over 70 chinese war planes were detected flying around taiwan and seven naval vessels in the surrounding waters as well a chinese military spokesman said in an online statement that sunday s joint combat redness patrol and live firing drill was a response to escalating collusion and provocation by the u.s. and taiwan, though he didn t elaborate let s bring in former supreme allied commander of nato, retired four star navy admiral james stavridis. admiral stavridis. always good to see you let s get your reaction there to this drill from china, their claims of u.s. provocation there s been a lot of talk that xi jinping is eyeing taiwan, believes it should be part of china. what does this step tell you is he taking another move down that path? i think there are three things at play here, one, you spoke of a moment ago, jonathan,
than playoff seedings. this is about a man s long term health on twitter tua has to think long and hard ever to play this game again he s had a great season one has to wonder if he should be suiting up. let s turn back to politics now, a report in t the new york times, details a small group of voters broke with its own voting history to reject open extreme candidates for the health of the political system
they seep a weaken donald trump and every one of them says it s going to be me, it s not going to be this other guy who s raised more money, it s not going to be desantis it s going to be me, that s the dynamic that basically always happen and i m afraid it s going to happen again this time and as was pointed out the party apparatus and the winner take all primary rules really do favor a candidate like trump who s got 30 to 35% locked in of the party, now what s going to happen between now and then, trump could get weaker and weaker, he could become less and less viable as a national candidate and then the dynamic could change maybe that 30 to 35% begins to become even more
end of the covid policy. that s good news for the global economy, good news generally within china, but there s going to be bad news there s going to be a lot of deaths as a result of that the chinese population largely unvaccinated, poor vaccines to begin with so what does xi jinping want to do he wants to distract the internal population from those problems so that s point one. point two, xi consolidated power completely in october. he now is in a position to simply turn the whole ship, if you will allow me a nautical metaphor, all the way back around on covid. i think thirdly he is watching the u.s., washington, d.c., spending bills, which are putting out a lot of they used the word collusion, arms transferred, arms sales, advanced technology training so i think, jonathan, those
in 2023 and the fact is, it s kind of predictive, if there s a large field donald trump will very likely be the republican nominee, if there s a small field, if it s, you know, one or two or three candidates donald trump probably won t be so the question is, do these republicans love their country or their party more than they love their own elfish ambition matt, first of all, partly because i m so entranced it would appear you re wearing a teal velvet dinner jacket. you re projecting am i right teal velvet dinner jacket let s just say the steaks