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expanded, you're welcome to dw and use a sharp logical join us billionaire fox gone, found teddy goal has announced these candidates are for tight ones. upcoming presidential election go becomes default the candidate to throw his hat in the ring . he made his fortune. turning, fox gone into the largest electronic supply, i think so. think apples. iphones, fox gone, has been huge factories in china and predict village. he has a causal relationship with the leadership in beijing. as an independent go is trying to position himself as a candidate who could promote peace between taiwan and china. $1000000000.00 has been seen in the d. p. a needs to be brought down under the rule, over the past 7 years, the potty is did to. i want to watch the danger of war highway. okay, they tie one was not become ukraine. we will go and i will not let taiwan k to become the next year trying

to prevent joining from attacking to i one by sacrificing my personal assets. i'm willing to become effectively work of the d p. p or democratic progressive party. the goal is criticizing is the party of taiwan president sign in one constitutional time limits. mean she constant for election for the 3rd time. so it's her deputy, god advised present lighting to who is in contention. they sent him meeting supporters earlier this month in new york as he projects to, to panic with commonly known as william light. he's come see leading in the polls and he's also clear on who is to blame for the tensions we've paging bullshit. and the global community understands the recent tensions on, not because of president side or taiwan, but because of china. so it's all good and of course china will be hoping to interfere with this election. i did with all kinds of tactics as. ready and if they

succeed and go, there will be an undermining of ty, ones, democracy by when the mean sort. so to should that way. so pull point. so let's get more context on how the time on elections are shaping up with autopay corresponding james j to james. let's talk about william ly fast. he's leading in the polls country. why is that, and what is his page to the people of taiwan? well that's right, light seen it's high ones. vice president is currently needing and paused with roughly 35 percent of the votes that according to some of those polls. so really on this question that we have to remember the threat from china in some way kind of shades. nearly every aspect of taiwan is politics. lighting the william light has really positioned himself as the continuity candidates, the natural success, the to the current president time when. and she's someone who has really one praise

internationally and being very cool headed at high stakes. jerry political moments intention with china lawyer said he wants to continue in that vein. he wants to continue to raise time. one is international profile. well, navigating through really extremely complex jerry political wants is between the us and china. how does one explain the, the p, b leading and falls when just at the end of last year? the body performed very poorly in local elections, losing out to the opposition goldman tongue as well. local elections are really a different ball game in taiwan. the issues where it says care about those elections a slightly different, they are more local, but when it comes to the presidential elections, the ever present threat from china comes to the friends incense. and once again, to explain why the t p are doing really well. it's important to remember that chinese intimidation of taiwan has increased dramatically over the past 3 or 4 years. just today we've seen 7 chinese jobs across the median line of the taiwan

strait and the and the daily occurrence now. and over the past year, we've had full scale military and drills around taiwan, including the souls being shot over to my pay. and that type of behavior has usually pushed people towards ty, one's governing costs, even if you pay. mostly, i think because of the lack of belief across the whole of society, without making overtures to beijing is really going to less than those threats a tool. so we went out today actually and typing off people about this exact issue i feel that tell them when these people don't want war. but it seems that's not the case in china. the chinese communist party is different depending on these compared to taiwan. is the main source of cross straight tension. i want you to send the situation until i wasn't really that tense. for me, it's not too bad. it's all about how these issues are used by politicians. sold by the sound of what woman barely and cheap,

and i do see how neighbor chandra is good at emotional black miles. that's how this society works when we're young. and we might believe that john is threats of what we should be scared of. but in the past few years, we know the real danger is being afraid of ourselves. this is james another candidate folks confound the attorney goal or seems to recognize what the people are saying, but blames the d p. p for the state of tires between china and taiwan. what exactly is his plan to ease tensions as well the key parts of terry correspondence actually signal things open. so dialogue with paging and important points and medicaid. but reset the routing policy. if it's anything that has stated that they're willing to total for the china beijing refuses right now, go was come. paying is really, it's pulling into fine by opposition to the governing pots. he says he wants to take down the routing policy and he makes the argument that it's a d p p 's actions. this ruling policy inside one is bringing tie one closer to war

