trade a clean drought. rough getting 200 people in june. around the world, more than 300000000 people are seeking refuge. why? because no one should have to flee. make up your own mind. d. w. made for mines. ah, the city dublin is asia coming after. dave looked back at crucial 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. witnessed historic protests across china in november all against president. she signatures to recovered policy. did

these leave him weakened glass tensions with taiwan. chinese threats both re unification are impacting the lives of residents of an outline, taiwanese island, and china. those attempts to rewrite the history of hong kong, how a group of journalists are fighting to keep the fact alive. ah, by british men, you 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 eased, and the scheme of lockdown 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,

mos 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. am why they're in cities right across the country? hundreds and taking to the streets. angry and fed up with the government. they wrote cobra policy. oh, even the capital beijing, the line, the banks 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. c then they reply, unison stepped down. it's dangerous to criticize the government on his lee to hear 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 coven restrictions were to blame 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. i

think 1st is because of the stinky, though, personally, the kitchen. i wish you would, and that he's very competitive because he only cavalcade. he's only cavalcade self is the pet of shape. so this is the why many of you with that? and that was to mod, correspondent 5 in crunch. but i got to see for himself at one of the protests in beijing. yeah, 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 protesters have chosen exactly this area behind. you're behind. you can see a lot of police cars and at least several thousands i would guess approaches to say they're clustered in 2 separate 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. i'm mostly young people here, 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 com and orderly as she jumping assumed the 3rd time as leader, making him the country's most powerful figure since german bout so tune it happened at the communist party congress. but the largely scripted event included one on expected seen that raised eyebrows formerly to who june toe was ushered from center stage in front of live tv cameras, triggering wide spread speculation that this was a public act of humiliation. and may have been on orders of sheet you think? so was this a demonstration of complete control by she? at the time we spoke to china unless steve sang on what she's confirmation as party

leader ment. what he means now, china is being li shaped after she gin pins. image. he has now we paste any one from other factions within the communist party by his own papa jays and proven loyalist david or 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 really 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 the use of force. it's prompt to tie 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 apparent than on the taiwanese kim men islands just of the east coast of china . the fairies from kent men to mainland china have been idle for 2 and a half years. so is the tourism industry on the island? longshoremen's sofa near shop has suffered from the lack of curious visiting. but he's also worried about security and relations with china. felon hawaii,

the way probably get it what i want to peacefully unify with china equal not caught our ties or else we will become enemies. our ties. if china have prevented war, china, no use the people of kin or not hostile tallow. so he wasn't attackers, we are like brothers now. she in the yeah. while he shows us a bomb shout, i liked 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 left my one in china. go to war. kenny, mine would be done for you. would you, the high one can't protectors is too far away to give his military support. if war comes, i will defense to the communist as for the sake of survival, wooten, ethiopia tinman was an antique ominous front line. 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 straight tensions came madness now the most pro beijing part of taiwan. it's only 5 kilometers away from the chinese said he salmon may make him a residence. are hoping to build a bridge to get to the other side portrayed and medical care. but opponents reject the idea. calling it a trojan horse that could aid a chinese invasion. henry learners of the generation that, that no one experienced a fighting. he built his war game business on widespread interests in recent history and wants to show customers was at stake to day who find their hawaii ties . so do a lot of the older 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 fallacy for blood and sweat and efforts will be in vain. by fidel henry has family and business ties with maine and china. the economic growth de impresses him. but he says, tie wants, 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 ran the chinese characters for handover on the date, shyness hume control of 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 one might happen said them, what will be changed after the handover say yet the thought the answer is very little. it is a historic document. now when you say we want to share these histories and values similarly since they can hardly be found elsewhere in hong kong, etc. paula mostly holland one. that's because beijing 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 beijing didn't recognize the treaties. it signed authorities, every move, news clippings, and books deemed as political dissent from public libraries. people fear 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 the leaving of hostile. it might be our goal for the high support use, the diesel library, hoc ly approaches. so it is very obvious that now one country, it will 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 is most stories from china on our website dot com, forward slash asia. thank you for watching. ah, the question of questions about life, the universe and everything. do you know the answer? well then give it here for the to the answer to almost

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