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SHANGHAI/TAIPEI, May 31 (Reuters) - Taiwan's foreign ministry said on Wednesday it had protested to Dubai-based airline Emirates over reports that the carrier asked Taiwanese cabin crew to stop wearing the flag of the self-ruled island on their uniforms, under pressure from Beijing.
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In a speech this month to the people of Taiwan, a self-ruled democracy that Beijing considers Chinese territory, President Xi Jinping said the island "must be and will be" united with China and warned that independence efforts could be met by armed force.
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BEIJING, June 6 (Reuters) - China's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday it is seriously concerned about U.S. arms sales to self-ruled Taiwan, after a source told Reuters that Washington was planning a $2 billion weapons sale to the island China claims as its own.
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China is quick to lash out against any hint of support for an independent Tibet and for an independent Taiwan, a self-ruled democratic island that Beijing regards as a breakaway province and has vowed to take back by force if it declares independence.
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BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) - China reserves the right to use force to bring Taiwan under its control but will strive to achieve peaceful "reunification" with the self-ruled island that has a bright future under any future Chinese rule, President Xi Jinping said on Wednesday.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen said a direct phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump could take place again and she urged the self-ruled island's political rival China to step up to its global responsibility to keep the peace as a large nation.
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President Xi Jinping spoke with Trump soon after he won last month's election, but Beijing has been unsettled by Trump's subsequent call with Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, suggestions Trump may change U.S. policy towards self-ruled Taiwan, and Trump's threats to impose tariffs on Chinese imports.
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During a round of high-level talks in Washington, the two sides aired in sometimes blunt terms many of their main differences, including a bitter trade dispute, freedom of navigation in Asia-Pacific waters, self-ruled Taiwan, and China's crackdown on its Muslim minority in Xinjiang.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's air force said on Saturday that its fighters and bombers conducted "multiple" long-range drills far out at sea this week, including flying near Japan and self-ruled Taiwan, in what it said was a test of its ability to operate over the sea.
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During a round of high-level talks in Washington, the two sides aired in sometimes blunt terms many of their main differences, including a bitter trade dispute, freedom of navigation in Asia-Pacific waters, self-ruled Taiwan, and China's crackdown on its Muslim minority in Xinjiang.
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TAIPEI/BEIJING (Reuters) - Taiwan accused China on Wednesday of using Sao Tome and Principe's financial woes to push its "one China" policy after the West African state ended ties with the self-ruled island, with Taiwan saying China's action would not help relations across the Taiwan Strait.
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Self-ruled Taiwan, claimed by China as its own, is not a member of the United Nations but says as a responsible member of the international community it is committed to ensuring sanctions are enforced in a bid to rein in North Korea's nuclear and missile programmes.
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BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) - A Beijing court on Thursday handed down jail sentences of up to 15 years to 85 people deported from Kenya for telecoms fraud, including 44 from self-ruled Taiwan, an island Beijing claims as its own which said vital evidence had been ignored.
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Beijing (CNN)An award acceptance speech by a young Taiwanese filmmaker has stirred passionate reactions on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, pitting some of the region's leading entertainment and political figures against each other just a week before an important election on the self-ruled island.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan welcomes the name change by Japan's de facto embassy on the self-ruled island, the foreign ministry said on Thursday, a day after China called on Japan to remember that Taiwan is part of China, riled that the new name includes the word "Taiwan".
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A presidential election in January comes after a period of increasing tension between Taipei and Beijing, which has stepped up a campaign to "reunify" with what it considers a wayward province, wooing away the self-ruled island's few diplomatic allies and flying regular bomber patrols around it.
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BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) - China on Wednesday warned Taiwan not to allow exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama to visit, after a high-profile Taiwan legislator invited him to the self-ruled island Beijing claims as its own, a trip that would worsen already poor ties.
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President Xi Jinping is overseeing a sweeping plan to refurbish the People's Liberation Army (PLA) by developing everything from stealth jets to aircraft carriers as China ramps up its presence in the South China Sea and around self-ruled Taiwan, which has rattled nerves in the region.
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The Pacific island nation has recognized self-ruled Taiwan since 1983 but would be a prized chip for China in its bid to peel away the allies of what it considers a wayward province with no right to state-to-state ties, taking their number to 16.
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On the military front, China has been infuriated by the United States putting sanctions on the People's Liberation Army (PLA) for buying weapons from Russia, and by what Beijing sees as stepped up U.S. support for self-ruled Taiwan, claimed by China as its sacred territory.
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October's meeting comes as the economy is still slowing, and tension with Washington shows no signs of ending, not only over trade but other issues such as the disputed South China Sea and U.S. support for self-ruled and democratic Taiwan, claimed by Beijing as its own.
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The Pacific island nation has recognised self-ruled Taiwan since 1983 but would be a prized chip for China in its bid to peel away the allies of what it considers a wayward province with no right to state-to-state ties, taking their number to 16.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping is overseeing an ambitious plan to update the armed forces, including the development of stealth jets and anti-satellite missiles, as China ramps up its presence in the disputed South China Sea and around self-ruled Taiwan, an island it considers its own.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan will continue to seek inclusion in the World Health Assembly's annual meeting this month in Geneva, government officials said on Monday, pushing back against the latest in a series of efforts by China to block the self-ruled island from participating in international organizations.
