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President former member of the Bush administration. Steve. One of the. Watching me. Report that e.s.p.n. . And broadcasting from China this week to feature n.b.a. Events put up a picture on its screen of China all in yellow large landscape this vast country spreading from the Pacific Ocean to. The starkest Pad However at the bottom of China is this strange dotted line that we know is the 9 dash line a product of a totally illegal process but that Red Chinese totally illegal absolutely ridiculous is where the great wall of sand is built all the more of militarized islands but the dot Steve I looked very closely on Disney approved of this they put the graphic up the dot goes right to where you're standing right now Steve you're standing on the Didache live representative e.s.p.n. Congratulations. Well John I have to say after all these decades of having been a fan of sports center and been a sports addict my my childhood into my legit adulthood I have never been more ashamed networks as I have been in watching these recent episodes I also never thought I would say that I I received a greater modicum of truth from the cartoon South Park than I did from a legit news networks about this situation having the 9 dash line on a sports network broadcast out of out of China that's further than networks went when covering the Olympics so it's just a remarkable descent into thought control speech control on allegedly free networks. While basically supporting authoritarian government and attacking American institutions by way of the protest allow their players to gauge and just ridiculous Does not your best defenses plead ignorance what is what is 1010 day. That is the national day of the Republic of China not everyone in Taiwan celebrates it with enthusiasm as it represents when the dollar nationalist party established the Republic of China on the mainland and then after the civil war in China. After the after World War 2 the civil war ensued the losing side of that civil war retreated to Taiwan had several decades of martial law and not such a happy existence with native people here but in their freedom and democracy and under their current constitution this national day of observed every opto boards have on 10 tab and they spousal the principles of freedom and democracy and freedom of religion respect for the individual and all of that that is definitely not on display in n.b.a. E.s.p.n. Lands on China's soil today Gordon. So what do the people in the democracy of Taiwan think about what's occurring now in Hong Kong. Well it's been very striking. Like you and others I've come here for many many years and for most of that time there's been a degree of ambivalence but everyone I talk to in Taipei is pretty well dialed in to what's been happening in Hong Kong they have deep respect for the will of the Hong Kong people to stand up for themselves they frankly didn't know they had it in them but they're also a bit concerned because they don't quite see where this ends they expect there to be basically prolonged conflict in Hong Kong as a people are not retreating and they also are concerned that some of this pressure in the influence operations that China is engaged in in Hong Kong will turn their way shortly as the January 11th election approaches here in Taiwan. Because we're looking at an election process and anything can happen and election we've seen that before. Does the quam and John have a response to Hong Kong are they commenting in some fashion to Fox to try to fine to ride the wave of sympathy for the protesters. They have issued some statements of solidarity and support Unfortunately though there have been some people in Hong Kong that identify themselves as Camp team members that have basically stood up on the side of the Nationalists in Hong Kong and not in complete the with the demonstrators and the nominee for the t.m.t. Party has his highest profile public policy of relevance to the world is his offer of a peace agreement with with the Communist Party and with the 1800 joint declaration in tatters and Hong Kong right now looks like an exceedingly weak approach and he's had to walk back from that it just doesn't leave them very much else so ironically one of the posts he didn't ng has in a backhanded way strongly endorsed sign one's reelection as president here in Taiwan. Steve what do the polls say my impression is that the events in Hong Kong have strengthened the hand of the Democratic Progressive Party the party of President sighing when one of the polls say about her chances on January 11th. Well as we look at it today there is about a 10 percent gap between when and. Who's does represent the Democratic Progressive Party and convoy you who is the current mayor of Dallas showing the southern port city and representing the camp. There's still to be determined whether there's a 3rd party candidate of consequence that would take some of those votes and right now undecided is a large proportion so tie is basically about 4142 percent and Hon'ble you in the high twenty's approaching 30 and the rest undecided so there's still some room to go but Ty is the to Stickley ahead of the competition at this point what should we watch for in these closing weeks Dave what would tell you that the story is going one way or another. Well I would watch very very carefully of any