S8 Ep905: Anne Lord emphasizes Taiwan's critical importance to the global economy via its semiconductor industry. She notes that the Taiwanese people are prepared and investing heavily in defense to protect their democracy and technology. (12/16)
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 21 May 2026
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| 1:21.3 | helping me to understand a new book launching us in a conversation about Taiwan. |
| 1:26.4 | You've heard about it all the time in terms of |
| 1:28.3 | arms packages, threats by Xi Jinping constantly. He gets up in the morning, he threatens Taiwan. |
| 1:34.2 | That's his morning exercise. And recently, a conversation with the president of the United States, |
| 1:39.6 | which could have been about world trade, which could have been about opening up the state of |
| 1:43.9 | four moves and returning rational thinking to Europe and Africa. have been about world trade, which could have been about opening up the Strait of Formoos |
| 1:44.5 | and returning rational thinking to Europe and Africa, especially the parts of Africa that |
| 1:50.0 | depend upon the food that might not be there because of the Straits of Formos being |
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