China Insider | Taiwan's Defiant Celebration of its National Day Despite China's Pressure, China's Shadow Over the Nobel Peace Prize Selection Process, and Comparing Russia's Plague Incident to the Wuhan COVID-19 Outbreak

Podcast: China Insider · Hudson Institute

Opublikowano: 2026-10-13

In this week's episode of China Insider, Miles Yu discusses Taiwan’s National Day celebrations and what Taiwan's steadfastness in the face of the Chinese Communist Party's coercion signals for the island’s future and its ties with the United States. Dr. Yu then weighs in on the controversy surrounding this year’s Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to Navi Pillay despite her own tarnished human rights record and the nomination of other highly qualified candidates, and what it reveals about the CCP’s malign influence on the global human rights conversation. Finally, he examines a troubling lab incident in Russi...