This chapter explores the complex relationship between Taiwan and the United States, discussing the influence of key leaders and the shift in US policy towards China.
Yascha Mounk and Albert Wu discuss how historical divisions explain the outcome of the island’s recent elections.
Albert Wu is a Taiwanese historian and the author, with his wife Michelle Kuo, of the Substack newsletter A Broad and Ample Road.
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Albert Wu discuss the electoral victory of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and what it portends for cross-strait relations; how the Kuomintang went from fighting the CCP in a bloody civil war to advocating closer ties with Beijing; and what Taiwan's history can teach us about different views on its future.