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current use events, analyzed by experts and critical thing is not just another new. so weekdays on dw, the basic videos, aisha coming up today the philippines gets aggressive about its defense. so if anything's in australia, i agree on a strategic partnership with an eye on counting china. but what does the boston 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, the,

the i'm british manager. welcome to the the news. a sure glad you can join us. the philippines wants to forward to lines and modernize it's maybe to counter the threat of china and the south china sea defense, our country 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 and rethinking modernization. that last part was particularly for different opinions, 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 in manila, the hope is align so such as these a naval modernization where you prevent on the quote show downs 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 its 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 that to have friends like you and partners like you in that then that's why, especially on that subject, is a very gratifying and encourages us to continue down that path. so we thank you for that. china claims 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, camilla 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 and the department of international studies at della solid university.

don. what does the recent strategic partnership with australia do for manila? 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 astrology, a strategic partnership, or security partnership, often function based against the backdrop of the overall hub and spoke system in the western pacific. we could now see the willingness of both sides to work independently by laterally as a major pillar of the rules based order in the,

in the pacific. and, well, 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 uh, based on enhancing its defense cooperation and 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 in japan. i did want to speak about that partnership because we have seen in recent months, joints 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 all this in addition to the philippines being a us security bought the security outlier. all of that. is there

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 and to pass administration that accommodation is not really the answer towards preserving and protecting flipping 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 know where to invite 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 this defense partner said military

modernization is defensive in nature and not in any way aimed up provoking. but of course, safeguarding the status cool. 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 $20000000000.00 in investment places where i agreed to between both sides . how does money, i get tough with an important trait, but 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, another point 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 imports 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 it lessening over dependency in terms of economics and leave it there for the time being. but thanks

so much for joining us today. don mclean, google. so thank you so much. we rush the indonesia, i've seen a mazda in the phone and the rates of childhood stunting, but more needs to be done. now something are, 1st of the condition when children are too small for that age, the mean causes are metal depression and a poor diet. but in indonesia there is another reason as well. chunk food, dw street that goes on level 3 reports. this is also, i mean he's almost 3. he may look healthy enough, but he suffers from a form of malnutrition. that's ca, stunting. the of the assign is that awesome a small for his age. he's just one of more than 70000 children and is most up and data prevents whose future is the fact that because they are stunted. this is part of a problem. next, i'm sure great drink sold at hawk installed kids. my good parents don't seem to

understand things like this. don't have enough pretty to know. we're still growing . buddy nicholas paddy's, he had to do this every day and the next day he was more it's hard when the soul is close because he cries and insisted on having more. he had even my leaving me no choice, but to get it for him like to what the, what 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 the way to reach people via pushed on 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 baseline. they're trying to help of some overlap be kind of got us push a new done. how do we provide comprehensive training to the pos young? do countries in the hope of my presentation advising that role and indonesia inside of the field? we envision a future with these countries are see profit training fair and seem tubes and job security, such as the team yet for 5 years after being trained and deployed and guided and leveled, the ultimate goal is to significantly reduce the stunting, right? but here on, come with the island, there is a long way to go of educating parents on how the children should develop as one thing, getting the kids to stop eating junk food may be more difficult. i mean, those mothers often take pass and spending socialization. events, many of them inside the palace to change things that helps a k o 6, 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 it for today. it is most orders from the region on our website. and is that where you can follow us on facebook and twitter now known as ex, let's see, tomorrow, the by the, the dream of the family home. these ideals a life muscle to investigate the planet, to get owns on the, to that optimizing living situations. not maximizing square made as you did with asked me to think sustainably live differently. all cities saving the route 40 to the so to almost everything next

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