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How to Invent a Country by BBC

Sep 12, 202429:55Society & Culture

At the beginning of this year the president of the Chinese People's Republic, Xi Jinping, claimed that people living on both sides of the Taiwan Straits should reunite "and share in the glory of the rejuvenation of the C...

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Taiwan is an episode from How to Invent a Country by BBC. At the beginning of this year the president of the Chinese People's Republic, Xi Jinping, claimed that people living on both sides of the Taiwan Straits should reunite "and share in...

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