China is preparing for war to take Taiwan, the island's top China policymaker said in Washington on Friday, warning if Taiwan were to fall it would cause a regional "domino effect" that would threaten the security of the United States.
Chiu Chui-cheng, the Cabinet-ranked head of Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council, told the Washington-based Heritage Foundation that China's ruling Communist Party had long refused to renounce the use of force against democratically governed Taiwan, which it considers part of its territory.
Chiu said that in seeking "unification with Taiwan," China aimed to exclude U.S. influence from the Asia-Pacific and ultimately replace the United States as the global leader "in order to restore national glory and realize the so-called 'China Dream.'"
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