defended. cnn s blake esic in taipei with a look at the tensions. reporter: for the third day in a row multiple chine cheese aircraft and ships were spotted operating in the taiwan strait with some crossing the median line and what taiwan s defense has described as a possible simulated attack against its mainland. the international reaction including from some experts cnn has talked to said this feels very much like a dress rehearsal for a potential war. here in taiwan people have been living under a constant threat from china for the past roughly seven decades, so although taiwanese media is reporting on these drills peopleeme to be going about their daily lives. earlier tonight there were long lines outside of restaurants. in beijing the propaganda surrounding these drills has been relentless, in an effort to live up to the fiery rhetoric we heard from chinese government officials in the build up to
alright i ll take it back here on capitol hill, thank you chad. we are going to have more on this in a few moments with borders white house correspondent jess mason. report china continues ways today expect to be the last day of china military exercises around taiwan. now beijing began holding these drills three days ago all in response to house speaker nancy pelosi s visit to the independent island nation last week. alexander half live in washington with the very latest on beijing s doings, hate alexandria. there were some thought china might extend their exercises be on today print that does not appear to be the case. it was a four-day show of military might in the taiwan strait be the officials and the democratic island city live fire drills and evolving chinese were crafts and jets were intended to simulate an attack. ballistic missiles landed in six areas surrounding taiwan put some landing in japan s exclusive economic zone.
states for starting this crisis surrounding taiwan and as a result of what they call a provocative visit to taiwan by the speaker of the house. beijing has not only announced that sanctions are going to be levied against nancy pelosi for her visit, but also they ve announced that they re suspending cooperation with the united states on a number of issues including climate change talk, antidrug cooperation and have canceled future talks between franchise and u.s. officials in response to china s ongoing military exercises encircling taiwan. the white house has summoned china s ambassador to condemn china s quote irresponsible military activities. of course, the chinese ambassador rejected that condemnation recently. u.s. secretary of state blinken weighed in on beijing s attempts to change the status quo saying that the situation needs to be
to take a three hour detour around the phillippines. and it remains tense. at one point today, taiwan scrambled its own fighterjets to ward off those from china that had crossed the taiwan strait median line that separates the island from china. while she was on the island, the speaker spent time with members of the parliament and the business community. and at her news conference with the president tsai ing wen, she promised america s continuing, iron clad commitment to taiwan s democracy. our solidarity with you is more important than ever, as you defend taiwan and your freedom. we are supporters of the status quo, and we don t want anything to happen to taiwan by force. so strength, and one of the biggest sources of strength is democracy. other us senators have visited taiwan this year without stirring such a reaction, but nancy pelosi is the third in line. and she is a renowned china hawk, which will not be lost on beijing. these pictures were taken
economically dependent on a superpower economy like china s population of well overi billion. it s an asymmetric relationship and it could be dangerous to you. let s take it this way. if the only option is selling those products for a good price to china or not selling them, what will you do? i would sell them. if we open more markets if the united states opened more markets for us, united kingdom, the rest of europe, turkey, whatever, we would sell them. if i can choose, i won t put all my exports in one country. but that s really increasingly what is happening. if you look at your beef exports, your timber exports, china is becoming so important to you that you are becoming dependent on beijing. can you define me independent?