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taiwan straits into a new, more dangerous phase. taiwan, stop diplomats in germany. joints being in the studio for some odd says, ah, ah, i'm finished energy, welcome to d, w. use a shirt that you could join us. china us is it will court not renounced the use of force against taiwan to achieve re unification. the warning comes in a white paper on taiwan that china issued on wednesday. it runs off a week of the largest ever chinese military exercises around taiwan. they came in response to us. how speaker nancy pelosi is visit to the island. last week, taiwan responded to the chinese drills with exercises of its own and of warning from the islands. foreign minister,

the china wanted to control lod swedes of the western pacific. so where does that leave relations between china and taiwan to help us on to that? i'm joined the studio by taiwan representative to germany. sheer joe way is to share welcome a week of tit for tat military exercises later. where are we with ties between china and taiwan that i used to live here on my nick. they tried to strangle to us and we didn't give up the freedom. and i think after the attention overrun during the rockets into the oceans, around toronto, and, and what a fee, and it was a given china, a rocket, and i think we can study it again. yeah. but then it doesn't matter how many rockets are fired on. i will always out fire taiwan. do you think the level of tension between china and taiwan has increased? it is, but we are not a standing load there where one of the airlines, the so coach in the pacific strategic at odds with the u. s. a. we need to trip and

we need a u. k froze and jury, but also we are netted by all these countries because we are, we are, we are to that very key role playing the key role in the, in the pacific strategic alliance. we are, we have a very good micro chip, industrial, we have democracy, so we need them and then need us. they can not around that. how and become under the control china. all right, that's right. this is military has also warned court that it will continue to carry out military training and prepare for war. what happens if china tomorrow decides to blockade taiwan than all the semiconductor industry that you're talking about gets located? what happens then? yes, that means that we're, we're not the only one country who suffered under lis brocade, german usa, all a work order with who needs it. microsoft there were and that could, that would suffer under that. so that when that happens,

are you certain that the world will come to tie ones if taiwan is actually threatened by china for an actual envision? i have been x very often, this kind of christians. like what's the americans who come over to help us? my answer is always, no, they won't come because they are already there. if you take a look at close glance at that, what was the last 2 years that u. s. navy, the japan is australia. they are the already they are. so we are not alone, of course, we have to get prepared for anything like what happened in the last 2 weeks. i do want to talk to you about that, but let's talk about the preparations 1st. so where is taiwan? nod east, i want in a place in which it needs to prepare economically and militarily and foster for potential chinese. envision, i think as we wet that as it's like an all rule men, proper sage, a, c, b spokane, part of bedroom. if you want to have your freedom, you have to be prepared to fight for you or for you for your peace and freedom. and

that's what we've been doing the last in the last yes. maybe in the last ticket you have been doing that, but do you not think that the intensity of that has to increase the frequency with which you do that has to increase? so there is more of a pressure on taiwan is there not after these recent tensions, it is after admit it is, but we want it. that's another reason why we give up our freedom democracy. this over is of course, is always risk. we are, we knew it by the we are sitting in the same boat together. we americans, we saw the friends around what i see didn't a boat and nobody rosabelle. right. but we will talk about that. but i would like to talk about the people of taiwan because everything that you're seeing is the risk for the people of taiwan as to what might befall them in the event of an invasion. and as we saw, and i'd like to show you as a report that a colleague refers, zachary li, filed from taiwan as to how the current around of military exercises impacted the

people of taiwan. this bomb shelters, indians, millions house had been a store room for years, but no, she is preparing to use it again. the chinese military dream was near taiwan. have made war seemed like a real possibility to her son. so ha, we need to clean it up fast. so we can have a place to hide at the war, breaks out a safer to stay in here. you can see it is a solidly built shelter. lindsey small bum shorter was built nearly a 100 years ago. during the 2nd world war. she never expected to need it one day. she is not alone. li, increased monetary activity has rest concerns here in south and taiwan residents living nearly airbags are very used to the south of fighter aircraft. by the past few days, they say does more fighter jets are taking over a landing even at midnight. and this has arrest worries. here sharon sharon is one

