Today, we ask what the new U.S. House Select Committee for the Chinese Communist Party means for Taiwan and the region. Are America and other democracies around the world waking up to China’s global threat and does that translate to more support in deterring a Chinese invasion?
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:27 Committee Chair Mike Gallagher on the Chinese threat
01:35 U.S. pushback on China and Taiwan defense
17:27 How TikTok threats people's daily lives
25:11 Global pushback on Chinese expansionism
35:06 Select Committee’s Taiwan focus
40:28 A reset in Chinese ‘wolf-warrior’ foreign policy?
Our guests are:
- Raymond Sung, Taiwan New Constitution Foundation Deputy CEO, an expert in Taiwan’s legal status and the region’s geopolitics
- Chen Fang-yu, Soochow University Political Science Assistant Professor, former visiting research fellow at George Washington University and the Global Taiwan Institute in Washington, D.C.
We also speak with:
- Steve Yates, former White House Deputy Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs and Chair of the China Policy Initiative at the America First Policy Institute
- Jimmy Quinn, National Review national security correspondent, who is frequently quoted in the Washington Post, Politico, and several of Taiwan’s leading news outlets