And how we can all make a difference. Knowledge grows through sharing. Download it now for free. Dig reeves tina, a sex phone operator who wrote her masters thesis on the potato. Raring to read a not a turn on. Well, it gets more ridiculous from their d. W literature list under german longstreet with youre watching t w use asia coming up reports the you waste plans to jointly produce weapons with time want to time it is false. Its stand a chance against china fearing invasion, some citizens resort to private defense courses. Analysts say the state needs to step in and indias Opposition Congress potty alexis. Not gandhi, president in almost a quarter century. Like can an 80 year old x minister reverse the pot. Hes slow decline. Ah, ive been for sewland, welcome. China is quiet stance on ukraine and pressure on ty, one pose a serious security threat. According to japan. Officials say the japanese are undertaking their biggest arms build up since the 2nd world war to deter bay jang. There are also reports out today that the United States is considering producing weapons with thy want, either providing the tank for production in taiwan or using taiwanese pots to make the weapons in the us. The taiwanese need help analysts question. They have fire power and say theyre 4 months of mandatory military service is poor, which is why grass roots training groups is springing up. She is young in an unsure, are both students of coma academy a private organization founded in 2021. And recently given a donation of some 19000000 euros by taiwanese tycoon, robert sow the organization. Aims to give Civil Defense training to some 3000000 people over the next 3 years. The policy today, under the watchful eye of his instructor chase on yen, carefully raises and moves, fellow students, posing as wounded as china ramps up its rhetoric towards the taiwanese people. Their unease about the islands future has been growing. She is among them. Woman, weve been living on this island for a long time. We have our own systems in our own lifestyles. Most of us are reluctant to see that change. But the training here is not just about moving the wounded on a battlefield after attending one of the days lectures and is doing some follow up research on her phone about how to find this information. A common tactic in war fissions and this is a census Information Warfare is real and you can see it everywhere. I go home and ive been trying so hard to communicate with elderly people. I tell them not to believe faint knees or whats the logical lithia you feel frustrated because you dont have time to teach them how to distinguish the tale and i me on them are though this is their glancing me. She got up, bonham, and how to i thought by ho chang, we, one of the co founders of coma academy says the classes aimed to foster a sense of hope among taiwanese people and show people how they can play a part in the National Defense that shes eveningside, an after she jan ping took office in 2013 and the rising threats posed by china. Taiwan became a reality. And the example of the ukraine war has shown the taiwanese people that the risk of war over taiwan is very possible. Johnson wasnt under oh, but chase young in also knows that any possible aggression from Mainland China doesnt necessarily start with a bullet. Another reason why he finds qu miss training so important goes on males on too many people are unaware that war might begin in different forms. For example, Cyber Attacks or trade wars now who is in china, wants to destroy our will to resist. And theyve been doing this for a while. Civilians in their own ways are strengthening Civil Defense. No one wants a warrior who taiwan, but she believes in preparing for the worst. Jeff kingston is director of Asian Studies at Temple University japan, a grass roots organization, given crash courses to tie when he citizens on Civil Defense. What does that tell you about . Ty, ones preparedness well tells me that theyre learning the lessons of ukraine and also under scores. The huge military gap between china and taiwan. China has a 1000000 soldiers. Taiwan has 88000. So after 2 decades of double digit increases, military spending on china side, taiwan this year has a record increase of 15 percent. But overall its defense. Budget remains around 20000000000 dollars, 110th of what chinas is. So we used the government really doing enough because analysts of described mandatory service in taiwan. O chiz are the a few months as poll and theyre right when they ended conscription 2018. That was a big turning point of the short training period that people undergo. Ah, they dont actually handle weapons, its more conceptual. So yes, i agree with those analysts to believe that that is insufficient. And thats why i think the chip tycoon has stepped in, say, look, we lead territorial defense. We also need to train snipers all this, the service of porcupine, National Defense strategy, which is to make it too costly for china to invade. But as far as conventional warfare practices go, where does ty one stand . You think tie one does stand a chance against a giant like china . Well, thats why i think that it behooves them to adopt a symmetrical systems like Stinger Missiles and mobile artillery. A type of a weapon, systems that are hard to target and hard to counter. And the United States has been making these available. And in the new u. S. Defense budget, they st earmarked over 8000000000. 