wells to be established again until the point miasca in china global foundation comes with the w. we've got some hot tips for your bucket list, the magic corner check hot spot and some great culture memorials to vote w travel off we go, the american secretary of state, anthony lincoln was finally engaging in the long delay the effort to hold the slide in us china relations, the main speaking point is still tie one with the chinese determined to be unified and warning the west to stay out of the cool interest. my guess inside pay is the tie when each foreign minister joseph works is the island living on borrowed time.

we know that we have the ability to deal with the chinese invasion as china has stepped up in front of coast rhetoric and its armed forces have made no secret of their invasion plans by line c. busy so how much help so, so i want to expect from washington and from europe hasn't been promised to nuclear umbrella. what lessons is government drawing from the will in you? chris has 51 really done only good to avoid of conflict with it's john jones as well. welcome to complex of thank you. thank you very much, dan. just 2 months ago, the chinese military completed 3 days of come back exercises of taiwan. and they told the world as forces were not ready to fight resolutely to smash any form of taiwan independence. are you living on borrowed time? yes, we are leaving under the chinese community to rate it all tied up for

a couple of years. and the exercise that you mentioned has been quite intense. uh, actually, and with the old setting, the chinese military exercises all these years. and the one in april this year was probably a pretty intense in comparison to other exercises, especially the involved, any aircraft carrier to the east of taiwan. and we had being that the was the issue, not just that i want to sell, but with other like body pop in this. is there any scenario that you can envisage in which taiwan with 23000000 people wins a war with a country of one point? 4000000000 of the same question as being asking uh to tie one for quite a few years. uh, actually were trying to prepare ourselves for the possible conflict. for example, we need to strengthen our traditional military capabilities and we also need to

strengthen our symmetric capabilities ending fighting a modern war. and symmetric welfare is probably more important than the traditional . for example, in the world in ukraine, many people predicted that the russians will be able to take over the ukraine within a couple of weeks. but it didn't happen like that. uh the premiums were being able to find on holding the russian mini, terry f a. and i think their determination, their preparedness for the metric welfare or the international support i'm making difference in that is that lessons that we have learned. and we are trying to strengthen our depends capabilities. and the people determination for self depends, is stronger than before. in time one is also receiving more international support than before. and therefore, we know that we have the ability to deal with the chinese invasion. you do think realistically, that's your military preparations or any kind of deterrent to john or you said

johnny's lead as well. think twice before they decide to use force against taiwan and the mazda, whether it's 2025 or 2027. as you're already looking at possible dates for an invasion, taiwan simply needs to get ready. why isn't taiwan ready now? you have plenty of warning. the china is determined peacefully or forcibly to re unite to with the people's republic as they put it. why? why onto ready? now, if you look at a modern war, we don't just look at the side of the aggressor, their military capabilities and the equipment they f. if you only look at the other side, you might feel that the try not has a overall mean power over tie one. in taiwan, it stands no chance. but if you have a chance to look at, ty wants defense capabilities. i don't think that the war can happening in that

easy way for try not to take tie one over easily. we have but lots of events, missiles in our minute. terry is also determined to defend ourselves. and i think the people also determined to preserve the freedom and sovereignty that we have in there for putting all these factors together. you won't be easy, we're trying to launch a war against tie one and pick, tie one over very quickly. and other than tie was preparedness, other major countries, they are also off deploying their military forces or pasturing to turn the chinese from launching a war against ty, one. if you look at the us military pauses a nearby. and also the fact that japan has been babbling is military budget for the next 5 years and to prepare for possible come to majors against the chinese aggression in this part of the world. i think the chinese would have to worry if they start the war against high one. it's, it's, it's one thing for both sides to stage military exercises. but if the worst happens,

and war breaks out, do you believe any of a country will fight alongside you? this is a hypothetical question and we always say the law instead of the brakes. uh no hypothetical. yes. uh if war breaks out of the one who bears the responsibility for ty wants defense will be tie, one is still and we are determined to defend ourselves. there's no doubt about it, but for all the countries, i think the most important thing is for them to show their determination to deter the war problem happening. i think the war is going to mean disaster for a lot of countries, economically. half of the container ships of the world is saving through the power, straight area, and 90 percent of the most advanced computer chips or send me comes out. the chips are produced in taiwan and therefore it, there's going to be

