so taiwan is by itself. and therefore pointing to taiwan that taiwan is seeking independence.ike creating a scapegoat and or finding an excuse to attack taiwan. what we are really concerned, if china is seeing some domestic difficulties, they might follow the classic wisdom of an authoritarian regime. they will find a scapegoat somewhere outside to divert the domestic attention. and we are very concerned that taiwan may be the very convenient scapegoat for china's own failure domestically. >> schifrin: the biden administration has released new guidelines on meetings between american and taiwanese officials, the administration says it has eased previous restrictions. have restrictions actually been eased? >> yes, indeed. the restrictions have been eased, and we are seeing the kinds of contests that we haven't seen before. and it's not only the ease of all the restrictions. the biden administration has also been sending all kinds of goodwill gestures to taiwan, like reassuring taiwan that the relations are being a rock solid, providing taiwan was necessary oral support, and also

hong kong's government says it is temporarily closing its office in taiwan taiwan's government said that while it respected the decision also regretted it tensions between the 2 of risen since the pro-democracy protests started back in 2019 taiwan had criticised hong kong's national security law and opened an office in taipei to help people who may want to leave beijing of course sees taiwan as part of china let's go to beijing talk to katrina about this i read katrina that was some suggesting this could also be coronavirus related but clearly there's an underlying issue as well. that's right there is a coronavirus outbreak happening again in taiwan but the hong kong office said that this is not due to that and what this closure is really also a reflection of the deteriorating ties between hong kong's beijing backed government and taipei and for contacts that's been deteriorating since $29.00 when we had these massive pro-democracy protests really bring hong kong to a standstill and we had subsequently this national security law which criminalizes subversion and under which we've seen mo

yvonne: can taiwan go back to a covid zero life? take a look at economies like the u.s., where they are still getting 1000 plus cases a day, yet they are easing mass mandates, and covid haven economies like we are seeing in parts of asia continue to have very strict restrictions, despite getting just a handful of cases. do you think that a covid zero strategy is sustainable? guest: i think we are looking to contain these outbreaks as soon as possible. i myself consider 10 days or two weeks. most cases we identify are related to tea houses. more importantly, we are doing very stringent" and [indiscernible] to be isolated for 14 days. we consider these stringent contact tracing as well as quarantine. we are quite sure we can contain the outbreak in the coming weeks. we are hoping that we are going to return to zero cases. haslinda: what is complicating the issue with the mutation? we are seeing in singapore, the variant which started in india, which is more aggressive, affecting the young people. are you experiencing a similar problem

the rest of the day's news is coming up including taiwan's relations with hong kong plunging to their lowest point in years after hong kong closes its office in taipei and empty supermarket shelves and empty streets pandemic seems not normally associated with east asia oh. hello there let's start in southeast asia and it's cloudy skies and thundershowers across much of the philippines you can see that on the satellite image there we could see some localized flooding where those showers optically really intense and it's a similar story for borneo some heavier showers here you can see the yellow peaks and into china seeing some of the heavy showers as well across southern parts of thailand and vietnam as well as we as we go into thursday indonesia will see those showers affecting parts of sumatra as we move now to a stray out we are expecting showers along the eastern coast of queensland and new south wales 21 degrees in sydney so temperatures where we expect them to be it's a dry unsettled picture across central areas as well as up in the north $33.00 degree degrees in darwin it's in t

we can move it onto the story in taiwan.vier losses at the start and then you had a bit of reversal now. you are essentially flat on the taiwanese index. following those two days of heavy losses. three days of heavy losses. this is just on wednesday alone. a bit overly coming through about one hour ago with the apple daily. it does not look set to be raising the covid alert level. taiwan remains firmly in focus. that is lower by 5/10 of a percent. yvonne: it is interesting how sensitive this market is to any covid dues because this is one of the safest places to ride out the pandemic. that may lead to more worry in taiwan in particular. sophia, i am sure that you and i both were both scratching our heads about what was going on in taiwan. you have been talking to the analysts out there. what were they saying? >> it was a perfect storm yesterday. it was up by almost 50% this year. even though the taiwan benchmark is up only 19%. that showed stocks were depreciating -- depreciating. 11 local cases does not seem like a lot. it

will also suspend travellers to transfer in taiwan. if it was the quick implementation of a travel ban in the initial stages of the pandemic that's thought to have been key to the island's relative corona success but it isn't fiction dr is also under way in new taipei city for authorities throwing everything they can to try to stop the virus spreading this outbreak linked to a quarantine facility for airline staff has prompted an uptick in testing and has residents on high alert waiting to go up with i wasn't too concerned before but now i worry whenever i go out i wear my face mask i'm more safety conscious now. taiwan's president has called for calm and urged people not to panic buy but that didn't stop many anxious shoppers rushing to stockpile over the weekend and there's a whole story soldiers otieno mail anything to arguing at the entrance i suppose we went around the whole story. the government response has so far been timely and measured something the island's residents will be hoping leads the way out of the current emergency.

