yeah, because taiwan is a small country, and taipei is the capital, so everything happens in taipei is not local. for example, what our mayor says will influence the people's thoughts, nation-wide, so i think it is very important at the taipei municipal level to stop the chinese influence. let's not forget that, officially, taiwan is a province of mainland china, a giant political force that has a complicated relationship with democracy. i think i believe in democracy because of the common ground for us to stand together and fight with china. we fought for democracy for a very long time, and especially the younger generations, because i was born in 1987, and so for the young generation like me, freedom, democracy and human rights are essentials for our lives, and we will unite across gender, across race, and anything. that is what we hope. the fight for freedom, for democracy and human rights is essential. but it's not just about big questions like same sex marriage and gender equality. it's also about the small things that make a place livable, and that make a city fit for its people.

as you sit in taipei, if you could look at your crystal ball and tell us what you think the taipei-beijing-washington relationship looks like in five years, what does your crystal ball tell you? minister wu: the most unfortunate thing is, i don't have that crystal ball. if i look at closer relations between taiwan and the united states are relations between the u.s. and china, the trajectory is clear. we don't see any hope of relaxation of tensions between taiwan and china. the reason is clear. china has the intention to take over taiwan militarily and they seem to be more confident of their capabilities. and we now have strong support from the international community, and without the ability of taiwan to defend itself, it is going to be very hard to prevent china from thinking about using military force against taiwan. in that regard, we continue to look forward to u.s. support for taiwan, either providing defensive articles or engaging with each other so taiwan knows more about how to defend itself. we also need international community support for taiwan. for example, the major summits the u.s. has

cos everybody else in europe still uses this weird diplomatic formulation, office of taipei.nd to just say outright, "it's the office of taiwan." it's the office of taiwanese... taiwanese people. maybe we are drawing some inspiration from the agreement that was signed between the prc and the united states in 1979, which said that the people of the united states can have cultural and economic relations with the people of taiwan. so, for us, that taiwanese representation means exactly that, and we are we are upset that, you know, the country like prc is upset about that. well, are you upset also that you misread the scale of the chinese reaction? cos your own deputy foreign minister, mradomenas, has said china has responded not only bilaterally with all of the trade sanctions that they've placed on lithuania, but they've also imposed de facto sanctions on the eu single market by targeting any other businesses across europe that have lithuanian sort of components as part of their products that they're trying to sell to china. so, you've created a big problem for other people in

ok, so some harm in taipei for us. thank you very much. away from the crisis in ukraine now and to a story that brings together 2 of the big innovations of the 21st century. so far, electric vehicles and 3 d printing the shift away from petrol and diesel means as already a major effort underway to boost your car, battery production capacity and manufacturers a finding innovative ways to produce them. e mobility is on the rise and not just for passenger cars. the orton company near to the air converts diesel van c e drive vehicles. the family business with $150.00 employees is a factory, each conversion, a unique piece. one of the most important components is the battery, the cabinets and his colleagues have to buy all their battery cells in china. that's becoming increasingly expensive, but it is an operating phone battery, so prices in the current economic climate have increased. it's become more extreme now because the transportation costs for battery cells have increased 6 fold for extreme. go walk the commercial ve

they can be at the games under the banner of chinese taipei and the delegation from the chinese taipei had said that they wouldn't attend the opening or closing ceremonies. now they've now been told by the i see that their participation is required. but you know, for these kind of things to be making, the headlines obviously distracts from the games. and of course, it's inconvenient for china. it's not what they hope people would really be talking about. and a few words tom, what can fans expect from beijing? 2020 tale in 4, in terms obviously plenty of highlights. now, one of the things that a lot of people are looking forward to is the bobsled, because we will see the return of jamaican book sitting team to back competition after 24 years of absence from the games. we've also heard great things about that track. it's brand new, supposed to be very interesting, very long, lots of interesting corners and things. so that's something to look out for that starts thursday next week. curling of course. and i can explore the winter games that's actually began today the 1st preliminary rounds

