📹Host: Yin Khvat

"CIA Director William Burns says there is “no higher priority than Taiwan”, discussing the spy agency’s focus on China and the risks the PRC poses to the world. Meanwhile, as China abandons Xi Jinping’s zero-COVID strategy and scrambles to booster its seniors, a new U.S. model predicts China will see more than 1 million deaths in 2023. And, does China have answers to its economic woes? We discuss what plans the CCP agreed at a high-level annual economy meeting.

Our panelists in this episode are:

• Gerard DiPippo Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Economics Program Senior Fellow. He’s also an ex-U.S. National Intelligence Council Deputy National Intelligence Officer and former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Senior Economic Analyst.

• Vincent Chao former Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (TECRO) U.S. Political Division Director and currently Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Asia Program and China Power Project, Adjunct Fellow.

And finally, our extended interview is with international and constitutional legal expert:

• Julian Ku, Hofstra University Vice Dean and Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law at the university’s Maurice A. Dean School of Law. Julian says China has no legal basis to threaten Taiwan with force, nor to say Taiwan is an “internal matter”.

Topics covered include:

• CIA’s wariness about Chinese-owned video app TikTok, the world’s most downloaded app and how Beijing could manipulate it for its own means
• Taiwan’s investigation into ByteDance Taiwan’s illegal operations
• CIA’s China mission – the only single-country mission within the intelligence agency
• The U.S. State Department has launched its long-planned “China House” a department-wide, integrated unit to help coordinate and implement policy toward its top geopolitical rival
• A possible Kevin McCarthy visit to Taiwan, should he elected Speaker of the House. Will China take it as an opportunity to escalate tensions in the Taiwan Strait beyond what the CCP did following Nancy Pelosi’s trip in August?
• China’s role in triggering shifts in the world’s perspective on “economic security”

Chapters:
00:00 – 20:40 CIA Director: No higher priority than Taiwan
20:41 – 29:28 1 million China COVID deaths predicted in 2023
29:29 – 39:50 What are the answers to PRC’s economy woes?
39:51 – 48:00 Full interview: Julian Ku - China claims on Taiwan
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