Tomorrow's presidential election includes three candidates, one of whom Lai Ching-te, the favorite and the current vice president China would clearly like to see lose. Lai's party, the Democratic Progressive Party, has historically favored independence.
Xi Jinping, China's president, wants to reunify the two and absorb Taiwan in coming years, U.S. officials believe. Xi's increasing bellicosity has raised fears that China will start a war. Official U.S. policy known as strategic ambiguity is to remain vague about how it would respond if China invaded. But President Biden has said publicly that the U.S. would come to Taiwan's aid.
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