The world’s biggest election year: Why does Taiwan matter?
This Is Why
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🗓️ 11 January 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson talks to Sky’s Asia correspondent Helen-Ann Smith as Taiwan goes to the polls this weekend, to find out why China and others will be watching closely.
Plus, our deputy political editor Sam Coates and US correspondent Mark Stone join Niall to look at the importance of other key elections taking place this year, including in the UK and America.
Senior podcast producer: Annie Joyce
Interviews producer: Melissa Tutesigensi-Charles
Promotion producer: David Chipakupaku
Editor: Paul Stanworth
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| 1:05.0 | the fact 2024 could well be the world's biggest election year ever. Half the world's population could be voting in places as disparate as the United Kingdom, |
| 1:16.7 | the United States, India, and if you're an election fan, this weekend, |
| 1:21.1 | plenty to be interested in over in Taiwan. |
| 1:24.7 | So we have our US correspondent Mark Stone, |
| 1:27.4 | we have our deputy political editor Sam |
| 1:29.3 | Coates and also our Asia correspondent Helen Ann Smith are all standing by. Mark and Sam, of course, |
| 1:35.3 | have already accepted that they'll be seeing an awful lot less of their families in 2024. The |
| 1:40.5 | Iococcus just around the corner and of course the UK domestic election campaign really |
| 1:45.3 | ratcheting up. But as we have, the rare privilege of having three of our Sky News correspondents here, |
| 1:51.6 | I am just wondering who has the most election to cover. Mark, let's start with you. What's the |
| 1:57.5 | significance where you are? The limelight is going to be on American politics because we are looking, as the polls would suggest at the moment, at Trump 2.0, with all that that entails. |
| 2:11.1 | I may be wrong. We're a year out, but it's looking like Trump versus Biden. |
| 2:15.6 | And I think you can come back to me in a year's time, |
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