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Transcripts For BBCNEWS HARDtalk 20240707



leading to speculation that it is preparing for an invasion. taiwan has also been subjected to cyber attacks from china. my guest is the taiwanese digital minister, audrey tang. can taiwan really forge its own path? minister audrey tang in taipei, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. really happy to be here. president xi of china reiterated at the recent chinese communist party congress that china wants to strive for the prospect of peaceful unification with taiwan, but that he will never promise to give up the option to use force. just sum up briefly the mood for us, the reaction to that possibly new threat. well, there s a familiar message. we ve been hearing that for quite some time. of course, we have to prepare ourselves to face the authoritarian expansionism, but that has been the case for as long as i can remember. so people have not been at all worried by this renewed threat? not especially worried. of course, we ve been seeing renewed interest in, for example, count ....

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Transcripts For BBCNEWS HARDtalk 20240707



my guest is the taiwanese digital minister, audrey tang. can taiwan really forge its own path? minister audrey tang in taipei, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. really happy to be here. president xi of china reiterated at the recent chinese communist party congress that china wants to strive for the prospect of peaceful unification with taiwan, but that he will never promise to give up the option to use force. just sum up briefly the mood for us, the reaction to that possibly new threat. well, there s a familiar message. we ve been hearing that for quite some time. of course, we have to prepare ourselves to face the authoritarian expansionism, but that has been the case for as long as i can remember. so people have not been at all worried by this renewed threat? not especially worried. of course, we ve been seeing renewed interest in, for example, countering disinformation, cybersecurity attacks and so on. but i think the overall mood is quite calm. ok, because china has ....

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Transcripts for BBCNEWS HARDtalk 20240604 23:47:00

Mm hm. i believe you re mentioning the asymmetric defence concept. yes. i think in the cyber security domain, this is obviously the case. we need to create places where we spent as minimal resources as possible in order to counter the far more resources that the adversaries throws at us. so when i talk about, for example, mitigating the denial of service attacks following nancy pelosi s visit this august, we developed a way to tie our defence, the web two and web three defences to the international backbones that powers the nfts, the cryptocurrencies and so on. so if you take this down, then you also must take down the entire. but i m talking about military hardware, really. that s what the admiral s criticisms were. yeah. i mean, president tsai hasjust announced a 40% boost in taiwan s defence spending. ....

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Transcripts for BBCNEWS HARDtalk 20240604 23:46:00

And so on, even if they live in authoritarian regimes. and so on these topics, we re happy to have conversations. all right, but it s notjust the political question where there is a lack of clarity. even taiwan s defence strategy is lacking. taiwan s former top military official, staff admiral lee hsi ming, who retired three years ago, says the taiwanese army is not prepared and that it must think strategically, which he says it isn t doing. his criticisms highlight the inertia in the taiwanese army because it was the armed wing of the kmt, the chinese nationalist party, that ruled under martial law for decades. and so therefore, it s not reinvented itself sufficiently for the modern era. so what do you say to that criticism? mm hm. i believe you re mentioning the asymmetric defence concept. yes. i think in the cyber security domain, this is obviously the case. we need to create places ....

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