local state media was calling it by a subtle difference, calling it china's taipei.t highlights again because of the diplomatic boycott led by the united states over the uighur situation, the political undertones that is going on and china even a knowledge that one of the torchbearers who li fted the cauldron was a uigher athlete. haidi: we have the fire to contend with. the olympics closed loop containing the virus? >> it is sticking to the dynamic zero covid approach and that dynamic approach is to lock down. there is another city in its was in china, 4 million people as of yesterday under lockdown and they are doing mass testing. that is completely outside of the closed loop and olympic bubble. within the bubble they found another 10 cases that they reported yesterday. that is in addition to the 45 or so that was found on the opening day on friday. a total of about 263 infections has been found within the closed loop. you can say it is successful or futile. china is keeping all of its athletes within the closed loop transportation, and the venues. i have spoken to

and he joined me now from taipei. mr. song, how real is the fear of a chinese invasion. ready or attack in taiwan? well, i think while people do take the possibility of a military confrontation with china seriously, i think over time people have been simply ling under the possibility or the shadow of a chinese military confrontation scenario for easily over a quarter century. by now, so i think over time people just begin to try to tune it out and leave their lives for the most part. and i think for the general public that the sense they have, obviously for the gum and leaders and those why in the military they do, they are being a lot more proactive in terms of finding out are ways to improve the capacity and mitigate risk of confrontation. with china, speaking of the responsibility really, i mean we look at military modernization that i want is undertaking. i wonder if that is the corner stone of taiwan strategy to counter the threat from china? yes, i mean i've entire one's strategy towards managing military threats on china are essentially 2 pronged. you can talk abo

keeping the territory on the path to economic recovery didn't correspond at so dong han joins me from taipei. so let's start with the situation in hong kong. the city was falling, mainland china, 0 covey plan, but it now appears overwhelmed. how have things gotten so dramatic or the 1st reason is on the chrome, hong kong, as an important international transportation hub may be able to prevent other strains of the virus, but not infectious on chrome. the increase in congregate activities do in chinese, new year was also an important factor in the major outbreak. another obstacle is the city's destination rate, which is low compare with many developed countries, only 70 percent of residents are fully resonated and less than half all the elderly in hong kong of is needed. we know hong kong now follows the 0 covey policy emission for 1000000 china. but it's more difficult for hong kong to carry out close that management. these are the difficult situation that hong kong has to face those comments from she ging pin coming after hong kong chief executive kerry. lamb recently said, quote, we have no

changed its recognition from -- of china from taipei to beijing. host: ok. comment from reuters -- i want to read a little bit of that to you and have you respond to it. guest: please do. host: with china knocking russia earlier this week in a united nations security council debate on ukraine called by the united states, both nations appear to see the gains of the opportunity to signal their increasing cooperation in the face of western states and other adversaries. many of whose diplomats are boycotting the games. with china making its ambition to bring taiwan back under beijing's control under 2020 increasingly clear and fears on the rise, china could benefit from close cooperation with russia, making it harder for it to be starved of energy. what is the relationship between russia and china now? guest: this is a very important question. i am glad you raised it. this week's marks -- week marks a new high in china russian relations. she thinking and vladimir putin just held a sum as the winter olympics were beginning in beijing. this was notable because it

joining us, will ripley in taipei. will, the symbolism of that a very symbolic and political move. you make of it? >> it's interesting because some people may have thought ahead of time, they keep those who kear the olympic flame into the bird's nest, that's secret to the last moment. but to have a uighur athlete who is a cross-country skier from the facilities that call determent centers, re-education indication centers, but china says it's for vocational training to give people time to integrate back into society. but to have a muslim into the most prominent position knowing it would bring up a topic is a message from china to say back off, to not lecture china about human rights. they continue to insist what they're doing is offering minorities an opportunity to be a part of the greater society, as opposed to those critics, including the united states who say they're trying to erase their cultures. >> all right. thanks so much, will ripley in taipei. >>> well, france's president is expected to speak in the coming hours to the british prime minister ahead of monday. emmanuel macr

