between the united states and those nations. neil? neil: david, i know i sound like but surprised me emanuel macron s message on this taiwan incident with the united states and china, that it s a u.s. issue there with taiwan. that certainly if american boots are on the understood grow, it won t be french boots on the ground. is that news or would be deemed news to the white house if this escalated, that we would have european support, if it did. yeah. yeah, the white house did not expound on that. as we know, emanuel macron was in beijing last week meeting with president xi. but white house spokesperson kirby today just essentially punted as we call it in journalism and didn t answer the question. he said talk to french officials about macron s actions in china. neil? neil: i was impressed with your dad question though.
just knock it off. knock it off. might be the only way to handle it. it s not working that way. thank you very much for that. i want to go to congressman carlos jimenez. the florida republican was among a unique view or bipartisan delegation meeting with the taiwan officials. i know i sound maybe like the columbo character. i can t let go this acknowledge on the part of emanuel macron saying this is our problem with china and taiwan. certainly not france s. i wonder if that extends to your point. i think we need to put that aside and concentrate on a what we need to do in taiwan. getting the shipments of arms to taiwan as quickly as we can. we should already consider allowing taiwan to start manufacturing some of the military equipment that they need in order to protect
patrols. they re meant to simulate and attack on and sailing off of the self-governored island which china claims against its own. and a new chinese fighter aircraft carrier can planes simulating attacks. a range of defense responses came from the island. all of this trigger bad the president s meeting with kevin mccarthy in california last week. when she returned, the fireworks started. war games also timed to stir after french president macron left china following a much touted three-day visit. as he left, macron said europe should not get involved in a u.s.-china spat over taiwan.