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Ah, so lets start with a look at how the contentious relationship between taiwan and china began after the Chinese Nationalist last chinas civil war. In 1949, the nationalist k m. T party fled to taiwan where they imposed martial law for 38 years. Master law was lifted in 1987 and then the islands, 1st direct democratic president ial elections were held in 1996. In 2016 taiwan elected. Its 1st female president. Sy, ink. When johnny asked to talk about whats next with taiwan bryant, you ready . Lame, a waiting yet. So good to have you. Thank you for joining us, brian. Please tell our audience what you day. I my name is brian hugh. Im a journalist and im with the founding editors of. Ready the magazine, which covers social issues in taiwan and politics were found in 2014 offer these informed. So good to have you. Freddy, want to people know you as and for doing. I am for the lame a member of town is parliament and knows. Oh, a heavy metal sinner. Nice to have your weights hang so lovely to have you. Thank you for joining us. The tele audience. What your name for what you day. Hello everyone. My name is waiting again. I am currently an assistant professor at the Government Department of Franklin Marshall college in pennsylvania, United States, and i study asian politic get heavy. I am wondering guess when a well known personality you oh, a leader of a country visits taiwan. How much trouble does that cause, bryan . So trend this reaction that i was quite strong. There happened diplomatic visits in the past by other leaders, the government officials, et cetera. But this time china really use this as a pretext to escalate pirates due to close. He being so highly ranked that she is in my infrastructure to the presence the after the vice president. But i think in this case, china was looking for some way to ramp up the entrance into the battery to visit. So oh, waiting. You were in taiwan when nancy pelosi, the u. S. Speaker of the house, who visited taiwan. There was so much lead up to that. But from the inside, what was the experience like i have to say it was like you live in the parallel world like so. I think the week leading up to pillows is that i think the policy circle in the and the see was old fighting over whether its the force of strict crisis where s and i one, i think people having be living under the threat of china live kind of assets and live their life very normal and i so i was very surprised to learn how much tension it has the rigor between the us in china over the polosa. Right. So level of tension outside of the country on a scale of 1. 00 to 10. 00 was what would you say waiting for nancy pelosi visit . What would you say with a 10 outside my time . Either on my twitter birth i would say 8 to 10. All right. But as high one, it was probably one. No, and that is extraordinary. All right, freddy, youve got to come in here. Im looking at your twitter feed. People love to come visit you. Not just taiwan, but also come visit. Youd say this is representative jennifer wex than she popped in to see you in june. And then we have and its freedom huge thanks to a bust of taiwan and members of the taiwanese polymer for having me. We had some delicious chinese food, etc, etc. So you are no stranger to hosting guessed to tie one. What does that mean . Is it performative . Is it symbolic . How does it help . I think because i think how many people can feel that no matter is in terms of Epidemic Prevention or Regional Security or the value of democracy and human rights. I think people in taiwan feel we play a very Important Role or more and more Important Role in, in this region these in the pacific region. So therefore, exchanges between democratic countries are activist or democratic police. Politicians and taiwan should be normal and positive. Should be encouraged, so because there is no way that we play more and more Important Role. But if the people outside of taiwan one could get engaged, we need to be approved by china. Thats it makes no sense and its not right. So i think lindsey pelosi, she got a huge, well come in taiwan because at, for time, one is we, we want to country be, can contribute more and we want to play more Important Role in the region. We can take this responsibility but also the world need to support us because when we play more Important Role. Busy weve got even heavier threats from china, so we need to speak together in the democratic world waiting. I see you nodding and brian, i see you nodding as well. So you welcome visitors, but that theres an impact. Im just looking here on twitter, the ministry of defense, r o c, just keeping track of the number of incursions in taiwan territory from china. And these go on, sporadically from day to day to day of visit, was these incursions from china waiting so i agree with what brian threat it said. So think the passage was having trouble act like in 2018. We have seeing, you know, several, many delegations coming to visit and ready for the mission. We asked how a nice, well welcome to make friends with all other nations and engage with each other, you know, through more cooperation and collaboration. And so i think rise current in pointing out that i think china, i use this as an excuse as a pretext to try to change the status call. 7 by, you know, starting or engaging with