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President Lai Ching-te's First Year Sees Tensions Increase at Home and Abroad

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Increasing tensions in domestic politics have marked Lai Ching-te's first year as president as he jockeys with a split legislature. The president’s first year in office has seen Beijing increasing its military assertiveness and U.S. President Donald Trump’s aggressive approach to trade and foreign policy, with Lai facing pushback to his civil defense reforms and other programs. Kharis Templeman from the Hoover Institution and Stanford University joins Zoom In Zoom Out to discuss these challenges and how President Lai and his administration have juggled a changing Taiwan and world.