house speaker nancy pelosi is in taipei. china is lashing out. nearly two dozen war planes crossing into taiwan s air defense zone. just after 7 a.m. local time in taipei as i m speaking. speaker pelosi is getting ready to meet with taiwan s president and to visit taiwan s parliament in just these next hours. as we await the meetings and await to see the speaker leave her hotel, chinese president xi has placed them on high alert and launched military exercises around taiwan. the red boxes that are going to pop up, each indicate a place where chinese exercises are now taking place. tonight the biden administration is warning china. there s no reason, as i said yesterday, for beijing to turn this visit, which is consistent with longstanding u.s. policy, into some sort of crisis or use it as a pretexts to increase aggressiveness and military activity in or around the taiwan strait now or beyond her trip. now the biden team has been struggling to separate biden from pelosi. f
partner, as it defends itself and its freedom. will ripley is out front in taipei. reporter: a resounding show of american support for taiwan in the face of escalating threats from china. u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi landing in taiwan. minutes after pelosi s arrival, china announced a series of targeted military operations in response to the house speaker s visit. state kbleed publishing a map of the drills which began during the overnight hours. some just miles from the taiwanese coast. as pelosi s convoy arrived, a heavy police presence. two groups of protestors gathered outside. some welcomed pelosi s support for taiwan. the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, has been supporting taiwan for decades, and it s very important for me as a taiwanese to be here