TAIWAN: POLITICAL WARFARE. KERRY GERSHANECK. @GORDONGCHANG, GATESTONE, NEWSWEEK, THE HILL
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:44.0 | Thank you. Remember to hit Follow so you don't miss an episode. This is CBSI in the world. |
| 0:46.2 | I'm John Batser with my colleague and friend Gordon Chang at Gordon G. Chang. |
| 0:50.3 | And we go immediately to Taiwan to welcome Kerry Gershanik, author of Political Warfare, |
| 0:55.7 | Strategies for Combating China's Plan to Win Without Fighting. |
| 1:00.5 | Carrie, a very good day to you. |
| 1:02.6 | A photograph, two photographs appearing in the Financial Times, |
| 1:06.0 | one showing Xi Jinping, shaking the hands of billionaires such as Jack Ma, signaling, according to the copy, |
| 1:15.2 | that they were welcome in Beijing. And then the next day, shaking hands with entrepreneurs, |
| 1:20.6 | many of whom were anonymous, associating themselves with Deep Seek or a Chinese breakthrough, |
| 1:27.4 | so called. This looks like a reversal of the |
| 1:30.5 | tables that we've watched for years now, where the Chinese Communist Party insisted on all |
| 1:36.6 | data must stay in China. We must have access to all board decisions, and we do not trust |
| 1:43.1 | Western investment. Now it appears that they're reversing |
| 1:46.8 | course. Is this political warfare? Good evening to you, Carrie. John, good evening, and it is political |
| 1:53.4 | warfare on several levels, and it is also deception. So political warfare is both external, |
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