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stay after life are we are sitting, saving questions for the present future and heads filled with the ideas. so get ready for the brain update. 40 to the answer to almost everything this week on d, w. the basic videos, aisha coming up today, the philippines gets aggressive about its defense. if anything's in australia, i agree on a strategic partnership with an eye on counting china. but what does the pop that should do for manila? and what does it say about the philippines is why the plan to deal with china and how the junk food is contributing to a considerable rate of something among in the new shift children on

the ib to expand it. you're welcome to do the news. a sure glad you could join us. the philippines wants to forward to line says and modernize it's maybe to counter the threat of china in the south, tennessee, defense secretary, getting back to your daughter made the case for both on monday. he said, and i quote, we would carry it out to a comprehensive, re strategize ation along with foraging alliances. it's natural alliances on normally, even china has alliances. so we have to consider this. i'm giving them time to stop re horizon inc and rethinking modernization. that last part was particularly for the philippines, navy and coast guard, which finds itself outcomes and outmanned by china in the disputed waters of the south china sea. in recent weeks, for instance,

chinese coast guard troops have harassed and intimidated philippines boats on a resupply mission to an outpost and especially islands. it's these kinds of encounters that's pushing the philippines into formal alliances and partnerships. like the strategic partnership signed with australia just last week and many lot the hope is align so such as these and naval modernization. we prevent on the course shutdowns with china on the high seas. attempt stand off in the south china sea ships from the philippines and china have increasingly faced off as beijing assessed its dominance in the region. manila has sought to boast of support for each defense. its latest move, signing, a strategic partnership with the strategy a. and we also have that important security issues where we have common views about the need to uphold international law and astray.

his position on that will continue to be consistent. as we have all was vain including recently of issues relating to the south china sea and to have friends like you and partners like you in that, in that especially on that subject is a very gratifying and encourages us to continue down that path. so we thank you for that. china claim sovereignty over nearly all of the south china sea, cutting into territory that spain internationally recognized as part of all the countries, including the philippines. reported confrontations have been on the rise with the philippines accusing chinese vessels of illegal and dangerous maneuvers, including using wars, a cannon, and directing military grade lasers at phillip painter ships since taking

office president ferdinand macos junior has broken with previous government's policies and boasted defense ties with the united states, at the recent of the on summit in jakarta, macos held talks with the us vice president cumberland harris office said she had re affirmed the united states iron clad commitment to the philippines and the roles that their alliance plays in a free and open in the pacific or the u. s. has increased its military aid to the philippines, and the 2 states held the largest of a joint military drills earlier this year. exercises that included firing live rounds at sea for the 1st time. beijing has warned manila, that strengthening ties with washington risks dragging the philippines further into g or political strife and driving off a mo,

from manila is don mclean, gil electra. they're in the department of international studies at dallas. i should've acetate don. what that's the reason strategic partnership with australia do for manila. all right, 1st of all, thank you so much for having me british. it's a true pleasure to converse with you. and you know, we have to understand that the security partnership between the philippines and australia is actually longstanding. you know, it has been composed of a series of m, o use dating back from the late 19 ninety's. and in fact, one of the most crucial ones would be in the and in 2007, particularly in line with the, the s via phase. and of course, while to you, what well, the philippines, australia, a strategic partnership, or security partnership, often function based against the backdrop of the overall hub and spoke system in the western pacific. we can now see the willingness of both sides to work

independently, bilaterally. as a major pillar of the rules based order in the, in the pacific. and definitely we can see that both are like minded. both share, several converging interest towards maintaining stability, peace and inclusivity. and i believe that the philippines will be able to gain from this based on enhancing its defense cooperation in partnerships with like minded democratic countries. and of course the strategy it has a lot to provide as well in terms of technology transfers and possibly cooperation based on high tech. so we are looking into a multi faceted partnership that is also compatible with the philippines growing partnership with a us and japan. i did want to speak about that partnership because we've seen in recent months joint naval drills for the 1st time with the us, japan and australia. we've also seen a type thing of defense relationships with india and oldest in addition to the

