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Florence Gaub on Navigating a Renewed Conflict in the Middle East – INTERVIEW
3 October 2024
16 November 2022
For the Ukrainian public, the revelation came from Ms Pelosi, who equated her visit to Taiwan with a trip to the Ukrainian capital and wrote in the pages of the Washington Post that each visit is a support for democracy in confronting dictatorships. The fact that, for an influential U.S. politician, the Russian attack on Ukraine and Chinese threats against Taiwan are in the same coordinate system has forced many Ukrainian politicians and public figures to take a different view of the difficult relationship between the “two Chinas”.
In fact, the Ukrainian agenda has always been “one China” – the People’s Republic of China. This is largely a legacy of the Soviet past when Taiwan was mentioned, if at all, only with condemnation of the “reactionary pro-American regime”.
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