the year before and the year after or the general population census data, then we would have a glimpse of what the impact on the population in jen ok will be one professor for medicine, not a national taiwan university. thank you. thank you. off next doc film puts taiwan and it's democracy on that the lens and there's more news and analysis on websites, d, w dot com and also follow us social media detail statement more use top of the out leonardo da vinci's, mysterious masterpiece. this perhaps the greatest leonardo masterpiece and the collection of the louvre. it is the virgin of the rocks. was there another

symbolic meaning to this beautiful painting? then perhaps we just don't understand. the search for answers starts february 10th on d, w ah, ah, the main island of taiwan at the narrowest point of the taiwan strait lies 130 kilometers from the chinese mainland and 100 kilometers from jani, japan's western most inhabited island. for a long time, taiwan was at the mercy of china or of japan. after 1945, it became entangled in cold war conflicts. when the portuguese arrived on the island in the 16th century, they were struck by the beauty of its nature. they named it for the most up beauty and portuguese.

ah, ah, ah, today, taiwan has a democratic government and maintains that it is an independent country. but it face is growing intimidation from china, which claims that taiwan is a province of the people's republic of china. b g o z young. why says it's a kind of what he thinks it then father judy of being why wait and to lead a quote down. now, chase again. this is a you'll mean to jack the warrior

w o g j a. taiwan. sensually mental fan kinda feature again, these carefully chosen words from ty, one's 1st female president, sy, in when allude to the threat that china opposes to taiwan the archipelago was not recognized as a nation or as a territory even by international bodies such as the united nations and the world health organization despite being diplomatically isolated, taiwan has found ways to exist independently. since the appointment of president sy, in one and 2016, the government has developed a digital democracy with help from its young internet savvy workers and its citizens. i'm only town town is dish to minister i where cannot for the government bo,

with the government and i work not for the people the wisc to people during the corona virus crisis, many governments ramped up their use of digital resources. the taiwanese population generally trusts the government and complied with the new health regulations. and the virus situation there has been relatively stable thing. oh, the taiwanese archipelago has an important geographical location spanning both the south china sea and the pacific ocean. yet on the world map,

it is little more than a speck. the straight that separates it from the people's republic of china serves as a supply route for goods from east asia. it's an area of fraud with geo strategic tensions where china regularly carries out military maneuvers. what's the reason for such provocations? he had planned on his own case feature, fuqua full. i'd probably put you down to sheena. there are many reasons why china seas taiwan is part of its territory when they will absolutely not let go on. why don't we will tie one is a democracy. this one is that the taiwanese people vote and decide, and the taiwanese government changes frequently. so you might have the common tongue party, which was long probation, noisy, albeit prudently abbey, or the pro independence movement in which is also prudent,

but unwilling to yield to china and its dictates on the status of taiwan metal fetter. or did that turned around? it could be pl. this poses a serious threat to the chinese regime poorly because according to beijing, this, there are no universal values or democratic valid yes in. yeah, he's a western construction in yet, but does i lit taiwan demonstrates otherwise said to don't that it shows that china and chinese culture can function perfectly well within a fully democratic model as he electric. it's also interesting that taiwan is one of the most dynamic and active democracies in asia. if kids out there, i saw say they wanna kinda gimble. cassie lee prove blenny. amy pro, he wrote her on as he owes audrey. taiwan has taken a path of democracy in diametric opposition to the authoritarian policies of

beijing. digital technology is used in both china and taiwan in public and political domains. but the way in which it's used could not be more different as demonstrated by the pandemic. whereas china, imposed control and misinformed taiwanda democratic system became more digital inclusive and transparent. and while the chinese government remained non transparent, taiwan actively listened to its citizens. it employed computer experts and ethical pirates known as civic hackers. like audrey tongue,

who became interested in technology at a young age and is now a self taught and highly talented internet expert tongue is a transgender woman who has been appointed taiwanda minister of digital affairs mean gender shingle. so she and her father, the a bullying him or an authoritarian state is bad at detecting the talent and innovations of it visits which are those don't see why he digital jojo saw a boiler. sina she said, how are okay kind of in taiwan, q r code and text messages were widely used allocated. even during the early stages of the panorama that she had gone, they were developed by computer scientists, engine family, and some were even working on a voluntary basis. so i will get you changed when it's a sheena switch to here, trying to mill better to sir.

