democratically l ally elected government here. beijing has claimed it for more than 70 years even though the island has ruled itself for 70 years. so this seems to be something that will continue and in fact just in a matter of days taiwan will be demonstrating its own show of force showing off new domestically produced missiles and aircraft that they say would be used if there were some sort of an invasion, if you will, by the mainland. reciprocal message there. will ripley, thanks so much. still ahead, the president of belarus grilled on allegations of widespread human rights abuses following his disputed re-election win. we ll have an exclusive interview with alexander lukashenko coming up, stay with us.
to rally democrats to support his economic agenda. and taiwan says it has now witnessed the largest air incursion by china s air force yet. so what kind of message is beijing trying to send? we ll have the latest coming up from taipei.
but what is needed right now is the hard work of resolving these issues. so it is not clear when the house might vote on the bipartisan bill and status of negotiations on the budget reconciliation package also unknown. taiwan s defense ministry is reporting the largest ever incursion by china s air force. the self-governing island says more than 3 dozen military aircraft entered its air defense identification zone friday, as beijing unveils its new electronic warfare jet capable of jamming enemy radar and anti-aircraft systems. will ripley is following the story for us. so what are we do to make of t? reporter: this is part of an ongoing pattern and an escalating series of events from the view of the government here in taipei to have these large numbers of chinese warplanes entering the air defense
communist party celebrating 72 years sincefounding of the people s republic of china. and xi jinping was front and center in the celebrations and one analyst says that this is tantamount to political and prop be propaganda wear fararfare, tryi intimidate but also provides military training. and with all the hardware moving around and new weapons being introduced it feels like every week, then we wonder if there is some sort of a miscalculation here. the taiwanese ministry of foreign affairs put out a pretty clear statement about how they feel about all of this saying that taiwan is taiwan. and it is not part of the peoples republic of china. peoples republic of china has never ruled taiwan for a single day even though beijing does claim this island of about 24 million people as its own sovereign territory and beijing does not recommend noise the