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find out about bailey story. info migraines, the the, the main island of taiwan at the narrowest point of the taiwan strait lies 130 kilometers from the chinese mainland. and 100 kilometers from you're not going to depends 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.

the . 7 the today, taiwan has a democratic government and maintains that it is an independent country, but it faces growing intimidation from china, which claims that taiwan is a province of the people's republic of china, the c t c k jones. so this is the 14th and then boston judy of the being while we're trying to read the quote down down chance to get this is so you'll need to adjust to the full job. so we don't teach it a tie one center. we need to function the change in

these carefully chosen words from taiwan. first female president citing one allude to the threat that china opposes to tie one. the archipelago is 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 is found ways to exist independently. since the appointment of president, citing one in 2016, the government has developed a digital democracy with help from its young internet savvy workers and its citizens. i'm going to town town, his digital minister, where it can not afford the government to go with the government. you know where

it's not for the people the with 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 the, 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? yeah, blonde always don't kick stick a full quad port on it to really put you down to sheet and narrow. many reasons why china seas tie one this part of it territory one day will absolutely not set go well, why don't time one is the democracy just wanted to tie with these people vote and decide. and the chinese government changes frequently. so you might have the cool them in terms of policy, which was long probation, only 2 people will be a prudent team. i think the pro independent movement in which is also improved and

but unwilling to yield to china and its dictates on the status of taiwan metal fet, to detect the direct to the provision poses a serious threat to the chinese regime poorly because according to beijing, this the all, no universal values for democratic values. yeah. yeah. he's the weston construction in the developed taiwan demonstrates otherwise said to okey, don't that it shows that china and chinese culture can function perfectly well within us for the democratic model which he like to do. it's also interesting that taiwan is one of the most dynamic and active democracies in asia, excuse up to the associate. they what they trinity democracy. the prove unique. a pre, he wrote to all that he was ordering taiwan has taken a path of democracy in diametric opposition to the for a terry and 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 impose control and the misinformed tie ones. democratic system became more digital, inclusive and transparent. and while the chinese government remains non transparent, taiwan actively listened to its citizens. and employed computer experts and ethical pirates known as civic hackers. like audrey tom, 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 taiwan is minister of digital affairs, meaning gender syncing to socializing the phone for the approval email and the store. a terry and state is bad at detecting the talent and innovation of it. but just which i don't see why you, there's a yellow to support or saying that she says i tell them okay, kind of in taiwan, i q all codes i'm text messages were widely used even during the early stages of the pandemic. they shake on, they were developed by computer scientists and some what even working on a voluntary basis. yeah. 5, how can you change when it's as you know, so we want to hear trying to me about that too. so the

taiwanese citizens know that their democratic system protects them against the beijing government. and during the pandemic, they generally supported all measures that benefit the common good young q, r code to your advantage, and the q all codes provide a record of the people's daily mobility shoot omega t 500. so you'd have to see that show to leave me a vision and it says she's kind of going to help me if i shift through it that the portion of the countries or the people have concerns about data protection. i tried to, i'm privacy that sparked miss trust down some to check so they don't want to comply and participate. states can become authoritarian, sure, and misuse, the daytime of the people all over the well to jamalia the innovation and transparency of our democratic processes are charged. and of course our results all trans paranoid. as all the methods we use the, our shed values guarantee,

the template, okay to the dallas and coach has to come to the 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 the . ready tail, eyeball vision, i think uh the silence of a mix of intention, designated us, various australian aspect, very nauseated, colonize the important part of the maritime world. i'm booked on starting from egypt in june. the ego, you know, as long as they lived on their islands without much communication with the asian

continent or the japanese archipelago. and up until the 17th century school, they said to the 1600s, the face of taiwan could have gone in any direction or just said to him. so jeff, and he's worth asking that a sewer. the chinese, a lisa thorn unofficially nationwide. he just isolated individuals. no, no, she shouldn't simply to designs. victory is on the, during the 17th and 18th centuries, the islands didn't have one overarching government. everything was organized by tribes. the coast became a waste ation 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 at times by the west. but the opium wars of the 19th century brought this isolation to an end. the

china comes to the british army and was forced to yield to the economic interests of western powers. the, at the end of the 19th century, the chinese empire, which included taiwan, entered into a conflict with imperialistic japan over its influence on the korean peninsula. the japan one and china seated taiwan for 50 years, the japanese empire occupied and colonize to the islands. the 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 the

