well, world heritage 360, get the app. now, you know, sometimes a seed is all you need to allow big ideas to grow. we're bringing environmental conservation to life with learning packs like global ideas. we will show you how climate change and environmental conservation is taking shape around the world and how we can all make a difference. knowledge grows through sharing. download it now, feel free. ah, this is the w news, asia coming up today. china and the us tried accusations at asia top security summit staging accuses washington of trying to turn asia pacific countries against it. the u waste is china is using coercion and these stabilizing the region. so where has the meeting left ties between the 2 nations?

also on the show it fiji makes another urgent appeal on climate change. it says it's the biggest threat isn't military conflict, but global warming or it's cold. finally, being heard, plus the stigma of being an unmarried mother in indonesia, we explain why many women are forced to give up their children. of women always being stigmatized, but didn't up people forget who made them pregnant. in their view, it's always the woman's fault. this kind of stigma is the result of a centuries old. patriarchal culture. bravo. ah, i'm jared raid. welcome to the dw news azure. thanks for joining us. tense relations between the us and china have dominated a security summit in singapore over the weekend. though the 2 sides deed st. down

to talks, chinese defense minister general way sang, hey, accused his us counterpart of hijacking the supportive asia pacific countries to turn them against beijing. earlier us defense secretary lloyd austin, said china or the p r c was causing instability with its claim to taiwan and increasing military activity in the region. also stand by our friends as they are pull their rights and that's especially important. as a p r c adoption, more coercive m aggressive approach to which territorial claims for his part, the chinese defense minister said begging would be prepared to invade taiwan in certain circumstances. rule where you were dying guard by tyra. if any one dares to split, tie one from china with you. when we the chinese army, you will not hesitate to go to war. no matter the co flu bound,

we will fight to the editor to walk. let speak now to dr. lynn quark. her senior fellow for asia pacific security at the international institute for strategic studies. she joins me from singapore. welcome to d, w. news, asia. we heard some rather tasty comments there from the chinese and u. s. defense chiefs. what's your sense of where this meeting left ties between the 2 countries? thank you for having me, jared. i think the best point to notice that this is the 1st meeting that military leaders from the united states and china have have had with each other since president biden took office. so i think that's a very positive bus that i mean both side exchange test the word. but i think the fact that there weren't by was, was encouraging. that said,

this must be the 1st step of many steps necessary to help me here. a tension between the united states and china, and i think, broadly speaking, what is more concerning for me is that we're hearing less and from the united states or from china about the desire to search from common grounds. let's move on and speak about taiwan because this was also a focus point. we've also had china made some quite forceful comments on this issue . as did the us, do you think a chinese invasion of taiwan is more old? less likely? now? china's calculations will whether not to invade taiwan would be based primarily on whether or not it's so itself is able to win a war that involves the united states quickly or at all. the fact that russia has invaded ukraine is not going to change its calculations on that, nasa. and i think trying this calculation design, the standard is not, you know,

it's not, it will not be able to win a war involving the united states for at least another 10 years. so i think if anything, the war in ukraine and how it pans out there might make china even more reluctance to take military action again. ty, one in the medium term, i'd like to ask you about the south china sea, which i understand is one of your areas of expertise and they genes disputed claims . china has called for quote, turning the south china sea into a sea of peace, friendship and co operation. do you think this signifies any kind of a different approach from beijing? right now, what the problem is, isn't what china says, it's what china does. and what we've seen in the cell trying to see is continued militarization of land speeches in the south trying to see we've seen on china continuing its encroachments into the exclusive economic zones of coastal states.

we've also seen china sent hundreds at times of vessels to surround features that are occupied or administered by at the countries in the beach. now, just briefly, if you could, relations between australia and china hasn't been great in recent years to say the least. there's a new government in camera now. could this be a turning point? deputy prime minister of australia and defense minister of australia rigid miles spoke at the shang village. i love. i think his words were very well chosen down. they were of a moderate tone. but at the end of the day, australia is going to be taking a principal approach, and it's not going to be allowing china to exercise i economic coersion against it as we've seen china exists in the past. and so i'm not sure that we are likely to see improvements or relations between australia and china. if our china continues