taiwan up 1%. we got the data out of south korea as well, exports surged 3% in the first 20 days of may. ppi prices also the highest in a decade here. so inflation concerns still very much there, but nasdaq, u.s. futures still a touch higher, other markets as well. we are focusing on the hans saying, that -- hang saying, the index -- hang seng, the index. retail sales in australia, futures up .5%. it seems the boom we saw when it comes to commodities does hit the pause button here today. we are looking at bitcoin first. it has stabilized. up 3% right now, back above the 40,000 dollars level for the cryptocurrency. you're watching commodity-like currencies as well make a comeback overnight, slightly under pressure right now for the aussie, u.s. 10-year yield study at 163, the chinese 10-year bond yield at the lowest in eight months. haslinda: nothing like markets flip-flopping, inflation a concern in terms of risk on risk off. let's get analysis from mark cranfield. mark: the first phase of this ral

hopefully, taiwan will not go into lockdown.this trend, we do believe we make be able to go to double digit growth. grape king consists of three different units. we have one in china, shanghai. at the moment, our business is doing well in taiwan. in china, it is doing well as well. hopefully, this year, we will go up to 10%-15% in total. haslinda: the pandemic has also accelerated e-commerce. have you accelerated your investments to make sure that your online sales and services can compensate for any slow down? andrew t.: yes, we have noticed -- two years ago, our physical sales team did better than the virtual sales team. virtual sales team like e-commerce and telemarketing since last year with this whole situation, things changed. at the moment, 60%, 70% sales are down -- are up in virtual channels. so people do not go out. last weekend, taiwan went to the level three alert. people are still buying online and buying our products. we do heavily focus on virtual channels. yvonne: overall, what do you think the recovery will look

will also suspend travellers to transfer in taiwan. if it was the quick implementation of a travel ban in the initial stages of the pandemic that's thought to have been key to the island's relative corona success but it isn't fiction dr is also underway in new taipei city or authorities throwing everything they can to try to stop the virus spreading this outbreak linked to a quarantine facility for airline staff has prompted an uptick in testing and has residents on high alert ready to go pick up where i wasn't too concerned before but now i worry whenever i go out i'll wear my face mask i'm more safety conscious now . taiwan's president has called for calm and urge people not to panic buy but that didn't stop many anxious shoppers rushing to stockpile over the weekend and there's a whole store is all that is offering all mail or anything arguing at the entrances as a part of me as we went around the whole story. the government response has so far been timely and measured something the island's residents will be hoping leads the way ou

china's recent moves around taiwan and over taiwan flying spy planes every week., including antony blinken. they oppose unilateral action or military force this marks the first time the g has referenced issues surrounding taiwan in 15 years sounds serious the next dpguest says chainaaim with taiwan has more to do with finance. we have martijn rasser here with us martijn, thank you for joining us we have seen amphibious exercises and war planes flying over taiwan. it is clearly china agitating for something. what do you think that something is >> great to be with you. that something is most likely taiwan semiconductor industry. china has been clear that it seeks to be a world class contender in the semiconductor industry right now, taiwan is the juggernaut they have all of the advanced abilities and fabs it is a juicy target >> yeah. what is the likelihood of straight up conflict a military incursion i don't want to use the other word inv invasion i guess i just did is there any chance there is real military force by china used against taiwan or is this more as you

this was the same health minister who led an event last summer to celebrate taiwan's apparent fichter e in keeping the pandemic out. still small compared with other places this outbreak of hundreds of cases is a worrying trend for an island used to single digit or even 0 new cases per day it's a sharp reminder of how east asia often uploaded for controlling the pandemic is still vulnerable to the corona virus and its developing variants especially given the relatively slow rollout of vaccines in places like here south korea and its neighbors viet nam had also been recording relatively few cases from the start of the pandemic but now is grappling with its worst outbreak and the region's main financial hubs of hong kong and. singapore are also finding their not immune plans to resume flights within the travel bubble between the 2 cities have had to be delayed a 2nd time many asian neighbors eager to reopen like better vaccinated countries but aware of how quickly their own infection rates could surge if they do rob mcbride al-jazeera so. now hong kong's government says it temporarily cl