a destruction to the supply chain. it will be a major impact, uphold the rest of the world economically. and i think many of the international leaders understand now, and they are trying to deter from the turret war from happening and with this kinds of effort. i think the war is not an affordable and it's not a minute at this moment. this wasn't quite the question that i asked you on basically looking to see whether you have any cost on assurances that any of a country will fight with you in the event of a chinese invasion. yes, that is the phone. yeah, yes. on that is a very good question actually i, we are trying to tell the world that the defending taiwan is all on one responsibilities. so the answer is no. you do not have any cost on insurances, but any one will fight with you. that is not the way where you look at it. there might be countries, there might be people who want to provide taiwan would support the support like why

do and i'd say it's has been providing to you great. give us the immunizations was to fight the integration, but the fighting yourself in taiwan is all, are we supposed little t, v us has been very clear about what it might or might not do to help you, which may be, of course, down to a strategic ambiguity but it could also mean that they haven't yet decided what they're going to do if you're attacked, which do you think it is. in fact, tie one and united states have being i engaging in very close consultation and communication with each other to think about the future scenarios. if the same time to prepare, tie wants the best way off how one can get prepared. for example, the kinds of weapons tie one would need and the strategy taiwan would need and the kinds of trainings time what would need and united states as being providing these kinds of resources or training and preparation of what type one and these kinds of

efforts are being highly appreciated and the us decision of whether you will get involved in the war or not, it's of the call off, the president of the united states. but for tie one, it's our responsibility to defend taiwan. are you telling me you simply don't have any idea of what the us would do in the event of an invasion of taiwan? well, as i say, you know, we engage in very close communications with you and i'd say is, and the question is not up to me for the answer a. and i hope that kind one in the united states will continue to engage closely with each other in the preparation process. mr. well, on monday, the 22nd according to type a news, you confirm that being discussions with the us about whether time one would be included under the us nuclear umbrella, like some other countries in the region. what was the outcome of those talks? uh, we engage in the all kinds of conversations with united states and for any content

of that nature, i'm not able to give any details off of the discussions plans then on this topic of whether the us would include you in the nuclear umbrella. what thank you very much for the raising the question for the 2nd time. but for any of the re, uh, any of the content of the discussions of that nature, i would not be able to come from at this point. and you con, confirm, even though these discussions did take place, i should not be comfortable with me that there's all kinds of cooperation going on communication going on in between one of the major countries. and in order for these cooperation is to stay in good place. i should not disclose any of the conversations. mister will. how do you understand president biden's woods? in september last year, he was asked if he was willing to get involved militarily to defend taiwan. and he

replied, yes, that's the commitment we made. do you interpret that as providing you with defensive weapons under the taiwan relations act, or engaging in direct to military confrontation with china? the well, how are understanding is that the commitment is based on the power relations that the united states as being reaffirming is commitment to type one security by providing taiwan with sufficient amount of defensive articles. what kind of one's self depends. and if you look at the title and relations that it also be like stipulates that the united states would need to maintain sufficient capacity to retail, any restore to the military threats, or course and in this region. so united states commitment to tie one or 2 the region has being a rather obvious and the us officials come in on that is a rock sided, a according to the us all peoples. and we don't sell that. united states has been

providing how it was weapons and in addition to the providing all the weapons, they also where you can gauge in service and the training of how to use the weapons . and because of these activities, i was the past relations with united states, happiness significantly improving in the last few years. as you know, us secretary of state times and they bring 10, has just me leaving with chinese leaders from minnesota. can gang one to america not to challenge paging over the stages of taiwan, the taiwan issue, he said, is the core of china's cool interests, the biggest in china, us relations and the most prominent risk. what do you take away from that, that i take away from that is said, the chinese thread against taiwan is clear and it's obvious. and it is something philosophy takes seriously. but at the same time, as i understand it, uh, secretary blinking also stated very clearly that the united states oppose any

