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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.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., attends a Senate Rules and Administration Committee meeting on the Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022. The bill is a response to the Jan. 6 insurrection and former President Donald Trump's efforts to find a way around the Electoral Count Act, the 19th-century law that, along with the Constitution, governs how states and Congress certify electors and declare presidential election winners. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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A large disturbance in the sea can be observed off the coast of the Danish island of Bornholm Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022, following a series of unusual leaks on two natural gas pipelines running from Russia under the Baltic Sea to Germany have triggered concerns about possible sabotage. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen says she &quot;cannot rule out&quot; sabotage after three leaks were detected on Nord Stream 1 and 2. (Danish Defence Command via AP)

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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters as the Senate works to pass a stopgap spending bill that would fund the federal government into mid-December, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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