In October, there was a massive surge in support for the KMT.

Also in October, you had dozens of news outlets reporting on Chinese influence campaigns inside Taiwan in the final months leading up to the election

in order to start seeding influence campaigns that would ultimately result in a win for the KMT.

You can literally see, you can put a pin on it when China started pouring money and pouring

effort and resources into covert influence in Taiwan.

So it looks like Taiwan has chosen who they want to be their next president. Yeah, I saw that this morning.

I actually was surprised I had to look for it.

So it's Sunday here and I don't get my, you know, my daily newsletters on

Sunday. But I was surprised I pulled up AP and it wasn't at the top. It was, you know, the hundred

days of the Hamas Israel conflict is at the top. And then I had to really search the news site for news of Taiwan's election, which honestly,

to me, and I think to you, it's really big news.

Yeah, it's really interesting to me too, because not only was the election hard to find,

but any of the information in the lead-up to the election was hard to find.

And I mean, so I think what you and I are both agreeing on is that January 13th,

2004 was kind of the first round of all the chaos that might happen in

2024 between the US and China.

Because understanding how Taiwan was going to choose its next president was going to tell a lot

about how the U.S. and how China would react to Taiwan throughout 2024.

And not just that, but I think it tells us a lot about the level of influence,

like the success that China has or has not been having on influencing the people in Taiwan.

And, you know, I would love to pick this apart because you're exactly right.

The details are super important. So essentially, you know, January 13th, which for you and I was just yesterday,

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