of the race with brain one very much alive, dw channel, your guy to with recognizes where exactly. it was fun. i learned a lot. our culture history. all their d. w. travel extremely worth a visit with the city dublin years, asia coming after dave looked back at course and events of the past year in china and what they mean for the country. moving forward. beginning with chinese president, she jan, being and called for him to step down the world with his historic protest across china in november all against president she signature 0 corporate policy did these

leave him weakened glass tension with taiwan. chinese threats both re unification are impacting the lives of residents of an outline, taiwanese island, and china attempts to rewrite the history of hong kong. how a group of journalists are fighting to keep the fact alive. ah, by british bennett, you're welcome to d w. news asia that you could join us earlier this month. china eased some of the rules governing it's 0 over policy. the frequency of p c r testing was reduced warranty requirements ease and the scale of locked down to relaxed. but it took more than 2 years. and a series of people protests to get here in november for the 1st time in decades.

moss protests erupted across the country, not just by themselves. this was historic. what was even more what the demands that some of the protest has made, especially in shanghai. ah, this is an extraordinary moment in china and it's spreading further. i'm wider in cities right across the country. hundreds and taking to the streets. angry and fed up with the government 0 current policy. oh, here in the capital, beijing, the line, the bank of america for several hours, many holding up blank pieces of paper. now a symbol for this growing unrest and an act of defiance in the face of chinese censorship. in shanghai, another outpouring of anger and something different that will concern not only china's ruling party but also it's leda. oh my god,

amongst the crowd, one protest the shouts out. down with she ging ping, they. c they reply unison stepped down. it's dangerous to criticize the government and his lead a hair and such a public challenge is extremely rare to. there's no surprise when police move in and detain, protested. oh, these latest protests was sparked by the deaths of 10 people in a fire at an apartment building in the city of a rum cheek with accusations that strict code restrictions were to plain vigils to remember those who died that. and now at the heart of these growing demonstrations which have spread beyond china, they've even reach sydney in australia. oh,

i think 1st is because of the stinky. so 1st with a wish would, and that he's the pedestal because he only cavalcade only campbell himself and his dependency. so these are the why many people come back was to mood correspondent, 5 in crutch. my got to see for himself at one of the protests in beijing. yet i'm in beijing, very close to the embassy area. also the area where many foreign correspondents live and i think it's not a coincidence that the protestors here have chosen exactly this area behind. you're behind me, you can see a lot of police cars and at least several thousands i would guess approaches to say they're clustered into several groups and it is peaceful but they are shouting really very critical slogans. for example, the country belongs to the people, not to the party, et cetera. it's really quite remarkable em. most the young people here is 11 a m,

in the night time and still a lot of people here. and it's not escalating, it seems peaceful, but also the moot is quite, quite explosive. i think many people are very frustrated you but just a month before that things were very different. streets were calm and orderly as she jumping assumed a 3rd time as leader, making him the country's most powerful figure since german mouth tongue. it happened at the communist party congress, but the largely scripted event included one on expected seen the raised eyebrows, formerly to who june toe was ushered from center stage in front of life tv cameras, triggering widespread speculation that this was a public act of humiliation. and me have been on orders, she didn't think so was this a demonstration of complete control by she at the time we spoke to china unless team thing on what she's confirmation as party leader meant. what

it means now china is being reshaped after she jan pins mh, he has now we paced and the one from other factions within the communist party by his own papa jays and proven loyalist. they were all say, yes sir, we will go and follow you wherever you want to take us. and china, he say, said the part he leads everything everywhere in china and beyond china, which is concerned. so he has to get the con economy right. he has to get his foreign policy, right. he has to get the social policy right. if he doesn't do so, big mistakes can be, can be made. and they will have consequences for the people of china and also for the rest of the world. and you don't need to look beyond neighboring taiwan to

understand what that means. she jumping has vowed re unification with the self governing island and has refused to exclude for use of force. it prompted her one's longstanding weapon supplier and ally, the united states to issue repeated assurances of support to taipei. that was the intention of a visit to the island in august by them. house beacons for lucy, the visit didn't go down well with china, which launched its largest ever military drills around the island in response. but tensions with china out of daily reality for the people of taiwan. nowhere is that more apartment than on the taiwanese kim men islands just of the east coast of china. the fairies from kent mann to mainland china have been idle for 2 and a half years. so is the tourism industry on the island? one child megs sofa near sharp has suffered from the lack of tourist visiting but he's also worried about security and relations with china,

