well for accepting money from the new superpower will become. the chinese state has a lot of money at its disposal. and that's how it's expanding and asserting its status and position in the world. china. starts feb 19th w. . this is the w.'s a show coming up today a message to the u.s. in the midst of rising china taiwan tensions. between china the should be impossible. china also warns any push for taiwan's independence means wolf i also going to explore what does the u.s. of taiwan have to china's challenge plus. taiwan's mulls a rule change that could be a way out for young students from political crisis. by

british welcome to news a sure glad you could join us the united states says there is no reason for tensions between china and taiwan to escalate to confrontation the remarks come as a senior chinese official warned that any moves towards taiwan independence could mean war the shop and rhetoric from beijing matches increased military activity by its forces against taiwan the aim analysts believe is to place a new u.s. administration and taiwan on check. taiwanese air force pilots are on high alert this may be just a simulated drill to show how fast we can take to the skies far to recent months

they've been doing it for real the president laid bare the threat from their nearest neighbor. who are in the past year our radar stations have detected the incursions of nearly 2000 chinese military aircraft and over 400 vessels and this allowed us to intercept and drive them away and secure our maritime an airspace. a record number of incursions came on january 23rd china sent 13 warplanes into taiwanese airspace taiwan scrambled fighter jets to monitor the activity at the lito china center farther 16 aircraft into their airspace over that weekend the united states sent a carrier strike group into the south china sea on what it called routine operations to ensure freedom of the seas and they are just china to cease its pressure on taiwan be joining cold on the us to respect the one china policy.

the us frequently sends vessels and aircraft to enter the south china sea their activities are a sure force are not conducive to the peace and stability of the region. analysts say the escalating tension is part of china's efforts to flex its muscles which china taiwan and. relieving. the regaining control over taiwan is probably the most important strategic priority meanwhile taiwan hopes drills like these reassure the public that a mots of the aggression they face the island is prepared. now let's get more on this from professor steve psion he's director of the trying to institute at the school of oriental and african studies at the university of london professor trying welcome a senior chinese official has warned that any moves by taiwan towards independence would lead to war talk to us

a bit about the timing of this very sharp rhetoric why no. i think it is because of the change of government in washington the chinese government would have expected or hoped that the biden administration and would be versed u.s. policy on just taiwan if biden and initiation has not done so so the chinese want to. sort of course to bow out of the americans. and how do the americans how does the biden administration intend to deal directly with china especially on the question of taiwan. debugging the ministration it is fairly clear that it will bust positioned one time one but it is willing to negotiate and work with the chinese if the chinese are willing to reciprocate and work with the americans so. i mean it's

a should was very unreliable and erotic if i didn't this isn't can be expected to be very consistent neither. is something that the chinese like to see now the u.s. is bound by the taiwan relations act to essentially provide tire van with the weapons to defend itself against any chinese attack but not to necessarily come to tyrone's aid militarily do you think it is time to potentially the u.s. consider demanding that. the televisions act does not require a do not a state's governments to immediately interfere on behalf of taiwan and if taiwan should be attack but if you look at the former us republic of china or taiwan to mutual defense pact of 155 people listen to of the treaty also does not trigger and you needed american military response you try want to come

under 'd attack it really needs to be quiet the us government to take the matters to congress is very similar under the taiwan relations act so it is not we the necessary for the americans to change policy and say that yes your talent comes and tag it definitely will immediately interfere. with the situation is already under control but then given that there's no commitment of the meter or us hope militarily on the side of taiwan how does taiwan defend sort of in the event of an inversion or an entire. well the we feel so of the americans to be completely clear is intended to deter any government in taiwan from pushing that envelope to tool far and for example formally assert de jury independence with which which would trigger

a chinese military invasion. but anything sort of that the intel unease would know that the americans have very very strong strategic interest in making sure that taiwan's does not change hand and become to the chinese sed and the main reason there is because if taiwan and were taken and by the chinese by force. with the americans being all defeat it and the japanese will no longer trust the american protection of japan is security and the entire american into pacific's georgie will collapse and that is the reasons why. trans of gay marriage in snot interfering is where the chifley. right we'll leave it there for the time being but thank you so much for joining us diversity of trying from the school of oriental and african studies in london thank you so much you're welcome. or shrinking space

for free speech and continuing political upheaval is forcing many young hong kong has to look for opportunities elsewhere taiwan has over the years been a favorite destination for many but now the island is planning to make it easier for students under the age of 18 to come to the island on their own for high school studies earlier they needed an adult to accompany them university students from hong kong already studying in taiwan believe it's a change for the better one that allows students to escape the turmoil at home amy is safe here she's studying at a type a university the hong kong authorities cannot reach her thanks are better here but she suffers from post-traumatic stress there were a lot of the little i feel guilty i survived we used to chant together we stand but i got out and left them behind in hong kong. sometimes i wish i'd been arrested too

