that's it from click in taiwan. it seems that exciting times could lie ahead, plus hopefully a solution to this pollution problem. throughout the week, you can keep up with the whole of the click team, wherever they are in the world, on instagram, facebook and twitter at @bbcclick. thanks for watching. hello, we started the weekend off on a pretty wild note, severe gales across southern parts of britain, leaving disruption and some damage, also heavy rain, with fresh flood warnings enforced. today looks calmer, this area of low pressure will continue to thin and weaken. for the rest of the afternoon, dry for most, plenty of sunshine around, bit of rain across north—west england and towards eastern scotland. the area of low pressure will begin to sweep in, bringing showers and long spells of rain across england and wales, some of it can be quite heavy, wind picking up across the south coast and through the channel, breezy, wet, for the east of scotland, in between, some dry spells, temperatures ranging from five to

on the taiwan was the most important work of ours. the infiltration into media the temples and grassroots organizations china has dismissed him as a thief and says taiwan's interests are best served as part of china. i want to say to taiwan but we have been cooperating in a friendly way with many countries in the world based on mutual benefits. so these benefits not only suit china's interests but also other countries interests. it's a view shared by the china friendly presidential contender. if he can overcome the odds to win in january it may not be entirely a mark of his own success and for more i'm joined in the studio by taiwan's deputy foreign minister dr suit. welcome taiwan is headed to presidential elections next. january and the current president has already accused china of attempting to influence this election what proof is there of this. well i think. experience of last election last year we had a local election and there are a lot of. fake accounts on the social media that boosts certain candidates and if we trace them.

that's it from click in taiwan. it seems that exciting times could lie ahead, plus hopefully a solution to this pollution problem. throughout the week, you can keep up with the whole of the click team, wherever they are in the world, on instagram, facebook, twitter, on @bbcclick. thanks for watching. hello there. there was a stormy start to the weekend for some of us, particularly into southern england, the isles of scilly, and to the channel islands as well, some stormy seas. we saw some high wind gusts. on an exposed weather station on the isle of wight, 109 mph, 83 mph at plymouth, 61 at guernsey. still quite blustery in the day ahead, but nowhere near as stormy saturday was. it is still low pressure in control. so fairly brisk winds still around some of the coasts of south—west england and in northern scotland, where saturday was quite windy as well. now, there is a bit of wet weather to be had too. this is how we start the day — a few fog patches where the winds are light, actually, through northern ireland

that's it from click in taiwan. it seems that exciting times could lie ahead, plus hopefully a solution to this pollution problem. throughout the week you can keep up with the whole of the click team, wherever they are only welcome on instagram, facebook, twitter, on bbc click. thanks for watching. hello there. winds have already been picking up across parts of the uk. there is some stormy weather to take us through saturday. gales and also heavy rain, which for some of us will cause some disruption to travel and potentially some damage as well. your bbc local radio station will keep you up to date. you can see the swelling area of cloud on our earlier satellite picture. this is an area of low pressure which has been deepening as it has been approaching the british isles. 0n the southern flank, you can see these isobars washing together. that shows a swathe of strong winds continuing to develop right now across parts of wales and the south—west of england. some very heavy rain to be had here as well. but there are

that's it from click in taiwan. it seems that exciting times could lie ahead, plus hopefully a solution to this pollution problem. throughout the week, you can keep up with the whole of the click team, wherever they are in the world, on instagram, facebook, twitter, on @bbcclick. thanks for watching. hello, we've got a deep area of low pressure bringing some very wet and in places very windy weather across parts of the uk. today, we've got a number of warnings in place from the met office for the strength of the wind and also some heavy rain — likely to see some disruption and potentially some damage as well. it's all down to this deep area of low pressure, slowly sliding its way eastwards today. the strongest winds on its northern and southern flank and its southern parts of england and south wales that we're most concerned about through this morning. for the strength of the wind gusts for a time of 70 to 80 miles now across southwest england, also along the coast towards hampshire and the isle of wight, 50 to 60

