Why Should We Care if Taiwan is a Political Tinderbox?
About This Episode
Former Canadian intelligence officer and Global Taiwan Institute Senior Fellow J. Michael Cole examines political warfare vulnerabilities. Analyzes how Chinese Communist Party influence operations threaten Taiwan through cognitive warfare, espionage, and co-optation, and describes Hong Kong's cautionary impact on unification support remaining below five percent.
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