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ah ah ah, you footed shade my chinese media revealed china preparing for military exercises in the time. one straight. that's after the u. s. helps be can. nancy pelosi touched on in taipei, despite numerous warnings from beijing. china strongly condemned the visit to saying it with a looky defend its territorial integrity facing, urges us against violations of the one. china principal china strongly urges the united states to stop playing, which i one card and using to i want to contain china. and people in taiwan
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itself are anxious over the u. s. health because trip, members of the public told us the u. s. just wants to square to power and influence . not help them. for the low see touch, china's bottom line, she touched the red line. so both the u. s. and china have to take actions accordingly. they just use, tie one to get our attention for domestic market. low fees visit will attention to cross the taiwan straits, which has no benefit at all for the taiwan people. with it's just gone when i am in moscow and 6 am in taipei, taiwan, which is way nancy pelosi is hold up in her hotel room. we're coming to life on the russian capital. i'm policy and for myself on the team here. welcome. china has begun military trolls and areas surrounding tie one that some response to the visit of the u. s. how speaker nancy pelosi to taipei. yes. some of the latest footage
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shared by chinese media $21.00 chinese warplanes passed through ty, once a defense identification zone, and according to beijing, military sources drills will include non nuclear missile launches on the see east of the island territory. del include live, fire exercises and coordination between ownership and find to aircraft. anti ones islands also have been put on full combat alert. as chinese media are flooded by left footages of military preparation. awful. china had already warned washington of serious consequences of us because visit china will definitely take all necessary measures to resolutely safeguarded sovereignty and territorial integrity . in response to the us speakers visit, all the consequences arising there from must be borne by the us side and the taiwan independence separatist forces. ah,
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these are pictures from function airport in taipei regional and military air base where nancy pelosi arrived earlier. the flight tracking website flight re dos, the number of people following her jet reach. 700000 people, a record figure for the service. wearing a face mask, the u. s. how speak a step off the plane at around $1015.00 p. m. local time and post for a photo with a group of taiwanese officials. she said of as it is evident of the u. s. commitment to support tie when needs democracy, l o. c has become the highest ranking american official to visit the sell food
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island in 25 years. the white house, meanwhile, has stated that a dialogue between washington and beijing will be kept open and that the us won't be involved in any military conflict with china. the united states will not and does not want to seek and does not want a crisis. we are prepared to manage wellbeing to chooses to do. at the same time, we will not engage in sabre rattling. we will continue to operate in the seas in the skies of the western pacific. as we have done for decade, we will continue to support taiwan. defend a free and open indo pacific and seek to maintain communication with beijing. switched recognition from ty paid to beijing, washington has held an ambivalent position regarding china and taiwan efficiently acknowledges beijing as the only legitimate government for the whole of china, including tie one in line with the one china policy. however,
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this had not prevented the us from entailing unofficial relations with, ty pay and sending military aid to the island. china said that the time has come for us to stop playing the tie one cod. this is a serious violation of the one china principle. there is but one china in the world today, one is an inalienable part of china's territory. china strongly urges the united states to stop playing the tie one cart and using tie one to contain china. one china policy has been a definitive aspect of us china relations for the past 40 year. but today's visit by nancy pelosi seems to put all of that on the brink of destruction. the one china policy is that the united states acknowledges the people's republic of china as the one chinese government on the mainland. it does not have diplomatic relations with the government on time one and an advocate. taiwan being peacefully reintegrated with the mainland into one giant. now it appears that despite the fact that nancy
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pelosi has gone to taiwan, the white house and john kirby and others that us state department are maintaining that the one china policy does in fact, remain intact with us. they are not backing away from that. however, we're seeing signals to the contrary, a lot of action by the united states and the lead up to today's big that have indicated that the u. s. the one china policy may be on the brink of being revoked . this is what we heard from a representative of the american institute in taiwan observing recent trends, the united states no longer sees taiwan is a problem in our relations with china. we see it as an opportunity to advance our shared vision for a free and open in the pacific and also as a beacon to people's around the world who aspire for a more just safe, prosperous and democratic world. now you have the visuals in 5th, they are not wavering on the issue of taiwan. however, it doesn't help when you have the president of the united states making remarks
