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the 3 dots july 29th and d, w. 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 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 conflict. 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 in portuguese. the

the 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, the c t c h. jones. so this is the 14th and then boston judy of the be in class. we're trying to read the quote down down chance to get to it so, so you'll need to jump to the for job. so we owe teacher a tie one central. we need to function the change in

these carefully chosen words from ty, one's 1st female president, citing one allude to the threat that china opposes to taiwan. 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 has 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 it citizens i'm going to town town, his digital minister, where he can not afford to government the with the government now where a cannot afford 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, plan the way zone, keith stick a full quad productivity for to down to sheet and there are many reasons why china seas tie one this account of its territory. one they will absolutely not let go. well why don't try one is the democracy. this one is the ty, with these people vote and decide, and the time of these government changes frequently. so you might have the cool them in terms of policy, which was long probation way people will be at prudent cheaper. i think the pro independent movement in which is also prudent, but unwilling to you to china owned its dictates on the status of taiwan metal fet,

to detect the do not like to be provisional poses a serious threat to the chinese regime poorly. because according to beijing, this, the, all no universal value to democratic fashion is yesenia visa, west and construction in yet that does the taiwan demonstrates otherwise said the oak. she don't that it shows that china and chinese culture can function perfectly well within us for the democratic model, which he would like to do. it's also interesting that taiwan is one of the most dynamic and active democracies in asia escapes up to associate. they want a trinity democracy, the prove the 980 to on that he was ordering taiwan has taken a path of democracy in diametric opposition to the all for a terry and policies of beijing. digital technology is

used in both china and taiwan and public and political domains, but the way in which it's used could not be more different as demonstrated by the pandemic. whereas trying to impose control and misinformed, high ones democratic system became more digital, inclusive and transparent. and well, 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, administer of digital affairs, meaning gender, finishing the associates and the phone for the approval. email and those thorough terry and state is bad at detecting the talent goals and innovation of it. this which i don't see why you do. so the tool so bored to a is saying that she says that's how well i'm ok. 10 built in taiwan and q all codes and text messages were widely used. even during the early stages of the pandemic. they shake on, they were developed by computer scientists. and some were even working on a voluntary basis. yeah. 5. yeah. okay. and it seems when it's as you know, so we want to hear trying to meal beth, i choose to taiwan is 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 treat omega t 500. so you'd have to see that shows here looking at the vision and it says she's kind of going to help me if i shit through it, that's up we should in all the countries or the people have concerns about data protection. i tried to, i'm privacy that sparked miss trust down for me to check, so they don't want to comply and participate. dates 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 our shed values

guaranteed 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 the . ready ready suit your needs. tail, eyeball vision. i think uh the silence of a mix of intention is need to this various australian aspect colonize the important part of the entire time 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 as yet, up until the 17th century school,

the such a 16 hundreds, the face of taiwan who could have gone in any direction or just said to him, so jeff, and he's worth asking it a sewer. the chinese a lisa, both unofficially this you want, you can just isolated individuals. no, no, she said simply to designs of injuries. 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 weigh 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 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 imperialist of japan over its influence on the korean peninsula. the japan one and china seated tie one for 50 years the japanese empire occupied and colonized 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 send 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 se asia. it developed a new communication lines and trade route the but when japan last of the 2nd world war in 1945, it had to return taiwan to china,

which was then 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 and 1949. hundreds of thousands of loyal gloaming tongue supporters from mainland china followed him. not only we don't want to be safe and you don't know so deep after you initially date the time with these we're happy to see the back of what they called the japanese dog as welcome. you perfect the welcome to republic with open arms to exempt. he's had to have that in susie as him quickly will. he

might told him that these were traumatized but the also the oppression that occurred following the events of february 28 to 947 single year, which ended set in a mastercraft on that side. so after having welcomed the departure of the jack install street, they set to themselves the foundation and there we have the chinese, all 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 then present the 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 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 a don't use the son was my grandfather who is he's in the home. listen uh well, who would you miss? all of a sudden my father was arrested 3 times, saw 1st by the police, the boot,

then by the come on down the some then by the minute, tripoli usual during this time my grandfather disappeared to month leo. he was in prison. would you be a ginger or the social demeanor? my uncle. things are even worse. young engine shoji. i was. he was a young university professor. you haven't got strong person. ality. he was very direct. i'm going to be and definitely made is a hyundai. they took him in each b t as they threw him into the river. and each round. i'm just doing. yeah, yeah. i'll just tell you is tie you with 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 victims of legal gigi.

