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Azar visit to Taiwan is fresh thorn in prickly US-China ties

by Associated Press
| August 10, 2020 1:27 AM

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — An ongoing visit by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar to Taiwan will likely exacerbate mounting tensions between Washington and Beijing, which claims Taiwan as its own territory to be annexed by force if necessary.

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