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already from china. we ll have much more on that in just a moment. but we re also keeping an eye on the pentagon where in just minutes, top leaders will hold a press conference. this question of military intervention in taijuan, it s very likely to be raised. we ll bring that to you when it begins. president biden is also formally answering an indy pacific trade pact. a lot to get to this hour. let s get started. cnn s jeremy diamond is live in tokyo. jeremy, what are you hearing from administration, from the white house about the president s comments in taijuan? reporter: well, listen, a white house official almost immediately after the president made those comments at a news conference saying that quote, as the president said our policy has not changed and yet, if you listen to the president s words directly, he very much does seem to be tossing away the u.s. s decades long foreign policy of strategic ambiguity as it relates to taijuan and the question of whether ....
Essentially kind of co-still reliant heavily economically on china. john, what about this what do you hear about this plan? what do you think? biden said this frame work should drive a race to the top. the details are not worked out. what is it? no, it looks to be a pretty weak document at this point. look, there was an ambitious agreement that was negotiated among a number of asian countries by president barack obama, the chancetrans pacific partnership. you simply can t get a tariff reducing trade agreement through the congress right now so i think this is an attempt at a substitute for that. there will be some economic elements to it but it does not appear that it would change very much. ....