the common tongue arrives. we quickly realized how back with a particularly when compared to the development is introduced by the japanese. so being the type i want us to, i want to join. there is china. does it will that and for the time when these 3 are 2 different cultures, which is what i'm saying? so you tell them the 3 accepted this government, few choices don't. well, i mean go thailand to so long as the, at the end of the war, taiwan took a seat as

a permanent member of the security council. nicole 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 town go check on kind of those going to now he thinks you 49 having been defeated by miles from jenco shipped to who was confined to taiwan and he wanted to reinforce the chinese culture there, close to a certain the tie, one with a train. he's iowans to hang full stuff to the country, to social and historical facts that show tie one's identity to be farm or complex

multiple blocks. after the colonization by the japanese and the for a terry in 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 and the only the people's republic of china could represent chinese, a facet, the united nations, a no longer tie. one, the dues at which the us did not veto that of mine. it was originally proposed the ty wanted keep it seat after after roll. they went to vietnam to germany's chiang kai shek, was so angry that the us, it abandoned him, that he refused on life. and the people's republic of china became the sole representative of the un. i 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 sufficiently exist to you, but it's actually very active here. 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 pig 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 a booming 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 and leave me a hard click within the chinese grids. what are the deal? i cannot let crystal the do chinese economic and we're a thought was of history small this. the fact is that all of this came mainly from investments in china, from the outside today. 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 that kind of a gross and continued to do so because without taiwan. and so the chinese economic miracle, as we know it wouldn't have been like 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 turn. 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 need to educate shape. uh huh. not plugged it back to us from that issue. you wanted to bring my into my getting to know 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 listen, felt very well. you don't negotiate with coming back to, especially the chinese you don't mind because you always lose however. and so now you can do who 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 negotiate the best possible position. i've long since that the court to late the nicholas you will put

that in for his strong. let me up with someone who study to you. politics is what i find this completely absurd bill. astonishingly, now 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, montana, announced that the content of the agreements would not be included in the government statement. seemed so simple. the parliamentary session was closed. also way the based on the agreement had been approved without discussion. it didn't seem good in that cost 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 ago and 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. a 2nd group is another entry, hunting to distract the police on strategy working to when they go as the only a few police officers in the parliament a good those things hopping. the thoughts of the students came in through different entrances. the police were soon overpowered and who doesn't mean thing though? these are the ones who were in like, it's all we faced a new problem. so if i were you telling me there's a floor plan because we didn't newer, we have run the building. months is one time with the over the light switch, existing treatments a whole. how did you turn on the air conditioning didn't and then i came, you'll just have to find our own weight. let's see control. so the situation became sort of organic. you would see that you could something like oriented just to get the into everyone have their cell phones to. so what was happening live streaming on buying something. we've also done so on monday or, and also the reach of digital technology meant lots of people. you can, could join how long the wait, as long as they're going to say open the door as a kind of want to go through this since exercise

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 ip experts uh. 0 lea and 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 your time have, i don't want this in button until the price. we had started a project 6 months before the sometime we've been with us. we wanted to set up digital results is to enable people to understand the contents of the agreements with china, sidney to, to the c panel, the origins of the month. so it goes down to the government at the time because presenting is campaign is a boost the economy all saying people, the fools i don't need to know we're doing just tell you, leave it to us. we'll take care of it now because as it goes all that's a lot of noise. i do my colleagues, it now is, this is was we believe that

a software engineer is 8. we have the means to make a change on the case. is it? so it is a lie hang on the middle. the, their 1st port of call was to explain how the agreement would impact the business world. something the government had failed to address. the software developers who wants to participate in the golf 0 was the place with technology and the ramifications for society and kind together adult. you the couch, i 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 on my tape i have sent you on what i can tell when, when things can be turned around in the digital world door. eventually people can access a wide range of opinions and discuss amongst themselves, okay, so they can find common values and share the creation of a c. c. digital democracy is very different to analog democracy. the to we already talked to you in april 2014 the campaign to bolster economic allegiances between communistic china and the quote being tongue was suspended. the protest at work the

