Taiwan Celebrates the New Year Before Upcoming January Presidential Election | VOA News #shorts

VOA’s Bill Gallo is in Taipei, Taiwan which welcomed 2024 with fireworks and a countdown from the Taipei 101 skyscraper.

Along with celebrating the new year, Taiwanese are also thinking about an upcoming election that will have a big impact on relations with China.

Chinese President Xi Jinping said in a New Year’s address that China would “surely be reunified” with the self-ruled territory of Taiwan, renewing Beijing’s threat to militarily take over the island.

Xi’s remarks came just ahead of Taiwan’s January 13 presidential and parliamentary elections that China has described as a choice between war and peace.

Taiwan split from China amid civil war in 1949, but Beijing continues to regard the island as Chinese territory and has long coveted Taiwan’s technology-heavy economy even as the island governs itself.

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