with actions that are problematic to say the least b a, b, a stay there. now at china, where to improve its behaviors. that said that it accorded with principles of international law so that it stopped economic coersion against trail. yeah. perhaps . then we might see in relations improve. but i think the ball in that respect is in china's court. i was dr. lynn crock from the international institute for strategic studies. we really appreciate your analysis. thank you very much for the war and ukraine and us china tensions loomed over the security summit. one country through the focus on to a different topic, climate change fe, jeez. defense minister told delegates at the talks that the threat from global warming was far bigger than from military tensions. fiji a pacific nation of some 300 islands has been suffering from increasingly extreme weather events. islands on the front line of climate change. storms,

floods and rising sea levels have been making life hard in fiji, prompting feed, use defense minister to make an appeal at the security summit. in v g. we are not threatened by geopolitical competition. in our blue pacific continent, machine, gun fighter jet gray ships and boom battalions are not our primary security concerns. the single greatest threat glo, our very existence is. climate change floods caused by tropical cyclones have displaced thousands of people in fiji with devastating economic consequences. while residence i abandoning villages near the sea as creeping tides, force them to move in land to higher safer ground. the low lying pacific islands are some of the world's most vulnerable countries when it comes to extreme weather

events caused by global warming. it must be at last year's cop $26.00 climate conference. the foreign minister of to varner made headlines when he gave his address knee deep and see water to draw attention to the islands fight. with rising sea levels, at least the regions biggest economy has now committed to start acting on climate change. on a recent visit to fiji, the foreign minister of the newly elected australian government promised solidarity on the past governments. australia has neglected its responsibility to act on climate ignoring the calls of our pacific family to act disrespecting, pacific nations in their struggle to adapt to what is an existential thread. this is a different australian government and a different australia. and we will stand shoulder to shoulder with you, our pacific family in response to this crosses perhaps

a sign that nations like fiji, a finally getting heard ah, let's go to indonesia. now a country where 6 out of wedlock is taboo, contraception is largely out of reach for young unmarried couples. and these can make it very difficult for unwed will. unwed women who get pregnant. conservative attitudes, man, many mothers are punished and stigmatized. some even forced to give up their children. these children have one thing in common. they were all born outside of marriage. i have travelled to the city of sir marin in central java to visit an orphanage where some 80 children have been left behind it by their parents who meet up with an expecting mother. let's call her ratna. she has been waiting with 10 other pregnant women to give birth to a child that will grow up here without her. we have changed her voice to protect her identity. this was my mother's idea. for my family, it would be

a disgrace to bring the baby home. they are worried about the families reputation. my father even forbid me to contact my boyfriend. i feel terrible about leaving my child behind with other father. but i hope to visit from time to time. so now the 19 year old is helping out at the office. more women come here every day. the founder of the orphanage voicemail were no handy. has even had to turn the women back due to the limited capacity. we are simply overwhelmed. harry, we left the staff to take care of all this, kinda look into patrick on what it would be a different matter if the women were willing to give their children up for adoption by now. and i am a little fuzzy, but most mothers like that. now i would rather get the option open of returning one day in indonesia society pregnancy outside marriage is still to boot and pre marital sex as widely unacceptable. a little out of here. so yeah, i mean,

the morgan did end up as was it, the you the of that, that be we're talking about stigmatization of women who are, it's unbelievable thought science not just in this case for us is a lot, but i'm wondering, be stigma must have a couple of bar, i really asked myself, yeah, but why are women always being stigmatized? lead up people forget who made them pregnant to i young. in their view, it's always the woman's fallen in this kind of stigma is the result of a centuries old. patriarchal culture apples to apples bone, adult day about that out. okay. that nice. expecting her child in 2 months and then she will live in the orphanage right now. she is actually quite relieved that she no longer has to conceal her pregnancy. i used to wear a corps it, but over the time that was obviously no longer an option. i also got weaker and in my housing lock, people started to ask questions. my lord even tried to interrogate me.

right now is focusing on the future. she hopes the pregnancy will go well. one day, she would like to run her own business, and her biggest dream of all. to come back for her 1st child. that seat fits a day on t w. news asia, you can check out more of our stories on t w dot com, forward slash asia. you can follow up to on facebook and twitter at dw news. i'm jared rate in berlin. thanks for watching c to mark. t w's crime fighters are back in africa's most successful radio drama series continues for them. all episodes are available online. and of course you can share and discuss on d. w, africa's facebook page and other social media platforms,

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