China and Taiwan don't get along - in fact, Xi Jinping has threatened to use force to "reunify" the island with the mainland. But why? To understand, we have to go back more than a century to the events of the Chinese Civil War.

President Donald Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping have begun what is expected to be three to four hours of high-stakes ,in-person talks in hopes of lowering the temperature of a simmering trade war that has threatened to boil over and upend the global economy.

On October 25, 1945, the governance rights over Taiwan, a former Japanese colony and defeated power in World War II, were transferred to the Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) regime, a member of the victorious Allied powers.

Taiwan continues to strengthen its defense posture as China prepares for a potential invasion across the strait.

Facing China’s growing military and political pressure, Taiwan races to strengthen its defenses before it’s too late.

Taiwan is warily watching whether China could seek to try and exert economic control over sensitive frontline Taiwanese islands in a key development plan being discussed in Beijing this week, officials familiar with the matter said.

Beijing has been expanding its arsenal, and distrust between China and the United States over nuclear weapons has deepened, with little hope of an agreement.