instead of chinese taipei, imposing its sovereignty over the islands.used a dove symbolizing a tie with taiwan on bold display to the world. whether the westerns are watching. no olympics has been followed this keenly, china for much of the political messaging is at home. and, jamie, china has repeatedly blasted the u.s. for politicizing these games. it's really tough to argue that there was any bigger chief political statement made than at the opening statement a week ago, president xi welcoming his good friend, president putin, two strong leaders calling it at new era, that russian factor, jake, more evident than ever before. >>> also in china, in our sports, the fate of 15-year-old figure skater kamila valiyeva hangs in the balance after it was revealed she failed a doping test. it came to light after she helped russia win gold earlier this week in the figure skating events. her ability to receive that gold medal and compete in the rest of the games will be held in an urgent hearing in the court of arbitration for sport. they are pushing for her susp

or what happens in taipei because a course the chinese are also watching how this transpires becausend veto the freedom of kyiv and ukraine, then that gives them the pretext for doing what they would like to do over taipei as well. >> trace: when you're brought up a good point. who put russia in charge of policing this region or the world, and at what point does the world push back? right now, we have seen ten years of aggression aimed right at crimea and ukraine, as these breakaway regions ten years with almost zero consequences. at some point, you wonder when does the world push back? >> i think we are seeing it in the last two years we have seen a gradual awakening to the china threat in europe. that was a little bit on the cheek. that's what they deal with the 5g plans agreement you make with china. if they're not awoken to the very real military danger at their doorstep, i don't know what will. the country and the world, the united states has been sleepwalking through a very dangerously changed security world for the last decade and i think everybody now is shocked and hopefully

for example, 2 couples whose love crosses borders to w's joyce lee report from taipei. it has been over 700 days since iran then, and has singaporean boyfriend more as last met in person. she can't afford to leave taiwan because of the strange quarantine ruse when she returns home. and morris can't come to the island because the body is closed. 2 years apart have been hot on a couple days ago that we can only see each other on the screen whenever i see couples on the street. and i feel very sad because my boyfriend can't be around at home at home. and i will play at 1st, we thought the border would be closed for 6 to 12 months. longer than that, it's already been 2 years. and taiwan is still under tight covey rules like that. and how long under the sierra covert policy, taiwan has kept a sport as seo to since the beginning of the pandemic. all forms of terrorism are banned and transmitting to another country through taiwan is suspended. only residents are allowed to enter the island. every one must quarantine for 2 weeks and south isolate for another 7 days despite bein

the name taiwanese stopping many countries taiwan's representative offices under the name chinese taipei claims taiwan as part of its territory, even though the island sees itself as a self governed democratic state. since then, relations have soured. china denies imposing trade bands, putting the blocking of goods down to a lack of documentation. now only a small part of lithuania's exports go to china, around 1%-2% of exports go to china, around 1%—2% of the baltic state's goods. so even a complete halt to trade would only have a minor impact on lithuania's economy. lithuania's parameter has even said exporters already found new markets, but there could be trouble ahead. lithuania is not dependent on china but it depends on german and french companies that produces some components in lithuania so china decided because it was very difficult for china to hit lithuania because of their very shallow economic operation, so try to let's say except bigger players, german, french companies, to compel lithuania to change their policy towards china. ., , to change their policy towards china. . ,

so taipei has a hiv 18 degrees, once again, snow showers for western areas of honshu and ohio, but a sunny day in tokyo levin degrees on thursday. see you later. ah, there was a time when the aka wango river flowed summer enough to sustain life in the northern calahan deserts all year round. but that's changing. we one or 3 men in different parts of the alcove and go down. they faced drought wild animals and manmade threat in the constant fight with survival risk in it all. but swan in elgin oh, the me. hello again. the top stories on al jazeera, the sour gunman in the democratic republic of congo, have killed at least 72 people in the eastern province of re fighters in the cooperative for the development of the congo known as critical are suspected of carrying out the attack. getting sounds president tomorrow, and bala says he survived in attempting to author gunman attack the government policy on tuesday. the president says the situation is now under control. russia president has accused the west of trying to lower him into war with ukraine. vladimir putin says he wants to resolve

