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Weekend: Beijing warns it will never allow Taiwan to secede from China

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Beijing warns it will never allow Taiwan to secede from China

12/06/2022 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, Beijing warns it will never allow Taiwan to secede from China

China describes its relations with the United States as being at a 'critical juncture'

The testy relations between two superpowers - China and the US - have been on display at a high-profile security summit in Singapore, the Shangri-la Dialogue. The Chinese defence minister, General Wei Fenghe, gave a fiery response to his US counterpart, Lloyd Austin's speech. At issue, Beijing's strong view that China will eventually reclaim the self-ruled island of Taiwan. On the other side, the US has been cautioning China against contemplating an invasion of the island. 

Also in the programme: the consultant palaeontologist on the film Jurassic World Domination, Professor Steve Brusatte, talks about dinosaurs and mammals; and the French head to the polls in what the left is billing as the "third round" of elections, in which they are seeking to deprive President Macron of a parliamentary majority.

(Photo: China's Minister of National Defense Wei Fenghe delivers his speech during the fifth plenary session of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Shangri-la Dialogue at the Shangri-la hotel in Singapore, 12 June 2022. Defence ministers and officials from 42 countries are gathered in the city state for the IISS Shangri-la Dialogue, an annual high level defence summit in the Asia Pacific region that has been on hold for the past two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The summit will be held from 10-12 June 2022. Credit: EPA/How Hwee Young)

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