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i melissa chan, thanks for joining us with russia bombarding ukrainian cities and with evidence. hooton's army is targeting civilians. there is tremendous desire to make the horse stop and some policy makers are looking at china. aging has made early attempts to position itself as a peacemaker here, but the close relationship between chinese leader shooting ping and russian leader vladimir putin prompts questions about just how neutral china can be. once bitter rivals, china and russia are now as close as frenemy can be the start of the winter olympics. and beijing last month saw she, jim ping and vladimir putin declare a new era, and no limits partnership backing each other over stand offs and ukraine and taiwan

with a promise to collaborate more against the west. china likes to present itself as an honest broker in the conflict, but following the russian invasion, beijing has largely cited with its neighbour and close security partner russia. and rather than criticize moscow, the chinese government instead blames the u. s. for causing the crisis. he bought it, we hope all parties will work together with china to deescalate tensions, instead of adding fuel to the fire and promote a diplomatic solution i. china will continue to play a constructive role in seeking and realizing piece arbiter, yahoo union. she is a long time admirer of putin and the 2 autocratic leaders have formed a strong bond, chanted denies that it knew about the invasion in advance, and had asked russia to wait until the olympics were over before attacking ukraine . while professing neutrality facing stance is geared more towards moscow, china abstained on both of the united nations on sanctioning russia and demanding

the withdrawal of russian troops. the chinese refused to acknowledge that russia has invaded ukraine admission to me. china is clearly watching the west reaction to the invasion, especially when it comes to its own efforts to take control of self rule taiwan. at the national people's congress, china's annual rubber stamp parliament beijing hike. this year's defense spending by 7 point one percent. while the ukraine crisis is putting pressure on china, beijing's priorities like closer to home with taiwan. joining us in the studio is clifford coon and who filed that report? a clifford? oh, what qualifies china? to be a peacemaker in ireland as well on the surface, you would think it would be a good candidate. i'm in the, it's got good relations with both ukraine and russia. both countries were china's where up china as their biggest trading partner her before this and, and they also have really close relations between she and couldn't. but as we've seen, maybe the relations are too close. and this is pretty much what disqualifies it as,

as a peacemaker. it's basically, it's more about, in some ways what it's not doing that about what it's doing because it's been by not voting in favor of sanctioning russia and by not taking part in the sanctions. and there's a sort of herb, and it's basically enabling what russia is doing and by not calling it an invasion to so that a lot of reasons where we're sort of seeing that. and in a way, china has kind of using this diplomatic language and saying that it's, you know, it's on the fans sitting on the fence. but if it's sitting on the fence, it's definitely leaning much more towards sir towards china. re an of course, aging must e m, watching this very closely. everything that's happening. what do you think are some of their takeaways? well i, i think they're going to find it a bit disturbing and some levels. and i think 1st of all, ad is a big question mark about how much they knew in advance about the invasion. and presuming that at the opening of the winter olympics put and did mention something . and which as you know, there is some evidence that may have happened,

but i think they were expecting a short invasion, unsuccessful invasion. and i think they were expecting the wes not to get its act together and to come out with a kind of sanctions that it has. so am i think the combination of these 2 things has, has had to and i think they won't like what they've seen. and damn one ye, the foreign minister who is seen talking to day air has given us a pretty good view now of what the chinese stance is on, on, on the russian invasion. maybe we can look at the year, the quote, to work with china. russia relationship is grounded in the clear logic of history and driven by strong internal dynamics. and the friendship between chinese and russian peoples is rock solid. was a bright prospect for cooperation. so you can see from that sort of language there that clearly they are. you know that there's no ambiguity. now, i think that they have thrown their weight behind russia. and this the constant i'm talking about what the u. s. is doing all the all rather than focusing on the

invasion. so i think we have a lot more clarity now about where, where china stands. i think everyone is, i'm making this comparison. but how does the situation in ukraine inform on what might happen in taiwan? this is a big fear of the see, it's a big fear in taiwan in the run up. and apparently there's people in the streets in taiwan saying to day ukraine to morrow taiwan is obviously a lot of fear am and the constant references to sovereignty have also caused alarm bells and taiwan em, i think, did under leadership there has tried to keep things calm. i think they're very different militarily seen. i think it's much, it's much harder to invade an island and we have to cross the sea rather than the land invasion. and even the land invasion, as we're seeing in them in the ukraine, isn't happening at the, the kind of speed that they were expecting. it's no longer a blitzkrieg. it's actually now more of a slow war of attrition. almost there,