that's it from click in taiwan. it seems that exciting times could lie ahead, plus hopefully a solution to this pollution problem. throughout the week, you can keep up with the whole of the click team, wherever they are in the world, on instagram, facebook and twitter at @bbcclick. thanks for watching. hello there. parts of england and wales look extremely wet on thursday with the risk of localised flooding in places and the risk of some travel disruption, all courtesy of this new area of low pressure which is going to park itself across the uk and this very slow—moving front will bring some very wet conditions through central portions of the uk. early on thursday, that rain band will be slowly spreading its way northwards so some places quite wet. blustery showers across the southwest and some showers across scotland which will be wintry over the high ground. a little bit of sunshine around and not quite as cold a start as what we have seen the last few nights because we have cloud around. but through thursday mo

one of taiwan's most widely watched t.v. channels the company didn't get it start in the news business though it is time. ones largest manufacturer of rice crackers and soft drinks. for the company and its chairman sayang ming mainland china is not only a mega market the one that's according to an analysis of one once financial statements has netted them nearly $15300000000.00 new taiwanese dollars in subsidies since 2007 that makes china worth staying on good terms with. oh and also. the way in which $11.00 pushes chinese propaganda is infamous and i'm not just talking about its actions this last year or so with a long history to the group's german firing man took control of the china times in 2008 the paper began to change dramatically over the following years as it aligned itself with beijing and its goal of reunification that idea will be out so. investors like want want don't buy taiwanese companies to generate profits they use them as political assets in their dealings with beijing after want want took over china times

taiwan is constrained because of his diplomatic status but taiwan still finds a voice in promoting those things where it can. in terms of the trilateral, i would say there are things that happen quietly. we do try to leverage what's happening in the think tank world. a lot of good ideas are being implemented there. the stuff that's happening behind the scenes, i wouldn't want to go into great detail, but we're finding it fruitful as well. >> i'm from voice of america korean service. a few months ago "the washington post" reported that huawei allegedly helped north korea building its own network. do you see that as a security issue as well? >> i don't want to comment on any particular intelligent report. i think more broadly speaking, the chinese can claim a lot of responsibility for north korea. what would pass for modernization, certainly on the military side but also in the commercial sector, private sector, infrastructure. those relationships are there and the chinese have become the most important partner for north korea. we want them to do better. at a minimum sanctions enforcement

that was all right tang digital minister of taiwan. the euro zone needs to create more economic growth at home that's the message of the new european central bank president forseen la garde. she today convened at the european banking congress with europe's financial elite she called on euro zone governments to strengthen the midst of demand and extending a decade of growth driven export driven growth margin that by germany is the guard said european countries should innovate and invest more to the most at a time of global uncertainty was the 1st major policy speech as president of the european central bank. correspondent unadvised brown is covering this meeting for us and that is this is not the 1st time that christina guard has called on germany in particular to help spend the euro zone's way out of economic difficulty how's that going down with financial leaders in our audience. well actually financial leaders most of that natalie's they do support the fact that one should use the fiscal space individual. countries have in order to b

he says about about 10 to 15 years ago taiwan started to promote greener renewable energy to taiwan didn't have any experience in that area so we wanted to find models we could learn from we found them in europe and especially in germany which had made the greatest advances we went to germany and then we introduced various measures most importantly the feed in tariff here in taiwan. we include the cost of renewable energy in the price of electricity in order to offset the extra costs for generating power sustainably. that the problem is very little use is made of solar energy. the state of the subsidies for installing solar panels but few people know about it. waiting 10 is a co-founder of sunny found a green energy crowdfunding platform. she aims to prove that there is money to be made with the sun and the subsidies. and the most difficult. place. because no one knows us and though i wonder if anyone will ever believe us. even joining us. i thought of myself and i told her to myself. if you don't actually you will have no answer quite being 10 is talking to residents of a long time cast a

