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This is John Batchel, a conversation with colleagues Steve Yates of the Heritage Foundation

about how propaganda in China can turn remarks by the president,

such as Taiwan being traded in some fashion, in a China trade deal, very odd, very suggestive.

And here Steve tells how the adversary, that would be the People's Republic of China,

uses this to undermine the confidence the people of Taiwan have in their own government

and in the United States as an ally.

Games afoot. Here's Steve to explain.

Well, people in Taiwan are overwhelmingly affected by the information that comes in.

Some of them are savvy and on social media and otherwise where they can get a lot of different voices from America

and otherwise, but a lot of just passive consumers get what a lot of the Trump critic media

are hyping. Now, some of those criticisms might be right, but I think they get a little bit out

of proportion. So in general, people in Taiwan are

quite concerned that there's a transactional president who might be willing to sell them out or

trade them for a promise from China. That narrative gets played around in partisan politics and Taiwan's

media near constantly.

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