ANALYSIS: After a humiliating week, Xi Jinping spruiks '10 breakthroughs' with Taiwan, all push the region closer to war
China has continued air combat exercises around Taiwan for a fifth day and foreshadowed "routine" drills closer to the island in future, as part of an unprecedented military response to the visit of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi last week.
Others include drills off the east side of the island to "block the escape path of the Taiwan separatists", by which Beijing means the democratically elected government. Reading back through the documents, it's clear that, in the 1970s and 80s, China's leaders thought they likely wouldn't need to fight a war to take control of Taiwan.
Since China's strongman leader Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, Taiwanese voters at successive presidential elections have chosen, by landslide, a government that rejects Beijing's relentless pressure for closer ties on China's terms.studying "Socialism with Chinese characteristics", "Xi Jinping Thought"
A yearly survey by Taiwan's National Chengchi University that began in the early 1990s shows a decline in the number of people who, at the very least, identify as being both Taiwanese and Chinese.
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