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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Hope dpp lose😂 china will take back Taiwan 💪💪💪

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Taiwan is like a ant...I do not think US will help u in trouble..u hv eye to c what is happening in Afghanistan n Ukraine

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Hope Taiwan don't b likes Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Vietnam, Syrian, Iraq still more..n Ukraine after Taiwan 😂😂🔥