complaining of illnesses since the chemical exposure they are. welcome to fox news live. hello, everyone. we have two other big stories that we are this moment. presidential race 2024 talk heating up as the republican candidates, they sharpen their attacks on president biden. he has not yet announced he is running for reelection. the former governor now says he is out. tensions with china rising yet again amid fears it plans to invade taiwan. beijing just announced a $230 billion increase to its military budget. house foreign affairs military on that in just a moment. eric: talking about china and the threat from beijing, but first we have live team coverage. lucas with the latest on the presidential race but first nate with the developments on ohio train derailment. it s happened again. yeah, it has. the good news is it does not appear it is a repeat of last month s toxic derailment in east palestine. they say that there is no evidence of any spillage after this most r
they are constantly going to the taiwan defense zone with their warplanes. poking, poking, poking. is there something you could do right now to push back and say cut it out. i think we have sent a major signal with the government in japan buying u.s. american defense technology. we have an agreement to arm taiwan with defensive weapons they need to deter this kind of behavior. if we have an ngo pacific strategy with our allies there, i think that should be a major message to the communists in beijing. do you see the allies in the pacific. australia, vietnam, japan, the philippines. getting together like nato. aimed at moscow. this group is aimed at beijing. former prime minister
complaining of illnesses since the chemical exposure they are. welcome to fox news live. hello, everyone. we have two other big stories that we are this moment. presidential race 2024 talk heating up as the republican candidates, they sharpen their attacks on president biden. he has not yet announced he is running for reelection. the former governor now says he is out. tensions with china rising yet again amid fears it plans to invade taiwan. beijing just announced a $230 billion increase to its military budget. house foreign affairs military on that in just a moment. eric: talking about china and the threat from beijing, but first we have live team coverage. lucas with the latest on the
the president is considering dealing with investment of american companies in china. some will say that is not enough. you have to do a lot more to block what beijing is doing. well, i do agree with that. just last week the service committee passed on taiwan deterrence act which shows if the people s republic of china, the chinese communist party threatens taiwan militarily in an aggressive manner, we will publish all the financial assets and translates those into mandarin to the members, leadership. we will ban their families from traveling. we will make it known that we will deter china s aggressive action across the taiwan strait. but you are right. it has to be technology and our diplomacy and economic power. i am just back from meetings on this very matter. why don t you do that now.
in some point in the next few years launching an invasion of the island democracy taiwan. still claiming that it owns. how do we deal with this. vice chair of the house committee. peer congressman, good to see you. do you think president biden is doing enough to push back against beijing. this is the critical issue. countering the communist party, the most important issues facing the country right now. setting up the ccp and the communist party select committee in the house chaired by mike gallagher. i think we have strong bipartisan support to work with the biden administration to make sure that we have the right strategy to counter china s economic diplomatic and most importantly military station of their whole government outlook.