The Battle for Taiwan

In this Conflicted Conversation, journalist Chris Horton talks about his new book Ghost Nation: The Story of Taiwan and Its Struggle for Survival (amzn.eu/d/09zVPNz1).

Chris explains:

• Why China wants Taiwan and why the island is vital to control of the western Pacific.

• Taiwan’s strategic position in the First Island Chain between China, Japan and the Philippines.

• How a Chinese invasion, blockade or maritime quarantine of Taiwan could unfold.

• Why a war over Taiwan could devastate global trade and the world economy.

• What Taiwan’s fall would mean for US power, Japan and the Philippines.

• Why Taiwan is an independent democracy but still officially called the Republic of China.

• Who the Taiwanese are: Indigenous peoples, Hoklo, Hakka and post-1949 mainlanders.

• How martial law, dictatorship and democratisation created modern Taiwanese identity.

• Why the Kuomintang, once Communist China’s enemy, is now Taiwan’s most Beijing-friendly major party.

• Whether Taiwan could eventually choose closer integration with China through democracy rather than war.

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Conflicted is a Message Heard production.

Executive Producers: Jake Warren & Max Warren.

Produced and edited by Thomas Small .

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