Every 8 days concerns growing over a sharp increase in cope with 19 cases in the u. K. And the u. S. Justice department pushes prosecutors to charge protesters in portland and the rarely used law. And sport Justin Thomas head to courts rather to take a 1st round lead at the u. S. Out then american is a shot clear of the 2nd major championship here. So visit to taiwan by a high ranking u. S. Official has led to fighter jets being scrambled and it seemed china launch Major Military drills Taiwans Defense Ministry says it had to send up jets to track approaching Chinese Air Force planes if they cross the sensitive mid line of the Taiwan Strait which lies between china and the island chinas mistreated. Justified fridays new drills saying they were necessary to protect what it calls National Sovereignty and territorial integrity it accuses United States and taiwans ruling party of colluding to stir up trouble. Me with recently the United States and the Democratic Progressive Party authoriti
And trying to keep the lessons going to meet the pandemic the lengths theyre going to remote areas of indians. And foreign belgians Thomas Peters is new to the lead on day 2 at the u. S. Open hes overtaken Justin Thomas who had a course record in his helping round on their estate. So then taiwan has scrambled 18 fighter jets to track nearby Chinese Military planes in an escalation of tension over the visit of a u. S. Official china says the drills were necessary accusing the United States and taiwan of colluding to stir up trouble from abroad explains. Taiwan scrambling gets jets after 18 Chinese Military aircraft entered its Defense Identification Zone before turning back. As its done previously in the Taiwan Strait this military exercise by china was its way of showing displeasure at increased diplomatic exchanges between the u. S. And taiwan it comes as u. S. Undersecretary keith crock the most Senior State Department official in decades continues his visit to the island that follow
Affairs Committee Member looks at what the relations mean for u. S. Taiwan relations. Hello. Welcome everyone. Im walter logan. Im director of the Asian Studies center here at the heritage foundation. I really appreciate all of you coming out, thank you. I want to thank rustle shou for partnering with us on this program today. Im so glad we could work this out. You know, there was a little election over the weekend. I dont know if everyone noticed, but judging by the turnout, perhaps you did. You know, at the outset here i just want to say a couple of things about the elections in taiwan on saturday, just a couple, and turn it over to our guests and our Panel Speakers to offer real advice on it, real insight. First of all, i think that the election says more about taiwan than it says about anything else. I not only highlight that because i think we all are immediately moving to what this means for china. For all practical purposes, all practical purposes, taiwan is really not a part of
Complaint. Florida senator rick scott joins me to discuss the Senate Impeachment trial to begin this week as articles being sent. A lot more right now as we look ahead on sunday morning futures. Maria begin in the middle east this morning. The Trump Administration is ratcheting up sanctions against iran after tehran targets american troops with missiles. Protesters are now rising up in the streets of iran, against the ayatollah, after iran admits mistakenly downing the ukrainian airliner. Meanwhile in asia voters in taiwan reelect the incumbent president supporting her tough stance against mainland china. We look ahead to this weeks signing ceremony for the phase one of the u. S. China trade deal. All of this coming amid a record stock market performance. More signs of job growth in america. Joining me exclusively this morning is treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin. Mr. Secretary, good to see you this morning. Thanks very much for being here. Thank you, maria. Great to be with you. Maria
Now we are reporting this morning, that they are not a currency manipulator at all. If you remember last year, the president between in a moment of heightened tensions, they declared themselves they were declared a currency manipulator, and now it looks like it is being lifted, part of a warming trend with relations. David when will we know whether the chinese are actually complying with this . There are a lot of questions if they will really follow through on the deal. N the main commitments are on intellectual property and there are signs that the chinese have already done what is already in the deal. They have a new law in place come in they have some new courts set up for the question is whether they enforce the law and whether they crackdown on the cases. One of the things we will be looking for our highprofile cases, whether they come around for the second thing is the big purchase commitment from the chinese, 200 billion over two we will purchases, and not know whether we are re