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like this. are you willing to get involved militarily to defend taiwan? if it comes to that? yes, you are. that's a commitment we made. now we see us official giving mixed signals almost as if they're not talking to each other before they make their statement or engage in their actions contradictory messages being sent by washington. the world is quite nervous about this as a theory could push things onto the brain of another global crisis. well, it's called life now to political analyst quarter lily. thank you very much for joining us in the need up to the visit by nancy pelosi. china made a number of very strong warnings to the united states about ramifications if she came to ty one and now she's there. how do you think china will respond? well, i think channel responded a measured way, you know, it was kind of up in the air before because no concrete measures had been announced by china or by any representative of the chinese government as of the act. and that
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was kind of done on purpose and the lead up up to nancy pelosi is visit. i think that, you know, the government of china has a desire for peace. i don't think that it will be anything militarily. i don't think it will be anything you know out of the question, but i think that it will be some way to show that china is serious. but a sovereignty and serious. but it's claimed over taiwan, which hasn't changed over the past couple of decades and is shown on the world stage by the fact the only 13 countries currently recognize the republic of korea as opposed to the people's republic of china. i hear what you're saying that the situation in terms of an escalation mandatorily is not going to be to china advantage. but we are taking video showing china military drills that are happening right now. and there is a large increase planned as the sun rises in the east. so with that in mind, what do you think of the possibilities that the situation can indeed escalate
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overnight? why think more than anything else? china is showing it to the united states that there is no longer a one hedge man ask unipolar power in the world. there is no longer a unipolar world. there are different actors in the world stage. china is showing that it has a military that is more than capable of defending its sovereignty, defending the people of china, as well as my interest in the region. you know, it's and, and it's not just china which is showing the same way. there's been a lot of moves on the international stage, especially in the past couple of decades, particularly since the 2000 where in india, russia, brazil, argentina, large economies, large countries with large populations are showing that the age of napoleon is over . so i think, you know, anything is quote unquote possible. but i think china recognizes that above all,
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the sanctity of life should be respected. but at the same time, i don't think that they're going to allow themselves to be, quote, unquote, bossed around by the united states anymore. and they are kind of willing to show that the age of the napoleonic is over. and the respect for sovereignty must always be the number one concern and talk talking about this respect for sovereignty. do you consider this to be direct interference in china's internal affairs? i do, i think that you know, there, it's unclear as to what exactly the motivation is behind the visit by the speaker of the house of representatives. at this time, it seems somewhat random. it seems like it is a back tracking of official united states policy. and it is very clearly in my opinion, a way to provoke a response from the people's republic of china. this is very clearly an
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interference. this is obviously a hotly contested region in the world. a hotly contested territorial dispute in the united states, which as it does, has decided to get involved when really there is no need for it. and it's fanning the flames of international conflict. i consider that i've flagrant violation of sovereignty and interference into the internal affairs of china, just as the same to be said. if one of the 50 states was being was doing its own independent dealings with government to the people's republic of china, fostering separatism fostering a bad relation, etc. you mentioned that it's not clear what exactly is the purpose of this visit, but we have heard from pelosi herself saying that this was, it is evidence of america's commitment to ty, one's so called vibrant democracy. does a statement talk this?
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contradict the u. s. one china policy, what is your opinion of what she said? i think it does contradict this policy, and i think the united states has kind of walked a tight rope ever since the recognition of the people's republic of china. i believe that the recognition of the people's republic of china as the sole representative of china and the chinese people, was done less out of respect for common sense and decency. and more so out of flagrant did, there is no other option. the republic of china is so small, in comparison to the norms of international law, which dictates successive states. clearly states that the people's republic of china should be the only successor states after the chinese revolution. i think that they've kind of, obviously, there is kind of the push for a new cold war. and this policy that we've seen, the one china policy is kind of one of the last bass
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p and tranquillity between the united states and china and the united states. and the rest of the world really? so i think yes, i think this is, it goes and the students do contradict the one china policy do contradict official us policy statement. and i think perhaps this is more in fighting among the leaves in washington. when you talk about that in fighting, we have just heard from john kirby, the us whitehouse national security spokesperson. he's just stated in his briefing there, hello, see, quote, speak for herself. when talking about supporting taiwanese independence, you have been speaking about how this corresponds to the fact that the u. s. at his, with a one china policy. but what i'd like to ask you is that biden has said that he supports palo sees actions, apparently regarding independence of ty, one as well. so why do we hear such opposite us statements about ty, pay and see?