taiwan is an island just relatively covid free, a success story until it wasn't. in the past two weeks cases have soared serving as a cautionary tale not only in asia but here in the u. s. joining us today is dr. jason wang director of the center for policy outcomes and prevention at stanford. it's good to see nice to see y >> it's been a while and i want to ask you because a lot has changed. taiwan is averaging about 500 new cases a day and that doesn't sound like a lot until you consider they had one or two cases a day for most of the past year. what changed? >> last year there was a period of about 200 days where they had no new cases. so people just got more relaxed and sometimes they stopped wearing their masks and then the index of suspicion for doctors and nurses which is very low, when somebody showed up with a sore throat or a cough they didn't think it was covid. so basically they didn't know if there were cases around and they didn't think there were. until a month ago. where a pilot and a crew member basically they had relaxed quarantine time from 14 d

will also suspend travelers to transfer in taiwan. if it was the quick implementation of a travel ban in the initial stages of the pandemic that's thought to have been key to the island's relative corona success but it disinfection drive is also under way in new taipei city or authorities throwing everything they can to try to stop the virus spreading this outbreak linked to a quarantine facility for airline staff has prompted an uptick in testing and has residents on high alert waiting go pick up a weapon i wasn't too concerned before but now i worry whenever i go out i'll wear my face mask i'm more safety conscious now. taiwan's president has called for calm and urged people not to panic buy but that didn't stop many anxious shoppers rushing to stockpile over the weekend there's a whole story stories otieno mail. queuing at the entrance as a part of me as we went around the whole story. the government response has so far been timely and measured something the island's residents will be hoping leads the way out of the current emergen

jim, someone that taiwan about was spreading shameless lies: texas playing a role as well, leon taiwanurned down beige option for committed goat director the drives. state media its pledge to send always be politics involved in people's lives are at stake obviously. haidi: stephen engle there. it baylor really on air flight has been critical of its president. and eu have reacted with outrage. bloomberg. terry forced it to divert to maine. they arrested of alexander lukashenko reacted with outrage. ross presti has more. what we know about the event race? just the angry reaction the eu and now the u.s.. >> definitely a remarkable day in the skies and on the ground there, and we have had a very sharp and unified outrage from european officials in the lockdown. we have also had the u.s. chipping in with its response. basically the flight, on route from athens to lithuania -- lithuania was basically diverted by a fake bomb threat it seems to land in the capital of belarus on the orders of president lukashenko, an ally of russia's potent with the passengers on board and once on the ground a

taiwan and said -- taiwan is said to be making a last-ditch effort for participants.nited states has been urging taiwan's inclusion, which beijing has blocked. there have been politics in the last few weeks. beijing has said, according to state media, and has made appropriate arrangements for taiwan percent -- for taiwan for dissipation. he accused china of spreading shameless lies. we are also hearing from state media that beijing has renewed its pledge for distributed biontech vaccines to taiwan. we are not sure if that has been made. this is something that taiwan rejected. early on this year, we rejected it based on the vaccine, choosing instead to go directly to the german manufacturer. that has left taiwan extremely short of vaccine. enough vaccine to cover not even 1% of its population. haidi: stephen engle there with the latest. staying on the virus and the vaccine rollout, the australian government is promising it will have enough pfizer vaccine to have everybody in the country vaccinated by the end of the year. the rollout has been slow, pushing back timeline

we don't know if taiwan will receive any of those. in the coming months, they're looking to locally manufacture vaccines. they have two local manufacturers in stage-two trials and are hoping to get taiwan-produced vaccines in arms by late july. seems like a long time. the case levels at this level now can get much bigger quickly, and they want to prevent that in taiwan. >> thanks for the update. thanks. >>> in the philippines, repeated covid lockdowns and travel restrictions have hit man illa's poorest neighborhoods the hardest. jobs and food are scarce, and the government can't provide much help. now, free community kitchens are popping up. farmers and fishermen donating what they can to help those most in need. >> reporter: with her youngest just 3 years old, mona lisa vito has nine children and no way to feed them. since the pandemic hit the philippines, repeated lockdowns have left millions like mona lisa unable to work or to eat. >> translator: we don't have anything for my children's food, for daily expenses. sometimes at night