u. d. that will change of state as cool. that means the will that these days, opposing any use of force by the chinese site against taiwan. and in fact, this is not the only country, not the only one leader that is being saying that are in the g 7 summit or in the e. u. us summit or in the other uh, some important some is uh, the leaders always reaffirmed the importance of peace and stability in the power straight. and they also oppose any human data with change of status quote in this part of the world and somebody even the post the use of force. and lately, there's also a new language coming out of europe, saying that the piece instability of the power straight is an integral part of the global security and prosperity. and with all of this, i'm sure the international caution against the chinese use support or teen to an ex tie one is sufficient and we hope the international community can continue to pay

attention to the chinese motivation. they'll be using force against taiwan. so he's very strong words from the international community. strong was from the west or enough to, to, to china. there were plenty of strong words directed reading that put in before he invited ukraine on the wall was, i had any way. so it was a strong was maybe a slight to develop to diplomacy slightly exaggerated in diplomacy these days. that is available. cool. very good question. in fact, other than strong wars, we have also seen countries taking concrete actions in the showing that they have the result of the pieces to build the over this region of united states, to pin u, k, canada, and etc. they have all be engaging in the very periodic uh, freedom of mitigation operations in these area. and many of those the service ships sell through the pipe was straight. and these kinds of actions are just the

extremes in packing up their stores. and i believe that all those countries that i mentioned have a stake in the piece disability over the power straight area. and they are taking concrete actions to pick up their records. do you not worry that by seeking washington's help, your not caught up in the rock bottom relationship between the us and china and the badging maybe about 2 right to the pressure on you some k to send a signal to washington. i guess the question is on you endanger, becoming a pawn to be played by both sides. that is also a question. ask frequently in taiwan. in fact, some people here in taiwan argue that the work comfortably is between the united states and china. and therefore, taiwan should thoughts the bullets from these 2 giants and we use, they neutral. but i think the real situation doesn't happen that way. the real situation is that high one has been preston by china. and the united states is

trying to provide support to tie one. so these are the 2 constants and we are leading under these 2 constants. and therefore, a very important thing is what i want to continue to consolidate is uh, a relations with the united states on the one hand, and trying to prevent war from happening on the other hand. and in our relations with china, i can to show you that the current government has been recognized international being responsible player. we want to maintain the peace and stability in this area by maintaining the state is cool. and it's all believe that the state is close to the best interest of all parties concerned. and i think this is also the position held by the united states, canada, u. k, and major european countries. and we will continue all of these path to prevent china from thinking that they can take, tie one over quickly and tie one will not serve as

a provider. but at the same time, we will not budge to the chinese pressure. you talked about asking your full support. um, you said in prob last week in order for taiwan to stay strong and resilience and to have the courage to continue the policy of maintaining the stages, quote. we do need support from european friends that coverage that you spoke about isn't waiting list of what i think the people here in tie was. feel that the support coming from europe coming from multimedia rick are coming from japan and australia and that kind of support make tie one people feel that we, i'm not a little even facing the military course, even from the chinese side. you tell me facts as moral support is that you are talking about moral support, more support. i think the more support is very strong. and if you look at the language is coupled with some of the concrete actions that i mentioned before. i

think the people feel very confident that the international support is going to come to tie one. and in fact, it's coming to the high. one is especially with the big room that have all the container ships, is saving through what content of ships is saving through taiwan. strait and 90 percent of the most advanced sent me comes out the trips up producing tie one. i'm sure the international community will come to the realization that they will be in have to if the war is not stopped in other than that, we are also seeing many other countries taking more actions. do you think the west has been tough enough on china or you have in the past, the peer to blame europe in the us for not resisting home comes new security law and the trashing of human rights and civil liberties. but that came with that. what could the west of done about phone call and what happened? what the chinese introduced a? well, hong kong is a true tragedy. it happened right before our eyes that the national security law

was impose on this place where people used to enjoy freedom and openness and all of a sudden, all those freedom as being taken away by the chinese government. and we did not see this as an isolated case. we as also that even 2014 over crimea, and the west and reaction to russia in 2014 was not strong enough. and i believe that it has a direct or indirect implication for the war to take place in ukraine and in use a shot if we are not able to take up country actions against the chinese way of doing things over hong kong. i'm sure the chinese will be encouraged to do more it in the other parts of the world in this is especially in this region. if you look at the chinese actions in the east china, i see that has already gotten in japan during those. and if you look at the south, china sea is more of a west point, then the cut was straight. and therefore,

