sandra: begin with house speaker nancy pelosi arriving in taiwan, it happened a short time ago for her trip there, raising concerns of how china could, and could still respond. and already beijing issuing a series of threats. hello, welcome, everyone. john, great to be with you. john: happy tuesday to you, i m john roberts in new york. chinese fighter jets flew nearby, the speaker arriving safely but the u.s. and taiwan remain on high alert, as four u.s. warships have been repositioned east of taiwan in an effort to deter chinese action. sandra: chinese state media is reporting beijing will conduct live fire military exercises surrounding taiwan over the next few days, and is warning of severe punishment to the united states. congressional correspondent. china is coming out with really strong words, they are calling this trip by speaker nancy pelosi to taiwan a serious violation of the one china principle, and they are saying it infringes on china s sovereignty, and t
War, because, erm, the democracies seem to be able to get together to form a meaningful deterrence, so whenever there is invasion contemplated. So if we deal with the matter very carefully, theres still a great possibility for us to maintain peace as we all need. Cheering. Tsais predecessor, president ma ying jeou, had tried to negotiate with china, even holding a meeting with president xi jinping in singapore. Tsais strategy has been completely different. Instead of trying to conciliate china, shes built up taiwans own defences. Nearly doubling spending, buying new fighterjets and developing taiwans first indigenous submarines. Today, the lion dance is to celebrate the opening of a new Special Forces Training Base on the outskirts of taipei. Another tangible example of where this new Military Spending is going. So i guess for president tsai, this is a sort of demonstration of what shes been trying to achieve in Defence Policy over the last eight years, because, you know, part of her b
A definitive plan because, you know, the world is changing, the situation in china is changing, but the world is very different now, especially after ukrainian war, because, erm, the democracies seem to be able to get together to form a meaningful deterrence, so whenever there is invasion contemplated. So if we deal with the matter very carefully, theres still a great possibility for us to maintain peace as we all need. Cheering tsais predecessor, president ma ying jeou, cheering tsais predecessor, president ma ying jeou, had tried to negotiate with china, even holding a meeting with president xi jinping in singapore. Tsais strategy has been completely different. Instead of trying to conciliate china, shes built up taiwans own defences. Nearly doubling spending, buying new fighterjets and developing taiwans first indigenous submarines. Today, the lion dance is to celebrate the opening of a new Special Forces Training Base on the outskirts of taipei. Another tangible example of where th
sandra: it is bottom of the hour now, and back to the top story. house speaker nancy pelosi is in taiwan for hours now but the threat from china has just begun, and now two of the largest militaries are on alert. four warships are east of taiwan, as china announces a new round of drills including long range missiles. jennifer, what have we seen as far as china s response to her landing there so far? sandra, taiwan s defense ministry just said 21 chinese war planes entered its air defense identification zone after speaker pelosi s delegation landed in taipei. the pentagon is watching the situation closely amidst threatening rhetoric from beijing which reiterated the intention of reuniting taiwan