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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. did the people forget who made them pregnant? in their view, it's always the woman's fault in this kind of stigma. it's the result of a centuries old, patriarchal culture. ah, i'm jared raid. welcome to the dw news i to 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

for talks, chinese defense minister general way fang, 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, all 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 roach. and that's especially important as a p r c, a dobs for more coercive m aggressive approach to which territorial claims for his part, the chinese defense minister said badging would be prepared to invite taiwan in certain circumstances. rule where you're dying. god. hi. well, if anyone dares to split, tie one from china. when we the chinese army, you will not hesitate to go to will no matter the call on to

fight to the editor to walk, but speak now to dr. lynn quark or 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 c 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 me right 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 the u. s. 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 what 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 camber 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. but 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 cork 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, 3, the focus on to a different topic, climate change. fi, jeez, defense minister told delegates at the talk sat, 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 fuji's defense minister to make an urgent appeal at the security summit. it v g. we are not threatened by geopolitical competition. in our blo, pacific continent, machine guns, fighter jets, gray ships and boom battalions are not our primary security concern. 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, forced 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 comp 26 climate conference, the foreign minister of 2 vaughn, who 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 traveled to the city of semi rang in central java de visit an orphanage where some 80 children have been left behind it 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 family's reputation. my father even forbid me to contact my boyfriend. i've used a 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 your head. more women come here every day. the founder of the orphanage voicemail, where no handling has even had to turn the women back due to the limited capacity. we are simply overwhelmed here. we left the staff to take care of all the skill, look good because it would be a different matter. if the women were willing to give their children for adoption by now and i am with all righty, 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 is widely unacceptable. little out of here. so amy the morgan,

the and up as was it the you the of that, that be we're talking about stigmatization of women. lot of it's unbelievable thought science not just in this case was is a lot, but i'm wondering be stigma. mosse at a couple of bar. i really asked myself yeah, but why are women always being stigmatized? let debbie up. people forget who made them pregnant or 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 on adult day about that out. okay. sadly, 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 cars 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 try to interrogate me that night is focusing on the future. she hopes to

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's it for today on t w news asia, you can check out more of our stories on d, w dot com, forward slash asia. you can follow us to on facebook and twitter at dw news. i'm jarred radian, berlin, thanks for watching. see to mark. and it's time for a change in perspective, innovative and playful. and all the way up in architecture. and what have corona virus was the start of something completely

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