more military drills. Yeah. And that is, and i dont think how many people will be deter by this because we can not just not making friends because the bully said you shouldnt make friends. And we dont make friends that the that doesnt work well. Yeah, yeah, i want to 1st friday, the 2nd. Yeah. I mean, i think, for example, just the fact that theres all this fear about the drills or effect through the large gap between perceptions in taiwan and outside of it. I mean, people in taiwan would be a 1st in line of fire, but on the convers to what much of the Reaction International law was, people logged in, how well, i mean, there was support people gather the airport to welcome close the, the hotel that she was staying and so forth, and as you know, the world was going on about how this is pedro mania, how this will lead to a military threat with an actually thats in the face of these trends. Its tony people, but somehow their perspectives were left out of the conversation. A conversation with had about the risks, but who are at risk is actually that, how many people . And i think that the, the reactions as visits are very different than between how many people and what much International Discourse was about. Guess afraid i often hear a so if you go 1st, i guess ask if i, if i, i think the. Busy busy speaker, and then some i thought does some International Media or some people said nancy pelosi world, the Chinese Military exercises, or the taiwanese, we broad we, we brought us to these crises or these, these threats from china. We brought to face these kind of threats. I want to emphasize that actually actually we have been facing these for decades. China is very to pin do in these always like that. Not just because of nancy pelosi visiting or because of what we have been doing. So we have 2 people have to understand that we have been facing these for decades. China always want to find excuses to, to, to bring higher threats on these region. Not as much as threatening in taiwan, but also all the countries in this region thats, thats the, the live, the normal life we are dealing here in this region. You know, get the phrase i often hear from within. I want to a status quad, preserving the status quo waiting. Can you explain to our audience what status quo the taiwan means . So i think we can discussion, discuss the question from true perspective. One is the tiny side entity and the 2nd one is how in relation with china . So i was like density. I think the majority of tiny people now identify themselves. You know, nice. But when it comes to deciding what the relationship with china should be here, there are some debate going on when some people think that how and its already a defective sovereignty country. Why as others, there are other people in taiwan think that we should also pursue your independence. But despite that differences, i think the majority of people are pragmatic and do accept the status quo, which is that high one is that this back, those sovereignty state. And thats kind of what the status call is. However, the tricky part is that the status quo is self is changing as well, and how long it can remain and how it changes actually depends. China, the level of aggression, the l. It in the future. Basically the more aggression imposed by one of the state, its called change more towards independence. Let me just bring in just a quick thought here from preston. Sy, when, because she mentioned status quo. So im going to play that and then brian, can you just pick up from the thought that shes playing out here . Its have a listen. This is from earlier this month. Oh man, we are in close cooperation with International Allies to monitor the military situation. At the same time, were doing everything we can to let the world know that taiwan is determined to safeguard stability and the status quo across the Taiwan StraitOcean Crescent sighing. When using that phrase, status quo again, brian. Yeah, absolutely. And i think the debates high is very emphatic on this point, that shes not the one that seeking to change the state of, of crossfit relations tie as berkeley intent on avoiding being labeled as provocateur in the relation with china. And china. In the meantime, tries of frames i want as a troublemaker, but this is a form of victim flaming. The threats are off for all coming from tribal biography. What also one sees with some of the off example differences between that discourse in taiwan and outside of it i alluded to earlier, is this victim blaming this view of taiwan as having brought this on itself risking the region or to maintain itself a one does also see this argument that one sees circulated now in International Discourse, that challenger does give up its freedom, some is the way it reserve peace. And unfortunately, i dont think thats the case, but this gets brought up with regard suppose even than powers disgusting. This very hyperbolic tone. As though its the end of the world that were on the verge of war. But as i mentioned were, were in taiwan. People him relatively chill about it and, and thats how things were let me bring in a newsletter. This is alyssa from the chan friday. Im going to play this for you because what for mean, jan told us earlier was about appreciating allies, but the allies need to step up. They cant just be allies from a distance. Because if the status quo is