in 1911. this revolutionary put an end to the feudal system. then under to the last emperor of china, the ching dynasty that had ruled the chinese mainland for around 300 years was overthrown. the son yet soon became the 1st president of the republic of china. he ruled for just a few weeks, but his democratic ideals still resonate today. the son, yet son, is revered in taiwan. as the founding father of the republic of china, taiwan is 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 straight and taiwan capital t pay. the son yet send memorial hall is a popular attraction for chinese tourists who come to watch the changing of the guards. by the 1930s, the colonized islands had become visibly more japanese. japan was making plans to expand its empire from here into south east asia. it develops new communication lines and trade routes the but when japan last of the 2nd world war in 1945, it had to return taiwan to china,

which was been led by the nationalist gloaming tongue party. under chung chi check . the chinese communist party under mounts at home took a stand against these nationalist forces with support from the soviet union. chiang kai shek had support from the us. the civil war ignited between 2 chinese camps. the junk shack lost and was forced to leave. he went into exile in taiwan in 1949. hundreds of thousands of loyal co mean tongue supporters from mainland china followed him non appointment time, including the time when he went to safety. i don't know. so they talked to you initially, the, the taiwanese were happy to see the back of what they called the japanese dog as we are coming from the welcome to the republic with open arms,

salters empties hotels. that enthusiasm quickly will. he might told him that these were traumatized for the awful oppression that occurred during the events of february 28th 1947 single year, which ended set in a massacre. so on. so after having welcomed the departure of the jack install street, they set to themselves the foundation or we have the chinese will say deal of them, i know. and then the cushion, the on february 28th 1947, a crowd gathered in front of typeface, city hall. they were protesting a brutal incident the previous day, when a woman had been beaten by authorities for selling on taxed cigarettes. forming tong police fired into the crown to disperse the 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 taiwan. these history that remains a sensitive subject to this day or by then just so as, as the judge of my family members were among the victims, just the extent of the time you became clear in 191919 my father was educated. he was an adult. is it you said son was my grandfather who is he's in the home. yeah. most of the, uh, well, who would you miss all of a sudden special that was arrested 3 times saw 1st by the police. that includes 10

by the come on the and then by the minute, tripoli is all during this time. my grandfather disappeared to month leo. he was in prison. would you be the judge and all that so. so to me for my own cool things are even worse. yeah. the engine chelsea i was he was a young university professor. yeah. because strong his anality. he was very direct . i'm going to be and definitely made is a hyundai, they took camera in each b as they threw him into the river and he drowned. i'll give you a new item yet. i'll just tell you is tie, you would g u haul that, it was part of a plan to bring the toner when he's the lead time. the control got 3 members of my family with it comes to changing. the,

the common tongue arrives. we quickly realized how backwards, particularly when compared to the development is introduced by the japanese. so being the type i want us to, i want to show you there is china. does it will that and for the time when these failed to different cultures, which is what i'm saying? so you tell them the 3 accepted this government chosen? i don't. well, i mean go tie one to so long as the,

at the end of the war, taiwan took a seat as a permanent member of the security council. the call meantime party was rolling the islands with an iron fist and enforcing colonial policies. continental chinese culture was given predominance freedoms were suppressed, the press, the sensor and history rewritten the in the trunk. i check on kind of nice coffee. now he thinks you 49 having been defeated by miles from junk, i shipped to who was confined to taiwan and he wanted to reinforce the chinese culture there, close to a certain the taiwan was a trained these islands to him, full stop to his country,

to social and historical facts that showed high ones identity to be farm or complex multi complex. after the colonization by the japanese and the for a terry and ism of the chinese. taiwan faced another tragedy in 1971. this crucial event would change the political and diplomatic structure of ty, want us president richard nixon and his secretary of state henry kissinger secretly decided to visit china under president mile 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 these it does renew 0 to effect. this is what like 2 people put on the resolution was passed. the only the people's republic of china could represent chinese. the fact that the united nations a no longer taiwan, the dues, at which the us did not veto that of mine, it was originally proposed the ty wanted and keep it seat. i think after all, they went to vietnam to germany's chiang kai shek was so angry that the us it abandoned him. but he refused on life. and the people's republic of china became the sole representative of the un. i mount would have had no way of opposing the duel state and do a 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 in seattle big don't kid on impulse because he's us it doesn't matter if a cat is black or white as long as it catches mice. this was famously said by dumb shell ping, who succeeded now in the late 19 seventy's. he said the chinese communist party, on course to liberalize the economy. the 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 moving economic growth. since the 19 ninety's, the 2 chinese societies have followed radically different political pads, despite their common economic interests, the

lot questions that i see nearly a full recorded onique leave me a hard click within the chinese grand. while i really feel i cannot let crystal the do chinese economics in america was of this the small dish. the fact is that all of this came mainly from investments in china, from the out side to say what, especially from taiwan is just won't say why there is also a place that was high when these companies that went to china and invested the they contributed significantly to china is economic growth and continued to do so because without taiwan. and so the chinese economic miracle, as we know, it wouldn't have been what that of course going. it was all. ready but while the cool mean tongue still held onto dreams of re taking mainland china, the economic relationship between communist china and taiwan was about to take a major term. between 282016 gloaming tongue member. my young joe was the president

