The Red Leaf Express

Joey Chou

The Red Leaf Express is a short-form podcast examining geopolitical stability and instability across the Indo-Pacific, reimagining the spirit of the Mayflower—a voyage once made in search of religious and civic freedom—through a modern regional lens. Focused on current affairs and regional flashpoints, the show connects headlines to the historical, cultural, and strategic forces shaping the Indo-Pacific order. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn

  1. EP023 - The Franchise Model

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    EP023 - The Franchise Model

    In the summer of 2026, the United States sent seventeen of its most powerful business executives to Beijing. The list included the CEOs of Nvidia and Qualcomm — the two American companies most directly affected by US chip export controls on China. It included the head of BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager. It included the chiefs of Visa and Mastercard. Seventeen people who between them represent the commanding heights of American technology, finance, and payment infrastructure — all in Beijing, in the same week. That same week, Japan and the Philippines formalized negotiations to draw a maritime boundary line through waters off Taiwan's eastern coast. China responded by sending coastguard ships into those same waters — the first time Beijing has done so without a military exercise as cover. And Xi Jinping flew to Pyongyang to meet Kim Jong-un. Three separate moves. One very clear direction. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn

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  2. EP022 - Every Deal Is a Good Deal

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    EP022 - Every Deal Is a Good Deal

    On May 27th, the leaders of Japan and the Philippines sat down in Tokyo and signed a joint statement. They agreed to elevate their relationship to a comprehensive strategic partnership — deeper intelligence sharing, military equipment transfers, coast guard cooperation. And they agreed to begin formal negotiations to draw a maritime boundary between them in the waters east of Taiwan. Three days later, China's foreign ministry called those talks completely illegal, null and void. Taiwan said nothing. This week, three things happened that are easier to understand together than separately. A defense secretary gave a speech and left something out. Two countries drew lines in waters that touch Taiwan without asking Taiwan. And Washington opened a door it had kept closed for years. None of these events announced themselves as a shift. But taken together, they describe one. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn

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  3. EP021 - The Maintainer

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    EP021 - The Maintainer

    In March 1996, China fired ballistic missiles into the waters off Taiwan's coast. Not at Taiwan. Near it. The target was the psychology — a message delivered to every Taiwanese voter preparing to cast a ballot in the island's first-ever direct presidential election: look at what proximity to us costs you. Look at what your democracy is worth to us. The voters looked. Over ten million of them. Seventy-six percent turnout. They went to the polls anyway. The United States sent two aircraft carrier battle groups to the Taiwan Strait. The largest American naval deployment in Asia since Vietnam. Beijing backed down. The election proceeded. And the democratic Republic of China on Taiwan — the version of Taiwan that had spent decades governed without a direct popular vote — became, in a single day, something new. A democracy that had chosen itself under fire. That was thirty years ago this year. President Lai Ching-te marked the anniversary on May 20th with a speech at the Presidential Office. It was, by any measure, a serious document. And it landed in the most complicated week Taiwan has faced since he took office. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn

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  4. EP020 - The Presidential Speech

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    EP020 - The Presidential Speech

    Taiwan's president, Lai Ching-te [LYE CHING-tuh], is delivering a speech. It is the one-year anniversary of his inauguration. And the word he uses to describe himself — the political identity he claims in public, on this day, in this moment — matters more than it has at any point in his presidency. Not because of anything Taiwan did this week. Because of what happened in Beijing. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn

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  5. EP014 - The Strait of Hormuz Now Has Got a Price Tag

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    EP014 - The Strait of Hormuz Now Has Got a Price Tag

    Taiwan's economy is flashing red — and this week, red means boom. Record GDP forecasts, record stock gains, record labor fund returns. But in the same week: oil crossed a hundred dollars, a French container ship paid Iran in yuan to cross the Strait of Hormuz, and Taiwan's opposition leader flew to Beijing. Here's what it all looks like from Taipei. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn

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  6. EP013 - China's strategy on all fronts

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    EP013 - China's strategy on all fronts

    But a 34-kilometer strait now has a toll booth, and the costs are already transmitting through everything from jet fuel, electricity bills and plastic bags. Meanwhile, China is running three simultaneous campaigns while the world watches Hormuz — AI-driven information warfare, yuan oil settlement undermining the petrodollar, and political influence reshaping the Indo-Pacific's architecture at Boao and in Beijing. No missiles required. The war in Iran is doing China's work on every front. Taiwan is watching from outside the room. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn

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  7. EP012 - A Clean Break

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    EP012 - A Clean Break

    In 1996, a group of policy advisers wrote a strategy document for a newly elected Benjamin Netanyahu. It was called A Clean Break. It named Iraq, Syria, and Iran as targets to be removed — not negotiated with. Thirty years later, one name remains on the list. And the clock appears to be running. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn

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  8. EP011 - The Insurance Playbook

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    EP011 - The Insurance Playbook

    Iran closed the world's most important oil chokepoint without a navy — just drones, IRGC commanders, and insurance underwriters in London. Taiwan's waters carry nearly half the world's container fleet. This week, we ask the question nobody is saying out loud: has Iran just handed Beijing a playbook for something far cheaper than an invasion? -- Hosting provided by SoundOn

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The Red Leaf Express is a short-form podcast examining geopolitical stability and instability across the Indo-Pacific, reimagining the spirit of the Mayflower—a voyage once made in search of religious and civic freedom—through a modern regional lens. Focused on current affairs and regional flashpoints, the show connects headlines to the historical, cultural, and strategic forces shaping the Indo-Pacific order. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn

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