however, it failed to define taiwan as independent, nor did it say who if any country taiwan would be seated to. and this leads us to the present. they ambiguity of the sovereignty status of that island. the san francisco peace treaty of $951.00 was extremely flawed. most of the 48 signatories agreed to sort of leave taiwan in limbo and play it by ear if you will. this ended the japanese occupation, but didn't really defined high ones national status in a post occupation world. so is independence, thereby, a default status if occupation comes to an end. according to the un charter, recall, the china mainland china, the people's republic of china, was not even a member of the united nations until 1971. and was really something of an outcast and isolated by the international community. and instead, the government on taiwan, the nationalist government on taiwan was considered the legitimate government of china. i had a seat in the united nations was played a very, very major role in the post world war to construction of the international community, et cetera. and you know, with that kind

by a much larger fo, across the taiwan straits. what options doesn't have encountering these kinds of incursions? i one does not have a lot of options. as you said, the balance of military power has shifted from taiwan to mainland china in the past 20 or so years. it relies heavily on the united states that you probably have noticed that japan has doubled will be doubling its defense budget. because japan is very concerned about china's threats to taiwan as well. but one thing that taiwan has do has done, you know, other than oh, you know, heightened alertness, scramble the jap, sienna in response is. it has lengthened. the compulsory military service. previously, taiwan high compulsory, 2 year military service for all. and they also had to do it between graduation in college. and then they went to an all volunteer force, but they didn't meet their quotas. then they went to 4 months compulsory training, which just isn't enough. so now they lengthen it to one year. the problem is it's not significant training. it's not hard core tra

would assist taiwan militarily. if china re unified the island by force. us china relations have grown continually. i fear over the last 6 years locked in this trade war and even expressing u. s. goals of containing china. where does this put the relationship between the world's top 2 super power economies in the coming years? well, clearly the visit by the speaker has created increase tensions in the us china relationship . you know, i think there is probably some blame to be had on both sides of this question for the resulting, you know, increase tensions. it was an unprecedented, obviously, that the speaker of the us house of representatives had visited taiwan once before, you know, back in the 1900 ninety's when newt gingrich visited. so it's not entirely unprecedented . and i think, you know, the core message coming out of washington is that this does not signal any fundamental change in those core elements of the us policy toward toward taiwan. but nevertheless, clearly controversial. beijing, not happy launch

your support of taiwan. this is in response to president biden signing that national defense authorization act which includes in it the taiwan enhanced resilience act which for the first time specifies a defense monetization program for taiwan. it gives a billion dollars in annual presidential authority. what that means is president biden can draw down from pentagon stockpiles to send defensive missiles to taiwan. china sees that as a provocation. there is a lot more in the national defense authorization act that supports taiwan. we do need to take this pretty seriously. >> you mentioned that drawdown authority. how is china looking at the war in ukraine as it sizes up its options in taiwan? >> what xi jinping sees is that since the collapse of the soviet union in 1991, over those 30 years, ukraine moved out of the orbit of russia. china does not want the same thing to happen to taiwan. taiwan has been moving out of china's orbit. xi jinping wants to prevent a situation where it has to use force against taiw

now taiwan is defense, ministry said that china's aim is to threaten and cow the people of taiwan. how are people in taiwan feeling about all this? as we know that he was the largest chinese air force inch intrusion to date, the still is larger than life. fire our military exercise in august in response to us house speaker, nancy pelosi, this visit to ty one. although there was no sense of alarm on the island. people still fail to steady increase, increase or in chinese pressure in recent years. and the office of tire once press then said the person in time when well call a high level national security meeting on tuesday morning to discuss reinforcing the island civil defense system follow by our account press conference on the news . our new civil defense measures gone wrong there for us. thank you very much. the town of boucher are just outside. keith bore the brunt of rushes, initial invasion for survivors of the alleged war. crimes that were committed there by russian troops. christmas is especially difficult and different in another way as well this year with the holiday happe

