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
Everyone noticed but judging by the turnout perhaps you did. At the outset here i want to say a couple words about the election of taiwan on saturday and just a couple and turn it over to our guests and Panel Speakers to offer advice and insight. First of all, i think that the election says more about taiwan than it says about anything else. I only highlight that because i think we are immediately moving to what this means for china. For all practical purposes, 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 that the rest of the free world values, its conducted its southern president ial election and major ecommerce meant. Its getting to be such a normal thing that its barely even merits congratulations anymore because we have an election every four years, every two years with midterm elections and the world does not congratulate us on having made this ac
I appreciate all of you coming out. Thank you. I particularly want to think russell and Global Taiwan Institute for partnering with us on this program today. Im glad we could work this out. There was a little election over the weekend and i dont know if everyone noticed but judging by the turnout perhaps you did. At the outset here i want to say a couple words about the election of taiwan on saturday and just a couple and turn it over to our guests and Panel Speakers to offer advice and insight. First of all, i think that the election says more about taiwan than it says about anything else. I only highlight that because i think we are immediately moving to what this means for china. For all practical purposes, 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 that the rest of the free world values, its conducted its southern president ial election and major
World. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. We want to start in hong kong, where the chaos continues. Police and protesters clashed again after violent weekend standups. The Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman reiterated beijings support for the police force, calling the protesters extremely violent criminals. Precedent, you can see what is happening in hong kong right now is not a peaceful demonstration. It has turned into a violent protest against ordinary people led by a small group of extreme violent criminals. Alix joining me from hong kong is karen leigh. Walk us through the significance of what happened over the weekend in terms of escalation at the university. Anotherong kong had week of chaos after a week that has paralyzed part of the city. Carrie lam and other officials are urging protesters at the university to surrender, even as activists are calling for more rallies near the campus to support these demonstrators cured police and protesters
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