proud, came to taiwan to make it clear we ll not band on our commitment to taiwan and we re proud of our enduring friendship. the message to beijing and protesters in taiwan aligned with the chinese communist party is that this trip was an attempt at humiliation. a farce. china says would have a severe impact on relations with the u.s. chinese military has now launched a live fire military drills around the island as pelosi arrived in those drills still active. joining me now, kylie atwood. interestingly, we should note this pelosi got bipartisan support for this trip. a couple dozen republican senators and mitch mcconnell. you heard that from members of the house. where does state department stand on this? do they see substantive change
risk? this whole policy of tstrategic ambiguity is questioned the last months. they say it s time for america to be more clear. nancy pe lose ylosi, was pretty with the message she gave. she is going to not abandon, meaning america is not going to abandon the commitment to taiwan. the commitment is to supply arms to them and train them how to defend themselves. that is the commitment. does it go further than that? should it go further than that? will the lawmakers and nancy pelosi what they saw on the ground here, will that push them to force legislation to do more? good point you make, there will. this is a homegrown taiwanese democracy. that is part of the thing that makes china uncomfortable, right? china very much undemocratic and to see that so close to their
between u.s. and china relations or do they see this more as a rhetorical pushback from china in light of political pressures at home? i don t think we have a definitive answer to it yet. as you said, the military exercises are on going right now. we understand it. so china announce they were going to carry out the military exercises over the course of the next few days. and, of course, what they look like right now is pretty significant. so i do think we should expect some pretty clear condemnation of the exercises from the biden administration, that would be rhetorical in nature. but what we re looking for is what these exercises actually do. how close they come to taiwan to the territorial waters, the taiwan government has been warning that what they see in terms of what is planned would actually come into the territorial water. so that s what we re watching for. and does the u.s. government