Mao 2.0 ? Xi Jinping’s Power Quest and Disengaging With U.S. | Taiwan Talks EP92
📹Host: Rath Wang/ Betty Chen
We discuss Xi Jinping’s grip on power as China’s Congress rubber stamped his third term last weekend. We also take a deep dive at what this means for Taiwan and the region as he disengages with the U.S.
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:22 Xi’s pledge for China
01:39 How Xi compares with Mao Zedong
19:21 Glaser: Behind China’s call for interactions with Taiwan
20:57 Are more flights from Taiwan goodwill?
38:59 Hung: Why Xi is pushing for disengagement with U.S.
43:39 Is U.S.-China collision unavoidable?
Our guests are:
– Vincent Chao, Taipei City Councilor (Democratic Progressive Party) and former Director of the Political Division of TECRO, Taiwan’s Representative Office in the U.S.
– Lev Nachman, National Chengchi University Assistant Professor in the College of Social Sciences and Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of California, Irvine
We also speak with:
– Bonnie Glaser, Director of the Asia Program at the U.S.-based German Marshall Fund and renowned expert on Taiwan and China
– Ho-fung Hung, Johns Hopkins University Professor, Hong Kong native CCP expert and author of Clash of Empires: From “Chimerica” to the “New Cold War”
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