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a japanese island worry if they could be on the front line extensions, john to wal a british manager. welcome to the the other news a show that you could join us to u. s. navy ships of sale through the taiwan strait in a passage, the white house described has been consistent with international law. the ceiling comes just weeks after the visit of us. how speak a nancy pelosi to taiwan. china objected to the visit and held its largest ever military drills around the island to which taiwan responded with its own set of exercises. all this has brought into shop relief, the question of how taiwan defends itself against any possible chinese. envision dw zachary lee and cherry chen report rubbing. she loves military hot,

where he said to a guide by day, but for the past 2 decades, he spent his spare time taking pictures of military exercise when taiwan responded to chinese 3 years earlier this month with me. so tastes of its own shoe was right there. filmy me shout jim. i got here more than 2 hours before the announced time of the test and i was worried that many people would come. i wanted to get the best spot soon caught way at the full moon view radar operator. she also listened to radio, macy's, and check movement by both as taiwanese and chinese armed forces around the island . he said high one has not done enough to improve its military strains all months now shall we have never wanted to attack any one and her cold. yeah, we are only developing weapons for self defense. some way we should do more of that

is on a guy. so he's happy to see that here in pin don't county, a weapon manufacturer is carrying out new sale and rocket tests. taiwan faces unprecedented publication from china, and now it is much more eager to develop its own me those. and this military base behind me, a town this weekend developer is conducting a series of lo fi a me so taste these next most. they are held here regularly, both escalating fits from china. they carry more significant than ever military experts say taiwanese to establish its own defense to g, but now one based merely on how many weapons it has. so woman, we must get better at a symmetric warfare form. if we try to compete on the number weapons we will be dragged into an arms, really

a warmer bill. how poor jim that would be really bad for us to warm. and nigel cipollina, i don't know how he saith taiwan, has tried to move away from buying weapons from just wild country b u 8th. but it has proved almost impossible plant she's out of georgia. so many countries have cited a variety of reasons for refusing to sell arms to taiwan. to hear that how andrea so oh tong chanting yoga, for example. she though we have always wanted to acquire submarines from germany. for robin. she the message is clear. tie one needs to be more confident in developing its own defensive capabilities. only lynn kenny stayed up to the thread from abroad. and nowhere is that threat felt more acutely, perhaps than tie one's jenman island, which lies less than 5 kilometers from china's coastline. and it was chief international editor, richard walker joins me now from jen meant richard from where you are, give us

a sense of the scale of the threat that taiwan is facing yet will be rash. there really is a sense at the moment that the threat from china is as big as his ever been. and that there's a sense of a potential kind of moment of truth approaching down the line. but just to give you a little bit of seen setting, 1st of all of where i am here, i'm on an island actually called little jin man, which is offered gen man. this cluster of islands are controlled by taiwan very close to the chinese mainland. and if you just look behind me across the bay here through the haze, you can see the chinese city of sharman across the water. less than 5 kilometers, just like you said, it really it's it feel so close at these islands, jim and they're no stranger to the china threat. so at the very end of the civil war, 1949. the p. a lay a we're, we're landing on these shores trying to take these islands at the very end of the

civil war. and you still see that these spikes, these defensive spikes, which are against a landings taking place here, or which had dotted all around these islands everywhere. said these islands really exude this are a history of the conflict between china and taiwan. but just a very recently during through chinese exercises that took place to complain about the visits of us speak. nancy pelosi, one of these items says the next one along a was buzzed by a chinese drone. and the chinese released footage from that drone, which showed taiwanese soldiers on the ground, throwing rocks at this drone to try to assure it away. and this really brought home some of the problems or taiwan faces at the moment, the sheer proximity of china, but also the fact that or they had to show away these drones were rocks. so the time when his government has been rushing now to say that they're going to secure for next year, all sorts of anti drone technologies. but, but really a kind of

a little palpable and rather embarrassing reminded their of the threat and of, or will most of you to the other question of, what is taiwan stroke to do to defend itself from a much bigger neighbor yet? well, i mean, this is really an ongoing debate that's been heightened this year, not just because of the policy visit, but also because of the ukraine war. that's been really something of a wake up call. not just for tie when he's politicians for tie when he's military, but also on retirement is people thinking, gosh, if it can happen that it can happen here. and this is added to the debate and we heard referred to just in the report there about asymmetric warfare. the fact that taiwan will never be able to match up with the chinese in terms of numbers or in terms of military budget. so that it needs to be smart about using its limited military budget to buy the kind of weapons that it might be able to use or to fight a bit like the ukrainians in, in a, an invasion scenario. but even that is controversial with some people saying, well,

