How will China respond if the US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visits Taiwan this week, and could Taiwan be the next Ukraine if Xi Jinping decides to invade the country?

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Taiwan, on the face of it, appears just like Ukraine. A nation constantly under the threat of a much larger power, with an invasion always at the back of its mind.

Any future conflict would engulf the two great superpowers of this century, the US and China.

In today’s episode of the Fourcast, our International editor Lindsey Hilsum puts the current flare up into context as geopolitics comes to terms with a future where Beijing is King.

Sources: AFP News Agency, Guardian, NewsNation, NowThis News

Produced by: Freya Pickford


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