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How Beijing frames the Taiwan issue in a statue and its descriptive plaque
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A statute of Zheng Chenggong, or Koxinga, in the Taiwan Hall in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
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BEIJING – Inside the Taiwan Hall, one of the many cavernous meeting rooms at the Great Hall of the People named after provinces and regions in China, there is a statue that embodies what is tricky about the Taiwan issue.
The white statue, which caught my attention at a meeting on March 9 during China’s annual parliamentary session,