there were concerns about her welfare and of course tie one will be competing as the as chinese, taipei at these games. it's another matter of controversy and political dispute because they were ordered to attend the opening and closing ceremonies after previously having said that, they were going to stay away. so plenty of political. yeah, great, contention, distracting from the sports themselves. we can't, we can't forget to talk about the sports. so what else we can expect from these games yet will of course, do plenty of sporting highlights. now it's a slightly slim a program, obviously than a summer games, but still a lot to look forward to a, one of the most hotly awaited appearances will be from the jamaica. bob said team who are competing at their 1st winter games in 24 years. they've been training in the u. k. in both in part by pushing cause around in car box. there. the games and 3 books events for the 1st time ever. that starts thursday next week. there are also new events such as the sky, big air, which is a mainstay of the x games at the olympics for the 1st time and codin

is starting to pull away and it's going to slam right into northern areas of taiwan that includes taipei with a hive. 18 degrees on thursday. see effect snell once again for western areas of japan. this includes a honju and whole kado sunshine, though, for tokyo on thursday, with a high of 11 degrees looking pretty good. fletcher update, susan, ah, chilling the debate. the eraser of like, people from the american and global story was very powerful on online. you'll voice, my question is right for joining our conversation. we had unprotected when everyone is protected. it is not by being nationalistic about us. you just look at it in a very different way. said that perspective men and men meeting each other and they don't have any solution. let me put it clear for you listerine. on al jazeera lou, the me hello watching i, which is 0. i'm emily anglin, or reminder of our top story. the sound gunman in democratic republic of congo have killed at least 72 people in a cab. the internally displaced thought is from the group known as cortico suspected to be behind the right in the eastern provi

but more sun though, for hong kong, those showers are still over taiwan, taipei has a hive. 16 degrees of to japan. we go this still still falling. we've got the right wind direction off the sea of japan. so that's pauline up for western honju and her cato. meantime tokyo's got a high of 9 degrees on friday. that's it for me to soon take her. oh, with sponsored by casara ways. this feels like the presentation of who i am and what i want people to remember me by boxing, is my get out to is, is not a human just mark against the people around like got to when i'm chatted a story about my life and it's going to take 50 future to do a don't so bad with can you let you deep award winning documentary witness on out his era? ah, the me hello. watching al jazeera, i'm emily angry. reminder of our top stories this our, you as president joe biden says, deleda of iso has been killed in a ride in northern syria. special forces conducted the operation in italy, province by them said the leader blew himself off in an active, desperate cowardice. at least 13 people, including children side and the int

they're competing under the name chinese taipei. she wasn't even asked the question herself, and then she jumped in by saying that is only one. china in the world. taiwan is an undivided will parts of china. so really following china is that one china line. and then there was another question about alleged force labor of weak as in jang province, and she called that lies and false information. now, of course, all this kind of flies in the face of the eye sees hope to keep the olympics politically neutral. indeed, the i see is kind of used that as cover to avoid talking about such things that miss set, yan really blew that out of the water to day. and the interesting thing was, it was all on prompt it. she didn't need to say it and you know, far from trying to keep these things quiet is now a blown out into the open. it's kind of a, an own goal. some people are saying, rudy. and so from one controversy to the next, will we see the final chapter of the camila value of us saga today. it wouldn't be the final chapter, but it's certainly

he is said to have accepted an invitation from type a based prospect -- type a -- taipei based prospect rendition. pompeii was a vocal advocate for a hawkish china policy. hong kong is expected to unveil a budget headed further into the red. the covid spike has pushed authorities to implement tough social distancing and travel measures which economists predict will leave a heavy toll on growth. hong kong financial secretary paul chad is expected to dry up the government budget to its fourth fiscal deficit in a year. the announcement expected wednesday. the japanese prime minister says benefits of growth don't belong to a limited group and should go to more stakeholders. he was questioning policies that some say are negative for stock prices are the premier has talked about a shift from shareholder focus and a bid to expand the middle class. he says capitalism must be something that belongs to all. global news 24 hours a day on air and on bloomberg quicktake, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. i'm paul allen. this is bloomberg. kathleen: still ahead