of taiwan during his 2nd term. he put forward the cross strait service trade agreement, which reinforce to china's economic grasp on tie one. 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 interest. i wonder if the domain route is shape. uh huh. non plugged it back to us from that issue. you want to submit in my, into my getting to a member of the chinese nationalist party. i mean, president says 20 total cases, but little did. he knew that his plan was doomed to fail. but this colleague and company, especially those from the previous generation listing, felt very well. you don't negotiate with coming back to, especially the chinese you don't mind because you always lose this however. and so now you can do here for held onto his allusion. and his china grew rather than be global dollars and you felt it was better to be on their side, you know, even negotiate the best possible position. i've long since that before too late,

then they go see, we'll put that in for his strong. let me up with someone who study to politics is what i find this completely of sir. i'll be home and astonishing. i mean, i, you don't please us a call me on this one. different negotiating need to actually negotiate. but the bicycle, get it done by march 2014, a year of tension had been burling between the conservative and democratic members of parliament over the murky free trade agreements with china. these weren't not favorable to taiwan the 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 call, mean tongue member and president of the national legislature. only that the talk to

you, we in the common tongue chan mentioned announced that the contents of the agreements would not be included in the government statement seemed so simple. the parliamentary session was closed. also way the all based on the agreements had been approved without discussion. it didn't seem golden that caused on rest among the public. i'm as a inmate, so we're 4 months 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 cornerstone of taiwanese political history. one of the movements key active as was a young political science student called lean 5 on the exam. it was a little while building showed in georgia instead of the piece of 9 p. m. plus, 1st group of students forced their way into the parliament that to you at 9

o 5 and a 2nd group use another entry, hunting to distract the police on strategy. working to when they go as the only a few police officers in the parliament and go through good things, helping me have them with thoughts. so say to the students came in through different entrances, the police were soon overpowered. and you then, me thing, go, these are the ones who were in like, it's all we face the new problem. so if i were you telling me there's a floor plan because we didn't, nor we around the building. months is one time with the over the light switch. it goes, thing 30 minutes hold. how did you turn on the air conditioning didn't say nice. k whole just have to find our own weight. let's see control. so the situation became sort of organic. you would see that he was on hagar organic just to get the and everyone had their cell phones to so what was happening? live streaming online, so you don't so don't. so on monday are those that was the reach of digital technology. meant lots of people. i could join how long the wait, what i'm going to going to say open the door,

is it kind of want to go through the sensors that i cited 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. the, at the heart of these discussions was a new platform run by audrey tongue and a number of civic hackers called god 0. the couch i young was among the 1st generation of these dedicated experts

uh. 0 lee, during the sunflower movement, p and various other software developers put the trade agreements online, making them widely available so that people could properly discuss them. you know, you can try and have, i don't want this in funding. so it was a, as we had started a project 6 months before the sometime we've been with us, we want to set up digital results is to enable people to understand the contents of the agreements with china to need to, to the c panel. how that, how it is a small way that's easy. okay. so do you guys obviously the government at the time was presenting it's campaign is a boost the economy all saying people, the fools i don't need to know we're doing just leave it to us. we'll take care of it and see what else it is. oh, that's a lot of noise. i do my colleagues,

it's not associated to us. we believe that a software engineer. we have the means to make a change on the case. is it? so it is a lie, hang on a minute, we'll talk to the guy the, their 1st part of the call was to explain how the agreement would impact the business world. something the government had failed to address the software developers who wanted to participate in the golf. 0 was the place with technology and the ramifications for society and came together. dolton the cow try, young, launched the gulf 0 platform in 2012. audrey tom regularly contributed. hi everybody. the number of contributors grew rapidly during the sunflower movement, the only on the show

it to show. i'm ok, but have fun chunk while i've been sound woman, things can be turned around in the digital world or eventually people can access a wide range of opinions and discuss amongst themselves. okay, so they can find common values and share of the creation of a c, c digital democracy is very def, and i love democracy that we already talked to you in april 2014 the campaign to bolster economic allegiances between communistic china and the quote mean tongue was suspended the protest at work the

2 years later that failure of the pool meantime, party impacted the election results. citing when the leader of the democratic progressive party became the 1st email president of ty wants to do some young's indians to do it and it was the movement the brought about the resolving defeat. at the closing time in 2016 going with only 35 seats has the pumps. he lost his majority for the 1st time. it says the consequences for savannah even the oldest. finally civil disobedience is recognized from a legal standpoint. and that never happened in taiwan. the legal history of, i don't know whether things would have gone this way elsewhere, which i think this is a go with. i don't, don't, does not. and the woman's in that whole woman.

