Now on bbc news, its time for a special programme. Global questions the taiwan, china conflict. Hello, welcome to global questions with me, zeinab badawi, from Liberty Square in taipei, the capital city of taiwan. The main island of taiwan lies about 160 kilometres across the waters from china. In the past few months, china has stepped up its military exercises, and fired missiles over taiwan, in growing tensions with the government here. The chinese president , xijinping, has reiterated the claim that taiwan belongs to china, and he says he does not rule out the use of force to take it over. Meanwhile, the United States, which supports taiwan, has hardened its position with President Biden saying he would send american troops to defend it. So, if china did invade taiwan, it would be a conflict with huge global dimensions, one that involves the two superpowers, the United States and china. That is global questions, taiwan, a flashpoint with china and the world . Applause welcome to the
this before they head to the august recess on friday. i m john roberts in washington. this is america reports, a slimmed down version of build back better estimated, listen to this, to raise taxes on millions of americans across every income bracket, including, yes, those making under $400,000 a year. this despite president biden repeatedly claiming that it would do no such thing. one thing we are trying to get done in congress, pass legislation that won t raise taxes a single penny for anybody making less than 400 grand. you make less than 400, you will not pay a penny in taxes. make sure we pay everything without any one making under 400,000 paying taxes. sandra: rebranded as a way to reduce inflation across the country. a new study claims it will do the exact opposite and make the inflation situation even worse. john: all of this comes amid a potential crisis in asia. tensions rising with china as reports circulate that house speaker nancy pelosi could arrive in ta
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brian to be late tomorrow. good luck for that. all right sean giveaway i am brian coming in for laura ingraham special edition of the ingraham angle a lot going on. will she or won t she bed is the as it relates to potential taiwan trip for nancy pelosi. all points of the speaker making the visit it would happen in just a of a few hours about 12 hours behind us and if anything happens will tell you right away going to the wall street journal is in a matter of whether she goes to taiwan, but rather whether she spends the night in taipei or not. they ve issued threats for the speaker celebrations as you probably know saying yesterday that the military will not sit by while she visits really? the going even further promising military involvement create even suggesting that they might shoot her plane down always on that nice and the chinese military puts the ridiculous propaganda video some of that tom cruise produce of their troops launching missiles and taking off and fig
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