cheer to fix our problems. not to cause problems in other kinds. done during the build up to this the last few days we were hearing from people in taiwan . now there was supports for washington seeing it as an ally. but there was a lot of, i would call them free thinking people who basically said, we're not sure if the u. s. has our interests at heart here. we may be, we're may be a pawn in this that we've got our problems, but i don't think they're going to be solved by a high ranking american officials doing this to the country. somebody was re enlightening some of the views, but we know that the u. s. nato have spoken about their plans to expand in the into pacific. so it begs the question, does washington view taiwan as an ally or a military asset? i think the u. s. views every country as an asset or tool or a vehicle toward something else you. ukraine has discovered this, right? the us really push them into this war. i think led them to think the us would

defend ukraine. and it really hasn't. it led your to believe that it would defend them instead. it's, you know, force them to accept sanctions on russia, which is tanking europe's economy. yeah, i think taiwan is a means to an end. they're not, it's not an in the us doesn't have friends. it only has interests and i think taiwan is pretty smart to see that here on the issue of taiwan when it comes to washington for over 40 years, strategic ambiguity has been generally a policy don't post too much. we disagree with you, but will agree to disagree. and with that piece happens there, there's no hot war that no, i would suggest is very much on the table because beijing would be looking at this thinking, well, you're going to continue to do this until possibly we put our red lines down is

strategic ambiguity is that now i've gone, is there a new policy and time? i think officially there's not a new policy, but i think this visit effectively demonstrates that there is a tacit new policy that the us is coming very close to recognizing taiwan. and again, for china, that is just going to be onyx separable and it's going to lead us down a very bad road, which i fear. again, some officials want. i think there are people in washington who want a war with china, and this may be the 1st well, the 1st of many moves in that direction. i'm just interested to hear your ticket one or 2 other issues while we have you done. you know, better than me being in the u. s. that there has been a lot of anti china rhetoric of late from us politicians in the media as well. i

think it's safe to say is, is this trip the natural combination of that kind of thinking? i think so, and this isn't even recent. i mean, the anti china scare has been around for many years. china is blamed for the industrialization of america when in fact it's been u. s. companies that decided to go to places like china, right. to get cheap labor, china's fault for accepting that, but chinese blame for that. and china, along with russia, blame for many of our woes. and i do think this is a combination of that. i don't think polosa will be going to taiwan. if she didn't think this would be some boon to her politically, and it's impossible. boone, because of all the anti china sentiment in this country. but there's so much vagueness isn't there in terms of the, the build up this. busy from the u. s. u, obviously, as you see there, pelosi saw this as good for her possibly career or something that she deeply

believes in. but then you have the u. s. president saying that the military sources to him said, we don't think this is a good idea, at least in terms of timing, at least. and then the state secretary phase. i've got your bach, nancy. so it's all very vague. but then again, is that vagueness are coordinated strategy so that they can back track if things don't go their way. it just seems to be almost like the last big opera cut of an empire. just saying this is we're going one big buying in this area. if it doesn't work, it doesn't work, but we're going to take the risk. well, it seems to be, i mean look, she is the 3rd, the 2nd in line for the presidency right behind the vice president. she is a very shelter, very important position in american politics. it is very hard for me to believe that she is there without the tacit support of the executive branch. and in fact,

if she's not there with that support, she's actually violating the law. she's violating the logan act, which forbids people like her outside the executive branch which holds the foreign policy power from engaging in their own foreign policy. you can't do that. there's laws against that. 1 so i imagine that she could not be doing this unless she had the support, as you say, maybe per visit is like, you know, the by the ministration sending up you know, a trial balloon here to see what happens. a she and her team are believed to be in tie, pay for, for and nights, and then the they leave. but the aftermath of about its expected beijing would impose trade sanctions on taiwan. it's a big move, but that can happen. potentially even block ports is that the taiwanese who are going to pay the heaviest price for what is essentially whatever way she puts it

a photo opportunity for nancy pelosi? yeah, i think so. and again, we see that with the crane, the ukrainians are paying the price for all the u. s. as a nato provocations taiwan will pay the price. here to, you know, reminds me of a quote from graham green, the author in the book, the quiet american, you know, he says there's no courage when he have around check it. as you say, she's round trip, check it. she's going to go spend a night, get an ice photo op and leave the time we need to clean up the mess and i find that morally reprehensible. i was very lovely pink suits. i'll give her that human and labor rights lawyer don called electric life on the pro. and don, thanks as always. thank you. take care and lot of reaction during the day interesting remarks from alfred desire sous, professor of international law, the former un independent experts on an international

