See how the Lai lands: Taiwan’s new president
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The Economist
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🗓️ 22 May 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Domestic divisions are already complicating the daunting task William Lai Ching-te has set himself: strengthening Taiwan while maintaining its ambiguous geopolitical status quo. With more and more big firms choosing to stay private—with good reason—the stockmarket is shrinking (09:37). And dating apps are putting an end to the lonely-hearts advertisement (16:47).
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| 0:00.0 | The Economist. |
| 0:04.0 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from the economist. I'm your host |
| 0:14.0 | Jason Palmer. Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events |
| 0:18.6 | shaping your world. There are fewer and fewer stock market listings these days because more and more companies |
| 0:30.0 | are choosing with good reason to stay private. |
| 0:33.4 | We look at how to stop the market disappearing altogether. |
| 0:39.2 | And there's a genre of advertisement that's on the way out that already feels anachronistic, the Lonely Hearts |
| 0:45.7 | ad. |
| 0:46.7 | Our correspondent sifts through centuries of them, finding that even as society has shifted |
| 0:51.7 | what the Lonely Want has stayed the same. |
| 1:02.1 | But first. Taiwan's national events are always somewhat delicate given its complicated political status and |
| 1:18.0 | the inauguration of William Leiting de Taiwan's new president was no exception. |
| 1:24.6 | Alice Sue is our senior China correspondent and co-hosts Drum Tower, our weekly show on China. |
| 1:30.3 | On Monday, I joined thousands of others in front of the presidential office in the capital, Taipei, to watch him ascend to Taiwan's highest office. |
| 1:38.0 | There was all the pomp and circumstance of the Republic of China, which is Taiwan's official name, and dates back to 1912 when it was founded in mainland China. |
| 1:46.0 | So there was a 21 gun salute, the National Anthem, and Lightingha taking an oath before a giant portrait of Changchaisek. |
| 1:53.2 | No one is a lien. |
| 1:55.0 | You're so, or a jean, |
| 1:58.0 | a sce, a sce, a sien, achien. |
| 2:01.0 | But many people in Taiwan no longer identify with China. |
| 2:07.6 | William Lai in particular is known for being an advocate of Taiwanese identity, |
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