and taiwan is part of it.uling democratic progressive party looks into the forest, more precisely towards complete independence. the prc government considers taiwan an integral part of china's breakaway province, which sooner or later must return home, while the leaders of taiwan do not agree with this position. de facto. they carry out their foreign domestic policy, regardless of beijing, taiwan has its own constitution flag currency. elections are held there, and approximately 300,000 regular military personnel serve in the armed forces, while the island does not have the official status of the sovereignty of the country. democratic progressive party, for example, advocates the proclamation of independence and seeks its wide diplomatic recognition, the head of the party is the king, under which the escalation in relations with beijing reached the peak opposes the principle. one country two systems, which offers in her opinion. this neutralizes the status of the island, but there is another point of view. the

that is taiwan. 50 from china to the democracy that is taiwan. , , , taiwan.rt. does it have widespread _ taiwan. so bipartisan support. does it have widespread public _ taiwan. so bipartisan support. does it have widespread public support i taiwan. so bipartisan support. does| it have widespread public support as well? �* . ., , well? again... the military conscription _ well? again... the military conscription in _ well? again... the military conscription in taiwan - well? again... the military conscription in taiwan is i well? again... the military - conscription in taiwan is something that has happened ever since 1949 since the defeated... that is something the vast majority of taiwanese men have grown up with. it is not a new system. the point i would make, in going back to one year, it is different to south korea for example. south korea faces its own hostile neighbour in the face of north korea. in south korea, it's an 18 month conscription system. so going from four months back to one year, it is not as severe as south korea and as i say, this is somet

we see taiwan as also an acceptance? we see taiwan as a democratic — also an acceptance?ountry, _ also an acceptance? we see taiwan as a democratic country, we _ also an acceptance? we see taiwan as a democratic country, we have - also an acceptance? we see taiwan as a democratic country, we have a - a democratic country, we have a right to make connections and make friends with the regional democratic countries. we believe taiwan should have the right to make friends with anyone. we are an independent country, we should not be threatened like this. in their view, they think taiwan is part of china, which is unacceptable by the majority of taiwanese people. the reactions to me all the ruling party of taiwan or to the taiwanese people, i think thatis to the taiwanese people, i think that is the real provocation to democracy. we that is the real provocation to democracy-— that is the real provocation to democra .~ . , . democracy. we are seeing increasing tension between _ democracy. we are seeing increasing tension between china _ democracy. we are seeing increasing tensio

for taiwan. it gives a $1000000000.00 in annual presidential draw down authority with that means is that president binding can draw down from pentagon stump piles to send defensive weapons antimissile, land based and see based missiles to taiwan. and so chinese see that as a provocation. there's a lot more in the national defense authorization act that supports taiwan. so chinese coolness or provocation. so we do need to take this pretty seriously. you mentioned that draw down authority has a ring of what we've been seeing in ukraine with us support for ukraine. i was trying to, looking at the warn ukraine as it sizes up its options with taiwan. well, the change in paying and the chinese communist party sees is that since the collapse of the soviet union, $991.00 over those 30 years, ukraine moved gradually and consistently out of the orbit of russia. china does not want the same thing to happen to taiwan, and in fact, one has been moving out of china's or that. and so she's hoping wants to preve

the same is true of taiwan today. taiwan is the 21st century's west berlin. now, madam president, it's not as if american political leaders have disregarded the critical importance of taiwan. to the contrary, starting with president eisenhower, there has been a long and bipartisan consensus focused on the security of taiwan. i have recently been rereading president eisenhower's excellent member wores, and you -- memoir and you see it in the pages of these books. this of course wasn't just the executive branch. this body in particular, the united states senate, has been the ally of taiwan during its darkest times, when the u.s. switched diplomatic recognition from taipei to beijing, it was congressional leaders like senators barry goldwater and bob dole as well as democrats like representative lester wolf who worked on a bipartisan basis to give us the taiwan relations act, one of the most remarkable petess of foreign policy legislation the united states congress has ever passed, led right here in the united states senate. the president of the united states, j