taiwanese citizens know that their democratic system protects them against the beijing government. and during the pandemic, they generally supported all measures that benefited the common good young q, r code to your it in shall. the q r codes provide a record of the people's daily mobility. she will make that he found her teeth as, as you know, showed sealing it national that said she'd had a good to help me if i share brought that up with should in other countries or people have concerns about data protection, nigel and privacy. that's arc mistrust. johnson check, so they don't want to comply and participate. so dates can become authoritarian, sure, and misuse. the data of people all over the world admired the innovation and transparency of our democratic processes are changing. of course, our results are transparent. as all the methods we use,

then our shared values guarantee the hand template o gone to the dallas and coach ash chacandra when i was young ladies with to understand how this young democracy has prevailed on this tiny speck in the western pacific. we need to look back at its long history with . ready cit. unique. yeah, to whole i believe, said as a co these islands have a mix of indigenous neatness, various austrian asian ethnic chronology, colonized an important part of the maritime world. i'm booked on starting from egypt, him junior e o e and his own. he lived on their islands without much communication

with the asian continent or the japanese archipelago as yet up until the 17th century. now her school decides 16 hundreds. the fate of taiwan could have gone in any direction or just said to him to japanese were there. i saw the chinese lisa boy unofficially leasing or a just isolated individuals and none of the tional temperature is on his reasoning . ah. during the 17th and 18th centuries, the islands didn't have one overarching government. everything was organized by tribes. the coast became away station in the rapidly expanding maritime trade. at the same time, china and japan blocked access to their lands and a bid to stop any colonization attempts by the west. but the opium wars of the 19th century brought this isolation to an end.

china succumbed to the british army and was forced to yield to the economic interests of western powers. ah, at the end of the 19th century, the chinese empire, which included taiwan, entered into a conflict with imperialist japan over its influence on the korean peninsula. japan won, and china seated taiwan for 50 years the japanese empire occupied and colonized the islands. ah, at the start of the 20th century, a political figure emerged in mainland china who established himself as the

incarnation of a new modern and democratic china. sun yet sent me in 1911. this revolutionary put an end to the feudal system. then on pooh ye, the last emperor of china, the ching dynasty that had ruled the chinese mainland for around 300 years, was overthrown. son yet, sen became the 1st president of the republic of china. he ruled for just a few weeks, but his democratic ideals still resonate to day. mm . oh, son, yet sen is revered in taiwan as the founding father of the republic of china, taiwan official name. and likewise in the people's republic of china as the pioneer

of the revolution. he's an important figure in the cultural and political identities on both sides of the strait and taiwan capital type. hey, the son yet send memorial hall is a popular attraction for chinese tourists who come to watch the changing of the guards. ah, by the 1930s, the colonized islands had become visibly more japanese. japan was making plans to expand its empire from here and to southeast asia. it developed new communication lines and trade routes. ah .

but when japan lost the 2nd world war, in 1945, it had to return taiwan to china, which was then led by the nationalist quo mean tongue party. under chung chi shack, the chinese communist party under mount said tongue took a stand against these nationalists forces would support from the soviet union. chiang kai shek had support from the u. s. a civil war ignited between 2 chinese camps. ah chung chi shack lost and was forced to leave? he went into exile in taiwan in 1949. hundreds of thousands of loyal comin tongue supporters from mainland china followed him. dante matoney couldn't i? when i went i 2nd don't do said the patio initially. they, a taiwanese were happy to see the back of what they called the japanese dog as

welcome, he foley. welcome the republic with open arms to empties that enthusiasm. quickly were all he went toward mattie's. they were traumatized by the awful oppression that curt, following the events of february 28th 1947 fever ye, which ended that in a massacre. yamazik. so after having welcome the departure of the japanese dog, i see they said to themselves, they found a shoe. now we have the chinese all hideous other men, no. nelly cushioned ocean one. mm hm. mm. on february 28th 1947. a crowd gathered in front of taipei city hall. they were protesting a brutal incident the previous day when a woman had been beaten by authorities for selling untaxed cigarettes. lou wilmington police fired into the crowd to disperse them. months of brutal

oppression followed with arrests torture, summary executions and imprisonment martial law was introduced. it was listed until 1987 mister young witnessed these events, the many years of dictatorship known as the white terror, or oblique, and tragic period in taiwanese history. that remains a sensitive subject to this day. all by then just select the judge. my family members were among the victims just the extent to the tony became clear in 1989. my father was educated. he was a doctor, is good. he said some was my grandfather is he's in the hot young ah, well who she miss lawrence and my father was arrested 3 times off 1st by the police

