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a la guardia? just find out about on the story. info, my friends. 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 young agony, 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, to day 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 ha, says is the cause of what he thinks it then father. judy of being why wait hand to lee the hotel now chase again. this is a you'll mean to jackson the warrior, w. o t. j. a tie when sensually mean to

a 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 when in 2016, the government has developed a digital democracy with help from its young internet savvy workers and it citizens . hi, monte tonton is dish to minister. i where can not for the government though with

the government now work not for the people the wisp, the 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 things ah, 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 geostrategic tensions where china regularly carries out military maneuvers. what's the reason for such provocations? he had planned on his own kick, kicker fuqua full. i truly 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 all, why don't we will tie one is a democracy, saudi, 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, or the pro in the pen, losing an end,

which is also prudent, but unwilling to yield to china and its dictates on the status of taiwan metal said to her or did that her alec could equal this poses a serious threat to the chinese regime poorly because according to beijing, if there are no universal values or democratic valid yes in. yeah, these are western construction in the upper does. i let taiwan demonstrates otherwise after. okay, don't that it shows that china and chinese culture can function perfectly well within a fully democratic model. was he alacrity? 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 won a can, did gimble. cassie lee prove been any cure any pro. he's alter unless he, 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 as a transgender woman who has been appointed tiwana minister of digital affairs mean genders, finishing the sources in of alpha. he a bullying him or an authoritarian state is bad at detecting the talent and innovations of it fits which others don't see why he did a yoyo. so 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 in farming. and some were even working on a voluntary basis. so i will get you changed when it's a shame to ha, so we were to here trying to make better choices.

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 union 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 silly me national that said she'd had a gorge out me at 5. she brought that up. was she in other countries or the people have concerns about data protection, nigel and privacy. that's arc mistrust. 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. chauncey, and of course our result i'll transparent as all the methods we use when our shared

values guaranteed on shampoo, they'll go on to the dallas and coach as chacandra. oh, john lane 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 such an achia to hold abortion as a co these islands of 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. demona. ready e o you listen, 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 di, such as 16 hundreds, the face of taiwan could have gone in any direction or just said to him to japanese, were there a sewer the chinese raft, lisa boy unofficially leasing or a just isolated individuals and none of his gentle 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 a weigh station and 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, one and china seated taiwan for 50 years the japanese empire occupied and colonized to 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 under 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 sen. 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 into se 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 mouse at tongue, took a stand against these national those 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, chunk guy shak lost and was forced to leave. he went into exile in taiwan in 1949. hundreds of thousands of loyal colming tongue supporters from mainland china followed him. dont like it on the gwinnett 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 was

welcoming boldly. welcome the republic with open arms to junkies. whatever that enthusiasm quickly were, all he went toward mattie's. they were traumatized by the awful oppression that occurred following the events of february 28th 1947. she were you which ended 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 will hate you. other men? no nellie 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 warming tongue 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 wasn't 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 so as of the judges. my family members were among the victims, just the extent of it only became clear in 1989. my father was educated, he was a doctor, is good. he said some was my grandfather, his he's in the ha youngest ah, well, who she missed all the sudden my father was arrested 3 times saw 1st by the tally i

see was lot than by the commander and then by the military, please. or during this time, my grandfather disappeared for 2 months. a year. he was imprison a degree. luncheon awarded. susan jamil. my uncle. things were even worse. janese shall g o. he was a young university professor with a strong curse melody. 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 just doing it. i'll 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 vic collierville gigi ah

coleman tongue arrived. we quickly realized how backwards they were, particularly when compared to the developments introduced by the japanese submit. that was i don't know, honest taiwan don't. china is china. doesn't work for the taiwanese. they're 2 different cultures, which is so warm, gentle, you tell them between accepted this government. he chose not don't why mingled highway until so long. ah

at the end of the war, taiwan took a seat as a permanent member of the security council. the call mean tongue 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, don't guy shake? oh, god knows contina 1949. having been defeated by mouth hole for chiang kai shek 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 stalked through the country to social and historical facts that should hi one's identity to be far more complex m o. p 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 thus could lease it as you knew, lucy, lucy, doyle said christmas what light pimlico piano resolution was passed, that only the people's republic of china could represent chinese affairs of the united nations and no longer taiwan builders at which the u. s. did not veto that. my was originally proposed that taiwan should keep its seat after all they were to vietnam's to germany's but young guy shack was so angry that the u. s. did abandon him that he refused on life, and the people's republic of china became the sole representative at the u. n. mal 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 it's actually very active yet because i want to keep it on m talker. he, that 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. i 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 halves despite their common economic interests.

