The Future of the DPP with Lin Fei-fan

The Strait Up Podcast with Chris Gorin

Hello and welcome to the NEW Strait Up Podcast, a show about international affairs with a focus on East Asia and of course Taiwan. And, if you’re listening to this that means you’ve found the show’s new home on the new podcast feed, so thanks so much for following me here. I

For my very first guest on Strait Up 2.0, I have none other than Lin Fei-fan. Fei-fan was of course one of the leaders of the student-led Sunflower Movement which began in 2014, before moving into party politics and eventually serving as the deputy secretary-general of the Democratic Progressive Party or DPP. He now currently serving on the board of the the DPP’s policy think tank the New Frontier Foundation, and is also on the board of the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy.

In this episode, we talk about many topics including Fei-fan’s transition from student leader to party leader, the DPP's future in a divided government, the lesson’s learned in the last election, low wages in Taiwan, and of course we talk a little bit about cross-strait relations.

I should say that it’s important to note that although I ask Fei-fan to explain many of the DPPs positions, everything he says in this conversation is only his personal opinion and he is not representing the party in any official capacity. In fact, I was eager to speak to him specifically because he is not currently in the government which I think gives us a little more space to have a more open conversation.

Also, I want to apologize about the audio quality on my side of the recording for this episode. I promise that I will never sound that bad again, so don’t hold it against me.

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