cnn's will ripley joins me live from taipei, taiwan. let's start with the gold medal count. some surprises, probably the biggest one china. >> reporter: yeah, you know, china had its best winter olympics in history, kim. they had a total of nine gold medals, one more than the united states, putting them above the u.s. on the leaderboard. that is certainly noteworthy for the winter games. an olympics that china invested in very heavily, both in training its winter olympians, also some pure costs of hosting this event. almost $9 billion, making it really hugely expensive winter games, even though they promised it would be cost-effective. they refurbished old venues. while they were trying to showcase china's power, and from the chinese perspective they certainly did that. it was a resounding success. not just the medals, but also there were no major embarrassing moments even though press conferences were peppered with questions about china's human rights record, whether in shen jang or its treatment of activists in hong kong or the treatment of the island of taiwan or question

the leader of the global times, the paper controlled by the country, welcome team chinese taipei, notg ceremony. get used to it is what they're saying. for putin's part, he's looking to china to help deal with the u.s. and possible sanctions. he's now secured a new contract to supply 100 million tons of oil to china. oil is russia's biggest import. it would be the crucial target for u.s. sanctions. matthew chance is live "out front." as this meeting happens, what are you hearing from ukrainian officials as they see putin get the very clear backing from president xi, both financially and, you know, the implication is perhaps in other ways as well? >> reporter: yeah. diplomatically, for instance. there was a whole lot of agreement between president xi and president putin about how nato should not expand and specifically that ukraine should never be allowed to join the western military alliance. yeah, i imagine the ukrainian officials were watching that meeting, playing out in front of them with some degree of horror. they tried to get on earlier this evening and officials told me that t

cnn's will ripley joins me now from taipei, taiwan. so will, china views these games as a resounding success, but how do the u.s. and the western world see it? >> yeah, it's interesting how polarizing these olympics really are. because from the chinese perspective, they beat the u.s. in terms of the gold medal count, which is highly significant for a winter games. more medals won by china than any other winter olympics in their history. also, there was no major embarrassment. you know, the peng hsueh tense player saga that led up to the games, there was never any major -- aside from questions at press conferences, peng hsueh gave an interview, it was a very carefully controlled interview, she announced her retirement. everything went, from the chinese perspective, according to plan. they denied human rights abuses, they denied suppression of free speech, they denied running re-education camps for uighurs and the whole long list of questions that reporters want to ask china, but couldn't actually explore these topics, because they were

let's go to will rippley live in taipei. i want to go back to the inclusion of the uyghur athlete in the ceremony. what do you make of it? >> reporter: well, analysts are saying this is a message from china to the united states in reaction to its diplomatic boycott largely due what the u.s. calls genocide of the uyghur where the chinese have setup what they call vocational training camps. the u.s. has called it genocide, china denies that saying this is fight against terrorism and also giving people an opportunity to integrate into chinese society. nonetheless, china is not avoiding the issue. they put a cross-country skier from there on there. >> thanks so much, will. now we're going to go to andy scholes. we've seen the first medal handed out a short time ago. take us through the highlights. >> in the last hour the first medals of the beijing games have been handed out, and cross-country skiing in norway picking up right where they left off taking the first gold. winning by a wide margin. austria the bronze. she was suspen

let's go to cnn's will ripley live in taipei. how are they reacting giving their reaction to china?ance into the region. there is a nervous energy here in taiwan that you could take advantage of the crisis in ukraine, to put more pressure on this self-governing island. president tsai said taiwan is empty for the military threat they face. even though taiwan says the situation here and ukraine are fundamentally different, there are some parallels. for example, china's government said that this action that we're seeing in ukraine is actually a consequence of the u.s. and its allies pushing power to the brink. what does china say about taiwan? they blame the united states for pushing the red line closer to and closer when they sell billions of dollars of weapons, have lawmakers fly in on military planes. china could use similar issues like we're seeing russia move in. laura, it's not going to happen any time soon. there isn't any military activity unusual happening in this region. >> thank you so much. appreciate your reporting. >>> president biden laid out what he called the first tra

