actually, um much better coordination, frankly than it was last year when former house speaker nancy pelosi traveled to taiwan because at that time, the chinese didn t believe that the bite administration didn t want her to go because she was in the same party as them, at least. now. they see that kevin mccarthy as the head of the opposition. it s probably not doing this on behalf of the biden white house at the same time, i think both the administration and the congressional leadership have been very measured in very careful to craft this in a way that they can defended as a as a as a diplomatic gesture that doesn t go too far that doesn t seek to provoke china at the same time, like i said before, it s not clear that the chinese leadership even really cares about that kind of stuff anymore , because as they we ve been carefully managing these interactions, they ve been escalating. they ve been building up missiles. they ve been coercing taiwan on a daily basis, and they ve been flood
correspondent, will ripley, who was in taipei and cnn chief white house correspondent phil mattingly, so well, the last time that sigh, of course, met with the house speaker. we know the reaction there. beijing launching extensive military drills in response. what are the concerns today about a similar retaliation? well so far, the taiwanese defense ministry is not detecting a huge uptick in chinese military activity around taiwan. although there was an aircraft carrier group that was apparently heading out towards the western pacific that they re monitoring very closely at this stage. a lot of analysts believe that this will probably not be as severe more responses we saw last august after nancy pelosi took off from taipei and trying to kicked off unprecedented military drills, including firing missiles over taiwan, not to mention simulating the blockade of the island, which would be the first step that china would take, theoretically if there were an actual invasion . of course, it w
numerous journals, a memoir, a suicide note. home videos, more guns ammo, a photo of the covenant school yearbooks from that school, plus that judge signed warrant also gives investigators permission to search through hale s electronic devices. they re still working to figure out a motive to this and are still analyzing the writings. isabella rossellini really appreciate the update this afternoon. thank you. well any minute now house speaker kevin mccarthy and taiwan s president are set to speak. china warns of quote serious repercussions will have more on this meeting. had. nothihing. nothing absolutely nothing. it really is something that s an expedia member. you can save up to 30% when you add a hotel to your flight. so you can have a
taiwanese independence that the u. s. is trying to use taiwan to contain china? none of that is true. she s a leader of a democratic country in a sober and sophisticated a strategic one at that, but, uh, right now, what s actually happening is that the chinese government is trying to escalate and we re trying to keep that from happening, and we re failing. and it s not because of anything saying when, or president biden leo mccarthy did, it s because the leaders in beijing want to change the status quo. and uh, coercing pressure taiwan into joining china or possibly reserving the right to attack taiwan sometime in the near future. and on that point, josh you know we ve been focused and, of course, rightly so. it is very prudent to focus on a possible military attack from china on taiwan, and that has been the focus and bipartisan focus really in the administration here in in amongst democrats and republicans, but but you write about the threat that s nonmilitary towards taiwan. and tha
believes could be actually the biggest threat. coming from china and their possible number one option before going to military. can you explain that? well, yeah, that s exactly right. i you know, i think a lot of times in washington we can get caught up in seeing taiwan is just some sort of irritant in the u. s china relationship and not an actual country that has enough functioning, healthy democracy that s under attack. not militarily right now. but in lots and lots of other ways. we re talking about massive political interference. economic coercion, information warfare, cyber warfare. it s not a coincidence that china invited ah, the former taiwanese president from the opposition party to counter program against size trip to the united states, and this is a real threat. but it s a harder one to talk about, because we re not good at dealing with this information and cyber attacks and political interference, and the taiwanese are saying we need to focus more on that and less on the at