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Dangerous territory: Is Taiwan next on China's list?

October 14, 2021

China is putting Taiwan under pressure in a way not seen for decades. The US is calling on Beijing to avoid further provocation. Our guests: Melissa Chan (DW), Felix Lee (TAZ), Gudrun Wacker (SWP)

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Melissa Chan, who presents DW's News Asia show. She says: "Xi Jinping has gone after China's Uyghur minority, then Hong Kong, and even its tech billionaires. So, why wouldn't he go after Taiwan?"

 

 

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Gudrun Wacker, an Asia expert from the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, who believes that: "China's saber-rattling is a message to Taiwan that the balance of power between the two sides makes unification inevitable and resistance pointless."

 


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Felix Lee, from the Berlin-based daily the TAZ, or Tageszeitung, who spent many years as a correspondent in Beijing. And Felix asks: "Will China go for the military option? That depends on the US and its allies. Certainly, Xi Jinping will not risk a full-blown conflict with the West."