Reporter Chinese State television issuing a strong message to th u. S. A abo the region. The country senent out warships includuding its first Aircraft Carrier on military exercises in late december. The ships route included waters around the taiwan strait, and the disputed South China Sea. The reaction from the taiwanese . Reporter some of the drills coincided with taiwan president s tsai ingwens meeting with republican lawmakers in the United States. Tensions started to rise back in december. President elect donald trump took a phone call from prededent tsai after his election win. It was the first such phone call since 1979, the year the u. S. Switched diplomatic recognition from taiwan to china and started to follow the onechina principle. It acknowledges taiwan is part of china. An asiapacific region expert says chinas military drills show the country is concerned. Although the Aircraft Carrier cannot be used in the real operation, its a training ship. But china must set their fig
The foreign minister told parliament they need to gather more opinions on other possible places for the statue. Late last month, a civic group installed the statue which in front of the japanese consulate general in busan. It symbolizes those referred to as war time comfort woman. Tokyo is urging seoul to remove the statue saying it runs counter to a 2015 agreement. The deal says that south korea will work to resolve the similar statue in front of japans embassy in seoul. A panel advising the japanese government has cautioned against rushing to develop Fast Reactor Technology. The reactors can run on plutonium recycled from spent nuclear fuel. The Atomic Energy commission reviewed the governments decision last month to scrap the monju fast breeder reactor in central japan. The prototype reactor has been plagued by safety problems for decades, but the government decided to also continue developing Fast Reactor Technology in order to recycle nuclear fuel. The panel says the government sh
The foreign minister told parliament they need to gather more opinions on other possible places for the statue. Late last month, a civic group installed the statue which in front of the japanese consulate general in busan. It symbolizes those referred to as war time comfort woman. Tokyo is urging seoul to remove the statue saying it runs counter to a 2015 agreement. The deal says that south korea will work to resolve the similar statue in front of japans embassy in seoul. A panel advising the japanese government has cautioned against rushing to develop Fast Reactor Technology. The reactors can run on plutonium recycled from spent nuclear fuel. The Atomic Energy commission reviewed the governments decision last month to scrap the monju fast breeder reactor in central japan. The prototype reactor has been plagued by safety problems for decades, but the government decided to also continue developing Fast Reactor Technology in order to recycle nuclear fuel. The panel says the government sh
Valuable service. Congress passed the act where broadcasters on a onetimeonly basis will be able to relinquish spectrum rights in return for a shares of the proceeds of the forward auction. So, what it is is congress determination and the fccs implementation to use Market Forces to make available more lowband spectrum available to meet needs. The need for broad band spectrum is burgeoning exponentially. There is not a lot of good lowband spectrum left. This is a new and novel method that congress has put in place and the fcc is to implement. Tonight at 8 00 eastern on the communicators, on cspan 2. Live here on cspan 3, a daylong series of discussions on taiwan hosted by the center for strategic and National Studies and the Brookings Institute in washington d. C. Talking about the issues and politics of taiwans Upcoming Elections and also u. S. Policy toward taiwan. First well have introductions and then the first panel of the day on current policy issues in taiwan. Thats expected to b
With this. We could claim they were a deterrent against the soviet union, but remember what i said about knowing whether a deterrent is working or not. It was a proposition that it was working. But we werent sure. There was also the realization as we understood sort of the texture of deterrence that our claims for extended deterrence, that we could actually extend the Nuclear Umbrella to nato, to the european states, to northeast asia, to japan and south korea. And, by the way, the philippines and australia eventually. That was the proposition. But that other word comes in here, whats the credibility of deterrent . Would we, as our allies said not literally but figuratively would we trade pittsburgh for paris . Thats just the alliteration, thats all im going for with that. We had somebody write about Tactical Nuclear weapons as a bridge, that would be henry kissinger, Nuclear Weapons in Foreign Policy, in order to reassure the allies that were worried that we would not engage in Strate