changing, and you need your allies to call on what might happen, this is what he told us area. The political economy systems in taiwan over a differ from china. It is a consensus in taiwan that people want to preserve the ways of lifes democracy, freedom in the events economy. However, chinas annexation is looming because it is a Sacred Mission for them to unified ty, while therefore taiwan scour man is trying to strengthen the self defense capability for the us is very important because Research Shows that the height of, of it reassure people from partner countries it is also very important for the u as in ice to provide more economic and military resources to deter china from changing the status quo of freight. Im a little bit cynical about these visitors coming to taiwan here, calling themselves that you are allies. But if china does more than just fly over the taiwanese strike, what will your allies be dealing . I think 1st of all, i think for now i think the allies should show their attitude that they are, they are very supportive of taiwan. They state which i think thats very important, especially after the rush out invasion to ukraine, that we can send the wrong message to china. We need to lead china. Know that if anything happened here, the allies, well, well, stand with taiwan. Thats meant we see the International Community has remained strategic and big o t for the situation in this region. And that my stand the wrong message to china. So its very important to give china a more clear image mall. Clear message that the allies are stand with high want. And by sending the high ranking officials to taiwan to get engaged with high one on the table, to blame our friendship on the table to show taiwan to show, to china. That to know that there are friends of taiwan everywhere and friends they would tie one thats very important. And i do believe that after the russian in, after the russia invasion to you train taiwan is people know that if we stand for a longer time, if we can fight as if we can protect our land as much as we can do in china. Evade high one, then i think the allies and our friends, well, were supporters more will take to with us. I think thats a very strong message far as i am wondering what it feels like trying to live in a nation where huge powers on one side of the land take and then huge, a huge power as your neighbor talk about taiwan as if its a porn in a game of chess, what does that feel like . So that is something that i find very concerning because that was also, i think, in regards to plus he visit how much it was discussed. Again, as i mentioned, there is not the focus on what tonys thought about their own future. Theres a lot of talk about in terms of the u. S. And china and so forth. And so i think that does raise one of the questions. I mean, the visit to was welcomed and i won. And i think Many International did not get that because of the fact that this is seen as a show of support. And taiwan is really wanting to support from the National Community right now. Other than the rest, the world is afraid thinks it advisable, and there are some questions i think, to be raised about where the substantive gains from this symbolic or mostly just for show or if is actually thing taiwan gains from this kind of visit though it puts i one line of fire up and not respect. I think that this is long term in the face of taiwan and i, i would hope to see that change about the way i wanted discuss that is more attention to the way tony is want their future to be ah, me oftentimes, and you just have this notion, thats how i should give up their freedoms to preserve peace, or that they should stop being baking noises about the soft termination and that kind of thing. And the china will go away. But i think also whats important to notice is that chinas live fire drills also off example targeted map that there is missiles that end up in japans exclusive economic zone. Others also chinese, the lock to be directed at south korea, the up on the yellow sea and the boise. And so i think this points to chinas rather expensive aimed at regression towards not was taiwan. That if taiwan is cedar over in some form, they would just be taiwan. I mean, tara china would still continue to be aggressive in the area. And i think thats, thats very key to keep in mind. Im just looking here on my laptop and it says a piece that you wrote brian for the guardian. It says, dont believe chinas convenient historical tales. Taiwan belongs to the taiwanese earlier this month on biology was show the bottom line. The u. S. Ambassador to china had this to say about the history of china and taiwan. And the relationship between taiwan and china havent listened to this. The question of taiwan fundamentally speaking is not about to democracy or freedom is about chinas national sovereignty. And a territory integrity is about the National Dignity of chinese people. The historical fact is that china has been pop. Taiwan has been part of china since ancient times. People need to understand history and need to know the international law. Ryan, how do you argue with a country that says its a historical fact that your nation is part of our nation . Well, i think its advantage history because the fact is the p r. C has never controlled taiwan. And china often claimed the claims about ancient history, but i dont know why were then evaluate in validating the current claims latanya people to soft termination based on age and history. The purity has never controlled taiwan. It is one of the force of them over through imperial china and that it is founding these claims to taiwan based of imperial trans history. But if you look at it, i would only became a province in 887. 