recognizance. china has eyes and ears on the ground everywhere in the pacific region. of we have some, but taiwan has non. and we we talk has none. we talked about the idea of putting up a starlink satellite system to give taiwan eyes and ears on the ground, to see into china, to the see the threat before it comes so they can stop it from invading the island. maria: how committed do you think the neighbors in the region will be to support taiwan if, in fact, we were to see a blockade? i m talking about the philippines, japan, etc. you traveled to a number of areas near taiwan as well. what have you learned? and that s such a great question. remember, in the pacific they don t have nato like you have in europe. they have a loose configuration of partners, if you will. but we have a base in guam that we visited with the b-5 52, we have the 7th fleet in japan that we visited. we have operations out of south korea, and we also have a
recognizance. china has eyes and ears on the ground everywhere in the pacific region. of we have some, but taiwan has non. and we we talk has none. we talked about the idea of putting up a starlink satellite system to give taiwan eyes and ears on the ground, to see into china, to the see the threat before it comes so they can stop it from invading the island. maria: how committed do you think the neighbors in the region will be to support taiwan if, in fact, we were to see a blockade? i m talking about the philippines, japan, etc. you traveled to a number of areas near taiwan as well. what have you learned? and that s such a great question. remember, in the pacific they don t have nato like you have in europe. they have a loose configuration of partners, if you will. but we have a base in guam that we visited with the b-5 52, we have the 7th fleet in japan that we visited. we have operations out of south korea, and we also have a
they say one thing and actually do something different thely. how are we going to react to china? what does this mean for the next steps? i think this is one of those where we argue intellectually and put this behind us, okay, that are the next steps we take, what is going to happen next. and what the national security team needs to do, the national security council, it needs to start providing options to the president. one is how to do you respond to this. what is the response we need to make to china. you can t just say, okay, no harm, no foul. let s go to the next step. we need to respond somehow, and how do we do that. maybe that means we uparm more so than we have before taiwan. what does this mean in relation to taiwan. what is our response going to be. for example, maybe this is the time we send out a little bit of a provocation. we take the uss ronald reagan which is the 7th fleet, the carrier battle group arthel: general kellogg, i beg your pardon, you have a lot of question
site had a fire going on based on a fire caused by some of the shelling back and forth. so without a reliable and redundant power force that can be maintained inside the plant, we believe a maintained controlled status would be the appropriate step, and we obviously continue to encourage the russians to make sure they allow iaea inspectors in to see what the operation looks like. plant has never been shut down by a war. i want to move on to a different topic because in the last 24 hours, two u.s. warships transited the taiwan strait. announcement from the 7th fleet. what message were they sending? a very consistent message that the united states military will sail, fly, and operate wherever international law permits us to do so. this taiwan strait transit was planned a long time ago, two or three weeks ago, i myself said publicly while speaker pelosi