keeping hong kong's democratic voice alive from taiwan. that's the location for a pro-democracy magazine. exile difference from the magazine make to hong kong's political future under china. the people forced into caves to escape violence the reality in the taliban stronghold west. i'm british welcome to news glad you could join us we begin in taiwan which has become the new home for thousands of hong kong has political persecution at home according to government figures more than 10000 residents permits were issued to people from hong kong last year alone many of them escaping beijing's crackdown the democratic freedom that taiwan provides has also allowed dissidents to do what is now unthinkable in their former home publish the democratic views and ideas. printing in progress this is the 2nd issue of flow ha a quarterly magazine knowledge by hong kong activists only have this year as a forum for hong kong issues but it can't be published in hong kong and the beijing streak only and national security is all so everything a stand in democr

coming to taiwan the authorities are hoping that more people will get vaccinated. the gobby vaccine alliance announced today that more astra zeneca vaccines are going to come to taiwan no later than the end of june that was taipei thank you very much. and since our phone is now in the german bundesliga bruce and dortmund knew that a win over mines would sweep them into the champions league next season and set up frankfurt mines already clinched their top flight survival and it looks like their minds were already on summer vacation as start went to victory for. dortmund might have expected an easy raid against a might side with 5 changes and little to play for and there was certainly enough chumminess before kick off to make frankfurt funs wince. and their fears were realized on 23 minutes when jason sun she was set up rafael guerrero to curl dortmund in front 3 might see as young stand in keeper finn diamond left clutching thin air. on 42 minutes sunshine was at it again dunson down the left and feeding captain marco royce to no dortmund at half time and more wool

what is the latest from taiwan?ic we saw last week when the stock is change dropped by 8%. there is a record 206 cases over the weekend. that is prompting the government to encourage companies to allow their workers to work from home. one of the success stories, the poster child for how covid-19 can be cap -- can be contained, but not the case right now. it is trying to avert a lockdown . if it sees cases averaging 100 per day, it might go into lockdown. local infections currently are about 206. that is causing some of the restrictions they are imposing right now. as far as social gatherings are concerned. they are limited to five people. 10 indoors -- 10 outside, five indoors. the authorities are trying to put a lid on it. we heard from the leader desk saying they have to put a lid on it to ensure growth can be sustained. paul: thanks very much. we want to get to a check on saudi group shares, trading higher by a over 70%. -- a little over 7%. coming in much stronger than expected. just a shade under ¥13 billion a

of course i'm worried i hope taiwan can pull through this. taipei's want want to strict has been hardest hit stores restaurants and fitness studios there have had to close their doors schools are closed for the next few days and large gatherings prohibited panic buyers have already emptied taipei supermarkets people here assume the outbreak originated in the districts popular to rooms. 600000 people are now in quarantine many undergoing additional testing to reduce the risk of infection but hardly anyone here has had a vaccination shot now the government is promising to ramp up its vaccination program. we will give the time when he's people access to domestically produced vaccines in the quickest way possible will ensure their safety and protect them this will also allow taiwan to return to normal as soon as possible. taiwan's ambitious aim is to make as soon as possible mean by the end of next week that's when g.m. needed. taipei when what impact is the current spike in cases having on livelihoods and business. so this is really unprecedente

taiwan began as fact the rollout in late march and astra zeneca is the only f.a. both vaccine on the island with blood concerns the facts in asia rate has been much lower than expected even medical staff are reluctant to get a shot why wouldn't use who was born for those who need to travel abroad they're willing to get the shot. before the majority of taiwanese people they're sitting on the fence as local infection rate remains low income. taiwan is one of the top of almos in covert containment with only around a dowson come from cases and trials with a touch that so far but the island is far behind in the facts in asia raise the number of facts in dos and then the start per $100.00 people is only sorrow point 3 in contrast with the global effort 14 point too many taiwanese simply don't feel any urgency to get a jab. when you're going to spend years since the outbreak but life hasn't changed much the only inconvenience is we have to wear a mosque but i'm used to that already so i don't think that's the urgency to get vaccinated compared to other countries. i'm in

hong kong's government says it's temporarily closing its office in taiwan taiwan's government says that while it respected the decision it also regretted it tensions between the sea have risen since pro-democracy protests dances in 2019 taiwan had criticized hong kong's national security law and opened an office in taipei to help people who may want to leave agencies taiwan as part of china. is more beijing. there is a current affairs outbreak happening again in taiwan but the hong kong office said that this is not due to that and what this closure is really also a reflection of the deteriorating ties between hong kong's beijing backed government and taipei and for contacts that's been deteriorating since $29.00 when we had these massive pro-democracy protests really bring hong kong to a standstill and we had subsequently this national security law which criminalizes subversion and under which we've seen more than 100 democracy activists arrested now during that time taiwan was incredibly supportive of the protesters even offering refuge to those who may want to leave hong kong and flee

