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ah, i melissa chan, thanks for joining us. a protest in the u. k against chinese leader shooting being and the communist party has spun into a high level diplomatic route. people outside the chinese consulate in manchester. many of them from hong kong were accosted by chinese officials beaten, and in one case dragged into the grounds of the consulate ah, around 40 people, including hong kong, exiles and britain, were protesting outside the consulate in manchester. the demo was aim to coincide with the communist parties twice a decade. congress in beijing at which he camping is set to secure an unprecedented 3rd leadership term. things escalated quickly for to chose a man in a bray,

apparently consul general jung, show you an approach the protest and kicked down a pro democracy sign. does a flurry of movement and scuffles at the consulate gates. oh, the police arrive and tried to break up the ruckus. i don't we see a protester on the ground inside the consulate being kicked and punched by a group of men. oh, he's then broad eyed by british police and fellow demonstrators. i later at a press conference with british parliamentarians, the victim of the attack, bob chan said he was shocked. it had happened number of your soil in my i left hong kong because of the national security law. it meant drastic changes to the freedoms we enjoy. and hong kong and how we live our lives. china's foreign ministry accused disturbing elements of illegally entering the consulate and such as lodged

a formal complaint with britain council john later defended pulling the protesters, hair, telling sky news. he was just doing his duty as chan was abusing his country and his leader under she, jim ping relations between britain, hong kong, colonial ruler until 1997 and china have been particularly tense. she organized a severe crackdown on hong kong democracy movement, culminating a national security law that has drastically curtailed democratic freedoms in the city. joining us as dw correspondent clifford kuhn an author of report. clifford, how serious is this incident in manchester? i mean, you k, china relations have not been well for some time. i think this is utterly extraordinary. i mean, here you have a job show you on who's the am the console in manchester, admitting on a national broadcaster in his host country that he grabbed

a protester an into the council ground and an oversold while he was giving a thrashing. i mean, this is, i can't think of, of where this would happen. it's incredibly unusual behavior. and it's quite arrogant and offensive behavior in diplomatic terms. and it's also baffling in many ways. i mean, why, why would he admit this and, and it takes his whole wolf warrior diplomacy thing that we've seen evidence of in china a lot over the last few years. it takes it to a whole new level. i mean, this is beyond angry statements. this is literally dragging somebody off the street as we saw and the photograph and the report and am and you know, overseeing of other get beaten up. and a lot of the participants of the protest appear to have come from hong kong. which underscores the vulnerability of this group of people in the u. k. that they're still being targeted extra territorially, do you have a sense of whether the british government is doing anything about this? well i think, i think that's definitely true. i think we saw with the am,

with the victim, you know, he's from hong kong and he spoke of how he had, he thought he put that national security law behind him when he got on the plane to the u. k. am. and instead here he is, you know, it's, it's sort of a, an attack on sovereignty in many ways. and i think this is where it's going to be in the, the u. k. will have to act. and what a can do is offer the protections that it, that it can am obviously, since the 1997 hand over and you case influence in hong kong has been less. but it's showing that by offering on calling people the right of abode in, in the u. k. that a can do something by providing a safe haven. but it becomes very working now to show that they can protect those people and indeed their families when and when this sort of thing happens. and given the current chaos, if the u. k. government, you can well imagine how distracted they are on domestic affairs to really not be able to focus on foreign policy and including with this snafu. so it'll be interesting to see how that plays out over the next few days. i am curious about

looking at the situation where we see chinese attempts to suppress free speech in the u. k. a. we see them trying to do this in other places. how bad is the situation getting? well, this is one of the worst we've seen in europe. i mean we've, we've seen things where they put pressure in australia. we've seen the pressure in lithuania, in trade terms. but in terms of, in diplomatic terms, this is a really, really very much a hands on sort of incident. and so i think there's growing signs of this happening . and i'm with the sort of political mess that you see in the u. k. and also the divisions say within the e u, it's very difficult to get a unified response from western countries to what is ultimately an attack on sovereignty. and i think this is something that is possibly going to get worse before it gets better. yeah, i mean there's a lot of a focus on universities in the u universities in the united states. but this is