i think the international community needs to look at the chinese expense on this and, or is imposition of both towards here in the some of these part of the world in a more serious way. and we need to take concrete actions intending china that no, they cannot expand their impulses in this part of the world at the cost of democracies. you say that to prevail in this crisis with china. unity is all only pop forward. but in a speech in march, your own president acknowledge serious political divisions among your people. she told the hudson institute the taiwan was split and hadn't so far decided whether it wanted a relationship with china or prefer to be on its own. there isn't much time for me to i want to make up his mind on that issue. is that why if you look at the public opinion surveys here in try one, actually we see a consensus. the consensus here in taiwan is that we don't want to be ruled by

china. the consensus here in taiwan is that we don't want to accept the one country to system model and putting, tie one as a part of china or taiwan to stick and hong kong. the consensus here in taiwan is that we want to maintain the status. quote, the status for the pie one is that how one people is running, tie one itself. the tie one is the freedom is a free and democratic country. so maintaining the state as cool. it's already a consensus here in taiwan. so if you are passing the consensus, the way you say, why is your partner you had mentioned hemorrhaging support in the way it is? you did very badly in the last year's local elections. you 195 out of 21 seats. and according to polling, by the time when he's public opinion foundation, more than half a voters would not support either your party or the other major parties requirement time in the presidential elections early next year. people are clearly disillusioned with you and your major opposition. that's down to offend your

leadership, isn't that to? uh, no, i disagree. uh when we do the public opinion surveys. uh, we try to find out what the people here think uh for your information. there's a public opinion survey conducted by similar organizations here in tie. one, asking people what they feel the most successful area of public policy and boarding relations happen to be the most successful. and indeed with the foreign countries are trying to included. i think we have adopted it right policy to maintain the state of school on the one hand and to try and maintain peace and stability in this area and to reach out to more countries. so that's how one has more backing from the international community. i think this is the right approach and this is their approach supported by the public. and of course, taiwan is that the mock was the people afraid to think that the one political party is better than another. and we need to allow the people to come cedar,

who is the best or which political parties the best for the countries future. in right now, even though this, that the bait, there's different kinds of supporting. but it's the natural way of expressing here in taiwan. and if you look at the polls, it's a high consistency in some of the candidate seem to be in the forefront against others. and the kind of a tendency seem to be very consistent. very briefly, mr. why not try a little harder to talk to china? you'll presidents have said she's open to dialogue with badging without pre conditions. but even people in your own party, the democratic progressive pos you don't think you've tried hard enough. a founding member hung g chang said recently, we have such a solid taiwan identity now we should be confident enough to engage in some exchanges. so why don't you engage like performing timeframes to we hips. right.

but the situation is that china has been imposing conditions on tie one the conditions, the conditions of being rebuilt by a she's been paying on january 2nd, 2019. and with that kind of conditions, i don't think any sensible leader in ty, one would or should accept those preconditions. those preconditions we crude the pay once you accept itself as part of the p r c. hi, wants you to accept one country to us as a model. i want you to accept nothing but you need vacation with china. and these is something that the people here in tie one, not one to accept. and therefore even wait, that came t is back into power. i just don't think that they can or they should accept those preconditions. once we upset those preconditions, i want becomes another home called in. by that time, it will be too late for us to limit if china imposes another initial security law.

i'll tie one. so as well does come when you hand on hot, be able to say that you did everything possible to prevent it. and we are trying, tries very hard on the one hand, our approach is to maintain the status call and trying to keep the peace disability over the taiwan strait and have an open institute to invite the chinese for negotiations. and on the other hand, we also strengthening our defense capabilities to prevent china from thinking that they can take, tie one or easily. and at the same time, we are engaging with the international community so that they can support, tie one more and they can help strengthen. i was defense capability, say with the oldest we are trying to deter war from happening and it's not just high one. we have like body pop in this, they understand the cost for the world if the war is to break out and we all wind

what we can to prevent war from happening. what is the woo joseph low, thank you very much for being on conflict. some. thank you. well, thank you very much mr. sebastian. the,

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