Kilometres South West of cape canaveral. Making its way across florida. The new leader has delivered his national address since he became leader injanuary. He called on the people of taiwan to be courageous and brave amid escalating tensions with china. He pledged to defend the islands sovereignty. It makes most of the well s advanced chips. Lets speak to a political Scientist And Assistant professor at taiwan university, and a nonresident fellow. Thank you forjoining me. First of all, the speech, what have you made of it, what do you see is the most important Top Lines . What we have often important Top Lines . What we have often heard important Top Lines . What we have often heard from important Top Lines . What we | have often heard from William Lai since he came into office was a bit more of a snarky tone and how he addressed china and relations. We saw a Tone Change in the Speech Today where we saw far more pragmatic level headed language in regards to Cross Trade Relations and th
Even the europes closest neighbors in the western balkans have yet to see the bloc deliver on pledges to help here to chinese and russian vaccines are filling the void the European Union have that they wanted their Global Public good they wanted to ensure a quick bloc there but were just seeing even today and yesterday then you know suggesting or threatening that there might be export bans on the coronavirus back in the e. U. And so obviously thats very concerning sign of buckley nationalism here and brussels Officials Say humanitarian vixen donations will be exempt from tougher export controls they promise help will come soon to say that the e. U. Is not doing anything i think its is really not correct that we are actually in discussion both with the Member States but also with the pharmaceutical companies in order precisely to help this advance the e. U. Was quick to call for Global Cooperation against a pandemic but so far its been too slow to live up to promises of global solidarit
Welcome to do double news isha glad you could join us the United States says there is no reason for tensions between china and taiwan to escalate to confrontation the remarks come as a senior chinese official warned that any moves towards Taiwan Independence could mean war the sharpened rhetoric from beijing matches increased military activity by its forces against taiwan the aim analysts believe is to place a new u. S. Administration and taiwan on track. Taiwanese air force pilots are on high alert this may be just a simulated thrill to show how fast they can take to the skies parts of recent months theyve been doing it for real the president laid bare the threat from their nearest neighbor. Who are in the past year our radar stations have detected the incursions of nearly 2000 Chinese Military aircrafts and over 400 vessels this allowed us to intercept and drive them away and secure our maritime an airspace. A Record Number of incursions came on january 23rd china sent 13 warplanes i
Supreme Court Nominee barrett is feeling tough questions on everything from abortion to gun ownership on the 2nd day of her confirmation hearing she said she would put aside her catholic beliefs while ruling as a Supreme Court judge which bar was questioned by Dianne Feinstein who is the most senior democrat on the Senate Judiciary committee on the issue of abortion is a contentious issue which is a no one reason why it would be comforting to you to have an answer but i cant express views on cases or precommit to approaching a case any particular way. Well that makes it difficult for me and i think for other women also on this committee because this is a very important case and it affects a lot of people millions and millions of women and you could be a very important vote the government of the netherlands is shutting down bars and restaurants from weapons day and banning the sale of alcohol past 8 pm after a record daily increase in coded 1000 cases many 7000 400. 00 new infections we
Business aljazeera these are the top stories u. S. Vice president ial candidate Pamela Harris is one of the senators that have been questioned by the Supreme Court nominee amy kenny barriers harris says Democratic Campaign is face lay opposed to an appointment before novembers election she focused much of her a lot of 30 minutes on the issue of health care. An official has more from capitol hill. Referred back to the fact that he has criticized parts of the Affordable Healthcare Act before the care act in the past and suggesting that the reason that she was nominated by donald trump was because she said that she would essentially strike it down it would be unconstitutional in her eyes though as far as the democrats are concerned the reason that this is being pushed through so quickly of course is just 17 days since we couldnt but it was announced as the nominee is that they want to make sure that there is a conservative majority on the court and they will be able to end the Affordable