The PLA could send warships over the median line, stage live-fire drills near Taiwan s southern coast, or test-fire missiles near the Taipei-controlled Pratas Islands, analysts warned.
China s President Xi Jinping warned Joe Biden those who play with fire will get burned during a two-hour call Thursday amid rising tensions over Taiwan, according to Chinese state media.
taiwan and says that the status of taiwan should not be decided by forests. there had been some question for some time about whether those goalposts were shifting. chinese are wondering, there was some confusion about whether the us policy was changing, and then that trip that nancy pelosi may or may not take at this point sort of added fuel to the fire, because she s very senior member, a very senior position as the speaker of the house, and she also belongs to the president s party. i m joined now by keith krach, who is the former us under secretary of state under the trump administration who made headlines in 2020 when he became the highest ranking us state department official to visit taiwan since the nations severed diplomatic ties in 1979. it is great to get you on the programme. ijust want it is great to get you on the programme. i just want to start by asking you what you made at the conversation between the two leaders?
the status of taiwan should not be decided by forests. there had been some question for some time about whether those goalposts were shifting. chinese are wondering, there was some confusion about whether the us policy was changing, and then that trip that nancy pelosi may or may not take at this point sort of added fuel to the fire, because she s very senior member, a very senior position as the speaker of the house, and she also belongs to the president s party. i spoke earlier to keith krach, former us under secretary of state. he told me the world is watching to see how xijinping will act next. according to china s readout, xi want to pull back putin, and you know, he should look no further than ukraine to see how nato and the us has defended and backed ukraine against put putin s bloody invasion, his war. let me be blunt.
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hasn’t confirmed when – or even if – she is to visit Taiwan. Yet such is the sensitivity over the island&