Introduction

Mainland china's military forces that had encircled ti wan have now ended their exercises, some of which involved firing surface to surface missiles over the self ruled island. On tuesday this week, bajing issued a white paper laying out exactly its ambitions for ti on. We'll also hear from our baging diplomacy expert, shi jungta, about how this is being received by analists in mainland china. And will welcome back finbar birmingham from brussels for an up date on how the nations of europe are getting increasingly alarmed at what's happening on this side of the world.