S8 Ep1133: Steve Yates analyzes the Taiwan People's Party's (TPP) historic visit to mainland China. Originally a pro-identity youth movement, the TPP is now seeking political power through a coalition with the pro-China KMT. This shift complicates Taiwan's political
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 16 July 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Steve Yates analyzes the Taiwan People's Party's (TPP) historic visit to mainland China. Originally a pro-identity youth movement, the TPP is now seeking political power through a coalition with the pro-China KMT. This shift complicates Taiwan's political landscape, as the younger demographic overwhelmingly identifies as Taiwanese, not Chinese. (5)
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| 0:25.6 | This is a high risk investment and you should going to the island of Taiwan for an interpretation. |
| 0:55.2 | There's an historic visit underway on the mainland by a political unit called the TPP. |
| 1:01.7 | We welcome our friend, Steve Yates, of the Heritage Foundation, to understand because my years of |
| 1:07.8 | reporting on Taiwan, thanks to these gentlemen, has always regarded the Guamandong as the opposition. |
| 1:14.3 | This is new to me. |
| 1:16.1 | Steve, a very good day to you. |
| 1:17.7 | What is the TPP? |
| 1:20.0 | And there's suggestion here that it has elements of a populist party, which would put Taiwan consistent with other populist parties, say, in Germany or in France or in America. |
| 1:30.5 | Is that what it is? |
| 1:31.7 | Why historic visit? |
| 1:33.6 | Good evening to you. |
| 1:34.9 | Well, thank you, John. |
| 1:36.3 | This is where Taiwan is the gift that keeps on giving in that it has a lot of things that would sound familiar when we talk about the pieces. |
| 1:43.5 | But the way they mix together |
| 1:44.8 | in Taiwan is a bit different than you might imagine at first blush. The TPP in its origins was a |
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