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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 will 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 ty, ones representative also met quietly with the american president and vice president campbell harris and secretary of state anthony blinking taiwanda and voice. welcome to the aging agreement to improve communications with the us military or so i think that, um, uh, it's a, i really think it was a good meeting. it was a good news that the, as a resumed the, the motors, are you coming to cajuns?

and i think that 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 co and 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 ticket to win the elections. besides, that should be a goal or match, so we still have to go into go sharing with the guy empty. but they should not ask

us to concede efforts to get to get home. joining us as d, w 's, james tater 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 year, and 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 koans of the tie, one people's party, the t p p. he's a former mayor of typeface use starts 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 team off is because

for months now, opinion pauses have suggested the lighting, the, the routing policy to defend taiwan 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 a 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 men

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 went 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 site. so he basically said that in future, he's not going to go into negotiations again with the can see on his own. and we saw these kind of negotiations take place with just full members, 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 a high stakes to a political situation which time when he is, he does have to engage with chinese need is whether he be able to kind of meet that target 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 as 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? it's absolutely the one, the d, c p, the routing policy ends high one has,

has a relatively calm for the 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 end of head time limits. 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's in the us. shelby, tim is going to be the vice presidential times that now together they form a pretty some biddable force because so as someone who's respect has no full laws in washington, and she's been over that for about 3 or 4 years now and is credited with brittany raising tie ones profile in the us. 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 also went on to enter office as 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? 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, 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 apply with economy is facing. and taiwan has very low bus where you have serious demographic issues, housing issues. but it really has to be said that in some way, these issues are presidential elections, 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 need the 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. cormorant fishing by fire, light known as k. e. the sea birds are trained to hunt. are you sweet fish? a lease keeps the fish from going down there. gullets the or just and release the catch to their masters here in the queue. food prefect, her to be true that she is one of the only $48.00 remaining. ok. the fishermen corner and fishing is a family trade pass down through the generations since 1890 by order of the imperial household. but a dot t 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 cools crude or the changing the rocks and 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 from 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 managers in charge of the river have rapidly increased the pace or river improvement works. when you say, hey, it's got 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, incense, new water fishing, most of the sweet fish con, get to them. no, you want about someone that takes the some of the less food means fewer and smaller fish and rough water can steer boats. of course, especially bad for tourism. another money maker for cormorant fissures,

the local authorities have come up with a mound, means solution, a viewing platform to recreate the boat experience. well, they've got the can you up and i don't know kind of kind of reality. there was already a style of viewing, we'll call you from the show that eh, with visitors would sit on the banks of the river. i think, you know, a lot a lot. so you, but starting with the construction of these viewing dick lot, 4 years ago to hold on that, i mean we wanted to offer a more refined, a high quality experience and experience. however, that with the changing times and changing climate may be headed for the history books of the and that is also the program you can find, hold on the w social media channels. thank you for watching and you'll see you

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