they call it the chinese language oscars taiwan's golden horse film festival has grown into a fixture for the movie industry in asia but china's now banned its filmmakers from taking part andrew thomas reports. 2 film festivals in 2 cities say a lot about one china in taipei the golden horse festival has for years been the showcase for a chinese language film with entries from mainland china as well as taiwan but this year china's government in beijing banned its country's filmmakers from taking part instead they encouraged another film festival held across the taiwan strait the golden rooster shy man and the chinese mainland was held at exactly the same time beijing snubbed this year's golden horse after a winner at last year's festival used her speech to call for countries to recognize taiwanese independence taiwanese bill my kids and fans are disappointed but pragmatic decision in spite of china's boycott movies from any part of the world would continue to shine at the film festival they are not only hurting their viewers here to take away the chance to view these films they are al

film festival that's found itself caught up in the increasingly tense relationship between china and taiwan. hello crowds who have been targeting u.n. peacekeepers in eastern democratic republic of congo say they won't stop until all of them leave they've been defying a curfew imposed after a 2nd day of violence accusing the peacekeepers of failing to protect them from rebels alexia brian reports. around 18000 u.n. peacekeepers are in the democratic republic of congo to protect civilians from attacks by rebel fighters. but some civilians went on the attack themselves at a u.n. compound in north kivu province on monday accusing peacekeepers of failing to fulfill their mandate. but we never see the police yes. we want we don't we don't want them just their young. peacekeepers guarded what's left of their base in the eastern city. have been a while a 2nd compound nearby became tuesday's target we've come here today to see if these u.n. people are still here we will be in it again and more places specifically the movie base. it was too dangerous to film near the movie base as an angry mob confr

sue they're reporting from taiwan thank you so much. the opec oil exporters say rising demand for energy especially in developing countries means global appetite for oil will continue to increase if not as much as initially thought the cut forecasts a 12 percent rise in demand by 2040. will still be flowing in torrents in the future according to our picks on your report it says as late as 2040 or you will remain the world's most important energy source what's good news with some this is that back for others industrialized countries for instance that are trying to replace fossil fuels with renewables to counter carbon emissions the opec report says oil consumption will rise in asia especially and with the global economy set to double by 2040 all sources of energy will be needed in the year 2040 projects that oil will account for 28 percent of the world's energy mix followed by gas and coal renewables will account for 1000 percent a nuclear full 7 percent opec says the figures a corroborated by other studies. but even by 2040 all over new

growth of taiwan the 3rd quarter of $2900.00 how is g.d.p. growth is $2.00 any one percent is a high is the only positive growth among the 4 asian tigers that's hong kong south korea and a single or so on because the trade diversion in fact many many factors move their production from china back to taiwan and domestic manufacturers are also using the existing queen as in many factors to adjust production proportions because of the trade war so there's really not a growth we can see here in taiwan all right so nancy there reporting from taiwan thank you so much. our rights and now this time for real some of the other global business stories making news. london or washington remain committed to reaching a post break said bilateral free trade agreement downing street set in a statement in a phone call prime minister boris johnson urged president on a tram to lift tariffs on goods including scotch whiskey and exclude britain from possible duties on european cars. b.m.w. has reported strong quarterly pickers profits rose 23 percent in the 3rd quar

the beijing imposed the band to make a point taiwan is and always will be part of china it considers the island a breakaway province that will one day come back to the fold it's known as the one china policy beijing expects other countries to respect it in a thing or anyone that threatens the narrative is dangerous there's a good many in the industry are not happy to see that countries are using political . inference to strangle the freedom of their filmmakers to participate in any international film festival. encouraged by a pro independence president likely to be reelected early next year people in taiwan are becoming increasingly assertive towards beijing. one young comedian has become a t.v. star largely through mocking china and president xi jinping. i but beijing is pushing back to pacific island nations care about and the solomon islands have become the latest to switch diplomatic allegiance from taiwan to china both countries are receiving significant financial investment from beijing and beijing has threatened sanctions against any u.s. company involved in a recently announc