kind. china blames provocations from the united states and taiwan. and the big fries keeps on going across north america, for after a bitter christmas storm and its claim dozens of lives. ah, am bluecross, welcome to the program. russia says a drone attack on one of its air bases has killed 3 people. the defense ministry said the attack happened at angles, air base hundreds of kilometers from russia's war in ukraine. the deaths were apparently caused by falling debris. after a drone was shot down. official said no planes were damaged, but social media accounts said several had been destroyed. ukraine has not claimed responsibility for the attack. let's bring indeed of your report. i have maria cut to missouri for more on this story. maria. very good to see you. first of all, what is the significance of this air base? well, as you saw before, the military air failed angles 2 is quite far away from ukraine, about 700 kilometers to be precise. many military experts say dot choosing and gold space as a target is not accidental. essentially, there are 2 k

she enhancing your support of taiwan. this of course, is in response to prison bite and signing that national defense authorization act, which includes in it the taiwan enhanced resilience act, which for the 1st time specifies a defense monetization program. for taiwan, it gives a $1000000000.00 in annual presidential draw down authority. what that means is that president binding can draw down from pentagon stockpiles to sand, defensive weapons, antimissile, land based and see based missiles to taiwan. and so chinese see that as a provocation. there's a lot more in the national defense authorization act that supports taiwan. so chinese coolness or provocation. so we do need to take this pretty seriously. there is a massive snowfall across large parts of japan has left more than 17 people didn't, doesn't think it. thousands of harms of suffered power outages to parents where the agency is urging residents in the affected regions to avoid travel of to hundreds of cars got stuck on roads and heavy snow. in the north end, nor

it's not just taiwan not fisher taiwan. salsa koreaai and japan and the duluth sail ships in asian waters. it begins to feel a little like what we thought a lot about when i was a kid which is the mutual assured destruction associate with nuclear weapons,, right? we sort of all relied on the notion that the catastrophe were the soviet union and the united states to go to work on the catastrophe was so bad and so unthinkable that policymakers would do everything tomath avoit and, in fact, they did. so is that an apt analogy? should ion take some comfort in the notion that when people really come to understand what military conflict in the region looks like, they will perhaps step back from the brink because of effects would have o on the world economy which isob use a w book, what you thought global association with covert is that you would see nothing that fmla to conflict in the region? >> guest: i think this idea of mitchell issued economic destruction might be t true buti have to admit my confidence in is slipping. one r

and by taiwan. as war rages around them many ukrainians mark christmas earlier than usual to distance themselves from moscow. orthodox christian holiday calendar. residence of baton, of boucher this year. pudding that own traditions. fantastic. and the big fries continues across north america after a bit of christmas storm that has claimed dozens of lives. ah, i'm gathered, as welcome to the program. more than 70 chinese military aircraft have entered taiwanese air space over the last 24 hours. the islands government is saying this is the largest incursion to date by china, which claim sovereignty over the self governing territory. ty wants defense ministry said doesn't so fighter jets crossed the median line and the taiwan strait, which acts as an unofficial buffer zone. raging said it had conducted strike drills in response to provocations from taiwan at the united states. earlier i spoke to w correspondent, po and wang in taipei by asked him why these drills have been conducted now. though on chr

and china may be very far away if ever, from militarily taking taiwan. but i want none. the less, i'm sure, has a response to these kinds of air incursions. can you go into that a little bit? so how one of us as far has been doing some, you know, routine, you know, discouragement of those aircraft. i think the how many is military is it never really engages with the chinese aircraft. and what the timeline ministry of defense does is that reports daily on the number of chinese aircraft incursions. and they post publicly on the internet and which shows sort of the increasing pressure that's how one is under from, you know, china from, from the chinese military. but in terms of concrete actions that at the time when is military has taken, i don't think there's anything that is, you know, very strong coming out from the outside, from the eurasia group there for us. thanks very much. thank you. hundreds of thousands of homes of businesses are still without power. after a huge winter storm hit much of canada and united states. across those 2 countries, people are working in a

