This is Sarah Stewart Holland and this is Beth Silverce.

Thank you for joining us for Pantsuit Politics.

Welcome to another episode of Pantsuit Politics.

Today we're talking about China and are delighted to be joined by Bethany Allen Ibrahimin.

Bethany is the China reporter at Axios and author of the weekly Axios China newsletter.

We've had around the show before and she is one of our favorite experts on China.

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Next up we're going to talk about China.

Bethany thank you so much for coming back to Pantsuit Politics.

Really my pleasure.

Oh I'm so glad since we last talked with you, you have made a big move.

I would love to hear about your move to Taiwan and how being there is impacting your understanding of the tensions surrounding China and Taiwan.

Sure well I was really thrilled that Axios supported me to move here.

I pitched that idea to them a couple of years ago and what I really wanted was to be back in this time zone.

You know it's close to China as I could be.

I've covered China for many years now from mostly from DC.

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