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that's the thing i think we've seen so many contradictory statements, whether it's from biden, whether it's from the pentagon, which has said that this is not a good idea. even different political actors in the united states. donald trump is against this trip. congressional republicans are largely in favor of it. some congressional democrats are with her on her trip to ty, pay you, as you said, john kirby is giving a contradictory statements. although joe biden has come out and said that militarily the united states will stand with taiwan. so i think perhaps, you know, it could be causal. deniability, perhaps there is a unified policy and they do know what they're doing, but they want to grandstand and make it seem as if that is not the case. however, it could also be insulating between established leads in washington and in the foreign policy, upper echelon. so i think, you know, regardless, i think a lot of people in the united states are kind of scratching their heads in wondering why during this time of recession, during this time of very,
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very high inflation. why the united states is decided to pick a conflict and antagonize the chinese. so d, that is a very valid question and another question people are asking is, with so much attention focused on her arrival, how much attention is going to be focused on her departure and what is going to be the significance of that, the quarterly joining us from the united states a political analyst. thank you very much for your time and analysis. thank you. well, earlier my colleague always to shay discuss policies as a to tie one with a correspondent, rachel blevins. hello. she's finally touched down there. you know, even an, even in the face of all of this rhetoric from china, hello, she apparently had to make a visit. what are your expectations now that she's here? you know, she released that statement right after she touched down and which she claim that she was there to support were she referred to as taiwan, the vibrant democracy. she also went as far as to say that she does not believe
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that she is in violation of the one china policy, which is absolutely not how beijing sees it is not what they have worn again and again, when it came to the lead up to this proposed visit now as far as her itinerary for while she's there, there are a lot of questions about what it's going to look like because her team did not initially say that this was the plan, right? they gave her list of places that she was going to visit in asia, and taiwan was not on that list. so there are some questions about who she's going to talk to when it comes to officials. and of course, what she's going to say while she's there, given the fact that we know how these tensions increasing between the us and china all around exactly where pelosi is right now. now it was also notable that she talked about democracy there because it makes you wonder how do the people of taiwan, steve is a visit. and what we've heard is from people on the ground there who say they are concerned about the long term impacts of policies. visit that will play out and impacted them. long after she has returned to the united states,
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take listen to what was said, but it's all about mercury interest. they use taiwan, they, they use the 2 political mom measure to, to benefit themselves. they only care about how the government can be holding to powers it is in them states. okay, so they just use tie one to get their attention for domestic market from good to lucy, touch china's bottom line. she touch the red line. so both the us and china have to take actions accordingly. the only pelosi will benefit from the elusive visit that's all places visit will at tension across the taiwan straits, which has no benefit at all for the taiwan people. i really hope that the americans will not come around to mess things up so that we can live at peaceful life policy, talking about taiwanese democracy,
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taiwanese democracy here. and you hear some of the comments from the locals as saying they're really concerned because this is, it's flaring an awful lot of tensions between the 2 biggest players on the world block these days. yeah, it is curious as the kind of rhetoric that's coming out of close his mouth these days. how is the how speaker actually really justify? well, you know, we haven't heard much from her in terms of what she believes as the justification for this visit. even with that statement that she released just a couple of hours ago. but in all of this, it's also been notable to see how the white house has responded to this, right? you get president biden, who himself has admitted that the u. s. military did not think this trip was a good idea that they were concerned about the ways in which it would increase tensions between the us and china, exactly as we have seen. and then at the same time, you also had secretary of state blinking, who spoke out and said that the decision was entirely up to nancy pelosi herself. and you think about all of the possible ramifications that could come out of best between the world's 2 largest economies. and yet you have the white house sitting
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there saying it is the speaker of the house who is allowed to make this decision and to do something that would lead to the current tensions that we're seeing. and yet when we've looked back at the statements that nancy pelosi is me and she's kind of shrugged it off and downplayed the situation to say the least pickle is, know what she said earlier. the president earlier well, earlier in his term talked about a strong emphasis on the asian pacific. he, he has visited, their vice president, visited the secretary of commerce and others. and we want the congress of the united states to be part of that initiative. of course, as a west coast person, we see that pacific as they're, you know, that they're their home. we're part of that as well. so you can see there, she's almost shrugging it off as if it's no big deal. she's just going to say more of the pacific ocean, and yet we look at all the ramping other tensions that we've seen between the u as
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in china right now. that makes you wonder if she truly realizes the impact of this visit. let's, let's take the politicians rhetoric out of the equation for now. rachel, what's, what's the general view in america regarding this whole thing? yeah, there seem to be more questions than answers as to why a policy is embarking on a trip like this. right? with everything that's going on in the u. s. right now with the american people who have repeatedly said that they're concerned about skyrocketing gas play prices about inflation. but all of the issues they have going on at home, they're wondering why the speaker of the house is making a trip like this and why she's costing the american taxpayers millions of dollars in security in order to make this possible. and that really is reflected in some of the voices that we're hearing speaking out now questioning why now, why this trip and why is this something that polosa embarked on? here's the latest on that. nothing good will come of it. taiwan will not be more secure or more prosperous as a result of this purely symbolic visit. and
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a lot of bad things could happen. these include a chinese military response that could result in the us being plunged into in direct conflicts with a nuclear armed russia and a nuclear armed china. at the same time this week with the blessing, the, by the ministration, nancy pelosi decided to head to taiwan. it's all been confirmed at this point. government officials in taipei have just been notified that pollution arrival is imminent. should we be in the air right now? she's definitely coming. one source told the wall street journal. you only variable is whether she spends the night. so nancy pelosi goes to taipei, what's the effect of that? well, we don't need to guess the chinese government has said repeatedly and clearly that if nancy pelosi lands in taiwan, it could trigger a global war. are you here to provoke a wall or to start a wall? what the hell are you doing here? hello, see? so we've heard a reaction, the outer beijing, we've heard a bit of muffled reaction out of washington dc. what about the rest of the world? it's rather quiet at the moment we have any other international reaction to that.