there are taiwan. according to ty, once military of national defense, $71.00 chinese aircraft, including fighter jets and also drones enter. ty was air defense. identifications on china claimed it was reacting to provoke chance and collusion between the united states in taiwan. because u. s. just passed the defense field defense be all with $10000000000.00 us dollars . the military aids for taiwan and china believes it severely, severely affects peace and stability across town street. now did tell us more about this u. s. defense authorization law that boosts military assistance for taiwan. so us our president joe biden on december 23rd to sign into a law and a 150 a 1000000000 us on defense policy bill said to increase security cooperation with ty, one, the legislation authorize up to $10000000000.00 us dollars in security assistance over the next 5 years to more the rise tiwana security capabilities to deter aggression by b gene. the act also affords taiwanda sim treatments as major and non nettle al

and china may be very far away if ever, from militarily taking taiwan. but i want none. the less, i'm sure, has a response to these kinds of air incursions. can you go into that a little bit? so taiwan best thus far has been doing some, you know, routine and, you know, discouragement of those aircraft. i think that how many is military is and never really engages with the chinese aircraft. and what the timeline ministry of defense does is that reports daily on the number of chinese aircraft incursions and stay post to publicly on the internet and which shows sort of the increasing pressure. that's how it is under from, you know, china from, from the chinese village military. but in terms of concrete actions that the town is military has taken. i don't think there is any thing that is, you know, very strong coming out from the town side. and from the eurasia group, there for us, thanks very much. thank you. and turning out of some other stories making headlines right now. days of huge snowfall cross large parts of japan has left more than 17 people dead, and dozens injure

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it used taiwan as a breakaway province.t says taiwan wants peace but needs to be able to defend itself. >> we can only avoid roar preparing for war. we can only stop by -- war by preparing to fight for war. taiwan needs to increase its ability to defend itself to strengthen our borders and gather more national support. >> we are more details from hong kong -- we have more details from hong kong. >> the latest measures announced by the taiwanese president is aimed at increasing the island's defense capabilities. one hting -- one estimate is that constance will be required to serve could potentially add 60 to 70,000 personnel annually to the current serving force by the year 2027. that is not the only change announced on tuesday. conscripts will undergo intense training, more live fire drills, to handle more sophisticated weapons. the president said the government plans to increase the overall salaries for conscripts and professional soldiers. the number of years a conscripts serves will be taken into account in the governmen

number two is the taiwan question. you know, on the one hand, i think we've got many reasons to make sure that taiwan is defended and secure against a chinese attack on the other hand, i think anyone who looks at a situation where 90% of the most advanced chips are produced in one small island, that happens to be the world's nastiest geopolitical dispute, i would say that's not a great way to structure your tech industry. and so the more we can do to diversify where advanced chips are produced, whether in the us or in korea or in europe, that's great. i think that's an important step that will limit china's ability to hold the rest of the world hostage to a potential military escalation in and around taiwan and and the chips act, i think, makes important steps in that direction by funding more advanced chip making in the us. and i think the key to understand the chips act is to say that actually other governments have been funding their own chip industries for a long time, providing tax incentives, for example, that ma

and also for the united states and for taiwan, obviously. and so japan is likely in either case, whether it's, it's, it's attacked, whether it's territory or attack as part of a large operation against taiwan. or even if it's excluded. there's a, there's a good chance to japan will be forced into it because i don't really think that if the u. s. gets into this in, gets involved, that us basis and you know, in other places would be immune to a chinese strike, which of course, is a strike on japanese territory. so basically, whatever happens with taiwan is going to deeply affect japan and actually, you know, it won't just stop there, it'll affect south korea, it'll effect something, stager, you can amik the economy's insecurity of those countries as well. and so but yeah, i think japan actually has calculated that the situation in taiwan street has gotten to a point where they really have to be attentive and be prepared for contingencies. and i see how much does this shift from japan deter china from invading taiwan? you know, i, i don't reall

