to the might of the chinese military as ukraine has already put up in the face of the might of the russian military, so the question to you, if i may say so, as a representative of your country, is do you believe, honestly, that taiwan is in a position right now to match ukraine and put up that level of effective military resistance? yes, i think we have been investing so many resources to improve our defence capacity and taiwan does not want to enter into a kind of arms race with china, which is not in taiwan s interest because china is much bigger than taiwan in terms of military resources and manpower, so what we want to do is to improve our defence capacity, particularly focus on the promotion of taiwan s capacity to do asymmetric warfare against china s potential invasion against taiwan, and a lot of focus goes
jinguiug strait against taiwan,. xi jingping may well be cautious, if he believes that taiwan can put up as fierce and effective resistance to the might of the chinese military as ukraine has already put up in the face of the might of the russian military, so the question to you if i may say so, as a representative of your country, is do you believe, honestly, that taiwan is in a position right now to match ukraine and put up that level of effective military resistance?- military resistance? yes, i think we military resistance? yes, i think we have military resistance? yes, i think we have been - military resistance? yes, i. think we have been investing military resistance? yes, i- think we have been investing so many resources to improve our defence capacity, and taiwan does not want to enter into a kind of arms race with china, which is not in taiwan s interest because china is much bigger than taiwan in terms of military resources and manpower, so what we want to do is improve
showstopper you sit there in brazil two brussels, you are the representative of type a as it is put, to the european union, ijust wonder, from your position, what impact has russia s invasion of ukraine had on your homeland? l russia s invasion of ukraine had on your homeland? i think our whole had on your homeland? i think our whole community - had on your homeland? i think our whole community is - had on your homeland? i think. our whole community is watching the situation in ukraine closely, and we believe the impact of the ukraine situation will be far reaching, so i think the first situation need to keep watching will be about geopolitical things, europe will come out with a new map, so this is a wake up call to our global community, because it shows how easily authoritarian countries can use force to challenge liberal base order and international borders, so it s very important for our democratic community to hold a line and then brace for the cost of russia s invasion,
the cost russia s invasion and i believe china is watching the situation closely because there will be two major concerns of the chinese side, number one is how likely russia can conquer ukraine without too much advice, and what the economic impact will be of global mobilisation against russia. if russia can conquer ukraine and achieve its political and military objective without paying to do much price, then china made all of those steps, and if russia has to pay a lot for the invasion, that china has to think twice, because this is a very important political era in year 4 china, the party will organises 20 of national congress, and xi jingping will extend his reign for another five jingping will extend his reign for anotherfive years, jingping will extend his reign for another five years, maybe for another five years, maybe for the rest of his life, so he will be very cautious to do the calculation before waging a war in a theatre of the taiwan strait against taiwan,. xi
must fail, but this century s rising power, china, offers mr putin friendship without limits. could be ukrainian invasion foreshadow an effort by beijing to eliminate the thorn in its side, namely, taiwan. my guest is type a representative to the eu ming yen tsai. could what starts in ukraine and in taiwan? ming yen tsai in brussels, welcome to hardtalk. my pleasure welcome to hardtalk. my pleasure to welcome to hardtalk. my pleasure to be welcome to hardtalk. m pleasure to be here with welcome to hardtalk. mg pleasure to be here with you. welcome to hardtalk. my - pleasure to be here with you. a pleasure to be here with you. a pleasure to be here with you. a pleasure to have you on the