Taiwan: China's Ukraine?
Dan Snow's History Hit
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4.7 • 12.9K Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Located just 100 miles off the coast of mainland China, the nation of Taiwan sits in the so-called 'first island chain' - a group of US-friendly territories deemed crucial to American foreign policy.
Yet China's president Xi Jinping maintains that Chinese reunification with Taiwan must be fulfilled. He's not ruled out the possible use of military force - and neither has US president Joe Biden. Tensions have grown even in the last few weeks, so to what extent can tensions over Taiwan be compared to those between Russia and Ukraine?
In this episode, James Rogers from History Hit's Warfare podcast is joined by Samir Puri, Senior Fellow in Urban Security and Hybrid Warfare at the International Institute for Strategic Studies based in Singapore, to take a deep dive into the history between China & Taiwan and answer the question: could Taiwan really become China's Ukraine?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, welcome to Dan Snow's History. I've got an episode of Warfare for you today. |
| 0:04.9 | It's a special military history podcast and subscribe wherever you get your post presented by Dr. James Rogers. |
| 0:11.1 | It covers, well, Warfare from the early modern period, but particularly first and second |
| 0:16.2 | of the war. So recently we're putting a lot on Ukraine as well. It's fascinating stuff. |
| 0:20.0 | He gets great guests. Enjoy this episode. It's an eye opener. |
| 0:23.2 | Located just 100 miles off the coast of mainland China, the nation of Taiwan sits in the so-called |
| 0:30.8 | First Island chain, which includes a list of US friendly territories deemed crucial to US foreign |
| 0:36.6 | policy. Yet China's president Xi Jinping has said that Chinese reunification with Taiwan |
| 0:41.8 | must be fulfilled, and he's not ruled out the possible use of force to achieve this. |
| 0:46.6 | In fact, tensions have grown over the last few weeks between the US and China, with the shadows |
| 0:51.1 | of the Ukraine crisis spreading far and wide over global affairs. US President Joe Biden has also |
| 0:57.1 | come out and said that he would be willing to use force to defend Taiwan, a statement which is |
| 1:01.6 | triggered two hours of what the White House called direct and honest talks between the two leaders. |
| 1:06.6 | So with all this in mind, how did we get to the point in history? Whether US and China, |
| 1:11.1 | both state the willing to risk war over Taiwan? Well, I'm your host James Rogers, and here on the |
| 1:16.0 | Warfare Podcast, I'm joined by renowned international security expert Dr. Samir Puri. Samir is a senior |
| 1:22.5 | fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Affairs in Singapore, and so he has those regional |
| 1:27.9 | and historical expertise that we need to help us place these current tensions in their proper |
| 1:33.3 | historical context. Now of course, if you're a regular listener to the Warfare Podcast, |
| 1:38.2 | or if this is your first episode, well first of all thanks for listening, and second, |
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