since i won a policy is due to land imminently. we are tracking out for you. the officials are expecting her to stay overnight. china has said it would view any visit to taiwan as a provocation and could take strong action in response of asian views. ty, one as its own territory, the bite and administration is against the stop over, but says policy has the right to visit with. so got team coverage of this event did of your correspondence. zachary li, in taipei standing by for us at the airport, awaiting policies, arrival and with me here in the studio is richard walker, our chief international editor. thank you so much, both for your analysis. richard, i want to start with you, and we've heard from the biden administration that they did not want nancy pelosi to go on this trip. why is she taking it? despite those warnings, the messages have been little bit makes from the by the ministration. so the most recent comment from the but the administration from the spokesperson for the

national security council and white house really trying to tone things down saying that a trip like this has happened before 25 years ago in the late 1990 that that passed pretty much without incident that policy has every right to go there that many us lawmakers go there and calling on the chinese not to kind of blow this out of proportion. but we do know that behind the scenes, the by ministration has been concerned about this and has been trying to persuade polosa not to go ahead with this trip which had been planned for some time. she wanted to go in april, but a positive covert diagnosis. and the argument essentially between, you know, those who are in favor of the trip and those who are against really centers on the timing of the situation that the world is in, at the moment with the world war going on in ukraine and supporters of policies visit say, well, this is the time to show solidarity with taiwan that taiwan is really seeing in the ukraine war a scenario that could potentially play out there with a bigger neighbor fading and trying to take over. and this is the time to show tie

wanted it has very high level us support. and opponents of the visit say, know that this is extremely sensitive time, that provoking china into taking what could be, you know, potentially dangerous actions as a show force it to show its objections to this that would be foolish. and that the u. s. can ill afford having a crisis with both of its like major rivals the russia and china at the same time. ok, and then we have some live pictures coming in. we'll see if we can pull those up for you. here we have a u. s. plane landa, i know many people have been tracking an aircraft on flight radar, this aircraft tracking service to see nancy policies progress after her departure from a kuala lumpur. that's going malaysia. are ricker your 1st thought? yes, i do. people like hundreds of thousands of people have been trying to track this

flight over the last few years, bringing down some of those services which, which track flights around the world. and, and there was speculation during the 1st hours of this flight about whether she might actually not be heading to taiwan because she sent in, wasn't taking a direct route from malaysia to taiwan. instead, she tracked pretty much straight east with it. it seems that she wanted to avoid crossing the south china sea and potentially going into any air space where the, the chinese military might try to intercept or interfere with her route in some ways. and said they tracked easton, then, and then headed around to sort of the back of the philippines and up to taiwan. and only just landing now as we've just seen them land. now that we have had reports from c g t n that sir, one of for china's m state run media reporting 30 or chinese su 35 fighter jets are currently crossing the taiwan straits with no further comment on that and expect it. but i think this is the kind of the kind of steps

that we can expect to see from china over the next 24 hours or so. we're while pelosi is in taiwan and kind of muscle flexing a show of force from the chinese new with aircraft. and we've also seen movements of, of ground forces around earth on the coast, in the city of sham n wishes to close the city to taiwan. so obviously the u. s. will be watching extremely closely what the chinese are doing there and, and what kind of response really china comes up with because in the last few weeks and including very publicly but also in a call last week of between she, jim ping and joe biden. the chinese have been extremely forthright in their opposition to this visit, saying that, you know, those who play with fire will be burned and you know, statements like this and always remaining in the world of kind of metaphorical language, but pretty harsh language. so now that she has ignored all of those warnings and

gone a white head with this trip, the question is, will to what, what will the chinese now due to follow through on that language? you know, how far might they go? are they willing to risk for provoking and kind of crisis between them and the united states at this time? result, officials fair standing by waiting for policies plain to arrive. if you're just joining us now, we've got us. how speaker nancy pelosi has landed in taiwan as many expected i despite china's threat of a serious consequences. attracting a story for you. i do want to get across to our correspondent who is also standing by at the airport in taipei has been awaiting ah, the arrival of nancy pelosi. we'll see if we can get across to zachary. hi, zachary, how do you go? and i want feeling about basing reactions to this. are they worried?

well actually i'm no l i n, cordelia, london before year and there were come in nancy pelosi to here in i one as we galler legacy information from i once foreign ministry. i got a notice that they said that they will be out in fulton distinguished arriving. i won at at around a $1030.00 p. m. local time. so apparently it could be a note that hello the a speaking of la concerns about i a china great. i talked to some local people here on the street. the personally, most people actually, i worries about china's credit since they're been based in china's grid or heard about here in about china. great for years. so to local people and they're actually not concerned about any grades from b. okay, thanks so much for that. as zachary lee, we are watching the boarding, the plane that has just landed in tie wine, awaiting the arrival of nancy pelosi,

a richard keys go out for us just briefly. why i one is so important for the united states and china. why the immense interest in this is very clear. i'm just trying to kind of pick out who we can see. there is an incredibly dark start. it of the people coming down, but it doesn't look like pelosi herself is arrived as yet. but we'll keep an eye on that just to see. and also yet, and to see the media, grandma search and ready for her arrival here. but, but yeah, i mean, taiwan is really a the kind of unresolved kind of crunch issue between the us and china. which has been in this kind of, you know, very unusual kind of kind of ambiguity gray zone for a good 40 years or so ever since the u. s. in china and actually is started having official diplomatic relations back around the air 19 seventies,

