This is Jack Pissopic and you're listening to human events daily.

Now one thing that I wanted to do as we're in this sort of Christmas break period was

to record a couple of episodes of human events daily where we're doing some conversations,

we're doing some evergreen pieces, we're doing some stuff that just you really can listen

to it at any time.

And one thing that a lot of people, even the producers here, were saying, you know, Jack

one thing you were always talking about this, always hearing about it, China and Taiwan,

China and Taiwan.

Can you give us a quick, you know, quick and dirty deep dive on China and Taiwan?

Why is it the way that it is?

How did it get to the way that it is?

And why are we seeing potentially that China, which is controlled by the CCP, wants to invade

and take over Taiwan?

And I said, really guys, you don't, you don't, you know, know this.

And it's because sometimes I forget, you know, to me, I've been studying this problem

set in East Asia for 15 years.

And I've been traveling there, I lived in Shanghai for about two years, traveled all throughout

the region.

I've been to Taiwan multiple times.

I've actually sailed through the Taiwan straight while aboard a Navy vessel in 2016.

So yeah, this is something that's, that to me is just kind of old hat.

But I said, you know, okay, yeah, we'll do a quick, you know, a quick explainer on the

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