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China’s ‘totalitarianism’ threatens free world, Taiwanese official warns

Taiwanese soldiers operate a Oerlikon 35mm twin cannon anti-aircraft gun at a base in Taiwan's southeastern Hualien county on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022. Taiwan is staging military exercises to show its ability to resist Chinese pressure to accept Beijing's political control over the island. (AP Photo/Johnson Lai) **FILE**

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A top Taiwanese official on relations with mainland China warned on Wednesday that Beijing under President Xi Jinping is embracing an extreme form of “closed-door nationalism” and “totalitarianism” that threatens not only the future of Taiwan but the U.S. and democracies everywhere.

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