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Now on bbc news, its time for a special programme. Global questions the taiwan, china conflict. Hello, welcome to global questions with me, zeinab badawi, from Liberty Square in taipei, the capital city of taiwan. The main island of taiwan lies about 160 kilometres across the waters from china. In the past few months, china has stepped up its military exercises, and fired missiles over taiwan, in growing tensions with the government here. The chinese president , xijinping, has reiterated the claim that taiwan belongs to china, and he says he does not rule out the use of force to take it over. Meanwhile, the United States, which supports taiwan, has hardened its position with President Biden saying he would send american troops to defend it. So, if china did invade taiwan, it would be a conflict with huge global dimension ....
The international affairs director of the opposition chinese nationalist party, the kmt, and is the kmt s representative to the united states. william stanton was a us diplomat for nearly 35 years, and is one of america s top experts on taiwan. he is now a professor at a university here in taiwan. this is a chinese dissident in exile in taiwan, and is also part of the human rights commission. this woman was born in taipei, herfamily moved from mainland china, and she is currently senior china analyst at the conflict resolution think tank the conflict resolution think tank the icg. terrific to have you all with us. that is our panel, please give them a warm round of applause. applause. you, too, can join applause. you, too, canjoin the conversation. this is ourfirst ....