A very strong response from the government here in beijing following the announcement of the potential sale another potential sale of arms by the United States to taiwan the condemnation came in a daily ministry of Foreign Affairs briefing the spokesman saying this is a serious violation of international more and the norms of International Relations would be violated by this deal now the reason beijing is saying this of course is that it views taiwan as part of its territory as a breakaway province that one day it will retake possibly with the use of force a couple of interesting things about this potential deal remembering this is not this time its happened there be many over the years between the United States and taiwan in fact this is the 4th under the presidency of donald trump this one is the largest under donald trump though more than 2000000000. 00 in the type of equipment in this deal will be potentially seen as particularly provocative by china as well missiles and battle tan
Couple of week its going it plans to identify which countries have the quote political will to go through with it and then after that is specific countries would offer Different Military capabilities perhaps through nato and they would have to weave together some kind of multinational unit in order to police the strait of hormuz now they say all they want to do is to protect the shipping lanes President Trump said he didnt want to pay for this unilaterally so that may be why this is happening with multiple countries but this does present an opportunity for conflict remember that President Trump says he was 10 minutes away from ordering an air strike on iran says he actually had had that plan moved forward and had to call it off and then of course there was the multiple attacks on ships which the u. S. Blames on iran so this force presents an opportunity for conflict with iran that just intensifies the pressure in that region the other headlines french president among your microphones t
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if you thought we d left winter behind, technically we have, next week you may well be doubting that because it is set to turn colder, cold enough for some of us to see some snow. more on that in a moment. back to the here and now, we ve got a lot of cloud around, its quite quiet, not moving quickly as far as the weather goes this afternoon. a lot of cloud, some showers through scotland, northern ireland and northern england, the best of the sunshine in south wales and southern england and temperatures where they have been during the week, 7 10, not particularly windy. tonight we will see more cloud rolling westwards across england into east wales, northern ireland and southern scotland. staying pretty cloudy. there could be the odd light shower. but when we see leo breaks in west wales, the south west of england, the north west of scotland, we could see a touch of frost but it s also when we have the chance for sunshine tomorrow, the best of that across northern and central