the real significance for taiwan , what is happening is a vision of a possible future for taiwan if it was to come under control from the chinese government. hong kong is obviously governed by china under the one country, two systems bubble in which hong kong has autonomy under the umbrella of chinese sovereignty. that is the framework china insists taiwan must respect if it is to one day unify with china. we spoke to one of the candidates running for president of taiwan. he is the candidate for the china-friendly opposition. despite his wish for closer ties with china and eventual unification, he did say the one country, two systems model is absolutely not right for taiwan. nobody except. nobody wants to be governed under that model. he also spoke about the situation in hong kong and echoing many of the concerns of the people in taiwan. he offered his solution for what the government in beijing and hong kong should do to end the protests. >> in terms of the hong kong issue, over the past few months, young people even lost their lives. hong kong competitiveness has decreased in hong ko

earlier today my colleague kris kobach spoke to order time the digital minister in taiwan a democratic island with its own words about beijing he asked her how she viewed the situation in hong kong. i think in taiwan where we're looking at hong kong we're seeing the beginning of a new way of demonstration for liberal democracies that are what they called the water or a leaderless movement in our own some flora movement which i participated where we occupied the parliament for 21 days spec'ing 2014 we started this way of coronating a leaderless movement by the time it was more like 20 leaders in hong kong is now like 2000 leaders. you started writing computer code when you were a kid you've been active as a hacker now you are the digital minister of taiwan and you've called for a reinvention of democracy how's that supposed to look like and how do you view your own role in it. as additional minister my workspace is totally radically transparent all of the meetings that i chair the full transcript can be found on the internet it's entirely published and by radically trusting people and m

and certainly this is what they want to do with taiwan a taiwan and others. china doesn't want to have military conflict if they can avoid it. i think that as part of what is happening in hong kong. i don't know why we are not voting on this act. i hope that we will vote this week. i had been calling for it for weeks. i've introduced my own bell to pose belt to pose the sanctions. which i think are called for an very much in order. i hope we will vote soon. we will give the last question to the gentleman in the first row here. >> think you senator. i'm very impressed by your visiting hong kong to get that situation there. regarding the intentions what he think could be the most effective way to help with that expansion. i think that worked very well. what do you think about china. >> i think that is very much part of the day. i think if you look at the various military scenarios china does not want to have to fight a military kong plate. they are outstanding planners. they had been pursuing the plan for quite some time. what they want to do is convince everyb

as the taiwan miracle. huge tech firms grew, becoming household names — asus, htc, acer. at the centre of this was the semiconductor industry, led by a company you have probably never heard of - tsmc. it is the one of the largest semiconductor manufacturers in the world, producing the chips inside some of the best phones, including the iphone 11. it is most likely if you have a smartphone, you have something made by tsmc. and these chips were only made possible thanks to the discovery of semiconductors. why are semiconductors important or interesting? because it changes your life. with factories, or ‘fabs' as they are known across the globe, the largest is here in taiwan. and we have been granted exclusive access to see just how those chips that form the heart of our electronic devices are created. but before we could go into the fab, there was quite a process to undergo. i have to take my shoes off on the carpet. and that was just the start. i had to put on a hairnet, wash my hands, and wear this to ke

in what has become known as the taiwan miracle. use tech firms grew, becoming household names, a, ace, acer. and this was led by a semiconductor company you may never have heard of, tsmc. it produces chips for smartphones, even the iphone 11. tsmc. it produces chips for smartphones, even the iphone 11m you have a smartphone, you have something made by tsmc, most likely. and these were only made possible by the discovery of semiconductors. why are semiconductors interesting? because they changed your life. the largest factory in the globe is here in taiwan. and we have been granted exclusive access to see just how those chips that form the heart of oui’ those chips that form the heart of our electronic devices are created. but before we could go into the fab, there was quite a process to go. and that was just the start. i had to put on a hairnet, wash my hands and wear this to keep the dust out. cute, but it is time for an hour shower. -- air —— air shower. —— airshower. i —— air shower. i feel like —— air shower.

