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Pro-unification activists display placards that read "92 consensus" during a protest outside the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) headquarters in Taipei on May 18, 2016. Hundreds of pro-unification activists demanded Taiwan's president-elect Tsai Ing-wen to promise to recognise the 1992 Consensus to keep the peace with China. China and Taiwan split in 1949 after the Kuomintang nationalist forces lost a civil war to the Communists, but Beijing has always seen the island as a renegade province awaiting reunification, by force if necessary. / AFP / SAM YEH (Photo credit should read SAM YEH/AFP via Getty Images)

Pro-unification activists display placards that read "92 consensus" during a protest outside the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) headquarters in Taipei on May 18, 2016. Hundreds of pro-unification activists demanded Taiwan's president-elect Tsai Ing-wen to promise to recognise the 1992 Consensus to keep the peace with China. China and Taiwan split in 1949 after the Kuomintang nationalist forces lost a civil war to the Communists, but Beijing has always seen the island as a renegade province awaiting reunification, by force if necessary. / AFP / SAM YEH (Photo credit should read SAM YEH/AFP via Getty Images)
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