The New York Times · International Relations

Why Does China Want Taiwan?

· By Chris Buckley
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When President Trump meets his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, Taiwan is almost certainly going to come up. And few issues in diplomacy are more complicated than the status of the self-governing island that China claims as its own.

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