film festival that's found itself caught up in the increasingly tense relationship between china and taiwan. thank you very much for joining us crowds of been targeting u.n. peacekeepers in the east of the democratic republic of congo say they won't stop until all of them leave they have been defying a curfew imposed after a 2nd night of violence accusing the peacekeepers of failing to protect them from rebels and o'brien reports. around 18000 un peacekeepers are in the democratic republic of congo to protect civilians from attacks by rebel fighters. but some civilians went on the attack themselves at a un compound in north kivu province on monday accusing peacekeepers of failing to fulfill their mandate un support it did. but we never see the police strong we want we don't we don't want them just they're young. peacekeepers guarded what's left of their base in the eastern city of benny while a 2nd compound nearby became tuesday's target we've come here today to see if these u.n. people are still here we will bring us to give it me. places specifically the movie base. it was too dangerous t

today, she is leading in every poll in taiwan. her margin is not enormous. it's a long time between september 2019 and january of next year, by god come she's leaving everyone, everyone in taiwan says the reason why she's leaving is because of what's occurring in taiwan. also the other thing that we've seen in taiwan is that the campaign platforms and narratives of the opposition, the nationalist party, they have changed. they have become a lot less beijing friendly. that's the effect of that. let you know the thing, the think about hong kong though, step back from that, hong kong is inspiring. you can't go to this demonstrations as we did. you can't even read about them without being inspired by the grit and determination of the people of hong kong. at the thing that i was most impressed by when we were there, and we were not the very long but the one thing that came through really quickly was the humanity of people in hong kong. that's inspirational. yes, sir. >> i teach economics at george mason university. one of the comments about the hong kong movement

the focus of our planning efforts have to be to prevent this scenario in taiwan. china has studied our way of war, the american way for the last couple of decades. they know in the indo pacific because of the distances involved, we cannot surge troops in the theater quickly. if china is able to seize taiwan, we will have and we are not there to halt it, then it will be a fate to complete. that is the scenario that i think we have to prevent. i need to make it clear that we are able to prevent it. we will have to change our military posture in the rage and and build networks because it cannot be just us. we need our partners in the region to be a part of this. it needs to be clear to beijing if they attempt to strike at taiwan, they will be resisted i the united states and by a network of allies allies and they will be in for a very big fight that the international community will not support them with. i think that has got to be the focus of our planning efforts. much of the rest flows from that and the building out of our partnerships come and there is a lot of wo

as the taiwan miracle. huge tech firms grew, becoming household names — asus, htc, acer. at the centre of this was the semiconductor industry, led by a company you have probably never heard of — tsmc. it is one of the largest semiconductor manufacturers in the world, producing the chips inside some of the best phones, including the iphone 11. it is most likely if you have a smartphone, you have something made by tsmc. and these chips were only made possible thanks to the discovery of semiconductors. why are semiconductors important or interesting? because it changes your life. with factories, or ‘fabs‘ as they are known across the globe, the largest is here in taiwan. and we have been granted exclusive access to see just how those chips that form the heart of our electronic devices are created. but before we could go into the fab, there was quite a process to undergo. i have to take my shoes off on the carpet. and that was just the start. i had to put on a hairnet, wash my hands, and wear this to ke

provided details on how beijing's operatives found and conduct interference operations in hong kong taiwan and australia while he's now seeking asylum and says he could face the death penalty if he returns to china australia's government has not yet indicated whether. these are very disturbing reports the matter is now in the hands of the appropriate law enforcement agencies and so on the. individual cases he's the government. for the strong measures that we have taken to ensure. that we have foreign interference. in intelligence agencies. never before in every life stand up for a national interest there's a met is a fantasy foreign investment or other related issues mckenzie is an investigative journalist at the ice age and the sydney morning herald he spoke to wall and believes what he said i think it's fair is that it's extremely valuable the world for some time intelligence agencies who are experts at west have written a lot about how they suspect chinese intelligence operates chinese interference operates in devices like a strong hong kong taiwan and elsewhere but they have an insider

