We look at China’s new charm offensive in its attempts to exert global power as Xi Jinping visited Vladimir Putin in Moscow. What does this mean for Ukraine as China’s proposed peace plan still refuses to address land stolen by Russia? Also, we discuss the power of unmanned warfare with Taiwan’s new drones and the lessons the country can draw from Ukrainian resistance.
Chapters:
01:33 Miles Yu: Xi-Putin Meeting Analysis
06:16 Chinese motives for mediating on Ukraine
17:46 Shashank Joshi: Ukrainian drones and Australian submarines
22:45 Taiwan’s new drones, future of unmanned warfare
33:15 Wen Lii: How China undermines public support for U.S.
38:24 China’s grand plan to take over Taiwan
Our guests today are:
- Yen Chen-shen, National Chengchi University Professor of Political Science, Taiwan-U.S.-China relations expert
- Yurii Poita, head of the New Geopolitics Research Network Asia Section Center for Army, Conversion Disarmament Studies based in Kyiv, Ukraine, currently visiting research fellow at the Institute for National Defense and Security Research
We also speak to:
- Miles Yu, former principal China policy and planning advisor to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, currently Director of the China Center at the Hudson Institute and East Asia and military and naval history professor at the U.S. Naval Academy
- Shashank Joshi, defense editor at the Economist
- Wen Lii, director of the Matsu Islands chapter of the Democratic Progressive Party
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