to you years later that failure of the full meaning tongue party impacted the election results. the siding when the leader of the democratic progressive party became the 1st email president of i want to show down 10 days to do it and it was the movements that brought about the residing defeats at the closing time in 2016 going within the 35 seats has the policy lost his majority for the 1st time. he says the consequences for savannah easier, the oldest finally civil disobedience was recognized from a legal standpoint. and that's a never happened in taiwan the legal history. cuz i don't know whether things would have gone this way elsewhere. we're hitting this as you go without on the, on the, on the woman's in like a whole month. so let's say the, we now know that we can tell the government,

you know, we're not doing it like that. and he said that's what was his hold. well, just say that dicing, so that's such a new concept for young people 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 are the so you have the real power means has its settings. and the lia the she's got us from new nanda, do not even show you policies did not receive negotiations under my youtube and about putting on the obviously weren't taken out during signing when's presidency either the 28th of this handful of students, the case with you said there were just a few 1000 to start with. i feel pretty managed to overpower. i thought only the time in these governments. but also china, it cause a china that is crushing hancock and sometimes adult costs increasing calculators

to, to control the white church maturity and culture. so it's been almost the best of, excuse me, to open that for years now. the managed to stop negotiation would have seemed taiwan on. okay. was that software? yeah, 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, 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, the just the 2 years after the siding when was elected taiwan and acted 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. the

colossal tucker a former spokes person for the presidential office was one of them. as an empty, she is pushed forward. a bill concerning the cultural protection of taiwanese indigenous people. without edwin fall, while elements we put forward a bill to protect the fundamental rights of indigenous peoples. you, but the trend need to what, then there's a whole case this case, indigenous peoples, a bigger boy on the, to go on and help them to gain greater acceptance caches. massage at the usual means over the congenital indigenous culture here has rapidly diminished over the last century. not quite so with the social of the suites you should google is

use if you ask me what's left of it today, what their thoughts and what's on top of it. and so they'll tell you that more has been long ago. so then preserved authors. yeah, go ahead with just one the mutual fund for 3. once indigenous we both know to the process of democratization is crucial and preserving their identities and to see, to see your face on seeing seeing the fortune. we're now taking things one step at a time since that if the, if the boxes are sent to you by monday out, and we recognize you that they have lost along to the digital phone reading. it. we now call indigenous languages, national languages or to if i get into means where the we've decided that they should be considered official languages, cleveland varnish,

the committee has made online dictionaries for 16 indigenous language and with the way. and i also a change on that. so the incident, what's what's on how sure i, the information technology connects machines. digital technology connects people which on this i'm referring to one is the campaign pledge is the president trying way to make broadband access by human right? broadband as a human role that doesn't just mean access to the internet is one word, but also communication beyond photos kind of fun. so sheldon, there's one level rotate that's cut the she a she does get easiest was old used today only a very small minority wants to join the car in chinese political system. the don't see times at the same time. level elisa, small minority wants you to declare independence is to see time, you know,

a therapist could, is the time when these people have no desire to enter into conflict with basing, it could engine p i q boys towards the gift or something, not google said we listen, i measure always a level feet, i shall tell you when in fact the majority of taiwanese want some kind of a state just quote on while hoping for protection. go some such as guarantees for major democracies like the us do. in the event the china takes military action to speed up or unification with taiwan. little said, those who never tell me the day of of talking to duck city loudly when she gets your i think the one 0 on, on the on the news. it's on the holding tank, a little goofy on the motion was there to scenario establish the chinese government to go we consider a military operation against cyber security. so the 1st again is if it was sure to win the electors. yeah. the 2nd seat, you,

i just high one cleaned it depends as most gets well, well say actually it is and why does have a tire? uh, but if it changed its name to the republic of taiwan, or for most our sizing for the new and i think the tire one full that would force the communist party to go toward some key fob, 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 of a sure to wind dose. it of a y, c. and because losing to tie one, spell the beginning of the end for the communist regime in china, you and that's and nothing option for the russian. up with him for the him condition. doable. it is the wi fi, so now you know it pay why we don't regarding china's aggression against taiwan. it's on board. going to not just military but also took the mattress on the waist high. oh, why i would like to call on the whole world to take an interest in taiwan thing, y'all jump on that y'all go. it's suppose it's on all the volumes in the hall,

waiting way. everyone needs to be brain with organ should tie one or 2. that's how you do go on if we share the same values of democracy, freedom means your 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, how homes you are. the ones who says was small and i go sell, it's all it, is it all those who did that come from the corman come 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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