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THE 73RD anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China was celebrated in a reception hosted by the Chinese Embassy in The Bahamas and Ambassador Dai Qingli on Thursday. Pictured from left are US Embassy Chargé d’Affaires Usha Pitts, Dorothea Munroe, Minister of National Security Wayne Monroe, Ambassador Dai Qingli, Acting Prime Minister Chester Cooper, Cecilia Cooper, FNM deputy leader Shanendon Cartwright, and Minister of State for the Environment Basil McIntosh. Also in attendance were Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources Vaughn Miller, Ministry of Tourism global relations consultant Senator Randy Rolle, and other officials. Photo: Kemuel Stubbs/BIS

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PART III: ‘A pawn on the grand chessboard’

‘WHY A SMALL ISLAND IS CENTRAL TO THE MOST CONSEQUENTIAL BILATERAL RELATIONSHIP IN THE 21ST CENTURY’

NO other issue has such a central position or fundamental impact on the direction of China-US relations as the Taiwan question. Over the past seven decades and more, the U.S. has found in Taiwan a convenient card to play in a larger geopolitical game with China, aimed at maintaining and perpetuating its global strategic supremacy. Till this day, the shifting US approach to Taiwan and China’s reaction to it has profoundly shaped China-US relations and the strategic environment of the Asia-Pacific region.

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