CER Podcast: The Taiwan election: China cares, but should Europe?

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🗓️ 18 January 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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In our latest Centre for European Reform podcast, Deputy Director Ian Bond speaks to Philippe Le Corre, Senior Fellow at the Asia Society's Centre for China Analysis, Helena Legarda, Lead Analyst at the Mercator Institute for China Studies, and Christina Keßler, Clara Marina O'Donnell Fellow 2023-24. They provide some background on Taiwan's recent elections before examining reactions to the result from China, the US and Europe. They then debate what Europe's role should be in the Taiwan Strait. Music by Edward Hipkins Produced by Octavia Hughes

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0:00.0	From the Center for European Reform, this is the CIA podcast.
0:04.0	Poson us seriously the question of the
0:05.9	future that we want, and we all
0:08.0	all together to the courage to be construing.
0:10.5	For us in Germany, is the
0:11.9	Bekenness to the European Europe,
0:14.0	a part of our state's resolve.
0:15.6	A strong united Europe is a necessity for the world
0:17.8	because an integrated Europe remains vital to our
0:20.1	international order. This is the moment for Europe world because integrated Europe remains vital to our international order.
0:21.3	This is the moment for Europe to lead the way towards a new vitality.
0:28.9	Hello and welcome to the latest podcast from the Centre for European Reform, the first of
0:34.4	2024, so happy new year to our listeners. I'm Ian Bond, the CER's deputy director.
0:40.3	So on January the 13th, the first of a lot of important elections this year took place.
0:46.2	But they happened in a place that only a dozen other states recognize as a country, namely Taiwan.
0:51.8	And Lai Ching-Tir, also known as William Lai, who's been Taiwan's
0:56.4	vice president since 2020, is now the president-elect, and for the third election in succession,
1:02.3	the Democratic Progressive Party has held onto the presidency. So far, so dull. But in the run-up
1:08.5	to the election, tens of thousands of words were written by hundreds
1:12.5	of commentators around the world about these elections. So what we want to do in this podcast
1:17.5	is to explain the background to the election and talk about the implications of the results,
1:24.0	including for Europe. And I have three great guests to help me explore these issues.
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