dramatically reduces redness in one minute. look at the difference, eyes brighter and whiter eight hours. it was love at first sight with efi. see for yourself. good afternoon. i m erica hill. thanks for joining us in the cnn newsroom and i m bianna golodryga, a major display today of democratic solidarity in china is watching it all right now in the outskirts of los angeles, taiwan s president, sighing wind is meeting with house speaker kevin mccarthy and other bipartisan leaders. it comes as taipei s relations with china steadily crumble and us chinese tensions continually rise over aggressive spying in beijing support for russia. but the u. s. does remain steadfast in its support for the tiny island nation next hour. we do expect, speaker mccarthy and president said to deliver joint statements from the reagan presidential library, and we will bring those to you live, joining us now. cnn s senior international correspondent, will ripley, who was in taipei and cnn chief whit
type of escalation. this should not be viewed as anything different than what they ve seen in the past. it s something secretary of state antony blinken repeated today. take a listen beijing should not use the transistors an excuse. two. take any actions to ratchet up tensions. two. further push it. changing the status quo. um and our objective remains the same. to have peace to have stability across the taiwan strait. and guys. this public communications have also been private communications to chinese counterparts, trying to reiterate the same point, but you ll underscored beyond a reality here. the choreography this isn t officially to be called a visit that use of the word transit is very intentional . to make through make clear that in the mind of the u. s officials and the official dome, i guess if you will of what s actually going on here, the taiwanese president is actually going through the united states
dramatically reduces redness in one minute. look at the difference, eyes brighter and whiter eight hours. it was love at first sight with efi. see for yourself. good afternoon. i m erica hill. thanks for joining us in the cnn newsroom and i m bianna golodryga, a major display today of democratic solidarity in china is watching it all right now in the outskirts of los angeles, taiwan s president, sighing wind is meeting with house speaker kevin mccarthy and other bipartisan leaders. it comes as taipei s relations with china steadily crumble and us chinese tensions continually rise over aggressive spying in beijing support for russia. but the u. s. does remain steadfast in its support for the tiny island nation next hour. we do expect, speaker mccarthy and president said to deliver joint statements from the reagan presidential library, and we will bring those to you live, joining us now. cnn s senior international
this meeting has been planned for a while, and yet china feels that it has to respond in some way, phil over to you at the white house. the biden administration is urging china not to overreact here. what else does the administration saying you know, the most fascinating will does a great job of laying out the balancing act on the chinese government side. the u. s. is also facing its own balancing act when they ve really faced since 1979 when the diplomatic relations between the u. s and taiwan in the u. s. and china basically did a 1 80 to some degree here, the fact that there is a transit or a visit to the united states of italian taiwanese president is not in and of itself some dramatic rarity. it happens. it has happened fairly regularly, however, meeting with the speaker of the house on u. s soil will be the highest ranking official. since the shift in the diplomatic relations that taiwanese president has ever met with. still us officials. biden administration officials have repea
unacceptable doesn t bring any added value to sort of tiptoe around it. right it s a great question. i think it s clear that both the government and washington anti pay do see some value in not being as provocative as they could be when these types of visits, which are a regular occurrence do happen. that means that size is not making a lot of speeches . she s not giving any press interviews. they call it a transit stop. when everybody knows it s a visit, not a transit stop. the problem is that over the years, the chinese communist party has been less and less willing to understand those gestures and respond in a similar way, and actually, what they ve done is they ve ramped up their aggressiveness. they have ramped up their coercion of taiwan, and they ve taken those concessions as weakness and then used it to escalate and change the status quo. vis a vis china and taiwan s military to military relationship, and this is a huge problem, because if you think about it there that