Taiwan This Week · ICRT

Allegations of an erosion of free speech

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Premier Zhu defends deporting a Chinese influencer, saying freedom of speech has limits when it threatens a country's survival.
This episode of Taiwan This Week discusses allegations of eroding free speech in Taiwan, focusing on the deportation of Chinese social media influencers advocating military unification. It explores debates between national security and free speech, legislative obstruction tactics, civil defense drills, labor shortages, and Taiwan's safety ranking, featuring insights from host Gavin Phipps and commentators Ross Feingold and Angelica Ong.

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A brisk Taiwan politics roundup that keeps circling back to what the week's spectacle actually changes.

The Taiwan politics roundup opens with Ya Ya's departure under a deportation order, then broadens into the harder realities of legislative combat and the uneasy overlap between public politics and organized crime.

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Track a week when a deportation case, legislative theatrics, and organized-crime influence all collide in Taiwan politics.

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