. they moved a lot than by the commandant and then by the military, please. or during this time, my grandfather disappeared a 2 month later, he was imprison adobe lunch and i would, susan jameer. my uncle, things were even worse. janese jace, else. he was a young university professor with a strong personality. he was very direct. i'm going to be. and do the whole him, it is one day they took him in each b t as they threw him into the river. he thought, and he drowned. i'll give dude. yeah, get algio j is ah, it you jihad? it was part of a plan to bring the taiwanese elite under control. got 3 members of my family were victorville. gigi aah!

la coleman tongue arrived. we quickly realized how backward they were, particularly when compared to the developments introduced by the japanese submit. the muslim taiwan is taiwan. don't china is china? does it work for the taiwanese? they are 2 different cultures. one, which is the woman answer. you tell them the 3 accepted this government choice. i don't. why mingled? how? until so answer lou . at the end

of the war, taiwan took a seat as a permanent member of the security council. the coleman tom party was ruling the islands with an iron fist and enforcing colonial policies. continental chinese culture was given predominance. freedoms were suppressed. the press, censored, and history, rewritten. ah, john guy, shag, on gout, nov contina in 1949. having been defeated by mouth, hold for chunk, i shipped rule was confined to taiwan. he, he wanted to reinforce chinese culture. there was to assert the taiwan was

a chinese island still, he full stop through the country to social and historical facts that should high one's identity to be far more complex and won't be complex. after the colonization by the japanese and the authoritarianism of the chinese, taiwan faced another tragedy in 1971. this crucial event would change the political and diplomatic structure of taiwan. u . s. president richard nixon and his secretary of state henry kissinger secretly decided to visit china under president. now to make a deal regarding the vietnam war the communist authorities had a stipulation the one china policy. in other words, taiwan should be recognized as a part of china. this policy is still

aggressively pursued to this day. taiwan was excluded from the united nations security council, and china triumphantly took its place else could lease it as you knew, lucy, lucy, doyle. federalist what like to leap of piano resolution was passed that only the peoples republic of china could represent chinese affairs of the united nations and no longer taiwan builders at which the u. s. did not vito's al. my was originally proposed that taiwan should keep its seat after all they were to vietnam's to germany's chiang kai shek was so angry that the u. s. had abandoned him, but he refused, and life, and the people's republic of china became the sole representative at the u. n, i now would have had no way of opposing the duel state and duel recognition idea. but sadly, it never came to that. so taiwan is now

a strange diplomatic entity that doesn't officially exist, but is actually very active here to make you want to keep it on in the doctor he last it doesn't matter if a cat is black or white as long as it catches mice. this was famously said by dung shopping, who succeeded now in the late 19 seventy's. he said the chinese communist party on course to liberalize the economy. ah, meanwhile, taiwan was rapidly industrialized. along with south korea, hong kong and singapore, the island was one of the 4. so called tiger economies with booming economic growth . since the 1990s, the 2 chinese societies have followed radically different political have, despite their common economic interests.

likewise also that she knew, therefore we couldn't equally near hartley could. and the chinese grove, while our elite academic reform elite do chinese economic america was of this t slaugh. the, the fact is that all of this came mainly from investments in china, from the outside today. what especially from taiwan, is just more k y l is autopay. it was taiwanese companies that went to china and invested there. they contributed significantly to china's economic growth and continued to do so. it without taiwan who the chinese economic miracle, as we know it wouldn't have been like adequate glue. ready but while the cool mean tongue still held on to dreams of re taking mainland china, the economic relationship between communist china and taiwan was about to take a major term between 282016. wilmington member. my angel was the president of

taiwan. during his 2nd term, he put forward the cross strait service trade agreement, which reinforced china's economic grasp on taiwan. it was met with fierce resistance from the democratic progressive party, who demanded transparency. the public, especially the younger generation, also became suspicious. many felt the agreement would be harmful to taiwan national interests. i wonder if you do me. it is your zip. aha, mambo g button. as soon as she walked, isabel, mind you, my angel, he is a member of the chinese nationalist party for have been president since 20 or his little did. he knew that his plan was doomed to fail day. but his holy uncle please, especially those from the previous generation, which you very well that you don't negotiate with communism back to, especially the chinese it on my because you always lose. however, it was my injury, you held on to his illusion. and as china grew, it rather than be gobbled out, ain't he thought it was better to be on their side. you negotiate the best possible

position has long since before it's too late to negotiate. fidel in position, let me up with a someone who's studied you politics. i find this completely absurd and astonishingly naive not to be as the communist will never negotiated, need to actually negotiate. but to by 26, we're gonna do don . by march 2014, a year of tension had been brewing between the conservative and democratic members of parliament over the murky free trade agreements with china. these were not favorable to taiwan on march 17th, the night before, the agreements were to be signed without debate or discussion. there was a public outcry at that time one, jean ping was a leading warming tongue member and president of the national legislature. oh,

