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We even did a bit of that last week, but it's obviously more than that.

It's a thriving modern democracy with its own distinct culture, and its people have strong feelings about what they want their own future to look like.

We're going to take a look at how that democracy took shape and where the Taiwanese people want to take it next.

That's coming up on Thursday.

I'll see you then.

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Geopolitics has been full of a lot of chess metaphors lately.

is like a checkmate on the Supreme Leader.

It was absolutely brilliant military strategy.

President Trump is hoping that this latest chess move of his was enough.

So at the moment, it's kind of like a big game of aerial chess.

We lost.

We lost.

Checkmate, right?

Now, I've played a fair bit of chess, and I've learned that people with different personalities play the game in different ways.