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a china has denied blocking vaccines to taiwan and is offered to provide them to the island. taiwan. as millions of those are the vaccines on order from astrazeneca and modena, so far, only about one percent of taiwanese population has received a vaccination. now we contacted biotech for their response to sign. when's statement about chinese intervention? the company have this to say we do not provide information on any potential, a possible distribution of our vaccine. our goal at biotech is to make the vaccine available to as many people worldwide as possible. they have responded william yang join me from type pe with more on this story, william want us to when he's president sighing. when mean when she says chinese intervention has prevented taiwan from acquiring the biotech vaccine. so according to her time, one has been trying to sign a contract with bio tech in germany directly to get at least 5000000 doses of the kobe vaccine. that was also according to the health ministers revelation back in february. but then somehow when both sides were ready to actually issue the official

the sell off continues taiwan's stock exchange plunged more than 8 percent before closing at around minus 4 percent amid virus restrictions and a wider selloff in global tech stocks we go to our correspondent in taipei for also coming up it looks like fish but has never spent a day in the sea a california startup hopes its lab grown salmon well will revolutionize the seafood industry. welcome to the business i want to get jobs and to have you with us well the market volatility continues taiwan's stocks slum to the most since march last year as concern over further tightening of coronavirus link restrictions and a global tech selloff spooked investors the taiwan stock exchange weighted index finished of the session 4 point one percent and noah after slumping as much as 8.6 percent in morning trading the worst intra day loss in 50 years local investors have turned increasingly wary as health authorities continue to battle the widening coronavirus outbreak that's threatens taiwan status as one of the safest places in the world to ride out the pandemic. and for more let's cross over now to g.

taiwan was seen as one of the most successful places in controlling the spread of covid—19.n the past week has now prompted two of taiwan's biggest cities 7 the capital taipei and the most populous city new taipei 7 to shut all schools and advise people to work from home. 0ur taipei correspondent cindy sui reports. sunrise in the capital, taipei. up until recently, this was the norm in taiwan — streets full of rush—hour traffic, people heading to work or school, unlike in many places around the world. but in recent days, scenes like this — shoppers panic—buying — have become common as government officials ordered tough new restrictions in two of taiwan's biggest cities. translation: we require mask-wearing at all- times when going out. avoid unnecessary outings, activities or gatherings. stop gatherings at home or social gatherings of more than five people indoors and more than ten people outdoors. taipei and new taipei's mayors have also ordered all schools and childcare centres to close for two weeks starting tuesday. it comes as the central government had already ordered

haidi: stick a look at taiwan shares, have been talking about -- let's take a look at taiwan shares,selloff as a focus. stocks in taiwan seeing the biggest one-day wrap since march of last year. take a look at how that tracks on this chart. -- one of asia's top performers of the year, we had trading that expanded from seven to 10%, you can look at the historical context of the plunge we saw yesterday. we heard from the financial supervisor that they would potentially intervene if there was a -- irrational shilling. were talking to cindy, part of this, both the rise and the fall is the huge tech and semiconductor components in taiwan's market. >> yeah and it was a good thing for taiwan stocks wednesday, they started pretty quiet but after 10:00 or 11:00 a.m. they began plummeting. at one point the index slumped almost 9% in its worst one-day performance in its 54 year history. we have investors in crisis mode and panic selling, lots of news during the trading hours and they don't know whether those news are true or not so investors panic and that sent the stock market tumbling lowest

glad you could join us we begin in taiwan which has become the new home for thousands of hong kong political persecution at home according to government figures more than 10000 residents permits were issued to people from hong kong last year alone many of them escaping beijing's crackdown the democratic freedom that taiwan provides has also allowed dissidents to do what is now unthinkable in their former home publish their democratic views and ideas. printing in progress this is the 2nd issue of flow ha a quarterly magazine launched by home called activists only have this year as a forum for hong kong issues but it can't be published in hong kong and the beijing strip konya national security is all so everything a stand in democratic taiwan. has been very supportive of it and we've mentioned hong kong the civil societies of the 2 places are deeply connected we've received a lot of help from taiwanese design is printers engineers and scholars without their support we would not have been able to get the logistics done at the very young is a quarter of the power on these activists shall mean ye