the other thoughts he went to common tongue chairman johnson announced that the content of the agreements would not be included in the government statement. gentle shibel. the parliamentary session was closed or so whether besides the agreement had been approved without discussion. it didn't seem gordon that caused unrest among the public and resolute in they, so were format. on the thing of march, 18th, members of the opposition joined protests led by students. the events that followed became part of the poignant sunflower movement. a corner, stone of taiwanese political history. one of the movements key activists was a young political science student called lean fi fun in jail meals all hobby on jordan. jordan said depeacher's name p m. i 1st group of

students forced their way into the parliament that yoke you should at 9 o 5, a 2nd group use another entry, hunting to distract the police on the strategy. worked on a good, as there were only a few police officers in the harlem and good, the good 13 topping me on. i'm a doctor. so she's a student came in 3 different entrances. autonomous in the police were soon overpower you than me thing deliveries. but once we were in like it's awful, we faced a new problem. 35 in italian without a floor plan with they got we didn't nor we around the building. once is a wonder which is our, the light switch. it goes through the mens hole. how did you turn on the air conditioning didn't and then i came, you all just had to find our own wait and see control. so in the situation became sort of organic guilty to use on leg organic to suit the good, the end everyone had their cell phones to film what was happening, the live stream on bite off the phones or don't all omega and also to the reach of digital technology that meant lots of people could join holland. i'm

a to you in way one we're going to feel had door as a candle long ago, the conference is assigned by occupying the parliament building. the students demonstrated to the whole country just how much resistance there was to these trade agreements. the longer the occupation went on the further the political debate spread. citizens mainly participated in the mood online with at the heart of these discussions was a new platform run by audrey tongue and a number of civic hackers called god 0. ah, how shy young was among the 1st generation of these dedicated i t experts

law. 0 i fully during the sunflower movement, he and various other software developers put the trade agreements online, making them widely available so that people could properly discuss them. oh, jojo giant, had i say pow oxygen, bunyan to look ice. we had started a project 6 months before the some cloud movement with us. we wanted to set up digital resources to enable people to understand the contents of the agreements with china. sidney, easier to go to power dot. oh, it is the mom who does the labor day, typically what go away that's easy. normally face obama, unders eager. the government at the time was presenting his campaign as a boost the economy. also, when he saw or saying people of fools, i don't need to know where doing tell you leave it to us. we'll take care of it,

as you know, was also easy to resolve the thing that annoyed me and all my colleagues that now this is worse, we believe that a software engineers, we had the means to make a change on the case. the, please. yes, is the lie, hang on, a mental health, your guide, you ah rule. their 1st order of call was to explain how the agreement would impact the business world. something the government had failed to address. or if a software developers, he wanted to participate in the movement or thought gov 0 was the place where technology and the ramifications for society came together. it's also a couch. i young launched the gobs 0 platform in 2012. audrey tom regularly contributed. play everybody in the number of contributors grew rapidly during the sunflower movement. in

leona shaw which is show on the cape a half inch on while i can show woman things can be turned around in the digital world door and then people can access the wide range of opinions and discussed amongst themselves. okay, they can find common values and share their creativity like digital democracy is very da and to analog democracy. to others happy. in april 2014 the campaign to bolster economic allegiances between communist china and the core mean tongue was suspended. the protests had worked. ah, ah, ah,

2 years later that failure of the quote mean tongue party impacted the election result sighing when the leader of the democratic progressive party became the 1st female president of taiwan. took until donna is young, linda is young, tindy's civilian. it was the movement that brought about the resounding defeat at the chrome in tang and 2016. go in that with only 35 seat was the party last is priority for the 1st time he he does the consequences were severe the engine. mm. to hold us finally, civil disobedience was recognized from a legal standpoint and that a never happened anti ones legal history on it. i don't know whether things would have gone this way elsewhere, which i think this is your go with aren't those who are andy's is

woman's in the kite hallman city, we now know that we can tell the government, you know, we're not doing it like now and he said that all is, is horton. well, just say that i sing such a new concept for young people gannons. i'll say a face out john, we are the sunflower movement showed us our power. it also well my, me, the people the see have the real power means highs. it saddens and neg aliya. ah. yeah. she's got a fun human death do my angel a 2 parties did not resume negotiations under my in june about and they obviously weren't taken out during sighing. when's presidency either had 20 this handful of student against what he said. there were just a few dozen to start with a affair managed to overpower, they were not only the taiwanese government,

