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welcome to. it's good to have you with us taiwan is headed to presidential elections in january next year but i think election interferon already been made no less than the president of taiwan has alleged that beijing is interfering in the election process i'll be speaking to taiwan's deputy foreign minister about those allegations in a minute but taiwan is already taking action it has detained a couple whose company is alleged to be a front for chinese spying activities in taiwan the interior ministry is investigating if shunk chin and his wife were involved in activities to interfere in the election process a process that many in taiwan are claiming has long been a target of beijing's activities. as elections go it looks and feels like any other

. but beneath the clock hard to noisy campaign events accusations of fol play persist leveled by taiwan's president who is seeking a 2nd term. china is using various means to intervene in taiwan selection to damage our democracy. as a large country internationally and regionally they have to take on the responsibility to maintain regional peace and stability. is really a day goes by in the tense atmosphere of this vote without some mention of their mighty neighbor where you know this coming in perspective. it was a good perspective high one is the most seriously affected by china us imports operation out of all it like. 855000 ton aircraft carrier

sailing through the strait of taiwan last week a routine operation say china and interrogation tactics say the taiwanese other aspects are less conspicuous like what was going on inside this hong kong office chinese espionage efforts according to the explosive claims of a self-confessed spy. taiwan was the most important work on the house. the in. the media the temples and crossroads organizations china has dismissed him as a thief and says taiwan's interests are best served as part of china. i want to say to taiwan but we have been cooperating in a friendly way with many countries in the world based on mutual benefits. these benefits not only suit china's interests but also other countries interests here for you. it's

a view shared by the china friendly presidential contender. if he can overcome the odds to win in january it may not be entirely a mark of his own success and for more i'm joined in the studio by taiwan's deputy foreign minister dr. short welcome taiwan is headed to presidential elections next year on the 11th of january and the current president has already accused china of attempting to influence this election what proof is there of this. well i think from our experience of last election last year we had a local election and there are a lot of. fake accounts on the social media that boosts certain candidates and if we traced. the their address changes state

by date sometimes in istanbul sometimes kill sometimes does noura and so you know there were a lot of these counts and eventually they play a very important role in making big success for certain candidates and also our ruling party experience defeat and we learn from that. so there are still this kind of figure counts that's one thing and also there were a spread of this information how can you be so certain that these fake account just on this particular point were driven by people in china or the chinese government. of course from the perspective of my ministry ministry of foreign affairs we're not in charge of investigating into this case just. but i think a lot of people would have to see their legitimacy. because some of them that's the thing is a bit every foreign minister i mean one is suspicious of the other disprove if

statements are made from the highest portals of government or accusing another government of directly influencing dimensions you can see how that is a cause for consternation if it was just on the basis of suspicion and not proof so of course there are texts that were written in. just a simplified chinese character and which is not used in taiwan we used to traditional ones in there a certain way of the that the way they face things are different from what we face in taiwan so these are indirect you make quoted evidence or. hints but i think. from the our bureau of investigation they have addressed certain evidences that date in the china side the chinese side there were such things court contant farm.

that has been traced and they create certain kind of information content and these content will be copied in the social media group in taiwan and is pretty to diminishing media so if china is active in spreading disinformation and influencing the upcoming taiwanese election whom is china trying to prop up. there are certain political party social groups and people in taiwan that are more sympathetic to this position a few reasons cation with with china i think these people are disproved are china's target just to start a fight me what taiwan's position on the unification slash one giant. being a separate entity is concerned because we go back to the consensus of 9092 and was there was some agreement on the term one china but then the current government of

sighing when appears to discard has a different take so where exactly does taiwan stand right now it is not true that not in that it you there was a consensus on one chart not invited to both sides met in singapore and at that time both sides agrees agreed that there is only one china but. you know a different side we and them we can express or we can describe what one china means you are away so that was the so to speak agreement but this agreement to disagree because there is a 2nd part. however right now from day beijing site they take only the 1st part that did this $11.00 time they discard the 2nd part right so there's only actually no consensus so really looking at the 1st part of the 2nd part and i'm just wondering in terms of the way forward when there is disagreement along these lines

what is the way forward after the elections to pass the way to solve any disagreement in human society is through talk. so we we don't have. to have a talk with beijing and i think that will be the only healthy weight to solve our disagreement so when we come back again it's not that we discard some agreement because from our perspective there was no good reliever there for the time being dr shu thanks so much for coming in thank you. philippines is vice president lenny of bread always asking if the government has something to hide in its lethal campaign against illegal drugs that's after president. fired from her job as co-chair of a body that coordinates the response to illegal drugs she had been appointed less

than 3 weeks back brando's dismissal was headline news when it was announced on sunday to take his office said robredo had called wasted the opportunity given to her using it instead to attack the government's methods for some background and context in the philippines the vice president and president elect it separately and can be from different parties robredo has been a fiasco to take of dictators so-called war on drugs appointment earlier in the month as so-called drug czar surprised many this is what for bread oh said after she was fired. no one thought about me when i took on this job i 1st asked them and are you ready for me. now i ask what you are free to own what do you fear that i would discover you know what do you fear that the public would find something about me so what happened the democratic opponent anna santos

is in manila for us and why i was out of bread if i had. vice-president rebreather was fired because mr to the president was very rankled for 2 reasons 1st vice president regretted had asked for a list of the high value a big time drug lords that the anti-drug agency was supposed to go after and secondly in the stake and he thought that she had invited the united nations to investigate abuses related to the drug war we have to remember that president the territory has always seen the vice president as something like a thorn in his side she has always been vocal about the tablets of the drug war and has always called for a huge more humane drug policy one that will not necessitate the killing of suspected drug users and drug pushers exactly a very blunt critique of president this so-called war on drugs why was she then

appointed the drug czar of the battle against drugs in the philippines you know it was really more of a dare the president was taunting the vice president he said to her you know you're always criticizing the drug war can you do a better job why don't you take this job and so she did and it surprised a lot of people and most especially the president it was a clear display of you know how mr to tear this being like a man baby the u.s. government as it's sandbox and he seems women like vice president little girls who you can bully and who's pigtails that he can pull well this time the man baby met his match a woman who is determined to do her job. and i sometimes thanks so much of putting it in those words. that's a fairy tale with images from the philippines that tell the story of the so-called war on drugs for the past 3 knows it's your next.

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