chinese military drill surrounding the self ruled ireland. beijing seized taiwan as a renegade province which it says will one day be returned to mainland china. our correspondent danny vinson has more. mr xia watches the ukraine war unfold from taiwan. for the quality control engineer, there are comparisons between russia s war in ukraine and china s threats towards his home. the taiwanese government has extended mandatory military training from four months to a year. mr xia fears it is not enough. translation: |think| taiwanese people tend to avoid this issue. personally, i believe that if we want peace, you have to pay a price. freedom comes at a cost, and i hope other taiwanese people can face this problem squarely. mr xia is one of an increasing number of taiwanese civilians determined to safeguard
is a self ruled island, china sees it as a breakaway province that will eventually be under its control. and it led to the largest ever chinese military drill surrounding the self ruled island. 0ur correspondent danny vincent sent this report from taipei. mr xia watches the ukraine war unfold from taiwan. for the quality control engineer, there are comparisons between russia s war in ukraine and china s threats towards his home. the taiwanese government has extended mandatory military training from four months to a year. mr xia fears it is not enough. translation: |think| taiwanese people tend to avoid this issue. personally, i believe that if we want peace, you have to pay a price. freedom comes at a cost, and i hope other taiwanese people can face this problem squarely. mr xia is one of an increasing number of taiwanese civilians determined to safeguard taiwan in the event of chinese aggression.
and i hope other taiwanese people can face this problem squarely. mr xia is one of an increasing number of taiwanese civilians determined to safeguard taiwan in the event of chinese aggression. this is a war survival game with airsoft bullets but the intensity is real. taiwan is on the front line aggressions from beijing. but here on the ground, these threats feel like somewhat of a war game. former us house speaker nancy pelosi s visit to taipei triggered beijing to launch military drills, encircling taiwan. now, president tsai ing wen is set to meet with the current house speaker in the us. this woman is the co founder of a fact finding initiative in taipei.
today s morning moment, quite a trip into the news archives to the actual real life story from 1985 that inspired the new box office hit cocaine bear. it was actually covered by our atlanta affiliate wxia back in 1985. this was the news segment at the time. the 200-pound bear fell victim to one of three duffle bags full of cocaine dropped in north georgia and knoxville, tennessee, three months ago when parachutist and drug smul letter andrew thornton plunged to his death. he had 77 pounds of cocaine strapped on him. agents found a second bag a short time later. they ran across the dead bear in fannin county last week while looking for the third bag, what they believe to be the last of the thornton badge. they probably got an initial rush and perhaps became disoriented and somewhat