in terms of the policy towards taiwan and china, the americans have a real problem here. in order to fulfil any kind of promise to defend taiwan, they have to have capability to do that, chinese military has substantially increased over the last two decades, its ability to take action against taiwan, hugely increased. a lot of that is land based missiles, cruise missiles. they have very highly developed cruise missiles, a lot of fighterjets, 39 separate air bases in the region. america doesn t really have, in the immediacy of taiwan, the ability to defend the island if there was a surprise attack. there is a lot of thinking going on in the pentagon in particular, about how to reinforce american power in the western pacific in order to try and fulfil its promises. the calculations, the calculus if you like, the military calculus
this is bbc news. the headlines: china says it will carry out live fire military drills around taiwan in the wake of the high level us visit to the island. as house speaker nancy pelosi leaves, she says america s commitment to taiwan s democracy is unwavering. our delegation, of which i m very proud, came to taiwan to make it unequivocally clear, we will not abandon our commitment to taiwan, and we are proud of our enduring friendship. translation: thisj is a complete farce. the united states is violating china s sovereignty under the guise of so called democracy. those who offend china will be punished. archie battersbee s parents apply to the european court of human rights, to try to postpone the removal of his life support which was due to begin toda.
our time is chinese interest to end, is it? the trend of our time is chinese people s - our time is chinese people s reunification. eventually, taiwan will rejoin the big family as a province and there will be no hope for the so called taiwanese independence. taiwan independence itself is a dead end and is a recipe for war and confrontation. whoever promotes taiwanese independence, will pour more fuel onto the fire, eventually full be culpable and guilty of triggering of or across the two sides of the taiwan straits. what people from other parts of the world, including the uk, might struggle to understand, when you say independence is a dead end, it has acted in an independent way for the last 70 years and that in no way has threatened beijing, so why does it need to change? you threatened beijing, so why does it need to change? threatened beijing, so why does it need to change? you may note that before the civil need to change? you may note that before the civil war need to chan