TOKYO -- After spending many years as an official in China's Fujian Province, across the waters from Taiwan, President Xi Jinping has strong personal feelings about the self-ruled island.
When Xi Jinping, right, in early January addressed his “compatriots in Taiwan” he could not have foreseen how the island would harden against his proposal for a "one country, two systems" style unification. (Nikkei Montage/ Getty Images/ Reuters)
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