i think it is the same for taiwan.o i think the supply disruption is not high, but the structural positive demand we have been talking about, it is all intact. and this would probably stay throughout 2022. pricing, profitability, and earnings. but one thing to highlight the downside risk to our views would be the potential inventory risk. it has been discussed. and the major cause of the recent volatility. the inventory level is higher, partially because companies are keeping higher inventory levels due to the geopolitical tension. we have not seen the revisions so far. i think monitoring would be the next two quarters. yvonne: thank you so much, ally chen joining us from taipei. coming up, -- are affecting bond sales. the details, next. this is bloomberg. ♪ yvonne: let's get a check of the markets. marginally higher for most markets. but an exception today. we see gains of about 1% in it this morning. hang seng, 180 points up. csx 100 gaining, but not as big as what we saw yesterday. still talking about the big melt u

taiwan a paragon of good public health that has seen stunningly low numbers of covert cases and just 12 deaths the entire pandemic is not having the speediest vaccine fallout and he explains. waiting for a covert job to restart her overseas studies and the way came back to taiwan last year to excavate from the us a fear outbreak in the united states she plans to go back in the fall semester but she needs proof that she has been fascinated with a one termer i'm ok i'll sit down good for none of my friends have got facts and i need to when i told them i'm going to get a shot they were all very shocked and asked me to reconsider i rather a lot of news about these side effects of the job and i'm quite worried basically if my school doesn't have this requirement i won't be getting a shot. or we as a cowboy don't want began as fact see roll out in late march and astra zeneca is the only f.a. both vaccine on the island with blood clot concerns the facts in asia rate has been much lower than expected even medical staff are reluctant to get a shot why wouldn't use a white board for those who

now, the people in taiwan support the government, however the people in taiwan are still very worriedoing to be the supermarkets and stocking up on tissues, rice, grocery items. i told my wife to do that, she came home to me and was telling me the shelves were gone in minutes. and i had to go to the pharmaceuticals and stock up on face masks. i bought ten boxes, but i still feel worried. people in taiwan are also signing up for self-paid vaccination. however, we were told that the the q quota of the first batch has been used and people are asking when is the second batch coming. no one has a definite answer on that one. people are on pins and needles here in taiwan. kim? >> interesting. we'll keep following that. thank you so much, journalist andy lee. appreciate it. >>> the coronavirus lockdown in delhi, india, is being extended for the fourth time, now set to end a week from now. this comes as the country's overall covid positivity rate is down. cases in rural areas are still soaring. kristie lu stout has more on where things stand. >> reporter: a new daily ritual in india, police p

after more than a year of relative safety, taiwan is battling a spots. major domestic outbreak reporting hundreds of local cases daily as beliefs that airline pilots brought the u. k. f r e n to the island last month after quarantine was short and to just 3 days for crew members. the threat was then accelerated through a network of t houses in tie pace, red light district. the authorities have declared a nation wide level, 3 alert meaning a soft lockdown. public events are called of many shops are close to and restaurants can only do a check out. the shopping district, anti pay is spiritually a dose tone, while dozens of people q all over test sites hosted with hosts in greater type. a running out of patients will now be sent to other parts of taiwan for treatment the authorities. i've also taken up several hotels to accommodate those with light on no symptoms. so fall into one has only fascinated around one percent off as 24000000 people. most taiwanese have the infection hesitant before the local outbreak. and how about no, ma'am high up was always afr

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but for taiwan, it's hugely worrying, right?> reporter: it is becausee're seeing exponential increase, michael, in the number of particularly local cases compared with just over a week ago. the new numbers out just within the last hour, let's bring them up so we can show people how much things have changed just over the last eight days here in taiwan. last friday the total cases were 1,290. local cases just 164. today total cases nearly 3,900. the local total, more than 2,700. that is a 16-fold increase. also two new deaths confirmed here. deaths were about a dozen when i arrived here on the island about a week ago. now 17 people confirmed killed, and we've reported, michael, you and i, from countries where the numbers have started off at this level, and things can get out of control very quickly. that is certainly what they're trying to prevent here in taiwan, but they're running into some obstacles and the vaccine issue is probably the biggest that they face right now. >> and on that very subject, taiwan asking the u.s. for he