of them. following the news about trend, his trios has become a part of his daily routine. he has even asked his local administrator where the air is show to us. are you sure why we are used to chinese intimidation? it's been going on for decades. it's possible. but this time the drills are much closer to us. okay, here. this of cause has this worried in taiwan constance or bali military crises as load. erasing a low cost survey found that a 3rd of the taiwanese are worried about a possible conflict with china. some are even thinkin medical help to deal with their in diety, psychiatrist yonce homes. hi says his patient have increased by nearly 30 percent

clinical powers and calls on one of my patients has experienced war. although yes, and he feels stressed when he sees reports about the drills or the war in ukraine face, hong kong, g hypatia. he has nightmares and can't eat properly or more a hallmark which none some without but others of course the alien, however, have taken the tensions in the astray young face that many here unarmed to chinese crates. but a father escalation he sees, could quickly upset that balance. mister sher, still with us of the taiwanese representative to germany. you saw that report by michael, exactly. the researcher, all this began after nancy pelosi visit to taiwan. did that visit, make taiwan safer? that rico's me a new friend. i met the other days on the street. he introduced himself to me by

saying hello among freight of germany. and i say, afraid of china. yes. the straits mean a text of china is for a to mean some of us. but it's wolfy is worth you that pelosi make these visitor and we were coming in from the part of a hard because it was as sign of some bowl. a signed off. so did they're ready, but you had those are similar signs before me. my question to you is what just i wanna know now after nancy pelosi is visit about us commitment to taiwan that it didn't know earlier. the accretion of china has had already already been there before the visit, the pelosi, maybe people here didn't know that much, but we experience that. that's the reason why parents said i came here. may that is the visit because i want to support our friends. it not democracy who ass it under this rating of china. so is that the christian is not to so correctly. i would say,

yes, we have known that the creation of china and china has showed their real face. but you just admitted earlier that the intensity of chinese military drilled and the intensity of chinese belligerents has increased off of this visit. i'm just trying to understand how that helps taiwan that makes us, that keeps us and bring us into the awareness of the refills of china. and i think it's good that we knew that they attempted to us. they are going to attack us. i have known that most people haven't used them known. this is the 10 m m a socket. 1989 on the 4th of july june. we know that will kill the people that we are attacked. i want if they think is necessary. that because they are straightly with us, with military and west resident with our democracy. so just to be clear, you think that chinese invasion of taiwan it is not a question of if but when, when yet so clearly in the less than 10 years the chinese,

the chinese government has shown their real fairs not only to what i want, but also towards japan and also especially in the south china sea. that's the reason why there is these concept indoor pacific is strategic. allen's no more asia pacific. right. so a chinese attempt to invade taiwan to re unify with the mainland will succeed or will not succeed. no, no, and will not succeed because you have the indoor pacific around. do we have we hipped our own military? we are working very close. who is the friend never in that was never countries or shots of the us hasn't committed that it will commit us troops to fight or on the side of taiwan. they don't have to, that's the polish self ambiguity and what they can, what is gonna come through and die. one is left alone to face china. we have to face that. the rent, rather i will. if louis out out guns you out,

man 0, and they're going to pay a big price so big that we have to think it again. it is what is worth it to a tech type one. and it can't the warranty unify as a re, unified, whatever you say, they should try to a ticked us, not a tech us, but then john is not listening to these demands. is it you're right, but let's see. i think is the is, is it kicking games? we want any way because we had met, we had met the development from the, from the texas dictators if to a democracy. so if the freedom we have freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and so on democracy, we want to keep it up last year to the question. if you go on to that briefly, if the u. s. does not deploy us troops in assistance for taiwan in the event of a chinese attack and taiwan hope to be china back weight. in this case, i'm not sure. and to be realistic, to be honest, we have to see, but anyway,

we won't give it up. we won't give up just like below a pillow as the she was threatened, she was wraith and so badly, and she didn't get up. and what happens? she visit fitness you lip that her once the is the 17th. and trina launched it a records and they come back to la normal life and i think we did a good position. we leave it there. thank you so much for coming in mr. sheet. your where i wonder is a bit of germany, and that's all we have time for. thank you so much for joining us today on did of the news issue? ah. is the end of the pandemic in site? we show what it could look like. return to normal and we visit those who are finding it difficult to success

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