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yeah, you know, is interesting because earlier this week when policy was in singapore, the premier, there actually said that the focus needed to be on maintaining stable relations between the united states and china. that that was something that was in all of their best interest in the region. at the same time, we've also heard from moscow a spokesperson for the kremlin, spoke out and referred to this trip as extremely provocative, noting that russia stands with china and also that moscow understands that frustration that is coming to from beijing when it comes to this visit in the fact that the united states has continued to carry out. so certainly a lot of moving parts here, a lot to keep an eye on, and these consequences will likely be felt long after this visit is over. do you think any chance at nancy pelosi could actually get stuck there? because in the coming days i saw a picture of a map that will china basically publish. and so we're going to be doing these live fire drills on the west side of taiwan on the east side of taiwan to the north and south in the coming days. is it possible that pelosi could actually get stuck that?
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you know, that's an excellent question at the same time, we've seen the u. s. military really focus on trying to build up some sort of buffer zone, but you're right, that is china's reason that is right in their backyard. and so if they wanted to make it difficult, they arguably could. now the question is going to become what they decide to do. and of course, how the united states decides to react if the by an administration is really going to step in and ramp tensions even more than what they already are at right now. had a place. he says it a group of vehicles gathered outside the grand hyatt hotel in taipei city where she's staying on the trip, but this way flags and sheltered slogans as they made the feelings clear about having her there. now some one, the vice chairman of the shanghai santa for one pac and international studies. but he's pillows. his trip is a clear publication by washington that will come with consequences. it is actually the, the us,
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the american arrogant that is playing with fire is meddling 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 just what, it only serves a personal interest. this has consequences and a has repercussions. so that's why china is, you know, making a quite drastic reaction. it hurts the feeling of the chinese people. i think this incident will be marked in the history of us china relations, not as a positive one, but as a very, there's also just point. this is not only a national thing for china, this us arrogance, this american arrogance pools handling relations with other countries
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is not acceptable in this 21st century. and this is something i think the rest of the world should come to realize the ramifications of policies visit have already been felt in local financial markets. shades fell in semi conduct manufacturers and tie one the home of the largest such companies in the world. a roll tie when he stalks dropped about 2 percent. what is the biggest for in 3 weeks? the unprecedented visit of the us. how speaker booked on the values of a number of industry giants. in addition, the fallen stocks was not only felt anti one, but also with the global semiconductor manufacturers. ellia my colleague unit and we'll discuss the situation with alfred. does i? yes. professor of international law and engineer g miano, a political and financial analyst. we americans love annoying.
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we are focusing our fingers in 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 pino, full, the, it is feeding into the fear of the chinese as we have been led to fear russia and fear of russia that are so by definition we're the good guys and we're finding the good work i don't believe is how and these are buying it and the rest of the world is not buying in 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?
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yes, absolutely. so keep in mind, this is a sure force shana needs to do something. shanna doesn't want to lose face in nancy, but it was a cause to taiwan. something needs to happens if the u. s. is thinking that china bluff, it's making a huge mistake. international community would not point directly finger at the west and say that ultimately if there's a reform response, the responsibility would come from china. so it's, it's just, it's been all call it it coordinated these. it's not, it's not a private enterprise. he of nancy pelosi. what they want to do in asia is to fight china to the last, taiwanese, they will have other countries fighting the was on behalf of the u. s. one could also ask, just as alfred alluded to their, how helpful this is for the taiwanese themselves. is there an argument to be made
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that they could be left in a much more tense environment than before despite but pelosi is trying to achieve or see if she wants to keep in mind that how one is actually de facto economically integrated with china. so you have a de facto integration. it is going against how wants interest. well, that brings us to the end of the news for this half hour. we'll continue to follow closely the situation in taipei, retentions the main. hi. join us next hour and we'll update you with any and all development you with international thanks with
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a wealth engine oil, the parts, the american approach to their world could be reduced to one bumper sticker. it could be this perception is reality. going to in the early ninety's by the come, the republicans strategy is believe, ask what it may, i'm going to use a bull codes and did a truce, but nonetheless, through very effective in securing the presidential victories of ronald reagan and george h. w. bush is on how big is the gap between american perception and what will reality? well to discuss that i'm now enjoying by lu sheen. an anchor with china state run see on channel. she needs great browser for me to talk to you on such a big out of your work. thank you very much for making the time for me. thank you for the invitation. yes, i come from c t n. we call ourselves the international television of china. now i mentioned you're working for.
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