for the cities, the mosaic of different people and languages. iran's mountains reveal unparalleled beauty. the scenery is magnificent, but people are more minutes with exceptionally ah, a special look at a special country. iran from above. start september 16th on d. w. visited other news, asia coming up to date out time on use china as recent aggressiveness and military exercises around the island. so put it all together. this is what they want to do to taiwan when they want to invade taiwan. that's time was foreign minister speaking exclusively to d. w reporters in type 8th. today we go deeper into ty wants perceptions of the

dangers. it faces from china. ah, irish manage. you're welcome to d, w, and use asia. glad you could join us. taiwan says it's military shooting down a chinese drone was the most appropriate thing to do. the incident occurred on thursday when the military shot down a chinese drone that flew over taiwan, jin islands, which lie less than 5 kilometers from the chinese coast. this isn't the 1st time china has flown drones over june men. just last week, this video emerged of taiwanese soldiers throwing rocks at a chinese drawn, hovering above their post on the gym and islands. towns foreign minister joseph foretold dw, in an exclusive interview, that this was part of china's attempt at cognitive warfare against the island. in

this revealing interview, he also said this was an ton part of china's court playbook in the future. envision of taiwan? yes. ball china flexing its military muscles. what you bought, test launch of ballistic missiles over tie paper. you sending wall plains and ships very close to taiwan. it's incredible. for the island, it's a new norman, beijing is trying to define monday level. so the situation is still very tense in we have been keeping alert and this is the situation that we say are china's trying to destroy the status quo, or at least the symbol of the sears quote, which is a median line of that. how and straight tensions between the neighbors sought after u. s. house. because nancy pelosi visited the island in august. in response, taipei also conducted its own military drills to prepare itself for what he calls

china's playbook of invasion against taiwan. they fired from their source to the waters near taiwan. they conducted very large scale air and sea exercises. they conducted cyber attacks against high one. they conducted, ah, disinformation campaign against high one. in the same time, they also engage in equal unclear ition. so put it all together. this is what they want to do to taiwan when they want to invade taiwan repelling. any invasion for requires support. the u. s. already provides taiwan with weapons. it's even obligated itself by law to do so. it also sales ships through the taiwan strait as part of what it calls freedom of navigation maneuvers. but whether this translates into act, if you are support to defend taiwan during an invasion is less clear. so high pay

is expressing for so 1st part all we are very clear that that depends on how one is our own responsibility. and we also are very clear about what the tell our relations act safe. that how our relations act say, said the will not be se, se is obligated to provide taiwan with defensive articles. and the u. s. has been living up to the commitment all of that. how are relations act? and we appreciate that very much. it's confidence that taiwan is trying to communicate, also reflected in this video. and military is trying to prove that it was safe. got the island sovereignty, no matter what. so lots to pick up on. and to help me do that, i'm joined by did a book respondent william young in aren't i pay bureau william at the outside joseph, who accusing china of breaking a state, a school that of crossing the median line in the taiwan strait. what is all that about?

so we know that the median line of the po and string has always been unknown of fish. so demarcation between taiwan and china. and during the past times, when the government is brought by the more friendly to china friendly coming down, aging, actually risk directed the unofficial line that's between the in the middle of the town street. and that is why they are not really crossing any of their military aircraft across that line. but now the since the pillow seats visit the in the long standing dissatisfaction with the government here in taiwan, china has decided no longer to respect. and they have made it very clear that this is what they are going to start doing every day, or on a very, very for on basis from now on and putting a lot more pressure on time ones, national defense and also the regional security. so china already breaking it to them, perhaps taiwan, also breaking into in that joseph,

who essentially said that china wants to invade taiwan. and the reason he said this is because china has conducted military exercises. he talks about cyber attacks, economic organ. but william, this is something that china has been doing for quite some time around taiwan. so my question is, what has changed now? i think what has changed now as both the proximity, the scale of the military exercises. and also the frequency is not only just the military, but also the economic sanctions on a wire wide range of products that used to really, really rely on the chinese market to make a lot of profits. and now that the pressure coming from china is a motor motif from high pressure. i think the government is sending a signal to the international community that taiwan will need a lot more support, whether it is through the delegation, visiting or through a lot more bilateral exchanges. deep and ties. this is what time one hopes to see

from the democratic camp, rather than feeling like they are just being corner by china without any kind of backup or poor. non tied to that, of course, william is the defense of taiwan. that believes is the responsibility of the taiwanese and he also said the type a wants continued us support, but it doesn't explicitly say that taiwan would like to see the us actually step in and defend taiwan during a potential chinese envision those type. i really believe we can fight off china without active us support i think because of the example in ukraine the, the time when he's government know that they need to show the world that it has the resolution of defending itself, relying on time on people and the town and tony's military forces, but at the same time, they continue to invite all the foreign delegation to visit despite the escalating responses from china. because they know that with these international support and

the international attention on taiwan is more easier for them to actually hope china back. and let me know that time one is not alone in this fight. even bill aging is really trying to corner time one from all sides. so we'll stay with us on the line because we can't really look at typeface plans without looking at its own home from the domestic politics. and here it is. where did others? chief international editor richard walker spoke to chairman of the island main opposition. common time party eric true. let's get a bit of what he had to say. i support our government and to defend taiwan. but we strongly encourage our government also to create any channel of dialogue, any channel of possible or any possibility to avoid the accident or avoid the crisis of a war. if we can man 10,

the channel of dialogue between power one in china, all pigeon and washington. i think the risk could be reduced. william, you heard that is true, the talking of a dialogue. is that something present sighing, when's d p government has rejected the present time when government has been calling for dialogue with china since she took office 1st in 2016. but the difference is really coming from beijing. it aging has made it really clear that it has no intention or interest in engaging with the current d. b, b government who they view as a secessionist and independence at the kids where as they have in the past made it very also cleared the camps. he is still the preferred political party that they want to have engagement or dialogue or even deeper cooperation. so i think now the

choice is not really in the hands of the tony government, even if they want to make any kind of real dialogue with beijing. because the playing field from both sides, for the condition of even starting a dialogue is very different. it's just, it's just not the same law. so within the current reality, rather than leave the common time actually when it comes to its position on china, i mean, as you said, they've been, let's say for out, for friendly nations with beijing more so than the d. p. p is that still their position? so domestically they are starting to really felt like they are in a very awkward place if they continue to play along the traditional line of advocating for deeper cross street exchanges, economic inch interactions, that is going to continue to cost him to lose more votes domestically in support, so we are seeing them pivoting towards a re engage with the united states,

including opening their new office office in museum. but at the same time, they can not really completely abandon their traditional position because otherwise they don't have any other leverage to really differentiate themselves from the d p p. and so they are now trying to find that balance. but we are also seeing that their most recent delegation is that to chit chat. china is facing a lot of controversy and backlash here domestically in taiwan. we have about a minute left, william, rather than leave the people of taiwan. where do they stand? some of the most recent polls have actually already been showing that after pillow seats visit, actually the percentage of people supporting taiwan independence is on the rise player. as the people that are supporting unification with china has dropped to a new low that is almost around around 10 percent. so we are already seen the

people here in time. one is very clear with how they wanted to be identified with their identity and also their political leaning and where they want the future of taiwan to be. for the next $51010.00, or even decades to con william, relieve it. there was a pleasure talking to the, to the correspondent william young joining us from type a. thank you so much. thank you. and that's it. so this week you can read more of william's analysis on the situation and the taiwan straits on our website. believe it today with images are referred, taiwanda defensive preparations in the face of increased chinese assertiveness. there's a shift back on monday. we'll see you then. goodbye. will

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