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residents typically welcome cross trace exchanges but sandra has crossed the line joining us is steve tang director of the china institute at so us the school of oriental and african studies in london steve this small island affair seems like a small matter for an outsider who might not follow the ins and outs of taiwan china relations why is this important it is important because it is a new park. in the park the chinese government respected that it must rule and cumin and are territories under taiwan's control and therefore they will not go and direct descend from the from those islands now under siege in pain a policy has change which is that all these are now defined simply us chinese territory and therefore there's no reason why the chinese government should not simply allow old chinese merchants and others to extract whatever they want to extract from chinese stop and territory is a very powerful message to type a that things are changing and taiwan should take the message ok so they're dredging the sand what's the worst thing that can happen here. well it does cause a bit of a probl