so we could face the hardships together why am i enjoying life here when all my friends are in jail. those friends were with her at the protest back in 2019 many of them are facing charges like rioting and could go to jail for a long time that was something she feared to getting into a taiwanese you know facet he seemed to like her only chance to xscape. well till to you i lived in hiding in hong kong for 6 months while i prepared for the taiwan university entrance exam now i have freedom and peace here i no longer live in fear i don't need to text my friend every hour to say i'm safe to. taiwan is only an hour's flight from hong kong is enough for university students to reach but high school students must be with their parents or have

a residence permit. secretary is stuck in hong kong he took part in the protests which led to a split with his parents his 2 young to go to taiwan alone and. i was very disappointed when the high schools in taiwan said they couldn't accept me i don't understand why they take university students but not high school students it's frustrating and i feel unsafe here but i think that. as hong kong becomes more dangerous for pro-democracy campaigners taiwan is planning to change the rules this would allow high school students to move there alone school officials could become their legal guardians home or at all i hope the new policy will take effect this year so i can finish my last year of high school in taiwan and i don't want to do the university entrance exam here who knows what would happen if i wrote some of the politically incorrect you can get arrested for no

reason no wonder the national security law and hong kong. life in taipei can be lonely for hong kong as the culture and spoken language are different so is the food any often comes through this hong kong café for a taste of home. oh i come here to remind myself that i'm a hong kong or here. i don't think i can go back while it's under communist rule i might live in taiwan for the next 1020 or even 30 years hire a lot of people the same. home is always on her mind her friends who are already in prison and those who are cheery young to leave by i mean just like me many hong kong protesters are young many of them a still in high school and they need to wait for 2 to 3 years until they're eligible to study here can you imagine how dangerous it is for them to do it.

often or they may feel. noakes of mutual support between political x. hours of for some comfort but they cannot reach the young teenagers stuck back in hong kong. choice that's it for today there's of course more. forward slash. as well. as. fighting cabin fever. from.

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when it comes to. the new line. there are pros and there are but when you. heard me right. all apps like to talk on instagram revolutionizing the pop music industry is it all about 15 seconds old social media we'll be discussing not on more in a minute welcome to our culture also coming up today. they must yourself in the natural paradise is created by american artist class celeste who illustrates the fragility of our planet with installations.

tick-tock a mobile phone app which boasts over $800000000.00 active users and is said to be worth $75000000000.00 and it's not even 5 years old and it is immensely powerful for instance seems to be able to create global pop hits in a flash is this a good thing and how does it all work i'll be discussing this with our social media expert off to this. clips uploaded to tech tucker 15 seconds or less making the app the perfect platform for today's short attention spans but i still anyone with a user profile can upload video content viral dances and music videos are among the most popular content on the platform it's. probably. always made me. 17 year

old or livia over at regal made headlines this month when her debut single driver's license hits 100000000 lessons faster than any other song in the history of music streaming then tech talk was a big factor in the song success since within the 1st 24 hours of its release many popular tech talk creators had uploaded reaction videos are used as background music for their. dances. to. the song games even more momentum when used by fans to showcase their acting and look sing skills as part of a so called tech talk to challenge creators showed themselves heartbroken during the 1st part of the video before transitioning into a glamorous version of themselves evidently the magic recipe for a viral hit. now i'm not a social media expert but my colleague or how to ruediger is

a driver's license went from 0 to the top of the charts in a matter of days all because of tick talk. well you know she is a disney channel actress so she is a bit famous but that doesn't explain the hewitt's instant success so what happened on the day the sun came out going tick tock just so random picked up you that use that song and have video and created a challenge and lots and lots of people participated in it talent so now we have all but a 1000000 videos you think that song want to talk and i mean even i use that song i want to my kicked off on my account to fill it with everywhere and then you know telephone with commented on the instagram polwarth and so it became this huge pop cultural moment really yeah ok so this is not the 1st time the being a tick tock challenge has pushed to the top of the jobs i'm thinking of fleetwood mark how the likes of to talk on instagram the change to how the charts are

in the last year what picked up and instagram really of which is the new video feature instagram you this kind of it picked up clone really but they encourage you to upload their own content but use someone else that's moving some of these people become really multiply it and that's new for social media because you know if you remember facebook was very much about copyright violations even taking you with a video down if they used popular music so i mean it's a bit ironic that now the feuds take took off get paid to to use the song and for instance charlie the mill you know she is one of the biggest take took off and reportedly she gets paid $40000.00 just to use the song in the video and dance to it so off of course all in the hope that this goes viral on the app and then goes viral in the charts and you have a number one hit so basically your song needs to have the potential for a good social media challenge then you go viral drugs of the top of the charts

