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China’s leaders were swift to denounce America’s dramatic night-time extraction of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro. But the country’s nationalist commentators are asking if the US assault could offer lessons for a future attack on Taiwan.


Hosts: Jeremy Page, our chief China correspondent and Sarah Wu, The Economist’s China correspondent

Guest: Drew Thompson, former Pentagon official and senior fellow at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore


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