Trouble over Taiwan: Bonnie Glaser for Opinion Has It

Bonnie Glaser assesses the conflicting pressures that will determine the island’s fate. The PS Say More Newsletter | [View this message in a web browser]( [PS Opinion Has It]( In this week's newsletter, we present the final episode of our podcast, Opinion Has It, hosted by Elmira Bayrasli. We hope you've enjoyed the show, and if you've missed any past episodes, that you'll give them a listen. Trouble over Taiwan [Trouble over Taiwan]( In this episode, Elmira Bayrasli talks with Bonnie Glaser, the director of the Asia program at the German Marshall Fund, and the host of the “China Global” podcast. Listen now on [PS]( [Acast]( [Apple]( [Google]( or [Spotify](. [Trouble over Taiwan]( In the Sino-American great-power drama, Taiwan has taken center stage, as China has ramped up pressure on the island. How much danger is Taiwan in – and how far will the US go to defend it? This week on the podcast, [Bonnie Glaser]( assesses the conflicting pressures that will determine the island’s fate. [Listen now]( Opinion Has It is also available on your favorite listening app. Listen now on [Acast]( [Apple]( [Google]( or [Spotify](. In this episode... Elmira Bayrasli: Bonnie, I want to talk about how all this looks from Taiwan. President Tsai Ing-wen's re-election in 2020 was widely considered a rebuke to China and opinion polls show extremely low support for unification. What relationship do the Taiwanese people want with China? Bonnie Glaser: Oh, that’s a great question. The Taiwanese people, for a long time, really wanted to have a good relationship with China. They wanted more trade, economic relations. Students wanted to go there to study. The salaries for young people were higher in mainland China, and people felt that they had a better future. Lots of people went. There’s over one million Taiwanese living in mainland China. The investment is huge. Over the course of decades... [Read the transcript]( Listen now on [PS]( [Acast]( [Apple]( [Google]( or [Spotify](. [Take 50% off a new subscription with the code BLACKFRIDAY2021]( Previously in Opinion Has It [Debt Wars]( [Debt Wars]( with [Barry Eichengreen]( Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author, most recently, of [In Defense of Public Debt]( The unprecedented fiscal spending that many governments unleashed in response to the COVID-19 crisis has fueled an increasingly heated debate over the risks posed by public debt. But the debate is far from new, and history holds important lessons that should inform it. Listen now on [PS]( [Acast]( [Apple]( [Google]( or [Spotify](. Or [read the transcript](. [Check out the Opinion Has It archive]( Previously in Say More [An Interview with Chris Patten]( [An Interview with Chris Patten]( [Chris Patten]( proposes a Taiwan policy for the West, warns Europe not to succumb to China’s economic temptations, and argues that democracy will, sooner or later, prevail in Hong Kong Patten, the last British governor of Hong Kong, is a former EU commissioner for external affairs, and Chancellor of the University of Oxford. [Check out the Say More archive]( [Subscribe now to receive your copy of The Year Ahead 2022: Reckonings]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [LinkedIn]( Project Syndicate publishes and provides, on a not-for-profit basis, original commentary by the world's leading thinkers to more than 500 media outlets in over 150 countries. This newsletter is a service of [Project Syndicate](. [Change your newsletter preferences](. Follow us on [Facebook]( [Twitter]( and [YouTube](. © Project Syndicate, all rights reserved. [Unsubscribe from all newsletters](.