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About Asia
South China Morning Post
Taiwan tension: Beijing’s white paper, Washington’s new Act and Europe’s reactions
47 minutes Posted Aug 12, 2022 at 10:19 am.
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Beijing ends its massive military exercises around Taiwan and issues a white paper laying out exactly its ambitions for when it "re-unifies" the self-ruled island with the mainland. The US Congress moves forward its Taiwan Act which declares Taiwan to be an important non-NATO ally. Post journalists Jacob Fromer and Shi Jiangtao analyse the reactions from each side, and Brussels based correspondent Finbarr Bermingham reports on an increasingly concerned Europe, as Baltic nations suddenly pull…