so say the, we now know that we can tell the government, you know, we're not doing it like that. oh, and you said this was this hold. well, just say the dicing, so such a new concept for young people to guide me is also you can phase on. so we also sunflower movement that showed us all power dollars as well that we the people that it so you have the real power means how does that sense? and the lia the, she's got a phone, you know, do my usual energy policies did not receive negotiations under my youtube and about putting on the obviously weren't taken out during signing when's presidency either had pointed use of this handful of students? because when you said they were just a few 1000 to start with, i feel pretty managed to overpower they were not only the time in these governments, but also china. it cause

a china that is crushing. i'm calling from sometimes adult concentration calculators to, to control the white church meant shooting and culture. so it's been almost the best of, excuse me, to open that for years now. they have managed to stop negotiations. it would have seemed taiwan on. ok. who's that software? they put it up to so, so 12, 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 as they transform them into easy to understand graphics. the, the designers use open source software with conversion tables that are both accurate and pardon the,

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 mill the just 2 years after citing when was elected taiwan and acted a series of progressive laws in 2019 taiwan became the 1st country and asia to legalize same sex marriage in 2020 thanks to a quota system. the proportion of female members of parliament rose to 42 percent. the

colossal tucker a former spokes person 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 without saying that he had one fall, while woman, sweet foot florida bill to protect the fundamental rights of indigenous peoples. but the chinese to what then there's a whole catch. this gave indigenous peoples a bigger boy on the to go on and help them to gain greater acceptance caches minus onset the domains or the congenital indigenous culture here has rapidly diminished over the

last century. nice, quiet sort of shows, you know, so he, she should do was you, if you ask me what's left of it today, what their thoughts and what some doubles in a sense, and they'll tell you that more has been long and also then preserved authors. yeah . go ahead. widget taiwanda mutual fund for 3 wants indigenous peoples to the process of democratization is crucial and preserving their identities on titian to see if it's on seeing the seeing the portion. we're now taking things one step at a time that does that. if the, if the boxes are sent to you by monday out, and re recognized that they have lost along to the digital finding it, we now call indigenous languages national languages. or if i get into means with a, we've decided that they should be considered official languages, cleveland varnish,

the committee has made online dictionaries for 16 indigenous language in place. and the way it aisles always change on that. so the chanel is with and how sure information technology connects machines. it's so technology connects people which on this i'm referring to wonder, is the campaign pledge? is the president trying way to make broadband access by human right? broadband as a human? well, that doesn't just mean access to the internet is one word, but also communication and beyond photos kind of well. so she on and there's one level rotate that's cut the she a she can exist was old. we used today only a very small minority wants to join the current chinese political system the a c times at the same time level. it would be more minority wants to declare

independence is to see time, you know, in the day of school, because the time when these people have no desire to enter into conflict with basing, that could engine p i q boys, todd. we have found gift with some from the google said we listen, i measure we did level feet. i shall tell you when in fact the majority of taiwanese want some kind of a status quote on while hoping some protection go some such as guarantees for major democracies like the u. s. in the event the china takes military action to speed up or unification with taiwan. but also those who never tell me the day of, of, of talking to the city of a lovely when she gets your i think they want oh, on, on, on the news. it does sound good movie on the motion was never meant to scenario, establish the chinese government to go. we consider a military operation against thailand, county sue, the 1st you're getting is if it was sure to win the electors. yeah. the 2nd seat,

you, i just high one cleaned. it depends as most get well well say actually it is and why that's how i tie up. but if it changes name to the republic of taiwan, or for most our season for the new, and i think the tie one full that would force the communist party to go to wordpress. okey folks, even if it wasn't the search and it was weird. so if i explained it, uh, it'll say no, i won't, you know, to tell when they 1st show the gun. you don't, in my opinion, china wouldn't launch a military mission unless it was sure to wind dos it of a y c. and because losing to tie one, let's go to spill the beginning of the end for the communist regime in china. and that's and nothing option for the russian. but by the same, for the same condition, doable it is to wi fi. so now you would pay why we don't regarding china as aggression against taiwan. it's on board of going to not just military but also took the mattress on the way c i o y. i would like to call on the whole world to take an interest in taiwan. danielle,

jump on that. you all got how it's supposed it's on, on the volume in the hall, waiting way. everyone needs to be brain with organ should tie one or 2 that you all you all you do cool. and if we share the same values of democracy, freedom means openness and human rights. that, that, yeah, you think it should be clear to everyone what taiwan, which is a solid partner for the future funding was, are the 2 high one has always thought of itself as a smooth country and ways townhomes are the ones who says were small and i go south . oh is it all those people did that come from the common tongue? the culture equal me? who years i've been asking how small taiwan really is high ones in the selma. the

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