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Pro-independent protesters from the Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU) display placards that read "Sha Hailin (not in the picture), Shanghai Municipal Committee United Front Work Department Director, pushes unification of Taiwan" outside the Songshan airport in Taipei on August 22, 2016. Angry Taiwanese protested against a visit by a top Shanghai official, which they slammed as pushing for China's unification of Taiwan . Sha becames the highest-ranking official to visit Taiwan as ties have grown increasingly frosty under Taiwan's new Beijing-sceptic government. / AFP / SAM YEH (Photo credit should read SAM YEH/AFP/Getty Images)

Pro-independent protesters from the Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU) display placards that read "Sha Hailin (not in the picture), Shanghai Municipal Committee United Front Work Department Director, pushes unification of Taiwan" outside the Songshan airport in Taipei on August 22, 2016. Angry Taiwanese protested against a visit by a top Shanghai official, which they slammed as pushing for China's unification of Taiwan . Sha becames the highest-ranking official to visit Taiwan as ties have grown increasingly frosty under Taiwan's new Beijing-sceptic government. / AFP / SAM YEH (Photo credit should read SAM YEH/AFP/Getty Images)
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