but also china, a cause, a china that is crushing hong kong co sanitizer built concentration counseling leaders. q like her job, white tote, manchurian culture, just you've been almost to best lucy, a stop in it for years now. and they are managed to stop negotiations. it would have seen taiwan on. okay. lose it. sorry. they put it up to 70 awe. thanks to the sunflower movement, all over taiwan. there are now teams of designers who work to make important information accessible. some groups, for example, focused on complicated government budget documents. they transform them into easy to understand graphics. ah, the designers use open source software with conversion tables that are both accurate and pertinent ah,

the defense budget for example, can be converted to be seen in terms of the average cost of a lunch or the education budget and leaders of milk ah, just 2 years after its i in, when was elected taiwan enacted a series of progressive laws in 2019 taiwan became the 1st country in asia to legalize same sex marriage in 2020 thanks to a quota system. the proportion of female members of parliament rose to 42 percent

palostio taca, a former spokesperson for the presidential office, was one of them as an m p, she is pushed forward. a bill concerning the cultural protection of taiwanese indigenous people was and then the deadline for warm and sweet, put forward a bill to protect the fundamental rights of indigenous peoples jeanine. so what then? natasha hall? case. this gave indigenous peoples a bigger boy, a god, and help them to gain greater acceptance of passion, manufacture. ah gentlemen, although one harkens rental indigenous culture here has rapidly diminished over the

last century. quite so this shall shoot. now, so he eats his shirt. the was if you ask for me, what's left of it to day there bolton was on babylonians. vel. tell you that more husband loves us than preserved bottles. jag or hay quite urgent. i wonder, mean so far for it? i once indigenous peoples yards, the process of democratization is crucial and preserving their identities are and tissues. does he go of his aunty and seen the abortion were now taking things one step at a time. that is, that if the, if the bodies is, since you manage out and re recognize that they have lost alonda so that a port ah, did equals aaliyah. we now call indigenous languages. national languages are tear

bargains or means with a we've decided that they should be considered official languages. create one vantage. the committee has made online dictionaries for 16 indigenous languages and only on why at iowa. so a sense on that said the shadows what's on? how should i information technology, connect machines, digital technology connect people what's on the, i'm referring to one of the campaign pledges of president tying way to make broadband access by human right? broadband as a human role that doesn't just mean access to the internet world, but also communication beyond borders and what so sheldon is on one level or did that cut there? she at a shing dell can exist, was audrey to day, only a very small minority wants to join the current chinese political system or don't, sir, as he claimed, at the same time level or only more minority wants to declare independence is lucy

claim. you know, their basket is the taiwanese people have no desire to enter into conflict with beijing. the could engine. blackie boys tied me up on, gasped with some pre don't effect we listen. i measure we did level food. i shall day when in fact the majority of taiwanese want some kind of status quo on while hoping for protection or some sort of guarantees from major democracies like the u . s. in the event that china takes military action to speed up her unification with taiwan at all said, also, i want your media. deborah bottle cader deck. cindy, allowing you, she guess young. i think they were. oh god, i'm on me. on the new i hogan ponca, lou groovy on the machine. was there a really to scenario? that's douglas, the chinese government duke. we consider a military operation against taiwan kelly. soon the 1st no gun is if it was sure to

win a la does yen set him situated taiwan cleaned independent mortgage? 2 are well sick actually it isn't one of her tie up. but if it changed its name to the republic of taiwan or from authorization by the noon i bring that de one for that which forced the communist party to go to war shockey for even if it wasn't certain, it would whistle for expose it. ah lawsuit. and i want you men not to go in there by shore, the loop gain, you don't, in my opinion. china wouldn't launch a military mission unless it was sure to windows it a why see it? because losing to taiwan less, could you spell the beginning of the end for the communist regime in china? you're him and that's not an option for the regime. but by seem, paula increased the way it is a do a wire fashion. aha, you're a pale i with al regarding china's aggression against taiwan on war. the comments, not just military, but also took the mattress on the way ship. hey, all way i would like to call on the whole world to take an interest in taiwan.

daniel jump on that. yeah. got it. suppose it's on over by in the off or william way, every one needs to be brain with organ should tie one or it's here that are your younger you're gone. if we share the same values of democracy, freedom, angel, openness and human race, that badger you think it should be clear to everyone that taiwan, which is a solid partner for the future, abandoned asia. well just hi, one has always thought of itself as a small country in ways how long you're the one who says we're small and i go south about is it ok? so on the or did that come from the cool. i'm in town, google me will years. i've been asking how small taiwan really is. how one's in the selma. oh

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