phelan avoiding way poly rejected what i want to peacefully unify with china equal not to cut our ties co else we will become enemies our ties if china have prevented war, china, no use the people of kinley are not hostile palo so he won't attackers, we are like brothers now she in the year one shows us a bomb shout. i like the one he had in as a child, when the communist attacked his from that generation that experienced war with china. now, he says he would accept anything to survive. power in palo alto, jim and jill safe on her and she leave taiwan and china go to war, can mean that would be done for you, would you the high one can't protect us is too far away to give us military support . if war comes, i will defense to the communism for the sake of survival wooten, ethiopia tinman was an antique holeman, as frontline during the cold wall. residents were cut off from even their relatives

on mainland china and they were also unable to freely travel to mainland taiwan. many felt like they didn't belong to either side. opening direct links to china. 20 years ago, east cross street tensions came madness now the most pro beijing part of taiwan. it's only 5 kilometers away from the tiny said he, salmon. many came my residence, hoping to build a bridge to get to the other side portrayed and medical care. but opponents rejected the idea. calling it a trojan horse that could 8 a, china's invasion. henry learned as of the generation that not experienced a fighting. he built his war game business on widespread interest in recent history and wants to show customers what's at stake to day who finder hawaii time. so do a lot of your generation fought so hard to defend our land. so we can have such an advanced democratic and free country who if we give our so so easily, it's of

a communist scholars or for blood sweat and efforts will be in vain. by a great deal, henry has family and business ties with maine and china. the economic growth day impresses him, but he says, ty, once freedoms are more important, and while taiwan protects its freedoms, hong kong has lost its, the national security law has wiped out any chance of democratic protest. and now bridging is attempting to rewrite this. it is history. this year, the government began amending middle school textbooks to say, hong kong was never a british colony because britain assumed control illegally. that kind of historical revisionism has prompted a group of journalists into action. did our blues. phoebe cong reports. the journalists who run this bookstore. com to write about hong kong present any more. so they've decided to said an accurate record of the cities passed alongside the

books for sale. they've put up newspaper clippings like from july, 1st 19971 of the oldest english language papers here, the south china morning post round the chinese characters for handover on the day china assume control over hong kong from britain. there's also a press kit given to reporters who covered the hand over 25 years ago. proof of key events in hong kong past. now, under official dispute, you close head or why they tell you that 1 may, captain, said them, what will be changed after the hanover say yet the thought of the answer is very little. it is a historic document. now one year they, we want to share these histories and values similarly, since they can hardly be found elsewhere in hong kong as he looked all at much from the holland. mm hm. oh, that's because begging is changing the narrative of hong kong past, which was under british colonial rule for a 150 years. now,

the government is amending middle school textbooks saying hong kong was never a british colony because bridging didn't recognize the treaties, it signed. authorities, every move news clippings and books deemed as political dissent from public libraries. people feared this could be part of a plan to reshape public memory. observer say, although beijing already controlled hong kong, politically, the handover of people's hearts remains a challenge. is road difficult to up? what are the core beliefs of the hong kong people? they will see themselves not as seen, poll or narrow a sense of nationalistic, a sentiment as a hong kong chinese, the order to force everyone give up what they have been believing. you've hostetler's. it might be a goal for the high support use the diesel library hartline approaches. so it is very obvious that now one country school systems become a more door for china. that they only expect hong kong to be at economic city

without any political gravity. and where the cities future out of their control. many hong kong as a voting with their feet and mass exodus is underway since mid 2020, when the new national security law came into effect, more than a 100000 people have chosen to leave the city. rather than live under beijing's rule, and that's it for today. there's most stories from china on a website. he dealt with dot com forward slash a shaft. thank you for watching for 5 d, w. looks back on the hearing crisis mode with the corona virus pandemic. more convenient crate. the climate crisis with the rod

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