ah me, and now i need you who ah, visit the dublin years, asia coming up to date 6 months in how the water ukraine these re shaping the balance of power in asia. most visibly around taiwan. beijing has reaffirmed it has sovereignty over the island. and that it's prepared to use force to retake it by the u. s. has family back taiwan. what next for the island? plus, what of china is bigger? gold in asia. doesn't want to replace the u. s. as the dominant part in the region

. and we'll, it's, we'll start with russia helping to do so. and lastly, india with the biggest democracy in the world, take a stand against authoritarianism as the west hopes or does deli neutrality suggest if we follow a very different route? ah, i'm british manager, welcome to the dublin news. asia ledger could join us 6 months since the start of the ukraine bore. and the parallels with taiwan remain in focus. large authoritarian powers with global emissions, claiming sovereign rights over a smaller democratic neighbor. the kremlin has steadfastly dismissed ukraine's right to exist as a nation, insisting that it historically belongs to russia. likewise, china sees the island of taiwan as an indivisible part of the homeland and has

promised a military response. should it ever declare independence? taiwan spheres that it could be next to suffer. an invasion are clearly not unjustified, but 6 months after russia across the border into ukraine, east china any closer to doing the same in taiwan recent months have seen tensions across the taiwan strait climb to the highest level in years. spot on by high ranking bits from the united states. i was speaking nancy pelosi strip to type a just a few weeks ago. drew an angry response from beijing, which launched massive military drills around taiwan. the parallels haven't been lost in russia, the president who loudly support china's territories claim to taiwan and accused as the us of provocation. i mean, it can be american adventure in relation to taiwan is not just a treat by an individual, irresponsible politician. part of a purposeful conscious us strategy to destabilize and make

a arctic the situation in the region and the world. very good. for me on this, let's bring in did william, young and type pe, bureau william, what is the feeling over there? has the ukraine vol. signals a new phase in china, the aggression towards taiwan. i think there's definitely an added a feeling of urgency over here in taipei since february, especially among the citizens. we have already seeing an increase of people participating in self organized a training for self help and 1st aid, a kind of activities. and at the same time, there are also companies, private companies that are offering weapons boot camps for those who are hoping to acquire more combat readiness experience. and at the same time, people are also expressing their willingness to be participating in the governments renewed kind of increased intensity for the reservists training schemes. so i think

these are all the sign star are compared to the past. when tony's people felt like the military threat from china is still kind of like a distant thing in the future. the ukraine. busy war made them realize star rather than the whole pain, the other countries will stepping and intervene when china prepares to militarily in bay time one. they. tony's people should also have the ability to defend itself because at the end of the day they think and they see what happened to ukraine, is the most of the actual fighting is coming from the twenty's people and the twenty's troops. you know, you talked to ward in tomorrow school support. let's talk about that. you criminals at a string of higher level results from you as officials, as the ukraine was strengthened, international support for taiwan. yes, definitely. i think we saw a couple different delegations visiting taiwan, including the high, very controversial visit of the us, how speak, or pelosi. and even though that visit really triggered

a heightened response from china, including a 7 day military exercise around taiwan. but we are continuing to see different delegations including from the u. s. and currently there is a japanese parliamentary delegation and later this year there is going to be a u. k parliament's delegation, canadian parliament delegation, and the dentist parliament delegation. all scheduled to visit time in the coming months. i think these are all signs that despite paintings warning and these very provocative and heightened and more dangerous kind of military exercise and activities around taiwan. it is not deterring the international community to show support by sending their delegations to visit to one. thank you so much for joining us. beginning did of new reporter into barry. so while china has said it, sites on taiwan, it has from the refuse to condemn russia. for the water ukraine,

something born out of a no limits friendship. chinese president fugit being and russian president vladimir putin agreed to of the winter olympics in beijing in february. and since then, china has sought to frame russia, has actions in ukraine as being the only option moscow had to push back against us, lead expansionism, digital client luigi that you are the key to solving the ukraine crisis lies in the hands of the united states and nato, so we hope the united states and nato, as the culprits of the crisis, can reflect on their roles in the ukraine crisis. take up their due responsibilities and make practical actions to resolve the conflict. hm. and i will call and we don't plan yet. the agenda, and for more on the chinese thinking here, let's bring in read standish. he's a correspondent with radio free europe covering china's influence across eastern europe and central asia. and he drank the now from prague. read welcome. does china see an opportunity with the ukraine war to dislodge the united states from its

position of influence in asia? well, there's no doubt that the ukraine war has changed things, i think geopolitically everywhere. but i think especially in asian, especially in regards to taiwan. obviously, taiwan has presented as a bit of a foil for everything that's been happening in ukraine over the last 6 months. so i think for taiwan and if anything, i don't know if, if you knew of an oppertunity dislodged the united states from asia. but i think it's quite worried that this is perhaps one of the last windows of opportunity to limit american influence and especially american attempts to reorient its military presence and a lot of its foreign policy making towards the pacific away from europe. this invasion, in effect, has forced the united states to turn attention towards europe at a time when american leaders have been talking about china and the pacific being the main theater up the next century. so i think china, steve, ukraine,