, and it's offered to provide them to the island taiwan. as millions of those are the vaccines on order from astrazeneca, modena, so far, only about one percent of taiwan population has received a vaccination. now we contacted biotech for their response to sign. when's statement about chinese intervention? the company have this to say we do not provide information on any potential of possible distribution of our vaccine. our goal at biotech is to make the vaccine available to as many people worldwide as possible. they don't look at a funding william yang join me from type pay with more on this story, william. well, just when he's president sighing, when mean when she says chinese intervention has prevented taiwan from acquiring the biotech? maxine so according to her time, one has been trying to sign a contract with biome tech in germany, directly to get at least 5000000 doses of the kobe vaccine. that was also according to the health ministers. revelation back in february. but then somehow when both sides were ready to actually issue the o

and taiwan also face severe threats on the c.c.p. had this will be a very significant strategic role in east asia so me one last question to you you can essentially never go back to your home in hong kong how does that make you feel . personally i feel it is really difficult for me to a step that fast that i may be. i can never go back to hong kong and i am really home safe i miss everything in hong kong i miss my friends who are you christen it all i do not know when i can be stand again for example just how long and then i have no idea when i can meet him again and then that's why i think i have too many costs or have to turn this kind of feelings into something very much meaningful we have to create momentum and energy for ourself to air power south we have to take to reclaim all caught and that's why many overseas august we would have to give up who shall what ever it is helpful and meaningful to be temple call it so on is your own thank you so much for your time and. a group of people are not just pakistan have been left nor per

coming up today keeping hong kong's democratic allies from taiwan. that's the location for a pro-democracy magazine run by hong kong exiles difference from the magazine make the hong kong's political future under china. the people forced into caves to escape violence the reality in the taliban stronghold of northwest pakistan. i'm british manager welcome to news glad you could join us we begin in taiwan which has become the new home for thousands of hong kong has political persecution at home according to government figures more than 10000 residents permits were issued to people from hong kong last year alone many of them escaping beijing's crackdown the democratic freedom that taiwan provides has also allowed dissidents to do what is now unthinkable in their former home publish the democratic views and ideas. printing in progress this is the 2nd issue of. a quarterly magazine by hong kong activists this year as a forum for hong kong issues but they can't be published in hong kong under konya national security so everything democratic taiwan. well so

will also suspend travellers to transfer in taiwan. it was the quick implementation of a travel ban in the initial stages of the pandemic that's thought to have been key to the island's relative coronas success but it disinfection drive is also under way in new taipei city or authorities throwing everything they can to try to stop the virus spreading this outbreak linked to a quarantine facility for airline staff has prompted an uptick in testing and has residents on high alert wait a week up with i wasn't too concerned before but now i worry whenever i go out i'll wear my face mask i'm more safety conscious now. taiwan's president has called for calm and urged people not to panic buy but that didn't stop many anxious shoppers rushing to stockpile over the weekend and there's a whole story soldiers over an all male anything start hearing at the entrance as a part of me as we went around the whole story. the government response has so far been timely and measured something the island's residents will be hoping leads the way out of the c

you are seeing flareups in terms of places like taiwan., still a concern and the headwinds around technology and the regulatory crimping on the mainland. the ms ci china index, back in a bear market, falling 20% since february. yvonne: our next guest is sean darby, joining us from hong kong. you mentioned in your notes about the recent selloff the last couple days. perhaps the facts don't match the crime. why not? sean: i think the markets should have anticipated that we were going to get awkward inflation numbers and probably we will do so for the next six months or so. secondly, valuations on some of the hottest sectors like technology have actually been caught up with sectors like materials, which has seen a huge move since last year. so basically trading at the same levels. any correction now means a broader selloff for more sectors. i think the last thing to point out is, we have had some form of peak growth. china has seen its best quarter, the u.s. will see its best quarter, and there is a danger of everyone extrapolating last year'

taiwan was seen as one of the most successful places in controlling the spread of covid—19. the island. but the rapid increase in cases in the past week has now prompted two of taiwan's biggest cities 7 the capital taipei and the most populous city new taipei 7 to shut all schools and child care centers from tuesday and advise people to work from home. 0ur taipei correspondent cindy sui reports. sunrise in the capital, taipei. up until recently, this was the norm in taiwan — streets full of rush—hour traffic, people heading to work or school, unlike in many places around the world. but in recent days, scenes like this — shoppers panic—buying — have become common as government officials ordered tough new restrictions in two of taiwan's biggest cities. translation: we require mask-wearing at all times when going out. _ avoid unnecessary outings, activities or gatherings. stop gatherings at home or social gatherings of more than five people indoors and more than ten people outdoors. taipei and new taipei's mayors have also ordered all schools and childcare centres to close for

taiwan, 180-confirmed cases. sunday, here, in taiwan, the government officials came out with the latest numbers. it stands at 207. so the numbers are increase. and in fact, kim, the government of taiwan has updated the level of alert, from level two, to level three. which means five persons indoors, no go. ten persons outdoors, no go. so, in fact, the gyms will not be open. nightclubs will not be open. the karaokes will not be open. however, schools are still on. offices are still on because people are still -- have to go to work, like children still have to go to school. if you do a total lockdown, as of now, it's going to really hurt the economy. so people in taiwan right now are on pins and needles. fingers crossed, kim. >> yeah. and you bring up how people are reacting. i mentioned people are stocking up. any fears that we'll see there, what we saw here in the u.s., early on in the pandemic? shortages of staples and so on? >> right. people are worried. so people -- yes, as you have mentioned, are stocking up.