00 of grants and loans to make this possible. And also seems i face is going to engage in joint military training. So i think everybody recognizes a lot more needs to be done. But i think that the ukraine has underscore the value of asymmetrical defense. And i think that taiwan will be pouring more of its efforts in that direction. M. R. O. Very aware of roches intentions, as far as ukraine goes and the region. But what about chinas intentions . China is of course, holding its communist Party Congress this week. What has leadership in pings, speech told us no surprises. I mean, he reiterated was declared in the august white paper and taiwan, that china will not renounce the use of force. And they all take all means necessary to deal with what they refer to as the taiwan problem. But i think that she has seen what can go wrong with pollutants invasion of the ukraine. So i think it probably makes it less likely that he will invade and any concerns from where you are, japan being the 2nd biggest economy in asia and important instability for the region. Well, clearly a japan sees a threat to taiwan as a threat to japan. Aah last year. Hum. Huh. Sions obey basically sent a very clear warning to china that a military attack on taiwan would lead to a Japanese Military response. And thats the 1st time in the postwar period the japan has ever made such a threat. The current uh, key shita government has sort of tried to back pedal away from that. I think that they want to emphasize more on diplomacy. But clearly they have a lot at stake. And they are committed to the tense of chi juan. But you know, as your report indicates, taiwan is very vulnerable to Cyber Attacks and also trade embargoes. And so these are vulnerabilities that china, a bay exploit, a short of invasion if kingston director of Asian Studies at Temple University, japan. Thank you very much for your analysis. Thank you. Oh, wisdom can come with old age, but there are downsides. Time will tell with the new leader of indias main Opposition Congress potty mitochondrion kind of gay is a year older than you as president biden, senior to indian prime minister. And from modi by 8 years. And although carnegie is a departure from the influential naval gandhi leadership, he is a gandhi family, loyalist. He overwhelmingly won the votes of his secular party, but modis hot, right . Nationalist b, j. P. Still look, set for a 3rd term in election street by 2024. D ws delhi bureau chief, amrita cima joins us. It. Tell us more about the new leader of in his congress potty. Hi, ben will the new leader of Indian Congress party. I generally category is 80 years old, as you mentioned, and he is a person with great amount of Organizational Skills at the regional local as well as at the national level. He was a minister for some 20 years that he was a clear favorite to win this election and hes won by a landslide. Now, there was some discussion about whether he would stand or not. It was a very last minute decision by him to stand just one day before the nominations closed. He said Senior Leaders asked him to stand for this position, but its widely believed. It was actually that gun these behind it this a decision. This more that he should stand and by the gun these, i mean sonya gandy. He was the into them a president of the Congress Party and her 2 children are whole and priyanka. And which is why the upon into kind of getty shushing to rule described him as an unofficial official candidate through, in fact, as clear that they were irregularities in the pulley today. But this has been dismissed my, the officials of the Congress Party. So i did my le calgary is now the president of the Indian Congress. Spotty will, im returning cheris going to need those Organizational Skills if hes going to breathe new life into a party that does may change after being in opposition for so long. Thats right. And thats what he says he wants to do kind of get. He said that he is very strongly for reform, the gum, the spartan. You had adopted a declaration earlier this year in me in which that goal for reform. And he said he strongly supports this more than he wants to breathe new life into the Congress Party. For example, you says they must have younger people in the party. At least 50 percent of the positions should be held by people under the age of 50. Hes dork by womens environment, empowerment of marginalized groups and so on. But the question really is that the perception is that he represents the old god that hes the gun, the loyalist, that he represents the congress of the old and not something new. And this is something he need to change. Several younger communist leaders, bay, promising Young Congress leaders left the party in recent years because he got impatient because there was nothing happening. There were no opportunities. And a sense of drift had set into the party. For example, we saw the last 2 elections, the congress was death emitted and has been losing Regional Election up to Regional Election in recent years. So the big challenge by category is, can he turn the tide for the congress . Now he has the skills, as i mentioned, Organizational Skills, he has administrative skills, he has grassroots support and perhaps even the inclination to bring about big change. But can he do it . Danny . Capture the imagination of young people, Young Congress voters. You have to remember that a 35 and 65 percent of the indian population is under the age of 35. 00, can capture their imagination. Its a big ask it definitely its going to take a lot to change peoples minds in the lead up to the next National Elections in 2024 and read a chamber for us in daily. Thank you very much for the analysis. Ive been puzzling. Ill see you again, sir. Ah. A vibrant habitat ended glistening place of longing. The mediterranean sea. Its waters connect people of many cultures. 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