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Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen said on Wednesday the island would not accept a "one country, two systems" political arrangement with China, while stressing all cross-strait negotiations needed to be on a government-to-government basis. Tsai spoke after Chinese President Xi Jinping said in a speech earlier on Wednesday that nobody can change the fact that Taiwan is part of China, and that people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait should seek "reunification". Dr Graham Ong-Webb from the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies told Euronews that Taiwan's military is “weaker” than China’s.

He said: “The context in which this is occurring has changed. “China is economically more powerful than before - the military balance between China and Taiwan has tilted in China’s favour. “Right now, Taiwan is coming to terms with a deteriorating military. “With the help of American finance and equipment I think the Taiwanese should be able to beef up some defences.

The feud between Taiwan and China goes back over forty years