and taiwan. plus residents of the us and canada battle the clear snow drifts and restore pal after a massive storm killed dozens across north america. ah. m. anthony howard walked into the program. russia says a drone attack on one of its 8 basis is killed 3 people. according to moscow, the fatalities were caused by falling debris. after it's a defenses, destroyed the drug. the air base is used by long range bombers and is one of 2 facilities believed to have been targeted by. he cranium, drones strikes earlier this month. security cameras near the air base recorded the moment of the explosion. russia sais, the drone used in the attack failed to hit its target, but was shot down instead. the angles our base is hundreds of kilometers from the ukranian border. these last little girl, boy, these are the consequences of russian aggression issue. if the russians think the war reach and deep in their territory, they're wrong or can, which we not of are glad only look up on what else. it's more than 300

we talk so much about taiwan. but japan has other challenges in terms of increasing its defense budget. it's very weak and cybersecurity defense. these of a china, china is much more further along. so when we talk about war, we're changing the dynamic, the understanding of war. now it involves information that involves diplomacy. it involves economics. and this is why it's critical that there is a conversation more nationally within japan and within asia, about where are we going? because really, this is increasingly a competition from an authoritarian regime to those that are more open society. so this is a conversation about what kind of world order to we want rule of law. and this is the, again, the talk coming out of japan and the other quad members. and this is why alliances are so important. but taiwan, we, we talk about in, you know, we talk about it so much. but it's just so much bigger than that. and of course, that is a concern, but this is about human security. it's about civil society. and that's why h

, and to the inside the taiwan strait. and then the continuous deployment of naval forces and air forces around taiwan on a daily basis. yeah, but i have to which of course, the chinese say that the united states has been sending warships exactly through that region. but us pull it to what you are just saying that it's a dispute, but it isn't do it. the u. s. congress ratified an act that says there is no dispute. taiwan is part of china. the low dispute? no debate. well that there's the legality or the diplomatic language which you're referring to. but in terms of the actual estimation is there is a dispute. because the p r says peer c says we're going to take this by force if we can't get it through other non kinetic means. you just have to go back to the apex . lauren, in october of 2013, we're shipping should. we cannot wait forever for a political solution to taiwan. so g, a split the p r c. it was already on a timeline, but he's publicly exposed of the chinese communist parties timeline to take time on, and they have

for taiwan over the next five years.he heart of this. do you know how _ at the heart of this. do you know how those _ at the heart of this. do you know how those likely - at the heart of this. do you know how those likely to l at the heart of this. do you | know how those likely to be affected by this in taiwan feel about it and the wider international community? and about it and the wider international community? and i won it is not — international community? and i won it is not a _ international community? and i won it is not a threat _ international community? and i won it is not a threat they - international community? and i won it is not a threat they are l won it is not a threat they are surprised about. it is intrinsic to society in taiwan, they have always lived by the fear that china may one day decide to take a stronger military action. but in terms of the rest of the international community, countries and industries have been preparing for the fact that china may, as it stupid little situation is precarious, i

strait on, you need to quit enhancing your support of taiwan. this of course, is in response to prison bite and signing that national defense authorization act, which includes in it the taiwan enhanced resilience act, which for the 1st time specifies a defense monetization program. for taiwan, it gives a $1000000000.00 in annual presidential draw down authority. what that means is our president binding can draw down from pentagon stump piles to sand. defensive weapons, antimissile, land based and see based missiles to taiwan. and so china sees that as a provocation. there's a lot more in the national defense authorization act that supports taiwan. so chinese coolness or provocation. so we do need to take this pretty seriously. north america is still willing from a severe winter with emergency workers are battling to restore power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses after an unprecedented winter storm. more than 50 people have been confirmed dead across the us and canada and authorities expect the toll to rise. the deadly blizzard br

