the nationalist kmt party.act, one of the former leaders of the kmt recently travelled for a ten—day visit to china where the red carpet was rolled out for him. so, this is all happening against the backdrop of an upcoming presidential campaign. tsai ing—wen won't be running again, but her party certainly will. so a lot of the language that's coming out around these drills is also looking forward to what's going to be happening injanuary. but if you look on social media, people in taiwan are alarmed, they're not happy about this, but life is continuing as normal. we sort of have to take what's being released about these drills with a little bit of a grain of salt. celia hatton, our asi pacific regional editor. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. there are people, both young and old, who simply do not know that people of colour fought and died alongside their british counterparts in both world wars. a large crowd gathered to remember a generation who crossed oceans to help britain during world

huge win for sai and her party, the dpp after they lost the local elections to a another party, the kmt, which is viewed to be pro beijing, in fact, incidentally, the former president of taiwan and kmt official mayan joe. he was invited by china during signing one's time that she's transiting through the united states. because because china is hoping that in the presidential elections size party will lose, which is very much moving towards the united states. and this other party that can t could win, which might bring beijing closer government that they feel that they can work with, even though even the kmt cannot support what she jinping has stated is inevitable, which is that china will someday control this island. you know, they talk about hong kong, one country, two systems. people in taiwan watched what happened in hong kong and a growing number of people. certainly young people here not only don't identify as chinese, but are absolutely unwilling to accept a chinese takeover without a fight , and that's why people are taking self defense classes and they've expanded the military c

so china is going to try to remind voters in taiwan of the benefits of voting for the kmt and obviously the president feels differently. january is only nine months away. >> thank you for being here >> i might add one other quick thing. president ma was the first present, present or past i think to visit mainland china since 1949 he was there last week and talking about a peace initiative clearly as you just heard from michael we have a strong competition between the two and it will be interesting to see where it goes. >> thank you very much >> i heard you in a brilliant interview about ukraine among other things and maybe next time we can get to that. >> thank you >>> shares of tesla falling today though the company reported record deliveries phil lebeau joins us now why is that, phil? >> you're looking at a stock that has run up what, 80, 85% over the last three to four months it is under some pressure here i think largely because people are waiting for the q1 results we'll talk about that in a bit today is also when we got q1 results for really almost all of the major auto makers. wh

january, the side presidential election injanuary, the side that beijing wants to win as the nationalist kmtnning for office again, but her party will certainly be a contender and china is thinking ahead to those elections and really what they want is to voice their anger, which is what they have done. relations between china and the us certainly are not very rosy right now. but i don't think that things are getting measurably worse. in fact, i think china will be holding its breath a little bit untiljanuary. little bit until january. interesting. little bit untiljanuary. interesting. thanks so much for that. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. people call me toad girl around here. they usually see me out and about at night. i guess they think i'm a bit weird for doing it, but i think they're awesome creatures. each year, the toads will follow an ancestral route to their breeding ponds, and they won't deviate from that, even if there's a housing estate or roads, so hundreds get squashed every day. we're in the area where all the toad crossing signs are that i asked the coun

he means that beijing could influence taiwan politics through relationships they're making with the kmt through disinformation that is perpetuated online, specifically through social media. ashley: yeah. which we see so much these days. another one for you though, lauren this is interesting, a little disturbing i guess, what is france's president emannuel macron saying about europe's dependence on the u.s. dollar? lauren: he thinks europe should lower their dependence on the dollar. this is part of softening ties to the united states. it is disturbing as you say, ashley, feels like reordering of the world order away from america. so first macron is meeting with chinese president xi. then he says he doesn't want europe to follow us toward war with taiwan potentially and now cut dependence on the u.s. dollar which is the dominant currency in foreign exchange. but yet france and europe depends on our dollars to help them fight the war in ukraine. so it is insulting quite honestly. ashley: yes. do it at your own peril. that is what i say. lauren, thank you very much. interesting stuff. >>>

it is clear chinese communist party would prefer kmt win president party lose this is a form of cognitive warfare a phrase president uses repeatedly talked about that to us the delegation that mote her in california important we should not be intimidated they've done a few exercises around taiwan threatened to board shipping vessels bound for taiwan would amount to vivek block aide all intimidation tactic designed to make us afraid and get us to back down, and, who the xhg democratic elected lead of taiwan meets on american so i will no business of the chinese communist party. >> you have identified so much, in terms of provocation from communist china doing a great job people have confidence that you are going to move the needle here. what about corporate america being i know you've been meeting with ceos, do you he believe scores of millions of american a retail investors should be funding some 5,000 ccp controlled companies traded in our capital markets, including egregious corporate human rights abusers? we know companies are in all of the indices, investors are inadvertently funding

they probably aren't going to win in 2024 and largely because the kmt which is the pro-china party, ishinese. and this is going to be the central issue in the campaign. so i think china is not going to get the candidate it wants in the election. that means it's going to ramp up the activity and taiwan is not prepared. maria: yeah. and then they sanctioned mike mccall when he came back from his trip, saying that he created a serious violation of china's sovereignty by going and meeting with the officials in taiwan. then china then condemned the united states, they're doing that this morning, for the u.s. imposing sanctions over fentanyl trade. the treasury department announced they were sanctioning two companies based in china and four chinese nationals, they did this on friday, accusing them of supplying the precursor chemicals to drug car he'll the in mention -- cartels in mexico for the production of fentanyl and we know that's true. we heard this from two administrations, from the biden administration and the trump administration. merrick garland told us all about it last week that

to gain a nomination for the pardon, kmt. another hopeful is a taipei city mayor.ditors will be keeping a close eye on -- candidates we will be keeping a close eye on. haidi: cindy wang, our bloomberg breaking news editor. coming up next,, we will be discussing web3 developments and the outlook for crypto here in asia. this is bloomberg. ♪ haidi: the imf says china is leading the global economic rebound, and even compensating. for slowing growth in the u.s. and europe. we spoke to the asia and pacific department director at the imf, earlier on daybreak, about the outlook for the region. >> we have 4.6% this year. that is largely driven by what is happening to emerging markets in asia led by china, where we have a great forecast from 4.4% in october to 5.2 percent in 2023. that is the big change in the numbers. kathleen: what is the change in the monumental's? krishna fish in the fundamentals, we had a slowdown earlier. now we have china rebounding faster than anticipated. both mobility and consumption are expected to go faster than expected in october of last year,