lot more mountains, anti, exactly. and, and also, and it said, you know, that the thing is that if we, if russia isn't going to occupy ukraine, but presumably china would take taiwan to keepers. and if you keep it against the wishes of the people, it's extremely difficult. so while i think it does over the understandable fear and we never know how things are going to turn out. but i think that the fact that they're different also the fact that this is a very big year for she, jim ping hits the year and which he's going to be establishing himself as a leader for life. so i think that probably in terms of an immediate threat of invasion, i don't think it's there, but there's always a suspicion that they could be dividing the 2. and you know, that looking more at sort of dividing attention of the us, perhaps that's always a risk. but if i had to make a call, i would say, i don't think there's going to be an invasion immediately. very, very quickly. and neighbors, south china sea, they are, they're getting nervous with this when they, when they look at all this,

i think similarly to the tooth to china or taiwan, they're getting the similar activity of similar reaction. they're that there's nerves, i think about the way this is playing out because of china's ambitions in the search odyssey. clifford thank you so much as always ah. and sticking to the topic of taiwan, the war in europe has certainly caught the attention of people there for decades. they lived with a possibility that beijing might capture the independent island, which is completely self governed. and one of the world's 20 largest economies. here's the w's joyce lee with more this carp, hawkish, destiny, touched to be an air raid shouted in the front of an emergency and met the russia ukraine war. the taiwanese government has instructed local police to check or underground spaces. they are more than a 100000 bomb shout, has in taiwan more than enough to house all this 24000000 people. the authorities

recently added a new mobile ad feature to how people locate the close a site. ok grandfather, because of the ukraine crisis. more people have watched the promo video of our app and it shows the taiwanese people are concerned about where they can find shelter. or yoga and glanton, many in taiwan, see paralyzed with ukraine. china has not ruled out a use of force to quote reunify with the south route to island. and for the past few years, beijing has been standing warplanes to tie wants eddie van sewn on a daily basis. taiwan has been under beijing's threat for 7 decades, so it's become a part of daily life. and people even joke about having a wall, just like the ukrainians dead before the invasion. so what happened in ukraine is a wake up call for the taiwanese many see a need for greater self reliance as soon as the war broke out ukrainians in taiwan were joined by lo coast. in anti war rallies,

mines set off for pain and she didn't paint are unfortunately very similar if within can invade ukraine, just like this without any reason because there is no reason. then of course i want these people. if it also be alert, we're kind of afraid there will be a physical ation have of in our one room will never know if we were called the the older agra piley's air growth drill. alden's got applied right despite the worries expos say across straight wall is unlikely for now. it's too risky for beijing to launch a landing operation given the anti ship message. taiwan has president seizing, being also pirate isis internal stability ahead of a congress later this year. in which his expected to take a historic 3rd term as party. heave none the last, ty wants defense, ministry is on high alert. they are caused for an increase in defense spending. so

the, the gold linings on take israel and singapore, for example, their defense spending accounts for more than 5 percent of their g d p. so you tie one should raise it to at least 3 percent. if we invest more in our military, they chose our determination to defend ourselves and turn our allies will be more willing to help oscillate. the logo you had quite good call. last week you as president, joe biden, santa delegation of former top security officials to taiwan. as a show of support to the island, beijing reacted furiously with state media, calling it with an obvious provocation. on the taiwan side and others said, morale has been booster, significantly adding down to taiwanese must be on alert, but not panic. i made the rising tension from go to the china is setting a truck. they try to make taiwanese people tense all the time, so we get tard numbed them. they can seize opportunities to launch surprise attacks . so key words support uptake. keep calm and carry on. tony's people have been doing this for 70 years,

and they're not going to change this mentality for the time being. in addition to the delegation sent by the biden administration, former secretary of state, mike pompeo from the previous trump administration, also decided to visit taiwan. he had this warning about cheating, pings, motivations, shifting things, intentions are deep. i, his agenda is global and hedge a monic there. there's no doubt about that. but i want presents and democracy that has great friends around the world and great friends in the region. and i am, i am convinced that there are a number of ways in which a shipping is watching, what's happening to vladimir putin, to the russian military inside of ukraine today. that must be giving him great pause for having for having met with let him put and just to several weeks ago and said that their relationship was unlimited. really, underscoring there that the u. s. position on taiwan is bipartisan. something both republicans and democrats can agree on,

which is not that common these days in us politics. that's it for monday, we'll be taking a look at how this war in europe impacts events in asia all week on the program see tomorrow, and provide with secrets my behind these will discover new adventures in 360 degrees and explore fascinating world heritage sites with d. w world heritage 360. get out now. then jim and with d. w. at any time soon amy place easy means video to velez. you have

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are gathering in texas with their sector in crisis. russia's invasion of ukraine has delivered a shock to oil and gas markets and energy firms are under pressure to take a stand against moscow. governments are also planning to turn up the heat. international sanctions against russia have so far excluded the country's energy sector. but that's about to change. the u. s. and europe are exploring a ban on imports of russian oil and gas attendees of sarah week and annual energy conference in houston are discussing how to replace russian supply. now i see that the u. s. is, is looking to venezuela is considering getting increased production from venezuela . well those barrels, canada from alberta, canada says it has spear pipeline and rail capacity and can move more oil to the united state.