troublemaker. he was welcomed by one of washington s unofficial representatives in taipei. paula hancock joins us. how are u.s. officials responding to this chinese criticism? reporter: well, rahel, what we know at this point from senior administration officials is that this is an unofficial transit visit. they say it is in keeping with the one china policy, but that s really not the way that beijing sees it. the u.s. also saying that this is fairly routine. in fact, william himself at the beginning of last year did a transit through the u.s. the president has also stopped off in the u.s. but it always angers beijing who sees taiwan as part of its territory despite never having controlled it. the so what we heard from william lai, he was on sunday with a group of taiwanese americans, he said in a speech
doubt one of the biggest nila terry exercises that we have seen in the last 30 years, and of course any strengthening of relationship between taipei and washington is something that angers beijing. basi taiwan as part of their territory, it is a self governing nation and taipei for its part has long defended its right to self rule, so any sort of closer relations or this meeting between speaker mccarthy and president tsai is likely to continue to incite the ire of beijing, and exactly what or how this may proceed going forward, we are going to have to wait and see. to wait and see. katie silver, alwa s to wait and see. katie silver, always great to wait and see. katie silver, always great to to wait and see. katie silver, always great to get - to wait and see. katie silver, always great to get you - to wait and see. katie silver, always great to get you on i to wait and see. katie silver, | always great to get you on the programme and get your thoughts. thank you forjoining us. to
was a chinese spy balloon. lockheed makes the fighterjet which flew the mission to shoot down that balloon using the missile made by raytheon, so it does appear that these measures are very much in response to that incident. they are also about arms sales to taiwan, a self ruled island but china views it as a breakaway province. the 1979 act means us has to provide taiwan with a means to defend itself, which angers beijing. we have had a number of high profile visit to the island, including nancy pelosi, and according to the ft, a top pentagon officialfor china will be visiting in the coming days. we also have the us house speaker kevin mccarthy who will likely visit sometime this year. but there are signs
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