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Nov 10, 2018
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A plan to make English Taiwan’s official second language, agreed earlier this week by the National Development Council (NDC), is raising suspicions in Beijing that the real goal is to distance the island further from China by “decinisizing” its people.

The delivery date for completion is 2030, 12 years from now, the period it will take for today’s elemen…

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