“To try and to fail would probably be the end of Xi Jinping.”

An invasion of Taiwan would be “clearly signalled” otherwise it would be the fall of the Chinese Communist Party, says Ian Williams, journalist and author of ‘Vampire State. The rise and fall of the Chinese Economy’.

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