With Putin’s war in Ukraine, is a return to imperialism around the corner? Is the world standing at the precipice of a sustained campaign of empire-building?
China would also rewrite borders, annexing Taiwan and claiming the entire South China Sea, as well as the Diaoyutai Islands. Is the PRC also a new imperial state? And what are the implications for democracy worldwide?
In today’s program, our panelists Yen Chen-shen professor of Political Science at National Chengchi University and Albert Chui, professor of Political Science of Donghai University, will discuss the strategic positions of Russia, China, and the United States in the context of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
We also speak to Oleksandr Merezhko, Ukrainian Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee Chair and Chairman of the Ukraine-Taiwan Friendship Group, as well as Mathieu Droin, visiting fellow at CSIS in the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program, focusing on Transatlantic Security and Defense.
Topics covered in the show include:
-Europe’s imperial past
-Why both German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron used the term “Imperialism” in their UN General Assembly speeches
-Post war order under threat due to the rise of unilateralism
- Does CCP change rules in its favor?
- 19th Century, the century of humiliation
- Does Taiwan’s democracy threaten China
- West’s so-called decline prompting assertiveness from autocracies
- Responsibility for democracies to make democracy more attractive
- Have democracies given up on China?
- Putin says Ukraine part of “historical, Russian lands”
- Xi’s wording on Taiwan from similar playbook
- Revisionist and distorted history
- Can the future be dictated by history?
-To what extent is there U.S. imperialism?
-Failed diplomacy in face of Crimea annexation
-Lessons for Taiwan in diplomacy
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