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Weekend: Vote counting begins in Taiwan

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Vote counting begins in Taiwan

13/01/2024 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, Vote counting begins in Taiwan

Taiwanese voting on new president and legislature

Taiwanese citizens have taken to the polls today. Chinese President Xi Jinping has vowed to bring Taiwan under its rule, and has set 2049 as a target date for "achieving the Chinese dream" - though many Taiwanese consider themselves to be part of a separate nation. 

We also hear from the BBC’s Celia Hatton live from Taiwan. 

Also in the programme: a new air strike in Yemen; and a personal account of the war in Ukraine. 

Joining presenter Julian Worricker are David Robert Grimes, a physicist and science writer; and Lijia Zhang, writer and journalist. 

(Photo: Lai Ching-te, Taiwan’s vice president and the ruling Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) presidential candidate, casts his vote. CREDIT: REUTERS/Ann Wang)

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