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. my name is melissa chant, thanks for joining us. taiwan holds presidential elections early next year in january. and the campaign for the top spot is becoming intense. whoever takes control, we'll have to manage an aggressive china, and that will have implications for peace and security for all asia. this was underscored in last week's a peck summit in san francisco. much of the focus was on us president joe biden's meeting with chinese leaders shooting pain. but taiwan is representative also met quietly with the american president and vice president, comma harris and secretary of state antony blinking. ty, ones on void, welcome to badging agreement to improve communications with the u. s. military. so i think that, um, uh its, i, i really think it was a good meeting. it was a good news that was a resumed the. the motors, are you coming to make changes?

and i think that uh, it should help to, to reduce the tension between the united states and the china. and it should increase the stability of taiwan straight back in taiwan, however, election drama suggests the possibility of rough waters ahead. when it comes to any new president who must deal with the china threat. days ago, the 2 opposition party candidates announced a joint ticket only to end up bickering over who would actually become president versus vice president if they one here's cohen yet, one of the candidates and his take on the matter is a village. and as i still think it's necessary for the main opposition parties to have an alliance, who will think of a way to find the strongest tickets when the elections decides that should be a goal. oh my god. so we still have to go when the go shooting with the guy empty,

but they should not ask us to concede outputs. so to get to get joining us as d, w 's, james taylor in type. hey james, can you tell us more about these 2 opposition? parties and who these 2 guys are so absolutely, well as we are, as we approach time, once presidential election judgement for january next to it, we really have a 3 or 4 main content as we have the, the routing costs of the d p p. but then we have 3 or position candidates to which are now looking to form an opposition unified ticket. the 1st of those is cohens. of the tie, one people's positive a t p. he's a former mayor of type a issues, thoughts, and this policy relatively recently in 2019. and he's looking to team up with the main kind of a stablished opposition policy, that woman dying. ok, mt, which is a, he's a policy with a very state history and tie one. the reason why they want to see mark is because

the monks now opinion pose have suggested the lighting, the, the routing policy, the defense high one, would really be cruising to evict chairs. they didn't form this united ticket. so the main goal in trying to team up is to unseat the morning policy, but they've really hits in the rocky ground when it comes to deciding how exactly they're going to do that we had this decision in the middle of last week where we had that it was likely that they were going to be able to kind of find a way to deciding who was going to be the presidential candidate and who was going to take the vice presidential candidates position. but now it looks like those negotiations have come, come on down, and it really looks kind of increasingly difficult how they're going to manage to find a way to, to find that common grow call common ground to say reach um a decision on how they're going to go forward now. so that's quite the campaign fiasco and i guess it doesn't entirely inspire confidence on how ready either man

are for the global diplomatic stage. is that somehow um, an issue for time when these voters is this how they're interpreting it? i absolutely what i think we are we've, we've had a lot of discussion entirely social media since these, these negotiations on the way about specifically how koans or went about those tools with the k m. c. so when he came out of, of this negotiation later this weekend on stuff. so he basically said that in future he's not going to go into migrations again with the can see on his own. and we saw these kind of negotiations take place with just for men, but some of the kind of meetings i guess from the opposition policy. and within taiwan, that's response. a lot of debate. we seen some senior listen to us really questioning whether he can be trusted to, you know, in the high stakes to a political situation where it's time when he is, he does have to engage with chinese need is whether he be able to kind of meet that child and, and come across as a convincing lead to the other question is really,

really coming into the for now is that we have this very acrimonious situation between the 22 opposition policies. and the question really is, even if they are able to form this joint, such a, it's whether they're going to be able to put those grievances aside. this has been a very sour, you know, process now about who is deciding who is going to be the presidential candidate and who's going to be the vice presidential candidate. if they, you know, enter a coalition government and they really going to be able to form that kind of harmonious government, that title and really needs it. faces is very complex to political situation. right . and meanwhile, we have the party of president typing one, the democratic progressive party, the d p. p. they already have a presidential candidate by i understand that they just announced their vice presidential pick. can you tell us more? absolutely, the one, the d. c. p, the routing policy ends high one has, has

a relatively uncomfortably smooth process and deciding who is going to be the candidates for president and vice president the incumbents. president's hiding when kind of run again, she's reached down to 5 times and it's the car and vice president lighting is in place to to be the presidential candidates. and today we have confirmation from the d. p. p. that's the current, the thoughts on boston, cindy us shelby. tim is going to be the vice presidential times that now together they form a pretty some valuable force because so as someone who's respect has no full laws in washington, she's been over there for about 3 or 4 years now. and is credited with brittany raising tie ones profile in the us. the, the point that counts against them though is it shall be, came to someone who phasing has already applied sanctions against. and so the question, you know, very much of some of the questions, what we see with the current administration is if they all, it's a win. and so our office is a joint. thank kids. how are they going to be able to ease the tensions that are

already a historically high levels when paging very quickly, now i'm off and the elections actually focused on the domestic stuff, not the international stuff. can you talk a little bit about that and what's happening in taiwan? it's absolutely, well, i mean, but with any threat line china, which is so big really, it is difficult to kind of tease out what's related to that issue. and it was sort of, kind of what other kind of domestic issues that people are focusing on. of course, the selection china is no going to be the only find to there are any issues that i want the economy is facing. and taiwan has very low birth rate, has serious demographic issues, housing issues. but it really has to be said that in some way, these issues that a presidential election is especially in some way or shade. and by this relationship that taiwan has with china, and that is why, you know, if you think that taiwan know any faces this military threat from,

from badging. but is it will sort of have this kind of largest trading and economic relationship with china as well. you get a sense of how difficult it really is to kind of tease out those questions and why the shadow of aging so large over time. we nice presidential elections always an interesting a time in time when, when it comes to elections, people having to decide when it comes to candidates. the international considerations, in addition to the domestic considerations, game shooter, thank you so much for joining us. on japan's home show island cormorant. fishing has been practiced for hundreds of years. the special scale requires using least birds to catch i you sweet fish. in our contemporary times. however, some people are questioning the method and whether it constitutes animal cruelty, but an even greater threat to them, the critics could be climate change in the darkness lives in

ancient japanese tradition, cormorants, fishing by firelight known as k, e. the sea birds are trained to hunt you sweet fish. a lease keeps the fish from going down their gullets, the or just and release the catch to their masters. here and mcgee, food prefect, are due to adoption, is one of the only $48.00 remaining. ok. the fisherman corner and fishing is a family trade pass down through the generations since 1890 by order of the imperial household. but a dodgy says in recent years, he's seen a foreboding shift in the river level. go to a minimum way, the cool fisherman and right here on the river working every day. so when it comes to changes in the river, we noticed the water level of coal street or the up and the change and the rocks in the river. in the past, the really big boulders,

but now the small sand and gravel have increased and the sweet fish have gotten smaller to the one that's my feeling that they are not so in that kind of just a feeling backed up by scientific research, environmental studies show that as the planet heats up, heavier rains and higher water temperature have followed. changing the rivers eco system came in as an old duncan, you, due to the holding of reason use major flooding has become much more likely. so the manages in charge of the river have relatively increased the pace. so river improvement works when you say, hey, i taught the volume, the sweet fish like to 8 l g. ok? that's attached to la drugs. but the rocks are being covered up with gravel and send you a lot of this you, most of the sweet fish con, get to them all know you want about someone that they can do. some of the less food means fewer and smaller fish and rough water can steer boats off course, especially bad for tourism. another money maker for kormoran fisher's local

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