and this does not have to be kinetic, it does not have to be military. although, clearly, they overreacted with all the live fire exercises. but just look at the way the world is united against russia after the ukraine invasion. you know, just the economic damage to russia, as a matter of a democratic system coming together, it s something that has to make the prc think once, twice, three times. congressman, thank you for being with us. i hope you can make the next hour, when we can talk about semiconductors and microchips. so we appreciate you for this hour, and we ll see you next. thanks. the governor of texas has signed a disaster declaration for almost two dozen counties affected by severe storms and flooding. flooding in dallas is the worse the city has ever seen. it s caught many off-guard. cnn s ed lavandera reports. dallas
taiwan, and it delivered. earlier today taiwan s defense ministry said some of china s activities was a simulated attack against the island. to understand more, let me bring in oriana schuyler mast row, a fellow at stanford s freeman institute and scholar at ai, also an officer in the air force reserve, but she is speaking today in her civilian capacity. welcome oriana. give us a sense, how would you characterize these live fire exercises? how should we think of them? well, of course these live fire exercises are a show of force. china telling us they re unhappy with speaker pelosi s visit, but much more importantly, sure a combat rehearsal. xi jinping has been very clear they need to do more realistic exercises if they re going to prepare to take taiwan by force. so me what is really significant is the unprecedented scale. not only the live fire tests,
quasi-blockade of taiwan. there are dozens and dozens of chinese warships in those zones, and they are doing live fire exercises. so missiles, minds, all of that is being practiced, and therefore no ships want to go into those waters around taiwan. so that is the bad news. the good news is, i think after the weekend you will see this sort of move back to normal. but certainly the speaker s visit has gotten the attention of xi jinping, and as you pointed out, he wants to appear strong for this part of congress that is coming up. but at the same time, he is not interested in a full blown shooting war with the united states. he is not even interested in some kind of a minor incident. and i will close with this, ali, what i worry about here is miscalculation. at sea, or in the air.
settle the tie wab issue once and for all, do you want to wait until 2024 and roll the dice on who is in the white house, or do you want to move now? this is a moment of national peril. # as you alluded to, launching the live fire exercises around taiwan with missiles shot over the island. give us the reaction to the show of force. how worried should we be of one of these missiles mistakenly landing somewhere and potentially starting world war. do we have that concern that world war could start from a mistake? without question. you have live fire exercises, you have the potential for an event everybody makes the analogy to how world war i started where something happens that nobody wanted but it takes on a life of it s own. we have a lot of military force out there. the taiwanese have force.
fascist lines for the benefit of a specific ethnic group. the han chinese are not supposed to be allowed, but they re doing it. so to chinese leaders, the concept of diversity, equity and inclusion, those concepts make no sense at all. in fact, they re bizarre. it s one of those incomprehensible jokes that western liberals tell the chinese don t get it at all. so when nancy pelosi took off for taiwan today aboard a us military jet, the chinese government did not issue a statement applauding her remarkable display of spunky girl power. no one in beijing congratulated nancy pelosi for breaking glass ceilings. is the very first speaker in history to identify as a woman. no one in china even mentioned that. instead, chinese leaders treated pelosi s arrival like an invasion. air raid sirens sounded in coastal towns in china as her plane approached. when she finally landed, the chinese military announced live fire exercises in the airspace around taiwan for the next four days, china s foreig