cnn's will ripley joins me now live from taipei, taiwan.views these games as a resounding success, but how do the u.s. and western countries see it? >> kim, tehese games are like a microchasm of the authoritarian and democracy clash. and the ideological clash. because from china's perspective, these games were fantastic. they say 2 billion viewers worldwide have tuned in, making it the most watched winter olympics in history, according to the chinese government. in the united states, by the way, ratings were down more than 50%. chun felt that it was a huge success. their olympic bubble, this closed loop that effectively prevented covid from either leaving the loop or coming in. so, of course, at the expense of all of the enjoyment and fun, basically, for athletes and participants of the games, because they had to stay within this closed loop. they could not venture out anywhere in china outside of this highly guarded perimeter. so the authoritarian view, hey, you know, for the greater good, we guarded covid from the country. but from the in

of very political messages with their state tv announcers calling the self-governed taiwan china taipeilying beijing's sovereignty over the island. and then selecting a uyghur athlete to be a torch barrier at a time when the u.s. aaccusing china of committing genocide against uyghurs and then putin being xi's most important vip guest probably as a reflection of that when the russians walked out for the athlete parade, i heard a lot of chinese audience cheering but when the americans walked out it was quiet with a chinese spectator next to me just commenting out loud, the americans are always so arrogant. so it seems like it is difficult to separate politics from sports at these games. >> steve jang, thank you for all of that. with us now, we have cnn political analyst david sanger, he's a correspondent for "the new york times" and yosh rogan, a columnist for "the washington post." great to see both of you. this president xi and putin, i mean optically, them standing shoulder to shoulder and then they announced this strategic partnership and close friendship i think might have been their

changed its recognition from -- of china from taipei to beijing. host: ok.rom reuters -- i want to read a little bit of that to you and have you respond to it. guest: please do. host: with china knocking russia earlier this week in a united nations security council debate on ukraine called by the united states, both nations appear to see the gains of the opportunity to signal their increasing cooperation in the face of western states and other adversaries. many of whose diplomats are boycotting the games. with china making its ambition to bring taiwan back under beijing's control under 2020 increasingly clear and fears on the rise, china could benefit from close cooperation with russia, making it harder for it to be starved of energy. what is the relationship between russia and china now? guest: this is a very important question. i am glad you raised it. this week's marks -- week marks a new high in china russian relations. she thinking and vladimir putin just held a sum as the winter olympics were beginning in beijing. this was notable because it was the fi

how is the taipei watching this?ey are watching it closely, but we did hear from the taiwan president, she wants to stress that the situation in ukraine and taiwan are different. they are saying geographically, economically, and politically, it is a different situation. we are also hearing that the taiwan military is watching developments closely. they say in case beijing is inspired by what is happening in the ukraine. obviously taiwan watching this extremely closely. state media in china has been fairly muted in their overall coverage of this, which tells me that beijing is still trying to find their narrative for what is happening in the ukraine. on taiwan, they did criticize the president when she essentially said she has support for the ukrainian people, state media, the china daily, blasted her, saying that is some reasonable self-pity on the part of the taiwan leader. some people are drawing comparisons between taiwan and china and ukraine and russia. it is something that taiwan is doing -- watching very close

according to senior officials from taipei, there is a low risk, but -- with the president prioritizing domestic stability. the u.s. had earlier warned china may exploit this shift in global attention to ukraine to ramp up efforts to destabilize taiwan. global news 24 hours a day, on air and on bloomberg quicktake, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i am vonnie quinn. this is bloomberg. haidi: let's take a look at some movers so far. we are watching origin energy, the loss narrowed, but making headlines, the accelerated plan to exit coal power, saying it would be seven years earlier than previously planned. the surge in renewable undermining the economics of the aging call asset fleet. also watching south32, underlying profit meeting expectations, it's up by 2.5%. woodside petroleum tracking higher today, the full-year net income seeing a beat. wesfarmers, we expected pressure, posting tougher earnings. the covid-related disruptions, lockdowns, high levels of absentees, hit by omicron. overall trading conditions were very poor, and we are seei