evidence of sort of plainclothes thugs that interfere with rallies during the election cycle here definitely the government then a lot of people are on alert for cyber attacks and any other kind of interference we've in the United States learned about Iran China Korea of course Russia from the last cycle having influence operations in the United States those happened in spades here it's probably the most attacks territory per capita of anywhere around the world and so we've got some lessons to learn about what China tried to do here in this election before they probably try to do the same to us in America in 2020 over the balance of that year court Steve about 3 or 4 months ago there were rallies in Taipei against red media in other words Taiwan media that was owned in whole or in part by people who were friendly to Beijing and also of course there were as concerned as you just pointed out about Beijing's influence operations in Taiwan's elections where has this whole read media movement gone since then. I think. Still a high degree of awareness I would say about the problem so I think people are getting a broad consensus about diagnosis I think they don't have as clear a consensus about prescription and so the current government together with the legislature trying to find a way to regulate the media in a way that supports proper freedoms but at the same time guard against Barry unfree actors taking advantage of their freedom to the detriment of their national interests and so I think they like we in America frankly have struggled with this idea of equal access to us while we don't have any kind of access of consequence to influence their politics and populations Stevie G.'s he had he had visor he is in Taipei Taiwan on 1010. It's Morning Times thirsty to end in Taipei on the right side of the world Gordon Chang of The Daily Beast the 9 dot lodge still there i keep checking it doesn't go away e.s.p.n. Maybe it's a mistake just painted over Ok doesn't exist painted over for a free. 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The brutal police force in Hong Kong what I've seen on videos Rick the puzzle for me right away watching them is that they're up against young people children with umbrellas some of them are have helmets on some of them have masks some of them look prepared for frontline action but in the video I saw. Almost all the rest of the more caring flimsy umbrellas it wasn't raining it's a symbol of protest and they're in t. Shirts and sneakers and the police have these long but times that they whipped them and one policeman pointed a what I presumed be a long gun that fires rubber bullets point blank at a child on the ground but like now my puzzle here Gordon Gordon has questions too but my puzzle is I remember reading literature. That's that when you said the military and in this case the police are acting like combat soldiers said in the military against civilians unarmed civilians or civilians who clearly cannot defend themselves or are no match for your authority that it that it wears psychologically it wears physically on the police that they they suffer mental trauma and they become Xai and incapable of conducting their office or the other thing they become sadistic and an exceptionally brutal like lashing out because they can't stop the fact that they've been ordered to do this is that something you've read about happening with the police and in Hong Kong it's been going on for weeks now and they're not that many of them so that this they wouldn't be doing this every night when you when you beat your beat a creature they can't defend itself you you were damaging your future is that happening. I would imagine that the conquer police and government banned the Chinese authorities beyond that would have imposed a strict measures to. Prevent any outside observers from taking note of the concerns you just listed. If it got into public reports it would rebound probably to encourage the protestors that they're succeeding and the brutality exhibited by the Hong Kong police is aimed not so much as. Just brutalizing. Unarmed protesters but it's really aimed at deterring crowds of a 1000000 or more from gathering again repeatedly into the future. Rick you're an expert on the Chinese military many people have been talking about the possibility that Beijing would formally introduced elements of the People's Liberation Army or the People's Armed Police onto the streets of Hong Kong question is I'm sure that the p.h.p. The People's Armed Police is trained for urban warfare one of doubt units of the t.l.a. Definitely Gordon. The Army has. Trained has increased its training for for urban warfare this would be a high requirement for combat in Taiwan so you units in the food Gen region and nearby Guangdong would would be subject to special training for urban combat. And you have nearby in Hong Kong a you know Army Aviation Regiment anywhere from 102200 helicopters that would be there to assist immediately. In deploying p l a or p a p elements of the Hong Kong. The puzzle that in about the presentation Hong Kong is an urban environment no one cites well in an urban environment so how are they imagining this Rick because what we could look at here is turning Hong Kong into either a prison or garrison or the other saying a battlefield. Well John the long term prospects for dealing with. What is becoming a