position that you will only back for example a european people's candidate, a centre—right, if the dpparian party led by viktor 0rban from their grouping. is that a redline for you? i think you will understand that i am not going to discuss redlines here because that would make negotiations quite difficult but it is absolutely clear that we demand from the dpp that they take a clear choice on what they're going to do with the rule of law and a democracy. —— eep. it is clearfrom our perspective that if the eep is not going to be clear on that and wa nt to not going to be clear on that and want to be tough on maintaining the rule of law, we are not going to support any candidate of the epp. how they deal with viktor 0rban i will leave it to them but i will warn them that if we cut them out, it is all fine. we see in more country that the rule of law is under attack and it is also in romania where we have a social democrats in power, in the czech republic where we have liberals in power. it is across all parties. when we are doing negotiations, when it liberals or social democrats are at

hereby, i have a message for the dpp authorities and external forces. split china shall succeed. second, foreign intervention in the taiwan question is doomed to fail. china's typical message at the sorts of gatherings is always consistent. we are not the instigators of instability, but if you are going to pick a fight, we are not going to back down. this year though, china's message has been much stronger, raising concerns amongst men here that the friction between the well‘s two superpowers is only likely to grow. olly foster has all the sport. hello and thanks forjoining us. we saw one of the greatest shocks in the history of the heavweight division although former world champ anthonyjoshua has described his first professional defeat as a minor set back. he was beaten by andy ruinunior in new york. the mexican was a late replacement to facejoshua but knocked him down four times before the fight was stopped. a rematch is on the cards and joshua has vowed to get his three world titles back. ade adedoyin was at madison square garden. not many thought th

but that dpp coalition in the early 2020. and in january emphasizing to systems that was never popular in taiwan. and with that extradition and then another reminder to people in taiwan and with the electoral community. so i think they're probably in a better place. >> it would be hard to underestimate what substantial setback have been for president xi it's very easy for us to underestimate the impact talk to friends inside the us government several of them have been surprised and the american role there and i would say that what we are seeing that president xi decision to go to north korea isn't so much by president trump but as a way to usurp your stature you have to find someplace you can go. that's only place you can go that would accommodate that is north korea. it is entirely likely with a very substantial set of setback setbacks. >> but many hong kong people and is now hong kong area and 20 years ago and of those methods no change today hong kong and tomorrow taiwan. >>. >> and to forecast how it is conducting the pol

then everyone in taiwan says, you see, you can't trust beijing, you can't really -- so i think the dpp and the pangreen coalition in taiwan received two large political gifts this year in their electoral prospects for early 2020. and one was president xi jinping's speech in january of 2019 in which he emphasized one country/two systems at a record number of times in his speech which was never, as i said, popular, in taiwan, and seen by everyone as kind of unacceptable. then the second was the hong kong issue with the extradition, and i think that's another reminder to people in taiwan about the difficulties in reaching a settlement across the strait and it undercuts the position of those who want to have a more accommodating stance toward the mainland and the electoral campaign. so i think those are both gifts. i don't know how it's going to may out. there are so many candidates. i think president tsai is probably in a better place than sher she was before the two events by quite a large margin. >> i would agree with tom. it would be hard to underestimate what a substantial setback the