Documentary:
How would a potential Taiwan crisis affect the region?

The power-political and geostrategic situation in East Asia has been changing rapidly for some time. The three economic giants Japan, South Korea and Taiwan are currently forming new alliances and trying to pull together economically and militarily.

For a 52-minute documentary in cooperation with ZDF, ARTE, DW (Deutsche Welle) and produced by NGLOW FILM (Munich), we travelled to the south of Japan, where over the course of six days we spoke with local people, decision makers, academics, and military personnel, both from the Japanese Self Defense Forces as well as the US Forces.

We witnessed several military exercises, a traditional local festival, and almost got stuck there due to a typhoon, which was one of the latest in the year in the region in several decades. It still caused quite a few headaches with regard to scheduling and logistics, but thanks to the kind cooperation of our interview partners and a good portion of journalistic luck in the end it all worked out perfectly.

The documentary, which is scheduled to be brodcast in spring 2025, describes how the relations between Japan, South Korea and Taiwan are changing under the increasing pressure of the Chinese military expansion, and what this means for regular people, who live in the region, for the stability of peace in the region, and thus for global peace and prosperity. One particular economic aspect plays a major role when it comes to Taiwan, which is the biggest producer of semiconductor technology in the world. How would any disruption of peace potentially destabilize the relationships in the region and in particular the semiconductor supply chains?

Genre: TV Documentary in cooperation with ZDF, ARTE, DW (Deutsche Welle) and NGLOW FILM
Length: 52 minutes

Director: Michael Mueller-Erdorf
Camera: Francisco Lopez

Producer: Nick Golüke, CEO NGLOW
Production: Silke Breidenbach, NGLOW FILM

Line Producer Japan: Sonja Blaschke
Line Producer South Korea: Anton Scholz