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OUAGADOUGOU/TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan lost its second diplomatic ally in less than a month on Thursday when Burkina Faso said it had cut ties with the self-ruled island, following intense Chinese pressure on African countries to break with what it regards as a wayward province.
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A poor but strategic country which is home to a mothballed Chinese space tracking station, Kiribati announced last week that it was cutting relations with self-ruled Taiwan in favor of China, which claims Taiwan as a wayward province with no right to state-to-state ties.
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NANJING, China (Reuters) - Soldiers from China and the United States wrapped up a week of joint disaster relief drills on Saturday, in a display of cooperation against a backdrop of worsening ties between the two countries over trade, the disputed South China Sea and self-ruled Taiwan.
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On Wednesday, Xi will make his first public appearance at an anniversary-related event, giving a speech about self-ruled Taiwan, which China claims as its sacred territory, on the 40th anniversary of a key policy statement that led to a thaw in relations with the island.
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Xi is overseeing a sweeping plan to refurbish the People's Liberation Army (PLA) by developing everything from stealth jets to aircraft carriers as China ramps up its presence in the disputed South China Sea and around self-ruled Taiwan, which have rattled nerves around the region and in Washington.
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China insists its military spending is transparent and that it poses a threat to nobody, simply needing to update old equipment and defend its legitimate interests, even as it is increasingly assertive over disputes in the East and South China Seas and on self-ruled Taiwan, which China claims.
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Xi is overseeing a sweeping plan to refurbish the People's Liberation Army (PLA) by developing everything from stealth jets to aircraft carriers as China ramps up its presence in the disputed South China Sea and around self-ruled Taiwan, which has rattled nerves around the region and in Washington.
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Military tensions between the U.S. and China have been on the rise in recent years as Beijing takes a more assertive stance on territorial claims in the South China Sea and East China Sea, as well as over Taiwan — a self-ruled territory which Beijing claims as its own.
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The results of the polls, being held just over a year before Taiwan's next presidential election, are likely to please China, which claims self-ruled and proudly democratic Taiwan as its own and has ramped up pressure on Tsai and her administration since she took office in 2016.
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The Greek word "logos," which simultaneously indicated "language" and "rationality," gave further validation to that premise: Those who did not share the Greek idiom were viewed as inferior Others who lacked the intellectual talents that had made possible the free and self-ruled society that the Greek polis represented.
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China says self-ruled Taiwan is merely a Chinese province with no right to state-to-state relations, calling it the most sensitive and important issue in ties with the United States, which has no formal ties with Taipei, but is its chief diplomatic backer and supplier of arms.
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President Tsai Ing-wen's visit to the tiny Pacific Ocean countries of Palau, Nauru and the Marshall Islands also comes amid heightened tension between Taipei and Beijing, which claims self-ruled Taiwan as its sacred territory and considers it merely a province with no right to state-to-state ties.
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Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu told Reuters last week that China could attack the democratic and self-ruled island if any threat to China's ruling Communist Party arises from social pressures that could result from any slowdown in the world's second largest economy amid a trade war with the United States.
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Following are key facts on ties between Taiwan and China: - China has claimed self-ruled Taiwan through its "one China" policy since the Chinese civil war forced the defeated Nationalist forces to flee to the island in 1949 and has vowed to bring it under Beijing's rule, by force if necessary.
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China's air force and navy have sent warplanes including Su-35 fighter jets, H-6K strategic bombers and advanced KJ-2000 airborne early warning aircraft to conduct "encirclement" drills around Taiwan since 2018, as Beijing applies pressure on the self-ruled island that it sees as part of its territory.
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A U.S. official confirmed on Sunday that the meeting had been canceled, though he did not say whether it was related to an escalating trade dispute, concerns about U.S. arms sales to self-ruled Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its own, or Chinese military activity in the South China Sea.
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Wuhan's Taiwan Affairs Office has notified the association that a mainland carrier will take the Taiwanese home via a nonstop charter flight, with potentially two further charter flights available to send the remaining stranded Taiwanese back to the self-ruled island, according to the Taipei-based United Daily News and China Times.
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Trump was not expected to put much emphasis in his talks with Xi on thorny issues such as the disputed South China Sea and self-ruled Taiwan, claimed by China as its own, although the leaders' aides may deal with those matters privately, the official told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.
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Mattis, the first U.S. defense chief to come to China in four years, has described his talks as "very, very good", even as President Xi Jinping told him China would not give up an inch of its territory, likely a reference to the disputed South China Sea and self-ruled Taiwan which China claims.
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In a dinner speech Saturday to hundreds of overseas Taiwanese, Tsai said that the United States holds a "special place in the hearts of the people of Taiwan" and that the self-ruled island via bilateral exchanges has provided more than 320,000 jobs directly and indirectly to the American people, according to a statement from her office Monday.
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Shortly after Taiwan President and DPP leader Tsai Ing-wen took office in May, China cut off official communication with Taipei because she has refused to accept China's view that the self-ruled island is a part of China, and ties between the two sides since she won the presidential election in January have been fraying.
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China's 2019 defense spending will rise 7.5 percent from 2018, according to a budget report issued earlier this year, and its military build-up has raised concerns among neighbors and Western allies, particularly as Beijing has become more assertive in territorial disputes in the East and South China Seas and over Taiwan, a self-ruled territory Beijing claims as its own.
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