China's leader, Xi Jinping, has asserted Beijing's claim over the self-governed island of 23 million people by sending warplanes and ships to the skies and waters around Taiwan almost daily. Washington, while maintaining strategic ambiguity over its plans, has helped to bolster the island's military, and President Biden has signaled that the United States would defend Taiwan against a Chinese attack.
Chinese leaders have denounced the D.P.P. as separatists and suggested that a vote for four more years under that party would amount to choosing war over peace.
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