they would love to take taiwan back. we need to be clear they can't do that. >> roberts, there is korean peninsula but what is happening there and why? >> okay, let's summarize this with two big points. the first is north korea unlike during the prior administration and during 2020 there were four mist launches. in 2022 north korea has in excess of 90 ballistic and cruise missiles. so north korea is also feeling their oats and decided that they got a week president in biden and they will go ahead and rattle some saber. at the same time they sent drones south korea and scrambled jets and was able to respond. as in all of these situations where you have an opportunistic aggressor trying to do something that signals that they think maybe they can get away with something, you have to respond every time. rushes the counterexample, and unfortunately's president biden said -- use over that lead to. i think the bottom line here is you have to be clear. we have to be clear. it didn't help vice president errors meant to south kore

how are people in taiwan feeling about this?rning report on monday morning by taiwan's defence ministry, it has been reported there is no major alarm because tensions have been quite tense but still the fact this happened on christmas day, this is definitely worrying and this follows on friday, china conducting military drills nearjapan and japan has recently increased its defence spending. joe biden hasjust signed a new defence bill to establish a defence and modernisation programme for taiwan so well tensions have been quite tense, even though we had joe biden meeting with the president recently, it seems like tensions and are going to eat anytime soon. and are going to ease anytime soon. and what are the expectations and where this go? is it seen as sabre rattling which will mostly pass? of course, china claims taiwan as its own territory and has said it will not rule out using force to reunite the island. taiwan has strongly rejected beijing's sovereignty claims and it has its own democratically elected government. tensions

be ready to take taiwan by 2020. and so that's really what i call the start of the decade of concern, decade of concern or just a decade of the beginning of the ratification, in a way of the congressional activated 79, january 1st to the united states. it also recognizes what the communist party of china recognizes that is taiwan as part of china. well, taiwan is a still something that's debatable, especially for the people that live on the island. it don't want to be part of the people's republic of china, so that, that question has been open for debate. and united states has been pretty clear that they want to see a peaceful resolution of this dispute. and most civilized nations hasn't said the same. and so that's really the concern right now, is that what we're seeing from the p r c. and especially from the p away by what we saw in august the 1st week of august. with what i characterized as a p l. a time on invasion exercise. it went on foreign 11 of ballistic missiles that bracketed all around taiwan to the north

for taiwan over the next five years. heart of this. azadeh moshiri there. pop star mel c has announced she's pulling out of a new year's eve concert in poland. she didn't specify why, but her decision has been praised by members of the lgbt community. the polish authorities and the television company that was going to broadcast the concert have been widely criticised for their attitudes to gay rights. the bbc�*s tim allman reports. # i thought that we would just be friends # things will never be the same again. for more than 25 years, both as a solo artist and as part of the spice girls, mel c has been performing all around the world. but now she has decided there is at least one place where she does not want to perform. in a statement on twitter she said: mel c is a high—profile supporter of lgbt rights. even being named as honorary gay by attitude magazine earlier this year. gay rights have become something of a flashpoint in poland, with demonstrators on both sides taking to the streets. same—sex marriages and civil u

tomorrow to the front is difficult but worth it china sent a record number of military aircraft to taiwan the government informed the islands about this during the day 71 aircraft, among which fighters and drones entered the air defense zone and ivaniv were also seven chinese ships were involved, all this happened during alleged strike exercises , the government of taiwan called such actions the largest recorded invasion, the president has already convened a high-level meeting on national security, the meeting will take place today, china said that this was a response to provocations by taiwan and the united states of america, and i will remind you that the day before the us president signed a bill on the defense budget in which china is called a strategic challenge, the document also talks about strengthening cooperation with and ivan in the field of security and now with us in direct communication yuriy poi and the head of the section of the asia-pacific region of the center of research of the army of conversion and disarmament mr. yuriy good night congratulations good night please expl