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China sees US interference as biggest test of its Taiwan policy

Chinese President Xi Jinping has made reunification with Taiwan a part of his goal of national rejuvenation. PHOTO: AFP
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BEIJING - In China's latest government White Paper on Taiwan, the word interference, or ganshe in Chinese, appears 16 times.

It is the most number of times the term has come up in all of Beijing's three White Papers on Taiwan - appearing five times in the 2000 paper and eight times in the 1993 one.

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