Julia McFarlane
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503 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 16 Jan
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President Xi will no doubt be enjoying this.
He's been treating today really as a giant storefront for China, saying he is open for business.
Stephen McDonald speaking to me from Beijing.
Well, as Prime Minister Carney was announcing the Canadian deal with China, Beijing was criticising the US for reaching its own trade agreement with Taiwan.
On Thursday, Washington announced it would lower tariffs on most of the island's goods in exchange for Taiwanese tech companies investing $250 billion into the US.
The two governments have been at odds over the production of semiconductor chips, a vital component of everything we need to power modern life, from smartphones to cars.
Beijing, of course, views Taiwan not as a country in its own right, but as a breakaway province of China.
And it's reiterated that it opposes any agreements that Taiwan strikes with other countries.
Kerry Allen is our China media analyst.
There's very, very strong messaging in Chinese state newspapers saying that Chinese officials strongly deplore the agreement with the US and Taiwan, and they're calling on Washington to revoke the deal.
And newspapers like the Global Times, which are normally very, very anti-US, are saying that they feel that Taiwan's government is selling out Taiwan to court Washington.
And they're saying of the US that it's putting its own interests first and has no intentions of protecting Taiwan, say if there was an invasion.
That's very interesting.
So is this more about just Taiwanese sovereignty?
I mean, could China also be angry that the US might have an edge, a business advantage in the tech sector?
I mean, China will absolutely be angry with the deal and the idea that Taiwanese firms like TSMC, major semiconductors firms, will be expanding their production capacity in the US.
I mean, many analysts will see this as a strategic move in terms of the China-US artificial intelligence chip race.
But I have to say that when it comes to Taiwan's sovereignty, I mean, this is a message that China very forcefully makes constantly.
It says that Taiwan is part of Chinese territory.
This is a message that Beijing officials are constantly reiterating.
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