stay behind. my husband went to peru because of the crisis. if he hadn't gone there he would have died of hunger. force general 15. this is deja news asia coming up standoff at sea. chinese and indian ocean vessels face off now the south china sea into the show accuses china of violating its sovereignty and. with china says it's done no such thing what is behind these tensions plus china causes tensions in taiwan as well as the head of presidential elections over the weekend visit the island where chinese influence is not off the scene.

by british prime as you welcome to dublin news asia it's good to have you with us indonesia is deploying additional was near the south china sea as a territorial draw with china strains diplomatic ties between the 2 emissions was ships and fighter jets have been sent in response to the presence of chinese fishing vessels and coast guard ships around the islands of the islands are a part of indonesia and lie just south of the south china sea the chinese vessels are in the fishing grounds around these islands not to not lies just south of the so-called 9 dashed line as well which encompasses you need luck to chinese claims in the south china sea china also claims the waters around the tuna as traditional fishing grounds indonesia doesn't agree and that difference of opinion is playing

out between the 2 countries. this is a dramatic close encounter of the south china sea kind a chinese coast guard vessel accused of entering indonesian waters offering protection to trawlers fishing illegally. china close quote close to our 532 this is interesting because quoting you over. there. yes i do not mean to say you are in. the exchange in december but released no comes amid weeks of escalating tensions in the region. or the one. on the other. what. 6 appears to show chinese fishing

boats in indonesia's economic zone. so leave them and go away leave them and go always there and highlights china's ongoing efforts to lay claim to the vital shipping lanes and fishing waters here not only in these tiny quarries i ought to get you to leave these territory. and be joining the foreign ministry played down the diplomatic road through although you knew china and indonesia have a strategic partnership in which friendship and cooperation is the main stream and the difference is just a small part. since the mid ninety's china has stepped up its operations in the south china sea. building on reefs even going as far as to plant a flag in the seabed neighboring countries view it as a land grab accusing them of muscling in on their territory attempting to expand

the chinese fear of influence and control. joining me now is all the time political scientists richard had richard as an expert on china's claims in the south china sea and the disproofs it has with countries in the region richard thanks for making the time it's one pointing out that indonesia has no claims in the south china sea yet chinese vessels autumn waters are on the not too not islands which lie outside of the 9 dash line why. well the fundamental problem here is that china never clarified the outer limits of its so-called mind us lined tongue shaped clean the clovers up to 85 percent of the south china sea effectively do we china has been behaving over the past decade or so true deployment of these fisherman and partly that there are forces is that people talking that night this one tong actually just into the waters off this off the net to an island and then tonight

lands are we being a new nation waters is part of the nation territory and that's absolutely very fisheries and here each area and more troubling troubling me for indonesia in the past few years you we see china and most recently actually this one china saying that they have traditional rights in that area fishing rights in that area defending expanding presence of foreign military military and fisherman call militia forces in that area that's why effectively knowing tunisia how is it territorial maritime disputes with china we do respect to south china sea 9 just like claims so do you think china is essentially testing the limits of indonesian patience and trying to see how far it can reach out. i think china's this and the patients are doing it so everyone's right by pushing the limits of what it's doing in the region since 2013 we have seen a significant recrimination up the east in the area just logical engineering on steroids effectively making complete big islands are out of thin air and 'd over

the past 2 years more troublingly we see deployment of surface to air missiles and complete military zation of these artificial lines and knowledge in more trouble and we see china using militia for resist militias ation of the disputes to push the boundaries of its claims and harass and intimidate other countries so one by one congress and the region are responding to philippines was i think the 1st one together with vietnam in their ear yes particularly the philip treacy in a war but indonesia malaysia are also beginning to speak out right now let's look at the economic side of this not china is indonesia's biggest trading partner china also has close business ties with malaysia for interference vietnam and other so how much leverage and then do these countries in the region have rich on the south china sea dispute given this economic dependency that appears to be building up well this is a very interesting point i mean i think the chinese idea is that they can

essentially bike undersea loyalty and good real true economic investment assuming in this investments go well as we saw in the case of malaysia there was a concern about that drop so there is also some negative. sentiment around chinese investments in the area now the thing here is that if you look at indonesia in many countries increasingly they're also becoming emotional and nationalistic about this issue so this is not just about economics and we clearly saw that in the elections in indonesia last year were by it was not infrastructure did not mix but and china which were the top topics so as identity politics to go aren't relevant to the region the more they're going to be assertive and resistance or surrender so you can always it's not everything right for you but they're all the time being richard and i am thank you so much for your time. and china's attempts to extend its influence don't end with the south china sea on the island of taiwan there are real concerns of the chinese interference in the upcoming presidential elections on

saturday it's something the island's leda sighing when brought up last year when she said china was interfering quote every day in the election the allegations are hard to ignore for an island that beijing claims as part of its territory and one where it looms large in daily political life. ok it's graduation for these young students at taipei university but while their thoughts may be on their careers their hearts are with fellow students in hong kong . a quick glance around the cafeteria makes it clear where their sympathies lie and who their common enemy is china. that is easy a way in the past china's interference was not so noticeable but now it is if we allow this to continue it would be like the frog in the slowly boiling water it doesn't notice the heat until it dies. no wincing and the current political mood in

taiwan is really unpleasant. but. tensions are growing red paint attacks on activists critical of china hooliganism and vandalism and solidarity demonstrations for hong kong. foreign journalists have been verbally abused by pro china advocates like mrs john here member of the china patriots association. done much good if you will. the group's headquarters are here in taiwan's capital taipei a chinese flag flies over the building inside a portrait of taiwan's former president chiang kai shek hangs alongside current chinese president xi jinping china born mrs john is busy painting patriotic slogans this one reads for unification with china against taiwan's independence. that's a quote you home to as a chinese in taiwan who is sons and daughters of the chinese nation we're taking on

the responsibility of pushing for the unification of a country that says it just sounds. then they plaster their campaign bus in slogans they want to give taiwan's liberal pro independence president a piece of their mind. taiwan's often have groups and media organizations often financed by wealthy businessmen and women are the most obvious means of chinese influence. but more subtle mischievous methods are employed using social media the politically independent taiwan fact check center in taipei has been monitoring the sharp increase in fake news. these include repeated claims often using manipulated content but taiwan has been behind the protests in hong kong. know but i'm sure it's a tie why since local elections at the end of 2018 we've become aware in taiwan

that we have become victims of an information war that china has been waging against us in order to manipulate time when the society and elections. the hotel zone shifts. those local elections saw the meteoric rise of a man that previously no one had heard of how will you from the opposition protests not now i mean dung party now a presidential candidate a populist propelled by a well oiled political machine who's especially gaining ground in social media. and where did this sudden the momentum come from han it claims china has nothing to do with it. but jiang and her patriotic chinese association waged their fight for independence out in the open at taiwan's presidential palace they proudly hand over their petition. why do you know

what mike just said in the petition quit calling for the president to recognize that there is only one china and for a peaceful unification with the main. you know. they hope that in the not too distant future china's flag will eventually fly over taipei. and that's it for today every leader now with images of the presidential election campaigning anti bombed out and go to the polls on saturday thank you for watching with your next time about.

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