bill: we have gotten a lot of this video in overnight. precision missile strikes blanketing the waters around taiwan, threatening the democratic republic that the u.s. considers to be a strong ally. dana? dana: china demonstrating its ability to bombard the island by air and sea. the show of force prompting taiwan to put its military on high alert and cancelled dozens of commercial flights. bill: beijing is conducting these drills closer to taiwan than ever before. some of them happening a mere 12 miles away. beijing surrounding the island with helicopters and war ships showing its ability to enforce what could be an all out blockade at some point. dana: meanwhile, republicans are blaming president biden. they say his mixed messaging on pelosi s visit gave china the green light. he sent the wrong message like he did to putin. let s invade a little portion of it. we should be very upfront at the very beginning. do not send a missile across.
this is just a day after speaker pelosi s visit there. china conducting an precedent long-range live fire precision missile strikes on selected targets around taiwan. the drills dubbed by beijing the largest ever in that area are clearly responsible. china claims taiwan has its own. some of the six targets overlap with the maritime borders. to missiles crossed over the island into the airspace. exercise last 4 days. chinese naval air assess. taiwan calls them responsible. invasion of its territorial space. ronald reagan aircraft carrier group in the water southeast of taiwan. secretary of state blinken warned china against any aggressive behavior. one former drop administration official regarding china and taiwan, and they are not successful in three unifying politically, they will do so with force.
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which increases the risk of a spillover effect that obviously the president spoke to very compellingly, saying we re going to defend every inch of nato territory. and when you get that close, i mean, there is always the element of mistake, a precision missile, if it went offcourse, it could be just disastrous. let me ask you about this, written by an expert in the washington post. the worse things go for putin, the more china will back him, with analysts suggesting china may see russia s recent weakening as a net positive, shifting the balance of power to beijing s favor. if this is the case, does this put china in the best position to potentially mediate any sort of diplomatic solution, and then the question is, will it? i think that china is already the senior partner in this relationship. this is the reverse of what we saw during the cold war, where the soviet union was the senior partner, china was the junior