Taiwan president meets US House Speaker amid China tensions
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm Jackie Leonard and in the early hours of Thursday, the 6th of April, these are our |
| 0:08.9 | main stories. |
| 0:10.0 | Taiwan's president has met the speaker of the US House of Representatives in California. |
| 0:14.6 | Despite threats of retaliation from China, Brazil's former president, Gyae Bolsonaro, |
| 0:19.6 | has been giving evidence to police about alleged attempts to bring millions of dollars worth |
| 0:23.6 | of jewelry into the country. |
| 0:25.7 | And one of the world's biggest online criminal marketplaces, Genesis Market, has been taken |
| 0:30.6 | down in an operation by police in 17 countries. |
| 0:36.4 | Also in this podcast, I honestly thought initially it was my water bottle leak. |
| 0:41.4 | And when I looked back down, I saw the head of the snake receding kind of needs to |
| 0:46.1 | seat. |
| 0:47.1 | The unsettling realization at 3000 metres up that there was a venomous snake on the plane. |
| 0:55.7 | Democracy is under threat. |
| 0:57.4 | A warning from the president of Taiwan, Tsaiying Wang, as she met the US House Speaker Kevin |
| 1:02.8 | McCarthy on Wednesday in California. |
| 1:05.2 | Mastai also said Taiwan was grateful that the United States was by its side. |
| 1:09.8 | It is no secret that today, the peace that we have maintained, and the democracy which |
| 1:16.5 | have worked hard to build, are facing unprecedented challenges. |
| 1:23.8 | We once again find ourselves in the world where democracy is under threat. |
| 1:30.4 | And the urgency of keeping the beacon of freedom shining cannot be understated. |
| 1:37.8 | Kevin McCarthy is the most high profile American official to welcome a Taiwanese president |
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