likewise, also, as she nearly read for me could unequal in the hot liquid in the chinese grove. well, i really cannot let crystal really do. chinese economic in america was of this te 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 continue to do so without taiwanda the chinese economic miracle. as we know, it wouldn't have been identical going. it was a. ready lou, 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 coleman tong member. my young joe was the president of

taiwan during his 2nd term, he put forward the cross straight 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 tie one's national interests. taiwanda predominate injury ship ha ha. mobile jabante nationality. she woke isabel, mind you, my young jew, he is a member of the chinese nationalist party for have been president since 20 oasis lisel did. he knew that his plan was doomed to fail day. but this colleen company, especially those from the previous generation, listed you very well that you don't negotiate with communism and back to, especially the chinese it on my because you always lose do, however, it is my injury you held onto his illusion, go and has china grew it rather than be global dot ain't, he thought it was better to be on their side. you even negotiate the best possible

position. i functions that the for us to late, the negotiable, by then in position. let me, i'll push as someone has studied geopolitics, i find this completely absurd and astonishingly naive not to be as the communist will never negotiate a need to actually negotiate. but to buy 20 sick of organic 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 favourable to taiwan ah, 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 took the contents of the agreements would not be included in the government statement. gentle shibel. the parliamentary session was closed or so whether this had the agreement had been approved without discussion. isn't jim gordon that caused unrest among the public mazda in they so whipple mat on the evening 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 fan in jail middle school, i believe. jordan jordan's an o d p should lane p. m. i 1st group of students forced their way into the

parliament, the 2 pieces at 9 or 5 on a 2nd group is another entry hunting to distract the police on the strategy working to undergo as there were only a few police officers in the parliament asserting something more than with doctor sees as students came in 3 different entrances, authentic and the police were soon overpowered, that me thing, deliveries. but once we were in like a song, we faced a new problem. 35 eat on it without a floor plan with didn't pick up. we didn't, nor we around the building. once. is it once with the door where the light switch existing trudy minutes a whole, how did you turn on the air conditioning didn't and then i came all just had to find out when wait and see control. so in the situation became sort of organic, you're either use omega organic to suit the good, the and i who and had their cell phones to film what was happening and live streaming on bio yvonne's or docile or mimic and also the reach of digital technology that meant lots of people like could join holland. i'm in the,

in way one we're going to feel indoor as a can no longer think offensive. as i sign 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 movement online. at the heart of these discussions was a new platform run by audrey tongue and a number of civic hackers called gov 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 townhouses here, onions over the past. we had started a project 6 months before the some cloud movement. we wanted to set up digital resources to enable people to understand the contents of the agreements with china . sidney, easier to go out. oh, it is the of mom she does. you a better good. what go away that easy normally face obama dement 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 now was all as he to resolve that they let annoyed me and all my colleagues

that now this is worth, we believe that a software engineers, we had the means to make a change on the case. the poor. yes is a lie, hang on, a mental health, your guide ah rule. their 1st port of call was to explain how the agreement would impact the business world. something the government had failed to address. or software developers who wanted to participate in the movement or dot gov. 0 was the place where technology and the ramifications for society came together. it's also a couch. our young launched, the got 0 platform in 2012. audrey tan regularly contributed play. everybody in the number of contributors grew rapidly during the sunflower movement. lou,

leona shaw, which is shown on okay, how central and qual, extension, woman seems, 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. digital democracy is very different to analog democracy, to others. happier. in april 2014 the campaign to bolster economic allegiances between communist china and the quarman tongue was suspended. the protests had worked ah ah ah,

