Up. welcome with a nuclear test that is typical and china is warning serious jeopardy. meanwhile the next global financial by the ukraine war is in sri lanka where china is there for the big road initiative. joining me now is gordon chang, gate institute and the author of the china temp or. you said that china is preparing, not for biden s visit to asia but preparing for war. do do mike whitete do you mean y that? first forcing senior officials to invest in for an asset so they can t be sanctioned by the united states. laura: that was in the both street journal today so take the money out of u.s. companies. real estate and all the rest of it. and also the central bank is trying to sanction proof the reserves and the rest of the country. they probably won t be
Mountainside. one telling the wall street journal the plane did what it was supposed to do by a person in the cockpit. the question, whether that s a passenger or pilot. chinese airlines says its crew was in good health, also with no family drama or financial drama. the investigation is really just beginning and the chinese are leading it. they say their process here is not only rigorous, but very scientific, so we ll have to see what comes out of it. the voice recorder could tell us about the communications between the pilots and air traffic controls and the pilots themselves. . also provides the ambient noise to let us know if there was a struggle or not in the cockpit. still some investigation ahead. pete muntean for us there, thank you so much. days ahead of president biden s visit to asia, a u.s. intelligence source tells cnn that north korea is preparing to test a long range
this week, the u.s. expelled 60 top russian diplomats, punishment for the kremlin s alleged poisoning of a former russian spy and his daughter in england. some senior trump administration officials are pressing for more action, including additional sanctions, as the special counsel s probe into contact between russia and trump and his aides continue to hang over the white house. did you ever discuss pardons? joining me now is republican senator ron johnson of wisconsin. he is chairman of the senate homeland security committee. he s fresh off of a visit to asia. senator johnson, welcome back to meet the press. happy easter. happy easter to you, as well. let me start with the state of u.s./russia relations. on one hand, you can look at it and say, my god, this looks worse than the cold war. on the other hand, if you look on rhetoric with president trump, he gets criticized because it seems like he has nothing negative to say about russia. where do you characterize this?
Around that issue. the victory lap that you ll hear huckabee take on the president s visit to asia. there were not a lot of deliverables. not much in the way of trade negotiation that we can see. maybe there were some behind the scenes in terms of deliverables. it was mostly about the president talking about improved relations. john, thanks. shepard: the white house press briefing, sarah sanders from the lectern. away we go. great to be back with everybody. certainly miss seeing most of you that weren t on the road. most? most of you. i gave myself wiggle room there. the president s historic five-country trip to asia was an incredible success. he rallied the world against the menace of north korea, strengthened our alliances and showed our commitment to a free and open indopacific region and took a stand for fair and reciprocal trade.
To be this major announcement. but that s the thing. it was really as ali pointed out, this sort of travel log. here s where i went, here s what i did. here s where i went to dinner. they respect us so much. it was 12 days filled with pomp, circumstance, and flatt y flattery. but policy and results, unclear. let s bring jane harmon in. i know, jane, that you don t at the wilson center get political about this, but there was a level of frustration yesterday watching this thing. you know, our producers loaded it up with all sorts of experts who could comment on it. i m glad we didn t waste your time by bringing you in because it was a travel log of the president s visit to asia with the subtext that now the world actually respects america because apparently before they didn t. help me make sense of this. i don t even mind if you tell me i m wrong in my interpretation of what went on yesterday. well, i think today they ll have the water bottle at the podium and he says he s doing