doesn't matter but the music sounds easy so why doesn't every pop singer do it well . actually not that easy because you can't plan a viral moment it has to be offended because social media you know if they can spot a fake a mile away and that's actually what happened this week to jennifer lopez she uploaded a video on her instagram and had to talk and channel because she wanted to recreate it almost iconic beach scene a lot don't cost a thing then you think video and so we see how strolling down the beach and she's throwing up an expensive watch and have fun with laughter and you know eventually this posting and saying can't wait for your recreate it's new challenge but social media you thought they didn't like it they even crittur 5 tough why because they called the tone deaf it's went out we're in the middle of a pandemic i mean how are we going to recreate this huge scene when we don't have

our own private jet to fly to the beach and we're not supposed to travel so they criticised her and made quite a few funny means around that making fun of the talents so it's not that easy it's not even put jennifer lopez oh what a shame i was going to do a swing number which i don't know why are. you very much for a visit with the thanks for help because explaining all that now look at some other cultural stories from around the world of which to get in new york where must a piece of the italian renaissance painted charlie is just stretched a record price for a work by that artist at auction. the painting sold for $18000000.00 in $92000000.00 with commissions and fees young man with around all is thought to depict a young nobleman showing off his own prized possession a decorative medallion bearing the image of a saint it is considered one of his finest portraits probably dates from the 14th

seventy's or 14 eighty's. to paris where british designer kim jones is debut collection for fendi brought some bookish glamour to his 1st show the collection was inspired by virginia woolf novel orlando and jones recruited as many superstars and superstar models as possible with no live audience the models runway was actually a cool maze and another debut this time in the united arab emirates the 1st ever fashion week for men there a macho couture set the show in the desert with all the models wearing white and sporting various interpretations of the traditional dish dasha row. and in the united states where the annual sundance film festival in park city utah was for the 1st time a virtual festival and got on the way with a very topical film. in the same breath as a documentary by chinese american director none through wang which charts the

misinformation and propaganda that accompanied the spread of the corona virus in both. washington. now the american artist clare celeste started her professional life as a ministry to dealing with other artists but see she soon changed sides as it were a memoir now based in berlin she exhibits her work around the world her role material is simply paper but she creates extraordinary immersive collages that bring the viewer into a natural paradise and there's an environmental message in all her work to. this nature collages assembled from hundreds of paper images the installation biodiversity celebrates the wide variety of species welcome to claire celeste's

blooming world. actually and then i will use collage to plan my paintings and then one day i realise of a collage that i made to play a painting was actually much better than the painting itself celeste is inspired by natural history images of flora and fauna from around the world the american born artist is based in berlin from where she creates works like biodiversity a tribute to nature but also a warning. it was originally only about nature but then when i realized just how many spaces in my artwork are vanishing or have are to be honest it became impossible to ignore it herself because i think the most important part of my artwork. so much doesn't want her creations to be seen as merely decorative but she does try to make them beautiful or works or shown in international galleries such as these canvas collages and sweeping. this

mural adorns a department store in munich illustrations installations and glass cultures are all part of her portfolio the artist draws inspiration from places with lush vegetation like brylin patel mccall garden as a diplomat's child she lived in many countries such as thailand brazil italy and the united states exposing her to the joy of nature's great diversity the threat to the environment is a source of worry for. during quarantine the 1st short 3 weeks i remember looking at my artwork and thinking that the planet doesn't need both at all though i think it's sometimes my gloom and there are perhaps not. very environmentally friendly and this is a question that i have but i've recently decided that i'm going to continue making my art because i think it's really important as a vehicle for change and that i'm giving people a method of ecological urgency and ecological hope or i'm trying to. her

art is based on vintage naturalistic drawings of the animals and plants mixed with present day photos. like the idea of birds from 20300 years ago co-existing with contemporary ones i like that there's sort of this seamless timeline that's connecting the older drawings to the contemporary photography. she began by cutting out suitable images for her collages and in the process realize that quite a few of the depicted species are now extinct. nowadays celeste uses online archives she starts by composing her nature collages on the computer then she prints them on recycled paper and cuts them out her latest work using that approach is a kind of chandelier. claire celeste is still working on this hanging installation which she plans to eliminate with the lamp. her original plan was to burn the work

after its completion as a protest against the extinction of species. i think it's important to have a message of hope as well we have the tools to make the changes that we need to to save ourselves and i i want that to be part of the message as well so perhaps i won't set this on fire. instead the flames are made of paper and can be attached to removed depending on the message claire celeste hopes that her beautiful artworks will raise awareness of how endangered that beauty is. finally tributes have been pouring in for the pioneering american i. triss cicely tyson has died at age 96 she turned down stereotypical roles for black women agreeing only to play characters that was strong positive and realistic long before it was popular to do so and she is in the autobiography of miss jane pittman.

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