2 years later that failure of the call mean tongue party impacted the election results. sighing when the leader of the democratic progressive party became the 1st female president of taiwan, took down the issue. linda ins, young, the young tending civilian. it was the movement that brought about the resounding defeat at the chrome in tang and 2016. going with only 35 seats, the party lost his majority for the 1st time he, he does the consequences were severe the engine mm. to hold it. finally, civil disobedience was recognized from a legal standpoint and that 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 on. don't. those are andy's is

womans in the kite hallman city, the. we now know that we can tell the government no good, not doing it like that. and he said that all is it's horton. well, just say that i sing so such a new concept to young people gannons. i'll see your face on john. we all, sunflower movement showed us our power dollars it. well my, me, the people in the see have the real power means highs. it saddens and darkening aliya. ah, yeah, she's got a food pneumonia. do my angel? a 2 parties did not resume negotiations under my in june about and the 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 an affair, managed to overpower, they were not only the time in his government,

but also china, a cause of china that is crushing hong kong costantino bill concentration council meters q like your job, white tote, man, shooting culture, just you been almost a bessy dope in that for years now. the a managed to stop negotiations. it would have seen taiwan on. okay. lose it suffers there, but he does. he says one to ah, 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, focus 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 ng 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, of 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 which i'm then the deadline fall warm and sweet. put forward a bill to protect the fundamental rights of indigenous peoples. the chin needs to what then? natasha whole casey. this gave indigenous peoples a bigger boy. yonder is a good one and help them to gain greater acceptance. cashew manufacture ah little means although one harkins, frontal indigenous culture here has rapidly diminished over the last century. ny

quite sword shall shoot. no e t shirt. no, if you, if you ask me what's left of it to day, there was an apple venetians, and they'll tell you that more has been logs also been preserved. bathrooms. yeah, i that i had quite widget i on the rental car for it. i once indigenous peoples yards, the process of democratization is crucial and preserving their identities. doran tissue disease of his aunty and seeing the fortune we are now taking things one step at a time. that means that if the, if the bodies is gigi, my manders out and re recognized that they have lost alonda. so that april ah, the jiggle found reading it. we now call indigenous languages national languages, o t. a baggage, all means with

a we've decided that they should be considered official languages, clean one vanish. the committee has made on my dictionaries for 16 indigenous languages and only on white io i see. and john, that said the shadows what's on? how should i information technology connect machines? did until technology connects people which on this i'm referring to. one of the campaign pledges of president trying way to make broadband access by human right? broadband as a human that doesn't just mean access to the internet one of the world but also communication beyond borders. and so sheldon is on one level or did that. how does she at a shing dell can exist with audrey today? only a very small minority wants to join the current chinese political system or don't say, as he claimed at the same time level,

or only some more minority wants to declare independence is lucy claim. you know, a dare bicycle because the taiwanese people have no desire to enter into conflict with beijing that could end in warnky boys had we up our gift with some prolong dog effect. we listen, i measure we did level pete. 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. is in the event that china takes military action to speed up her unification with taiwan. all settled in i want your middle darrow bottle kinder deck sydney re allowing you she guess young. i think they one 0 no, i'm on the new me on the new mother whom punkin louisiana machine. what lira really to scenario that struggle is the chinese government to consider a military operation against i likely soon,

the 1st no gun is if it was sure to win a la does yen set him situated taiwan cleaned independent mortgage? well, well, so actually it isn't wireless, i play up, but if it changed its name to the republic of taiwan or from authorization for the new i bring the day one for that which forced the communist party to go to war. shockey for even if it wasn't certain, it would went off, i expose it. our last seat and i want you men. no, go in there by sure. the loo gun. you don't in my opinion. china wouldn't launch a military mission unless it was sure to windows it. why see it? because losing to taiwan less, could you spell the beginning of the end for the communist regime in china? yeah, and that's not an option for the regime publishing. paula inclination the way it is is do a wire fashion. oh no, a pail. i read out regarding china's aggression against taiwan on what the comments, not just military, but also took the mattress on the ways here. how your weight 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 all by in the off or william way. every one needs to be brain with organ should tie one or it's here that i or you can log on 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 than, than these young well just to high one has always thought of itself as a small country in ways how long you are. the ones who says we're small and they go south about is it ok, so on the or did that come from the core montana. google me will years. i've been asking how small taiwan really is. how one's in the selma. oh

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