Taiwan hits back at new Chinese doctrine
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Taipei rejects Beijing’s “one country, two systems” proposal, saying that only the Taiwanese people can decide their future

Taiwan is against the “one country, two systems” solution proposed by Beijing, a spokeswoman for the self-governed island’s Foreign Ministry has said, according to Reuters.

Speaking at a press conference on Thursday, Joanne Ou said the Chinese government was using U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's controversial visit to Taipei as an “excuse to create a new normality to intimidate Taiwan's people.”

In a White Paper published on Wednesday, Beijing refused to rule out the use of force to gain control...

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