easy highlights. every week. you'll inbox, subscribe now, or see asia and artic lovers guide. 5 vibrating, asian cities. 5 local artists, ah, nick experience of their craft. join us for exclusive master classes. well done about i know to do this week on d. w with 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 the 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 are, it's called 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 did the 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 for apple felony. 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 did sit down to

talk at chinese defense minister general way saying hey, accused his us counterpart of hijacking the support of 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, poll their rights. and that's especially important as a p r c, a dobs, 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're dying garber 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 because sleep and 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 1st, the 1st point to note is that this is the 1st meeting that military leaders from the united states and china have had with each other since our president biden took off this. so i think that's a very positive 1st step. i mean, both sides exchange test the words, but i think the fact that there weren't fireworks was encouraging. that said,

this must be the 1st step of many steps necessary to help many rate 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 less from the united states or from china about their desire to search from common ground. let's move on and speak about taiwan because this was also a focus point. we've also heard china made some quite forceful comments on this issue. as did you is, do you think a chinese invasion of taiwan is more or less likely? now? china's calculations will whether invade taiwan would be based primarily on whether or not it saw itself is able to win a war that involved the united states quickly or at all. and the fact that russia has invaded ukraine is not going to change its calculations on that matter. and i think china's calculations as i understand it, is that 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's panned out, there might make china even more reluctant to take military action against ty, one in the near to medium town. 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 south 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 zone is 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 region. 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 tambra. now, could this be a turning point? the deputy prime minister of australia and defense minister of australia, richard miles spoke at the shop village. i love, i think his words were very well chosen and they were of a moderate tone. that at the end of the day, australia is going to be taking a principled approach. and it's not going to be allowing china to exercise economic coersion against it as we've seen china exist in the past. and so i'm not sure that we are likely to see improvements or relations between australia and china. if china continues with actions that are problematic to say the least b a b,

a straight idea. now if china were to improve its behavior 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 quark from the international institute for strategic studies. we really appreciate your analysis. thank you very much. by the war in ukraine and us china tensions loomed over the security summit. one country through the focus on to a different topic, climate change fi, 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, fiji defense minister to make an urgent appeal at the security summit. in v g. we are not threatened by geopolitical competition. in our blue pacific continent, machine guns, fighter jets, gray ships and blue battalions are not our primary security concern. the single greatest threat to 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 highest safe 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. big at last year's cop 26 climate conference. the foreign minister of to varner made headlines when he gave his address knee deep and sea 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 onward when 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 traveled to the city of sir marin in central java de visit an orphanage where some 80 children have been left behind by their parents who met up with an expecting mother. let's call her retina. 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 eva, forbid me to contact my boyfriend. is a terrible about leaving my child behind his other father. but i hoped of his it 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, when a handy has even had to turn women back due to limited capacity. we are simply overwhelmed hire. 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 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 whitely unacceptable. little out of here, sorry,

i made the morgan debiana castles. it'll give you that, that be we're talking about stigmatization of women. lot of it's unbelievable thought science. not just in this case, fussy solano from london bay stigma myself a couple of bar. i really asked myself, yeah, but why are women always being stigmatized? let them up. people forget who made them pregnant. my 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, but a lot of apples to apples on adult day about that out. okay. that nice. expecting her child in 2 months until 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 her 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 landlord even tried to interrogate me

that night 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 see fit to 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 us to on facebook and twitter at dw news. i'm jared right in berlin. thanks to watching. see to mark with people in trucks injured when trying to flee the city center. more and more refugees are being turned away. families played on the syrian for these correct on with

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