Ep. 324 | The History of Taiwan (Part 15)
The China History Podcast
Laszlo Montgomery
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Last episode we looked at the Chen Shui-bian and Ma Ying-jeou years from 2000-2016. In Part 15 we'll take the narrative up to the present time. We'll examine the Tsai Ing-wen presidency and where she contrasts with her predecessors. Where cross-strait relations are concerned, differences are quite stark. Since the final years of the Obama presidency, the US-China relationship has been steadily deteriorating. And caught in the middle of this conflict is Taiwan. I hope this series has been helpful and useful to you. It ran a little long but it's a big story to tell.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back again, CHP listeners all around the world. |
| 0:03.2 | Lauselomont comrade here with you once again. |
| 0:06.0 | This time bringing you the grand finale of this series covering the history of Taiwan. |
| 0:12.0 | Over the past nine and a half hours, spread out over 14 episodes. |
| 0:16.5 | We looked at Taiwan's history from the prehistory of the Indigenous Austronesian people, |
| 0:22.2 | living throughout this island paradise, with all its earthquakes and typhoons. |
| 0:28.1 | And we took the story all the way up to the presidential administration of Mayingcho |
| 0:33.2 | in the last episode. And over the past several episodes in particular, I've tried to offer you |
| 0:38.8 | a general intro to the two main political parties in Taiwan's government and where both of them |
| 0:44.4 | stand on some of the key issues. Despite the generalizations here and there, |
| 0:49.8 | I hope you're at least getting a flavor for the differences between the two coalitions, |
| 0:53.9 | the blue and the green. The pan blues, the fun lang li'en mung, |
| 0:59.2 | besides the KMT who comprise the majority of that coalition. There's the people's first party, |
| 1:05.0 | the new party, and nonpartisan solidarity union. We know where the KMT stands on many issues. |
| 1:12.6 | And those aligned with the pan blues today might think the status quo works best for Taiwan. |
| 1:18.8 | The pan-green coalition, the fun li'en mung, now we've looked at their early struggles and |
| 1:25.5 | rise. They have a few points of contention with the pan blues, as we saw last episode, the KMT's, |
| 1:32.4 | tried to make amends for their past atrocities and injustices. But there remains a chasm between |
| 1:39.0 | the blues and the greens over how much more the KMT should be held accountable for all the |
| 1:44.3 | hell they wrought for so many and for so long, even two two-way to have to the compensation |
| 1:50.3 | and the apologies. The matter is still not over in the eyes of many greens. Too many of those |
| 1:56.0 | responsible got handed a pass. Same with the past interpretation of the history of Taiwan and |
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