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I met Stan Kwiatkowski, better known as YouTuber Stan from Poland 斯坦-波蘭ê台灣囡仔, at this year's Taiwanese American Conference where he was one of the speakers. His YouTube channel now has over 200,000 subscribers. And if that wasn't impressive enough, the first thing you'll notice after going to his YouTube channel is how fluently he speaks Mandarin Chinese in practically all of the videos. The content that Stan and his wife produce for their YouTube channel consists of political commentary, interviews and news with a focus on topics related to Taiwan's political situation and security. Stan also has some English videos on the Love Taiwan YouTube channel. We'll share links to both of these YouTube channels on TalkingTaiwan.com for this episode.

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I interviewed Stan in person when he was in New York in July. We started off talking about some of the key dates in Taiwan's history such as the 228 massacre of February 28, 1947, and ended up discussing his thoughts on Taiwan's upcoming presidential elections in January of 2024. If you'd like to watch my interview with Stan, we will also be posting a video of it to Talking Taiwan's YouTube channel. Here's our interview.

Here's a little preview of what we talked about in this podcast episode:

· How Stan got interested in Taiwan

· How Stan started his YouTube channel which took five years to get up to 200,00 YouTube subscribers

· Stan's first YouTube video on his channel was about Poland's independence day (November 11)

· How there are parallels between the democratization of Poland and Taiwan

· What brought Stan to Taiwan

· What Stan's time in Taiwan was like

· Poland's pursuit of independence in the early 20th century

· The misperception that Poland was previously a communist country by the will of its people but the constitution was amended by Stalin

· How Stan's sees parallels between Poland's democratization and Taiwan's

· How Stan and his wife's perspectives shape the content they create for their YouTube