Taiwan is a small collection of islands off the Chinese coast. It is also the place where one of the biggest conflicts in history could begin.
That’s because it is caught in a geopolitical tug-of-war between America and China that is threatening to spiral into a Third World War between the superpowers.
Xi Jinping views Taiwan as a breakaway Chinese province and has vowed to ‘reunify’ it with the mainland, by force if necessary.
