I'm John Batchel. Gordon Chang, at Gordon Ging Chang, my colleague and co-host,

and we're most concerned with Taiwan.

The concern has to do with the threats issued by the Chinese Communist Party, the PRCs, PLA, and other institutions in China,

against the people of Taiwan and the island of Taiwan for decades.

Never more acutely, however, than under Xi Jinping these last years.

And we welcome our colleague at the Heritage Foundation, Steve Yates,

who has keen memory of the threats against Taiwan that have been building, building, building like an

opera here in the 21st century. And now another twist of the story, the leader of the Guamandong,

which is once upon a time the fabled party of Chiang Kai Shack, the leader of the Guamandong is traveling

to America, to Washington, D.C. to meet with officials, we can presume.

Recently, the leader of Guamandong, a very well-spoken young woman, was in Beijing meeting

with officials of the PRC.

At the same time, it's important to remember the Guamandong is not now in authority at the

presidential level in Taiwan, that is, the opposition to Guamandong, people who see Taiwan

as an independent state, a republic, a democracy, an extremely well-funded investment.

See, it is independent indefinitely, whereas the Guamandong has another idea.

Steve, a very good evening to you. I don't remember Guamong leadership coming to America.

In any event, it didn't happen recently. What is the ambition here? Good day to you.

Well, good day, John. There have been chairpersons of the KMT who've come to Washington periodically,

and they have from time to time been coincident with their cross-straight engagements to

update U.S. officials on what their takeaways were, and really from the

Chen Shui-Bien administration in the early 2000s forward during the periods when the KMT

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