how do you respond firmly without being provocative on taiwan?> look, i can't give you a n authoritative account of what is driving the pla decision-making or president xi's decision-making on encouraging into the air defense . what i can say broadly is xi jinping as president of china has made the taiwan issue and the need to increase pressure on taiwan a central feature of their foreign policy. i think he regards it as critical to chinese prestige and stability over the long term. and the american position on this is straightforward. we believe in the one china policy that is a full implementation of the taiwan relations act and the six assurances. in that we stand -- you know, we continue in the footsteps of the bipartisan consensus in u.s.-china policy going back decades, democratic administrations and republican administrations. we oppose unilateral changes to the status quo. we would like to see stability and cross state relations and no effort to unilaterally change the status quo. we have communicated that to china come and we have affirm

may and taiwan has a full. alert system. and. it's there in the on the level 3 of the large which means that people must wear a mosque at all times and in don't gatherings are limited to 5 people and out of gatherings on a minute all those that this is not a fool but a lot of people staying home by choice to hunting to spread out the pirates and they are. a city and you talk as if the. people to stay at home as much as possible and they say that the authorities stop the firing poll. which means they will lock down right taiwan has long been hailed as the poster child for a pandemic control so why is this happening now do we know what is causing this rise in infection numbers. it is false belief that. so much to sell and lines bringing back the case iran to taiwan but then in yesterday's press conference the authorities announced that. a one of the confirmed cases show symptoms as early as early april which means that taiwan. had been living with covert for more than a month without knowing and this is because taiwan that's not to

we should clearly know that china considers taiwan part of china. i traveled to china many times in the past and served on the hill. to them it is indisputable part of their territory. it is on that bucket list of things they want to finalize. i was there at the handover in 1997 for hong kong, there was another one in a check that box years ago and now they are pulling hong kong closer in. it is a matter of concern, something we watch closely. i am confident in that. i will say this much. the taiwanese need to do more, increase their defense spending and spend on the right things and we look at ways to cooperate, that is one thing we've begun last summer, late summer, greater cooperation with taiwan and how we incorporate into our planning our allies and it begins with allies such as japan and australians and others but we have european allies that have a presence in the in the pacific like the brits and the french who can also play ball. we need to think more broadly about the defense of i. how do we deter chinese aggressive behavior and stick to t

and taiwan's indigenous community awaits a court ruling that could be 10 in the scope of their hunting license. hello you know we've been talking about the heat in the love that but we're now starting to see it go into the gulf so kuwait 42 degrees on friday also getting some readings across saudi in the forty's so medina 40 mecca pretty close at 39 we've also got high temperatures for the eastern mediterranean on cypress really right across turkey is stamboul 25 degrees and we look at the next 3 days where is this is this average no it is above average we should be 18 where 25 we do have a rain risk though as we head toward saturday ticket to africa now and we're dealing with some heavy rains toward areas of coastal areas of kenya into southern somalia but we can also find heavy pockets of rain towards south sudan uganda into the democratic republic of the congo but if we go a bit further south into the western cape we've got this disturbance it's given us some rough seas wind gusts about 50 kilometers per hour in cape town not drenching rain certainly not as bad as we thought but uns

taiwan began as faxing rolled out in 8 march and astra zeneca is the only f.a. level fact seen on the island with but concerns the facts in asia rate has been much lower than expected even medical staff are reluctant to get a shot why wouldn't use a white board for those who need to travel abroad they're willing to get the shot. before the majority of taiwanese people there sitting on the fence as local infection rate remains low. taiwan is one of the top of almost in covert containment with only around a 1000 come from cases and trials where they touch that so far but the adventists far behind in the facts in asia raise the number of facts in dos and the start per $100.00 people is only sorrow point 3 in contrast with the global after a child $14.00 many taiwanese simply don't feel any urgency to get a jab dodging learning when you're going to spend years since the outbreak but life hasn't changed much he only inconvenienced as we have to wear a mask but i'm used to that already so i don't think that's the urgency to get vaccinated compared to other countries.

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