you can't just go for the sort of weapons that allow you to fight back. once somebody invaded, you also wants to deter that invasion to really what you need is a sort of balance between big ticket military items and the smaller scale ones. but this does bring us also to a certain amount of tension between tie one of the united states with the sense that i been getting from some people talking to time. i've been talking to privately here and i want that they get the sense that the american still been dragging their feet and providing some of the weapons that they really need. so all is not necessarily particularly well also in the relationship between the u. s. and taiwan in dealing with this threat from china you're, there's more of a moment of truth for approaching a richer because that her, her moment of truth arrived there because of man to spur and then super lucy's recent visit. what i, i don't think so. i mean, there are all sorts of different take some nancy pelosi visit and what the chinese exercise that took place after it. mean some people i've been talking to here to

say that they do feel that the chinese did show degree of restraint in those exercises. but what they also did was establish what we talked about as a new normal, that china's a fighter jets, for instance, now go further than they did across what's called a median line. at the line sort of in between taiwan and china. on the, in the taiwan strait. but the kind of moment of truth i'm really talking about here is the fact that china says that it wants to re unify as they put it with taiwan. and a great charity of the people of taiwan. say that they simply don't want that. how do you resolve that then without going to war? richard walker labrador duplicate so much for joining us. virgin island and tension. don't i want to having an impact on other countries in the region as well? japan, for instance, it's western most island yacht agony lies just to 108 kilometers east of taiwan. it

is in fact, closer to typing than it is to talk your and that has its 1500 residents. what'd it could become a new frontline? if hostilities break out in the future, fisherman is she not a tough she to go makes everything ship shape for his next big catch. he needs one urgently because he hasn't been able to fish as usual. after the recent chinese military drills around taiwan, the 32 year old was banned from heading out to sea for 5 days. it was deemed too dangerous because of the proximity to the contested islands nearby. so you have chosen. the rockets fell into the sea just 80 kilometers. from here we could hear it happen. okay, and how did the government in tokyo react month with a silly piece of paper? they sent us a fax to inform us about it. what am i can make of you that the island of yona agony is some 2000 kilometers from tokyo. but it feels like half

a world away. fishing and pony breeding are the economic life blood of the island which rarely receives visitors. are cameras are a cause of interest straight away? i was they were fear here because of tell you on right. i couldn't think of another reason vehicle the so that because i deal should i on many skunk. ok. normally i don't think about this about taking took full but i recently started worrying about the future. can you see the get it the future of the island or rather the protection of it has traditionally been entrusted to the so called she. so mythical guardians made of stone that keep evil spirits away. but the mayor isn't happy to rely on them for protection against china. he wants to be able to evacuate the island in the event of an attack, which is a challenge, considering the small harbor and short runway. while still,

it's all about saving lives and it's crucial to avoid a scenario like in ukraine delano for civilians and soldiers. haste for bundled up together. but rena should come on this. okay. the island is home to a radar station. and 160 defense troops have taken up residence to monitor the air space and the sea. but nobody on the island really believes that they can prevent a potential attack by china taking to a full month's on he says, santo sits in the japanese parliament in tokyo. sure. he understands the concerns of unit when his residence but says it's important to look at the big picture in the whole area is a battlefield. he says, not just taiwan, all of this area. you're going to win that group juma. it's not just about univ uni money, but also about the hundreds of thousands of residents of the other island,

the vicinity. i wrote about the evacuation of the taiwanese japanese americans and europeans who live there. i'm unique. i also have the difficult task recruiting our defense capabilities in the region we had on it. in the meantime, the fishermen of joan agony are still waiting for their next big catch. hoping that peace prevails on the island and beyond. and as in depth articles and analysis on the tension between and i am taiwan on our website the the bill dot com, forward slash issue back tomorrow. at the same time you been with shaw. heritage fresh jewish me around. ah 20 needs artist to write notes

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