ROC and a hard place: Taiwan’s lessons from Ukraine
Economist Podcasts2 Touko 2022

ROC and a hard place: Taiwan’s lessons from Ukraine

Much like Ukraine, Taiwan has a well-armed neighbour that does not think it exists as a state: China. We ask what both sides are learning from Russia’s invasion. A heavy-handed string of arrests following a flare-up of gang violence in El Salvador is unlikely to change matters. And an analysis reveals the connection between weather and whether voters support climate-change legislation.

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