law as well. we also heard from angelo, juliano political and financial analysts. let's take a listen. i think it's offered who speaks 1st. we americans love annoying, although we are focusing our fingers and drew their eyes from that shows that we are number one and we don't even realize that we are 6. we do this because it makes us feel good. it's part of the informational war, and it's part of the penal for the it's feeding into the fear of the chinese as we have been led to clear russia and fear of russia that are so by definition we're the good guys and we're fighting the good work i don't believe when these are buying it and the rest of the world is not buying a latin america is not buying it. neither is india and of course, not rush hour,

russia and many other countries in europe with china, apparently not carrying military maneuvers in the area. is this historically recently, at least the closest we've come to a major incident between the 2 powers? yes, absolutely. so keep in mind, this is a show of force, china needs to do something. china doesn't want to lose face. he knows it was, it goes to taiwan. something needs to happen. if the u. s. is thinking that china bluff, it's making a huge mistake. international community would not point directly finger the us and say that ultimately, if there is a refund, who response the responsibility would come from china. so it's, it's just, it's be all coordinated, coordinated this. it's not, it's not a private enterprise of nancy pelosi what they want to do in asia to flight china,

to the last time when he's there we have other countries fighting the was on behalf of the u. s. one could also was just as alfred alluded to their how helpful this is for the tie when these themselves is there an argument to be made that they could be less than a much more tense environment than before despite pelosi is trying to achieve our see she wants to do, keep in mind that one is actually defacto economically integrated with china. so you have the factor integration. it is going against how want interest 20 minutes to 7 pm here in moscow. a busy news day. thank you for sharing your time with us. we'll have the bigger issues of the day all wrapped up for you. the main story, of course, from taiwan, nancy. pelosi touching, done much to the dismay and a lot of the reaction from beijing will about few and

a few minutes time. stay with our international a blue we raise a corn and soybeans here. so some issues that are different this year than in years past is that with all the things going on the world today, our input costs have almost doubled in. it's going to be really hard for everybody to keep go and some will make it so i want our current or late president is blaming russia for that to your gas company is, are going to get blamed for the problem, but they are not the problem. so by and really chan blame for causing the problem

because he himself caused the problem in both prices have already gone up. fertilizer and chemicals have dramatically risen. what we need to do is make what united states needs to do or we, we've got, we can drill for oil. and for some reason our government thinks that we should be using our own oil, which is crazy. i bought them a call with i guess with you i have with

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ah, fly from moscow. this is our t international one story dominating our coverage today. let's show you the u. s. high speaker has touched on in taiwan. happened about an hour ago. there was a lot of will she won't she but indeed nancy pelosi, this is her plane along with her team and other delegates coming in to taipei that was a regional and military or based them song shun report. around the back of where these pictures are just behind the camera. in fact, there's a, there's a sizable at military presence of the taiwanese army. so she arrived there, she came, i'd say you'd be able to, spotty here in her pink suit. she allowed the other members to disembark and then she made the the walk down the steps. not sure we couldn't see at that stage

whether the taiwanese president i've come to greet her. but a number of delegates, of course a, from a number of v p. 's there at to say, hello. well, this comes this spike warning throughout the day. well in advance from china. critical reaction indeed from other countries as well, including russia for this trip to go ahead. lot of different cations of this chinese military drills. they've been marking the 95th anniversary of the creation of the people's liberation army at china's navy fleets as well occurring up maneuvers in various locations. not very far away. in fact, just across the spray. they tie one straight there according to military sources. the drills included the use of weapons, a coordination between worship and fighter, are constantly busy waterways there with the number of worship from the us and

china in that area as well. basing how stressed out the chinese military will be in a state of readiness, right? throughout the day, not a reaction of course to this i've been speaking to guests galore including the vice chairman of the shanghai center for impact and international studies. nelson wong. and he said that pelosi strip really is a clear provocation by washington. and it will have consequences, unwrapped occasions it is actually the, the us, the american arrogance that is playing with fire is leveling into the domestic affairs of another country. and in this case, it is china. everybody knows that taiwan is part of china. this trip itself is going to be a symbolic one only and it's us what it only serves her personal interest. this has.