00 and then a mirror, a year later, it was seated to the japanese. And so thats already the last imperial dynasty. Its not the case, thats how i was part of try and often time immortal. But then china will deploy these nationalists abstractions about long term or ancient history to claim that i want it just as low as part of china. I think that 1st ab claims shouldnt matter. In the face of contemporary chinese, people think what their future should be, do they, i did fire chinese or not, and i think the answer is probably not. And then also in the history is also just not incorrect. Is this incorrect . Its not true. And china continues to try to claim though, just in terms of conversations with other place in the world. Right. I think, i think, although the history that the, the sort of the Chinese Ambassador understands, i dont, i dont think its right, but its very important that thats the reason why the people in this region, not just in taiwan, but in this region field. China is so dangerous, is a bad neighbor because weve that kind of ideology. China can also claim dot korea is a part of china. Mongolia is a part of china. Again, im is a part of china, all of these region that have been invaded by china in that, in their 1000 p 3. Are they on their legal territory in that kind of, by the allergies. They are so dangerous in this region thats, thats the reason why we always emphasize that. We always tell the world that if we lose taiwan, then they will have a next. Taiwan will not be the last one to, to be sacrificed to, to lose. But they are always to be the next one, because with that kind of chinese ideology, they play a very dangerous role in these region. And all always the threats to the neighbors can i hear you know, way to go ahead and more. So the beginning, the, the chinese and better to say its not about democracy and not democracy. I think it absolutely has a lot to do with preserving democracy. I know it sounds like just the value thing that has only have symbolic meaning. But as a matter of fact, china is right now, one of the largest authoritarian country in the world. And in the past decade they have been trying to ask for their authoritarianism through their building Role Initiative and with the rise of populism and the erosion of democracy. Everywhere in the world, i think preserving democracy, what if it preserving time preserving mockers . It special for them be very strong. You know, not only for talented people but all or basically people, me in democracy around the, around the globe. And as a matter of fact, one is the, the chinese, you can democracy right now in the world. I think it, the ambassador think thats not the point or the matter. I think its because he doesnt believe democracy in the functional is a couple waiting in the try to speak. Were waiting. We, we, we have a split in our youtube audience who are watching right now. So diane, me, brooke says taiwan, 1st of all is not a country. That is a fact. So bryan and waiting, and freddy, you, you push back on that. Marie says taiwan has a right to be free. They were annex during the king, dine, it didnt queen dynasty the skis, make the ching dynasty, but it was never colonized like japan. There was a debate that goes back and forth. I am wondering just from the psyche of people who live in taiwan waiting. You did have a wonderful example of that. When i said the level of anxiety outside of taiwan was 8. But inside of taiwan was one. What about the level of threat that you feel from your neighbor . Where is that on that scale of one to 10 . The idea that china is saying actually, taiwan belongs to us at some point. We want to take it. Whats the level of anxiety there . Are. So i think how and no matter how people cold weather time is the country or not. It is the it is a, its a society that demographically elect. Its a. 7 top Decision Maker for the past more than 20 years. And it has the democratic government. People have all the democratic rights. So regardless how other people calls, i want, it is a function mean our sovereignty states. And so on that level, i dont think i, i dont think the anxiety level is that high for people when i was. So give us a number cuz its always illuminating on a number, a scale of one to 10. And i made so that china will actually one day take taiwan. Doesnt want all the anxiety level there are me personally is rowing. Okay. Rob . Probably 5. 00 to 75. 00 to 7. 00. Im just okay, sure. Just check me friday cuz when the last 30 seconds would show your anxiety level that china will one day take taiwan. What john . Diety level freddy, 1. 00 to 10. 00. Yeah, i think about 7. Okay. And brian, well, i think about the same, how much a breach of out though, its not immediate disrupt her. I submitted that seemed that way. All right, sounds fascinating. I. I love that you helped us understand taiwan from the inside looking out. So outside this hyperbole inside theres relatively com 5 to 7 amount of com. 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