early eighties. and so from china's perspective, taiwan is part of its territory. now that there is only one china and this china is will from beijing. and that china has every right to what it calls a reunify with taiwan, entered. he prefers to do so by peaceful means for the did it reserves the right to do so by force. i think we may be in that. see i meet our yeah. all right, i believe we are seeing nancy pelosi coming down. i was just in the board, the plane after arriving in taiwan. wherever this is the highest level visit by a us official in 25 years coming at a very sensitive time. i want to get back across to zachary lee who's covering this for us from at high. hey zachary, a lot of talk about us and china physicians here. what the people in pie one wants to see from this is again nancy pelosi,

la high ranking us policy, tend to be the highlight in 25 years. and is that entity into the how and he's in the global society telling these people are very welcome miss nancy pelosi here and you think it's a close the relations between the us and i one so a lot of people you actually work. i mean, how be that richard were mentioning earlier, these pictures are very dark. we're seeing officials are arriving to greet here is this the china reception that you would expect for such a high level figure in the united states? well, yeah, i think so. so you can just make her out there in the, in what seems to be a light pink pants suit and, and yet, i mean, they said you sort of a, it looks a little bit more and for maybe i've been on quite a few of these official trips with german ministers, for instance,

with an alina babel, the, the german foreign minister, also, you know, senior dignitary. and yeah, it's normal. of course you have a special plane and it's normal for there to be a group of people receiving. then the visitor on the ground, it could be, you know, you will have people from, for, from us representatives and tie one of course it doesn't have neighbors embassy there, but it does have a representative office to kind of manage the sort of unofficial relationship between, between the usaa and taiwan, and it would be interesting see, but we cannot really pick out there like who is there from the, from the taiwanese side is for instance, joseph luther, the taiwanese, a foreign minister. it looks a little bit, i may have just spotted him there that he is potentially there, that the pharmacy of taiwan. of course, it's very tight lips about this trip or all through the day until we just as is zachary just mentioned sort of finally confirming that some high level visitors would be coming. but obviously with everybody mast they're,

it's always as easy to recognize that i think i see joseph lou 2nd from the left that potentially him the time when he's for minister his atomic. i want to get back across to you and just ask now that we have official confirmation. we're looking at the pictures of nancy valencia standing there on the runway in that light pink suit . what kind of reaction are we going to get from beijing? who as we know, business rules hello. hello, hello. hello. hi, i was so we are expected. we are expecting that they will be anger from, from china, from b g, because trim kona already made a lot of money regarding the bid again and tie what people don't think there will be a military conflict. there might be some reaction from china. then we've learned that this bony china already played the bed and a hundreds of products in 40,

from taiwan, it from the economic side. but speaking of military conflict, after some experts and they don't believe you would be escalated to let me very conflict. all right and retro, just before we wrap up your final thoughts on this monumental visit. yeah, well, i mean, the next 24 hours are going to be very crucial. what kind of response do receive from the chinese side they've, they've kind of talk themselves into a rhetorical situation where they have to put on a show of force. and we may be seeing that already is taking place with these reports of fighter jets currently crossing the tie one the taiwan strait was the, the question will be, how far do they go? do they cross the what's called the median line? the so center line of the taiwan strait in which would be a very rare event. what other kind of, of, of, kind of military activities, potential military exercises so shows of force shows of the really strong

objections do they do they put on? i think the chinese really are, are under pressure and they feel that they have to send a significant message that they have very publicly communicated in the last few weeks and, and even especially in the last few days that they don't want this visit to happen . hello, she has ignored those. she's gone ahead with the visit. so we can expect a certain degree of fireworks, but i think i would also stress what zachary said there, you know that any thought of there's some sort of imminent invasion that we really shouldn't go down the road or speculating their that is really very unlikely. but, but some sort of military, so of course, of course, with the, with the amount of focus on this, the amount of u. s. military hardware in the region there, there's always a risk of some unwanted escalation. so, so the next 24 hours, very important. but also the months ahead was the longer will medium and long term impact on us china relations. that's also going to be something we want to watch. ok, richard walker here with me in the studio, zachary, we've been covering this for us from taiwan. thank you both so much for those

updates and i'm now very pleased welcome. she'd you way tie ones representative here in germany. thank you so much for joining us on d. w. news. i want to ask you 1st, are you happy about us? how speaker nancy pelosi visit to taiwan and much more is much more. i'm great and great for and i'm happy and think that happens right in the right moment when china has always tried to switch usa, i want to try to see straight to democracy. we've read the actions in as a matter of fact, this is a normal act of a normal action between friends which democracy is a sign of sort of verity. so i'm confident into i'm happy yes. and you think it's just symbolic, or are you expecting to see something concrete from this visit by policy?

i think is a break. is a break with this. so code one, china policy, a one china friends that is effect use of order one china policy, one china principle because china has been working term one. we've been trying to power when trying to find it and says, that's how, what is the part of the chinese territorial? it is the fact news at the moment at them, of course, it cannot be a part, a part of the of issue. and republican trauma is parish is established in the year right? 1949. as has the name of that one for one day. not even one minute to use it is as a turning point on taiwan. i mean how future proof is the one china policy that the west has committed to and that more or less has kept the taiwan question limbo where you see speak up panels e.