everyone in taiwan says the reason why she's leaving is because of what's occurring in taiwan. also, the other thing we've seen in taiwan is that the campaign platforms and narratives of the opposition, they have changed. they have become a lot less beijing friendly. that's the effect of that. the thing about hong kong, hong kong is inspiring. you can't go to those demonstrations as we did. you can either read about them without being inspired by the grit and determination of the people of hong kong. the thing that i was most impressed by when we were there and we were there very long but the one thing that came through really quickly was the humanity of people in hong kong. that's inspirational. [inaudible question] the question is about leadership. hong kong you don't have leaders in the protest. by the way, you don't have leaders in the hong kong protest for a very simple reason, that is in 2014 they had the occupy central with love and peace demonstration, 79 days, the feeling in the pan democratic movement was that the government bought off the leaders of that movement, pl

seen the false as he was given to went to taiwan the orders he was given. to middle in the tower these 2020 presidential election it already committed significant act according to him self election that ring in the in the previous regional elections in taiwan now but this makes the standard for him with a lot of the senate as i watched that industry as a young child an example to australia this year imagine decision he would call it did not want to undergo are the next mission 8 been given and so has been hiding out in sydney it has since i guess more broadly he according to him has had across as a conscience he is tired of serving a regime me no longer believes in he said the chinese government is not engage in acts that he believes are improper and he no longer wants to help them through their cause so he's come to australia he says he's embracing democracy and he's wishing and security protection could talk to nick many thanks indeed nick mckenzie there from the age and sydney morning herald thank you let's take you back now to hong kong where of course

certainly we know that's what they want to do with taiwan and others. china does not want to have military conflict if they can avoid it. what they want is get everybody in the region afraid of them showing what they are capable of pretty think that is part of what is happening which is why it is so important and why i call it the berlin of this generation. as to your first question, i do not know why we are not voting on that act. i would like to know. i hope that we will vote this week. i've been calling for for weeks. i introduced my own bill to impose some sanctions which i think are called for and very much in order. i hope we will vote soon. >> we will give the last question to this gentleman. >> am very impressed your visiting hong kong to get the situation firsthand. i am impressed by your courage. regarding china's ambition towards hegemony, for example, president reagan, his way to collapse the soviet union, i think that worked well. what do you think about china? sen. hawley: i think that's the question of the day. our military posture, we wi

sentiment towards the mainland in taiwan. my view is that the real historical significance of the hong kong protests will be felt next year in taiwan, where beijing has a major problem. it is losing any kind of prospect of bringing taiwan back into the fold, which is, of course, xi jinping's ultimate goal as the president of the people's republic of china >> but niall, if we did see china respond by trying to send in troops or seize control in any way against the democratic will of the people, would we not see america and its allies act in a way that it hasn't done against hong kong? >> well, you've got to remember a couple of things the first is that the hong kong protesters have explicitly signaled their support for and sympathy for the united states by waving the stars and stripes in the streets of hong kong, which is a tremendous provocation to beijing of course, the united states was never very likely to take action in hong kong, other than of the form of speech making. and we've had some of that but taiwan is slightly d

provided details of how beijing's operatives fund and conduct interference operations in hong kong taiwan and astray wang is now seeking asylum and says that he could face the death penalty if he returns home australia's government hasn't yet indicated whether it will grant him asylum well these are very disturbing reports the matter is now in the hands of the appropriate law enforcement agencies and so i wouldn't comment on the particulars of individual cases but what i would say is that the government makes no apologies for the strong measures that we have taken to ensure. that we have foreign interference in place that we have brazil seeing now law enforcement intelligence agencies like never before and that will stand up for our national interest players on matters of foreign policy foreign investment or other related issues when nick mckenzie is an investigative journalist at the age and sydney morning herald he spoke to and believes what he said. i think it's fair is that it's extremely valuable the world for some time intelligence agencies are experts at wests have written a lot ab

