President Xi Jinping's power continues to grow, domestically and internationally. Still, one prize eludes him. Taiwan's reunification with China.
Taiwan has featured in Beijing's calculation in almost all domestic and foreign policies in the past decades. Under international law, it is part of China. That legal fact does not alter Taiwan as an essentially political question.
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