. when it comes to details about his exact plans or there's been relatively few, a few details right now go, i think is relying on the perception in taiwan. but he's a businessman that really understands china now this process. so yesterday where he was announcing his candidacy, he said that he wanted an a rough uh, entrepreneurial roland. ty wants to come, and of course this company he found it focused on has really deep connections with china, has been operating china for decades and is one of the biggest private employers in china in china. i think you'll be relying on that kind of business where we're going to make the case that he's the best one to manage relations and paging. but do people believe him given that he has this deep uh, business interest with a china? so what is the question again? he responded, sir, yesterday he said he would be willing to sacrifice personal assets in china for the sake of taiwan, who has been a popular figure within taiwan who has viewed as

a symbol of ty, we needs business to business success folks kind of course makes most of the world i think that was some support of the support of the manual position policy the core meantime, that were really disappointed when she didn't win the nomination for that policy. but i think the skepticism and that kind of the concern about his kind of just the lives in this page that he can really run taiwan like a business. and one of his opponents has already come out and said that running a government is a very different prospect. again, our on typeface street. so they, we honest people what they thoughts about terry was campaign. yeah, i'm glad to see a bunch relations with china. i'm more dense, but i don't know where the him entering the race is going to use those tensions. we would have to see how things develop. mobile fantastic will do. it has to die. ping people. so being guidelines president, he has an international perspective. so he can hit big time on to the world.

i think that holding party lacks an international perspective, but not the system scenario is not originally from the world of politics. at the moment he might be influential in business, but i don't think that he's influential in politics. even sounding with the greatest point of view on teddy go, james does 10 goals. candidates are home, the opposition this john says agree with the d p. it wasn't in the pool of consent so. so the question is yes, the crucial bit of context here is a we already have a really, really packed presidential race here in taiwan with 3 main candidates. goal is the 4th now to enter. so it's very close as he wants to unite these don't position policies to defeat the ruining the ip. but most people believe what he's actually gonna end up doing is splitting the opposition boards and actually ends up

benefiting their buildings. if you be even more seems how important is a this presidential election internationally, particularly for the united states, for instance, which is a close ally of a taiwan. well, when it comes to the united states as perception of this harmonies election, the official position of course, is that they wouldn't make a statement of any type of preference when it comes to the election. they don't want us to be seen to be interfering with the outcome of the selection. however, of course, you know that all concerns. i think that over the past 4 years, let's jo, political climate, when it comes to us, china tensions has really, really shifted. the rest of course, has certainly concerns if it's are and in the us china relationship when it comes to investment controls when it comes to of course, things like that phone, it's time you can talk to chips of which taiwan is a really key manufacturer. and so i think when it comes to the us as perception of what the, the, the harmonies election, they're gonna want someone that is really going to be supporting the us position

when it comes to these tensions been trying to. now it's not necessarily the case of either of those policies will kind of go against what the us wants, but i think it's, it's fair to say that, you know, the us is one thing to it. and so maintain of fat, unusual position at the moment, given that, um, you know, really have a few months left now and much more can still happen when it comes to the selection that i also what the consensus of opinion in taiwan is. uh, is everybody united in the sense against the china and the behind the, the peace position about continuing to be a solver an island and standing up to be doings intimidation? a while i think on the whole, this harmonies public is in favor of, of a position that kind of boast as to why one's own strength themes of, in china. or of course, you know, the t p p has had and so position kind of made expressed in these opposition parties. i think that has been some concern among supporters of opposition policies

. it's, it's high ones approach to foreign relations and international engagement. for example, within us with the issue and of allies like japan has endangered tie one's position even further. but i think it's fair to say that, you know, regardless of which political policy that people support here in taiwan, that they want to see a government that's willing to stand up for tie one's interest in the face of growing aggression from the aging. and i think that is a consensus across the political spectrum that regardless of which policy is in power, whether it's the routing to continue come january or another opposition policy. that we're going to see. the same type of chinese kind of intimidates re tactics targets into what's tie. one of course, paging and signals, but it's not willing to give up on its promise to what it cools were unified, taiwan. so i think, you know, that is consensus within taiwan. but the government, which ever color which of the policy it is, has to be willing to stand up to the aging. now, we live with the, with the timing,

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