To really understand today's tensions in the Taiwan Strait, we need to go back to a UN resolution adopted in 1971. UN Resolution 2758 recognized the People's Republic of China as the only legitimate representative of China to the United Nations and Taiwan is a province of China. Yet in the decades that followed, this principle was quietly hollowed out in the United States. The US has played a careful balancing act: acknowledging One China in words, while steadily eroding it in practice. Congress

Correspondent Patrick Fok explains why China has imposed new export controls on dual-use goods from Japan amid escalating tensions over security and Taiwan. | Al Arabiya English

4.6K views · 100 reactions | "She was there to aid and abet the Taiwanese independence movement." Vice President of the Centre for China and Globalisation, Victor Gao, says Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan was "in gross violation of the One China policy - and this is why China is very angry." | Channel 4 News | Facebook