philippines being a us security partner, security, outlier, all that. is that a danger that these alliances, these boxes shipped provo paging instead of keeping money low safe as well? you know, we have to understand that since the beginning of the marcus junior administration, you know, the ball was already passed and the out to china is court. but unfortunately, there is a huge disconnect between what china says at the political level and what it does on the ground. so of course, learning from our experiences in the past administration, that accommodation is not really the answer towards preserving and protecting philippine sovereignty. and so i've been right, so while we remain open, you know, diplomatic channels remain open engagements, remain open with china, given that it is our largest neighbor. we cannot just simply cut china off a, but still there is a willingness no already invited, great and willingness in manila to of course, secure it's a sovereignty. and so i've been rights and territorial integrity as the for most

interest. so what one is doing with his defense partner said military modernization is defensive in nature and not in any way aimed up provoking. but of course, safeguarding the status go. there's an economic dimension here as well, isn't that on? because china is one of the philippines as major trading pop knows, and in january and present, macos was in beijing for instance, more than $20000000.00 in investment. places were agreed to between both sides. how does monday get tough with an important trip pop? now, as well, you're absolutely right. trade has often been emphasized in terms of a challenge between the 2 countries. now we have to understand 2 particular things when it comes to pledges, you know, trying this ability to follow through efficiently. and transparency with this pledges are not really uh, you know, they, they don't get a good grade in terms of that because of the loopholes and the inconsistencies that

we have seen, even during the time of the former president, the philippine president who is quite a, you know friendly with b g, despite the continuous provocations. but now we could have another point if we have to take note of other than the pledges is that the philippines is largely inter defended with china in terms of import. okay, so the import is something that we need to look into. chinese import, the rather the philippine imports from china. the goal here is to nelson is that dependency and import. and the need to do that would be done, would have to be done very strategically with our partners through equitable f t a's. because re directing our import would also be dangerous, as it can also affect the social economic fabric of the philippines with the rising of prices and inflation. so the need to taper down on the dependency on a chinese products, and our imports from china would be crucial in lessening over dependency in terms

of economics and leave it there for the time being. but thanks so much for joining us to the don mclean, gil so thank you so much. my gosh. the indonesia has seen a mazda in the fall in the rates of childhood stunting, but more needs to be done. something the 1st of the condition when children are too small for that age, the mean causes are malnutrition and a poor diet. but in indonesia there is another reason as well. junk food, dw is proof that goes from level 3 reports. this, this assign me. he's almost 3, he may look healthy enough, but he suffers from a form of malnutrition. that's cost funding. the of the assign is that awesome a small for his age. he's just one of more than 70000 children and as most up and data prevents whose future is the fact that because they are stunted. this is part of a problem. max, i'm sure great drink sold at hawk installed. kids with parents don't seem to

understand things like this. don't have enough pretty to know. we're still growing body. nicholas, how does he have list every day? and the next day he one is more. it's hard when the soul is close because he cries and insisted on having more. he didn't really my leaving me no choice but to get it for him. like to work with the awesome is little because he was malnourished during what health workers call the crucial 1st 1000 days pregnancy until 2 years old a child was done that at this age may never be able to completely catch up. it's rare in those regions for child like i saw me to be seen by health professionals like this be by the way to reach people as via portion to cover as well into your community health workers. there 1500000 of them across indonesia. but it is thought only about 10 percent have any training dr. redone has model works for the n g o

1000 based on their trying to help or some overlap be kind of kind of push a new done. how do we provide comprehensive training to the pos young new countries in the hope of my presentation advising that role and indonesia? inside of the field, we envision a future with these countries, receive corporate training fair and seam, tubes, and job security, such as the team yet for 5 years after being trained and employed, they understand that in level, the ultimate goal is to significantly reduce the stunting, right but here on commode island, there is a long way to go or educating parents on how the children should develop as one thing, getting the kids to stop eating. joe, who may be more difficult. having lucy, mothers often take pass and spending socialization events. many of them inside the palace to change things that helps the kiosks make it difficult for us on me,

it's too late to live is live here and come with the island smaller and possibly sicker than his friends are. you is no at least armed with the understanding of how she might be any future children. and that does have the photo. there it is. most of it is from the region on our website. and is that where you can follow us on facebook and twitter? now known as ex, tomorrow, by the ego after con, fast growing and very verses tile. as on the in the classics, the noise might start forming. when mohammed i'm doing tell, i've learned about a zillow, he knew immediately. this could be a game changer for pharma struggling with expensive impulses. unable to the co

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