this is really helping the situation in taiwan. in the philippines, unfortunately, half the people say look at it, even the chinese don't like the chinese, right. then it really helps and more places, we were talking about this a while ago, the last election was really an identity politics issue. no one was talking much about economics. the issue was islam and the issue was china. the two are connected when you talk about ethnic cleansing that is happening, right. i think if you talk to folks from malaysia, one of the things they always emphasize that china doesn't understand islamic sensibilities. they are completely tone-deaf with their own muslims. they have to learn how to deal with it. of course the same thing applies to the united states but that's a different question all together. lastly, on the issue of scarborough shoals, it's a red line if the chinese reclaim those so even for someone like duterte, that is the floor. this is too close to us, it's unacceptable. so for the philippines that's a red line. the question is how

they tried it in each of taiwan's previous elections. in 1996 it was missile exercises and in 2006 a finger-wagging. this time i think it's a little more sophisticated with the use of social media and cyber means. so, we're supporting taiwan as a fellow democracy, interested in seeing free, fair, uncoerced elections, particularly on the cyber piece. but over the longer stretch, certainly we'll need to continue to be that good security partner, good economic partner and preserve space for taiwan to keep its unique status until the two sides are in a better place to work things out between them. >> thank you. i would like to turn it open now to any questions. we'll take two or three at a time. we'll start out with this gentleman with the tie. >> dave lawler from axios. >> mr. assistant secretary, you said in your remarks that china recognizes the advantages that the u.s. has and its alliances and partnerships and is seeking to undermine our counter that. i was wondering if you could expand on that idea. thanks. >> thank you. if we could go

this is the eve of the news a show coming up is china i defer to taiwan's election had a presidential polls a genuine a tie with his president citing when images beijing is damaging its democracy taiwan the deputy foreign minister for proof. the vice president fired for wasting an opportunity then you know what the philippines is drug software less than 3 weeks.

this is helping the situation in taiwan. in the philippines, some xenophobic people say, look, even the chinese don't like the chinese. right? then our president is trying to be more chinese than the chinese. so it really helps. more worrying cases like indonesia, the last election was really an identity politics issue. no one was talking about the economics. the issue was islam and the issue was china. the two are connected when you talk about the ethnic cleansing that is happening up there. if you talk to folks from malaysia and indonesia, one of the things they always emphasize is, china doesn't understand islamic sensibilities. they are completely tone deaf with their own muslims. they will have to deal with that. the same thing applies to the u.s.m but that is a different question altogether. lastly, on the issue of presidenth shoal, duterte himself said it is a redline if the chinese claim scarborough. even for someone like duterte, he made it very clear, this is too close to us. this is unacceptable. the question is,

, free taiwan to communist china. we then learned quickly about the deal to lease the whole island of you lagy and also a new former gold mine in the larger island of guadalcanal. in world war ii guadalcanal was about as pivotal a battleground as the battle over midway island. over 7,000 american and allied troops died in that campaign. you control the solomon islands, goddal camel, you lagy, you control the south pacific. and antarctica and you put pressure on the western half of latin america and affect their relations with the united states. david: there is a military aspect to this and there is also a commercial aspect. in nicaragua they find a way of bribing the public officials which isn't very difficult. it's controlled by danny ortega, then they go in and take out what they want, whether it's mahogany trees and overfish areas that are rich in seafood. >> they are very predatory about pursuing both resources. david: wednesday a speak outlined what this administration is not going to take any more that other adm

so long indonesia and our avorite in the region is taiwan. out of all currencies globally the ding the euro, it's lowest. it's the best funder from a straight yield standpoint. not a uniformly held view that it's the best funder yield,y, it's the lowest we think some of the things that taiwan ing around the dollar are going to stabilize. you want it as your short, your funder. funded by onesia taiwan is one of our favorite particularlyly and in asia. to get your thoughts. despite the best evidence of the of thailand, is this sustainable, and where does this end? in more currency appreciation. unfortunately for the central bank. thailand has a good problem to have. they have a competitive exchange rate and very strong currently for that.rplus the problem is unlike other countries in the region that current account urpluses, they are not able to to cle the inflows or send other markets. that keeps it very strong. we think that the central bank to be able to stop that over the next couple of looking for we're more appreciation for that reason. z