because as you said, president xi is trying to yet that unprecedented third term, or fifth third fifth year, five-year term, i should say, and he s got problems at home. you re right, he had to fluff up for his own people. meantime, you ve got taipei accusing beijing of simulating an attack on taiwan s main island. i want to show you the map right now. china is exercising some of its largest ever military drills around eye wan, even crossing the demarcation line to fight in the taiwan straits. so if xi jinping is setting the stage for an imminent invasion of taiwan, how is his plan going? well, i don t think he is, to be frank about it. i mean, what he s unfolded here is more a quarantine or a blockade as to opposed to a d-day type invasion. he s going to do a d-day type invasion, that is the most dangerous option for taiwan and the united states because, obviously, they seize the island
senior level military conversations may still be possible, but live fire exercises by the chinese are expected to run through tomorrow. mike in. mike: alexandria hoff in washington, thanks a lot. arthel? arthel: all right, we re going to bring in retired four-star general jack keane right now, also fox news senior strategic analyst. general keane, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general mark milley, went on record two weeks ago sounding the alarm on the chinese military s increased aggression. i want to start with that as the foundation and ask, was speaker pelosi s trip to taiwan that controversial, or was china just looking for a reason? well, i think we gave china a little bit of an opening here because, first of all, the white house or someone mt. administration, we don t know for sure if it was the white house, leaked the fact that she was traveling to to taiwan. normally those visits are kind of done in secret like the president going to afghanistan or iraq, and then
wrapped up her visit many tokyo where china s exercises were called a grave problem adding several ballistic missiles launched by china landed in japan s exclusive zone. the white house says china is using it as an excuse to escalate tensions. there s no reason for beijing to have escalated the way that they have. there is no reason. the policy has not changed. we are still in line with the one china policy. the speaker had every right to take that trip. reporter: following that trip, beijing also suspended communication with the u.s. on several major issues like climate change, military policy and drug trafficking. secretary of state antony blinken spoke to that from the philippines. they shut down eight different areas where our two countries have been able to work together. those include several military to military channels which are vital for avoiding miscommunication and avoiding crises. reporter: white house officials said yesterday that