more bit factor that has really changed things and i think that they know that they have a short window and if they're going to secure their interest to prevent america from, from going. all right, let's think about the chinese influence in the pacific and in the, in why did asia, does that know limits partnership? it has with russia, give it an upper hand in achieving that goal? well, it's difficult to say, obviously russia is in a lot with your position today that it was 6 months ago when she declared there's no limit partnership in beijing. the launch with winter olympics. it's clear that policy makers engaging they are invested in this relationship and given everything that we've seen russia do, whether that you know, war crimes every day of the violence in violation. 16 on the ground in ukraine. none of that had really think of damage that partnership. and the main reason for that is that they know that it needs a super power, like russia,

one with specially a security council and nuclear power, nuclear weapons, and it influenced around the world on its side. if it's going to burn insulin and especially if it's going to resist it, see that us enrollment on its interest, right. you spoke about taiwan as well. let us talk a bit about that. now there's a lot of views that the way it comes to the lesson that china is drawing from the ukraine war. but very specifically, read is, it is china watching the western responds to russia as an indicator of what could be installed for it. if it invaded taiwan. absolutely, and i think that that also cuts both ways, not only in beijing being as an indicator of how the west and react type have also been watching very closely. learning military lessons from ukraine on the ground about how to resist the potential invasion by going back to your mental question. i think definitely there's been a lot of, especially in regards to things. and i think that the economic response,

especially from the european union and the united states and the west, that lard and how unified it has been and how deep cutting it has been, i think not only moscow off guard, but also being off guard. and obviously the chinese economy is much larger than the restaurant economy. it's much more integrated globally, and the west is much more dependent on it than say, russia is. so i think that maybe they think that has a little bit more cover here in terms of getting hit by thanks and but seeing that final respond, i think, has, as we're in china, they've been looking into and exploring different ways about how to protect themselves. especially against sanctions, which could obviously hurt their economy, which is the central factor of the communist parties hold on power at china. read. we leave it there for the time being, but thank you so much for joining yesterday. read standish from a radio free europe. thank you. so much like china, india to refuse to condemn russia for its invasion. but unlike china, it wasn't an act of support for moscow. but

a strategic choice for new delhi. the 2 countries have very strong ties. getting back to the cold war and russia still supplies, the bulk of india is weapons. it's a time for a friendship, that's all the foreign ministers of hope sides beat in debbie in early april with russia only to keep, to offer india whatever if needed. we will be ready to supply any goods which indeed wants to buy, and i have no doubt that it would be out to bypass the artificial impediments which illegal all sessions by the with 3. and we saw how, despite sanctions india increased it, but chances of discounted russian oil by a factor of 5 when compared to last. yeah. so does not provide an indication of where indian foreign policies now headed did lose delhi bureau chief, i'm into cima. has mall india appears to have found its balance on the diplomatic

tightrope when it comes to the worn ukraine. it's no longer feeling diffident or defensive, about refusing to condemn russia's invasion if ukraine. there's now talk about balancing india's interests and india's right to buy cheap russian oil if it wants . now, recently the ukraine and foreign minister said that india must be mindful that every barrel of oil that comes from russia contains ukrainian blood. now his counterpart, the indian foreign minister, as j shanker said, he has a martyr duty to look after the needs of his people. so in this diplomatic churn, you see india's feeling more confident. it, it wants to enhance its diplomatic space. on the international stage, it wants to use leverage for its own strategic interests, especially when it comes to countries like china. the 2 neighbors are rivals and half of a tense relationship. not in this situation. if russia in china computers are together, things could get very difficult for india because after all,

india is very reliant on russia in many ways, especially military hardware. so india might aspire to have a neutral position in a multi pool a was. but if things go the way they might go with russia and china coming closer together, it would not be easy for india at all. i'm without your mother from, denny beth said for to barbara park again at the same time tomorrow. but i so i'm kinda, i got hard and if and this, i mean you are not allowed to you anymore, we will send you back. are you familiar with this reliance? subbing what's your story. ready he wasn't, i was women, especially victims of violence in

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and with the world's biggest gathering of the gaming industry kicking off in germany, we'll take a look at what the sector is making of its most recent move. i'm chris kolber. welcome to the program. china has warned that it's fall, harvest is under threat as the country struggles through the hardest summer since records began. 60 years ago, state agencies across china warning residents to save every unit of water as a severe drought continues, especially in the nation south power rationing across multiple provinces has resulted in thousands of factory closures and is being felt in major cities like shanghai. that's good morning, this is from d w's, so song hand and ty paid. so all of this sounds pretty alarming. give us an idea of what's at stake here. well, many people in china that they have never seen severe proration in and draw like this in their life time. i. if we look at the economic sectors that being

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