Affairs Committee Member looks at what the relations mean for u. S. Taiwan relations. Hello. Welcome everyone. Im walter logan. Im director of the Asian Studies center here at the heritage foundation. I really appreciate all of you coming out, thank you. I want to thank rustle shou for partnering with us on this program today. Im so glad we could work this out. You know, there was a little election over the weekend. I dont know if everyone noticed, but judging by the turnout, perhaps you did. You know, at the outset here i just want to say a couple of things about the elections in taiwan on saturday, just a couple, and turn it over to our guests and our Panel Speakers to offer real advice on it, real insight. First of all, i think that the election says more about taiwan than it says about anything else. I not only highlight that because i think we all are immediately moving to what this means for china. For all practical purposes, all practical purposes, taiwan is really not a part of
Noticed, but judging by the turnout perhaps you did. Outset, i wanted to say a couple words about the election in taiwan on saturday, just a couple, and then turned over turn it over to our Panel Speakers to offer insight. First, i think that the election says more about taiwan then it says about anything else. That only highlight because i think we all are immediately moving to what it means for china. For all practical purposes, taiwan is not a part of china. Why do we move immediately to talk about what this means for china . What it means most is that taiwan values the same things the rest of the free world values. It has conducted its seventh residential election president ial election. It is getting to be such a normal thing that it barely even merits congratulations anymore. We have an election every four years, every two years. The world does not congratulate us on having made this achievement. It has become commonplace in taiwan. It has become commonplace because they value th
In the end, all world processes have already. Come down to a simple thing the west is trying to rebuild and maintain its position, not the west to achieve equality and get a chance for a normal life, that is, everything is like during the cold war, when the colonial system collapsed and the desire of the newly independent countries to look to the east, that is, to the soviet union, was extinguished by the formation states vidrin, now the west clearly hopes that everything can be gradually reduced again to simple if you want to be like us, be with us, and this should stop the new turn to the east, and the fact that the combinations are similar. This is exactly gutierres statement geopolitical rivalry has brought the Nuclear Threat to the level of the cold war, to eliminate it, humanity should eliminate nuclear weapons. But here, on the one hand, no one remembers that it was the soviet union that constantly suggested during the cold war lets we are eliminating nuclear weapons, and this w
The problem goes beyond the Basketball Court and what the Ethics Commission is saying about it picks 7 00 saturday morning, thank you for doing this i am annemakovec the live look outside, its going to be another hot one today, as weve seen the last of several days live look over the city of San Francisco one of the cooler spots that will be hitting 90s inland, right now 58 San Francisco, 68 san jose, here is meteorologist paul deanno. Pattern change starts today and it will take five days to really take shape but cooler weather is coming to the bay area fresh, hot his debut friday. Ridge of High Pressure moving out and the area of low pressure you see moving in with cloud cover and that will usher in a wind direction change which for us is a big deal. We will drop temperatures abate tomorrow but more towards sunday and next week at 84 degrees later today for fremont 84 san mateo revell 85 vallejo well above average and cooler than what we were friday if it livermore triple digits frid
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