very in your face. i mean, literally somebody out there dragging a protester. it's all happening. of course, in this big week where she ging ping is going to be made leader for life with his 3rd term. or what do we know about that in terms of hints of where the country a china is going where he's going to take it. what has he said so far? well, so far we've seen a lot of indications that he's trying to show that he's, he's keeping things on an even keel. and people are looking for information everywhere in a, in a, in, for his, essentially in information vacuum because i'm thing send to be wrote speeches and whatever. there's been issues about 0 covey is a big factor because the economy is slowing down. people are looking for a way out of the economic morass and the congress itself. i mean, the timing of this incident with the congress is, in some ways a chimes with this growing nationalistic fervor that you're seeing in china at the moment. not that there's necessarily a link because i think possibly this council has actually overreached himself on

may find himself withdrawn after this. because this is timing in terms of, you know, they're busy in beijing and i think it's gonna, they're gonna have to see that out before they can actually take these situations outside of beijing any further. yeah, it's a little bit of a distraction that aging might not be entirely as happy as the console was hoping it would be covered, couldn't, and thank you so much for joining us. ah, on to a, another dispute involving china. this one with the philippines. the 2 countries disagree where china's maritime borders extend with bay gene, claiming a vast oceanic territory that reaches deep down into southeast asia along what it calls it's 9 dash line. not only the philippines, but other countries of south east asia, reject this claim. meanwhile, the live to reality of this dispute plays out among philippine fishermen whose

livelihoods and safety are impacted by this geopolitical fight. these other waters of the south china sea that fishermen in the north of the philippines have been making their living off for generations. but china's expansionism in the area is threatening their livelihoods. it started 10 years ago when mary of villa montez boat was chased away by the chinese in one of his main fishing grounds. the reef rich and fish and marine life called scarborough, shall i all bubble dominions? got a moral. we were going to the scarborough show when the chinese coast god blocked us malignant. i may be a lot, i mean, and then when we were already retreating, they water canada for 2 minutes and they kept on following us for 5 miles to make sure we didn't go back there anymore. i'm alexis animal. the number of fish mario villa monte catches has decreased significantly since the chinese boats have restricted access to the best fishing ground. but getting back as too risky. they

must not be at the school. what if they rammed us? our boat is made of wood and their ship is made of metal. so we don't stand a chance. maintenance in the oil and, and i'm in china claim sovereignty to over 80 percent of the south china sea. and under the leadership of, she's in ping. it has dramatically expanded its presence here. hundreds of chinese navient coast guard vessels, petrol, the waters, swarming reefs, and harassing and attacking filipino votes. 6 years ago the philippines brought a case against china before an international court. a tribunal ruled that beijing had been unlawful in its occupation of filipino fishing grounds. but china has ignored the ruling. china's land grab has robbed christopher de vera of a large part of his income as he and all as i get them. agatha not being allowed to fish there is hurting me. imagine they

are the early ones allowed to fish inside the shoulders. and even though the scarborough shoal is ours is i'm a palace oh, sobbing youngest got award was held on the lease that young on top of that chinese clam harvest. does have destroyed the coral on the reef and decimated, fish stocks to vera says, you know, but despite that, some members of his crew have gone fishing now under the cover of darkness lugging up to top up their otherwise measly hole. i know nobody there. it feels like being a thief in your own back yard. all of the fishermen here, that's how we feel like we are foreigners visiting a country and they are not letting us in. lab is buying this bang. ours allows us, i mean i'm in but with asian countries divided on how to respond to china. there is no serious challenge to gauging expansionism for christopher de vera and mary of limone take fishing is all they've ever known. their only hope now is that china won't lay claim to even more of their fishing grounds.

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