happened, william lai has been elected as president with the most votes and he has made his victory speech. what do you make of some of the words he has said about having to safeguard the interests of taiwan? t to safeguard the interests of taiwan? ~ , ., , taiwan? i think it is a very important taiwan? i think it is a very important message - taiwan? i think it is a very important message for. taiwan? i think it is a very - important message for taiwan. this is the third term that his party has won back and it has had a platform of maintaining a cautious distance from china, refusing to be economically absorbed by china, emphasising the need to continue the self governance and the democracy of taiwan. self-governance and the democracy of taiwan. ,, , ., , , ., ~ taiwan. shelley who we were speaking to ust now taiwan. shelley who we were speaking to just now was taiwan. shelley who we were speaking to just now was saying taiwan. shelley who we were speaking to just now was sayin
vibrant democracy. t engaged when it comes to having a vibrant democracy. vibrant democracy. i said this in an earlier interview, vibrant democracy. i said this in an earlier interview, i vibrant democracy. i said this in an earlier interview, i just vibrant democracy. i said this in an earlier interview, i just want - vibrant democracy. i said this in an earlier interview, i just want to - earlier interview, i just want to emphasise it. pro china news outweighs pro taiwan news by a factor of ten to one. this means that taiwanese media consumption often has pro china news and there is 5.5 million tiktok users in taiwan and there is a lot of disinformation spread through tiktok about how democracy is a failure. it tries to sow discord within taiwan. maintaining some atmosphere of free ideas and the free exchange of ideas and some sort of trust in democratic institutions is really important to taiwan. i am very critical of the ddp in terms of its ability to protect workers and lowe
of what gets done that impacts tens of millions of americans represents a critical flaw in the structure of democracy as it is operating now? it may not be at the time of its creation. now with 330 million people, 50 states. it doesn t seem to be functioning the way it was intended to. the problem that we have is that we have what we had back in the cold war era. these southern democrats who look like they have the democratic label but in fact, they were ultra conservative and deeply anti-civil rights. deeply anti-black. and they would align with the conservative republicans in order to block key legislation that would make this democracy vibrant. they blocked anti-lynching legislation. they blocked civil rights legislation. they blocked fair employment legislation. so that s what we re having right now. when you see sinema and manchin, they re acting like traditional