you use coming up next in d, w, news, asia, how the war in ukraine is changing the power politics in asia, and where it's taking roches relations with china and india. i'm painful and nice to have you along. i'll see you next out here on be dealt with on this day. it's been 6 months since russia started on the rest of the time on the summer and name on you crate. we are here. we talk to people on the ground. to politicians. we shed light events and that consequences 6 months

that have changed ukraine on the world. on all platforms brought to by g w. every journey begins with the 1st step and every language with the 1st word louis pinnacle. rico is in germany to learn german. why not learn with him? simple online, on your mobile and free to shop. t w's e learning course, nico speak? german made easy. they said the dublin years, a shirt coming up to date 6 months in how the water ukraine. these re, shaping the balance of power is share 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. family back taiwan.

what next to the island? plus? what of china is bigger? gold in asia, doesn't want to replace the u. s. as the dominant part of the region and will it's blue star is 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 delhi neutrality suggest? it will follow a very different route. ah, i'm british manager, welcome to d, w, and use asia ledger to 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 attentions across the taiwan strait. climb to the highest level in yes. spied on by high ranking visits from the united states. our speaker nancy pelosi strip to tie feet just a few weeks ago. drew an angry response from beijing, which launched massive military drills around taiwan. the pattern bells haven't been lost on russia, president who loudly support china's territory claim to taiwan and accused as the us of provocation. i mean,

when the 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 and d, w. william yang and type pay 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 feeling of urgency over here in ty pay since february, especially along the citizens. we have already seen an increase of people participating in self organized training for self help and 1st 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 defined 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 meet them, realized rather than the whole cane. the other countries will step in and intervene when china prepares to militarily invade taiwan. they, taiwanese, 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 about international support, let's talk about the ukraine. is that a string of high level with it's from us officials, has the ukraine was strengthened international support for di one? yes, definitely. i think we saw a couple different delegations visiting time wine,

including the high, very controversial visit of the u. s. how speak or pelosi. and even though that visit really triggered a high, tend to 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, a canadian parliament delegation, and the dentist poem and delegation all scheduled to visit timeline in the coming months. i think these are all signs that despite beijing's morning and these very provocative and heightened and more dangerous kind of military exercise and activities around time. one, it is not deterring the international community to show its support by sending their par delegations to visit time one. thank you so much for joining us,

beginning hearing dw reporter in tawberry. so well china, her so did. so it's on taiwan. it has from the refuse to condemn russia for water, new crim something born out of the nor limits friendship chinese procedure being and russian president vladimir putin agreed to of the winter olympics and beijing earlier that morning. and since then, china has sought to frame russia's actions in ukraine as being the only option. moscow had to push back against us, lead expansionism. you can, we do the, your, the key to solving the ukraine crisis lies in the hands of the united states and nato. we hope the united states and nato, as the culprits of the crisis, can reflect on their roles and the ukraine crisis. take up their due responsibilities and make practical actions to resolve the conflict. how many ways you don't find yet in the jersey. 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 joins me now from prague. read welcome, this china sea and 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 it's, you know, as 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, 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 against, right, let's think about the chinese influence in the pacific and in the, in why denisia does that know limits partnership. it has been russia, give it an upper hand in achieving that goal. well, it is difficult to say, obviously russia is in a lot weaker position today than it was 6 months ago when she declared there's no limits partnership in beijing. the launch of winter olympics, it's clear that policy makers in gauging, they are invested in this relationship and given everything that we've seen rush to 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 damage the partnership. and the main reason for that is that basing know that it needs a super power, like russia, one with actually a security council seat. and it's nuclear power, nuclear weapons, and an influence around the world on its side. if it's going to burn insulin and especially if it's going to resist what 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 lessons 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 install 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 wes and react type have also been watching very closely learned military lessons from ukraine on the ground

about how to resist the potential invasion by going back to your original question, i think definitely there's been a lot of especially in regard to thanks. 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. how deep cutting has been, i think, not only caught 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 then 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 see and back final response. 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. your 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 the time to friendship the so the foreign ministers of hope sides beat in debbie in early april with russia only to keep, to offer india whatever it needed we will be ready to supply. we did any goods which india wants to buy, and i have no doubt that it would be out to bypass the artificial impediments which illegal all sections with creed. and we saw how, despite sanctions in the increased, it's but traces of discounted russian oil by a factor of 5 when compared to last. yeah. so it does not provide an indication of

where indian foreign policies now headed did lose delhi bureau chief. i'm going to cima. has mall india appears to have found its balance on the diplomatic tightrope when it comes to the war in ukraine. it's no longer feeling diffident or defensive, about refusing to condemn russia's invasion of ukraine. there's now talk about balancing india's interest and india's right to buy cheap russian oil if it wants. now, recently the ukraine in 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 moral 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 it's on strategic interests,

especially when it comes to countries like china. the do neighbors are rivals and half of a tense relationship. not in this situation. if russia in china computer 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 word. but if things go the way they might go with a russia and china coming closer together, it would not be easy for india at all. i'm without your mother from billy. that's it for to barbara park again of the same time tomorrow. but ah.

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