and he was the most vocal of the world leaders in _ china sea. supporting - of the world leaders in supporting taiwan. you put those two things together, yes, i'm guessing there are mixed feelings in china. the other thing we should remember, prime minister shinzo abe, one of the things i respected it was his willingness to take huge political risks including pushing japan into the trance partnership, the area—wide free—trade agreement that the us eventually backed out of after twisting shinzo abe's arm to join. that took immense courage to stand up among other things to the agricultural lobby in his own country. it might be that without shinzo abe, japan, the most important democratic economy in the region would not have joined the transpacific partnership. certainly tra nspacific partnership. certainly china transpacific partnership. certainly china is aware that he really has been immensely important in holding the democracies in the area together. the real question now is whether the prime minister can stay in powerfor more whether the prime m

here i think the biggest concern is china's territorial claims in the south china sea. if allowed to stand, if china is allowed to take the south china sea, which is half the size of the continental united states, this would be the biggest territorial landgrab maybe in history. in allowing that to stand we are cracking the international order. particularly the doctrine of the high seas, freedom of navigation. united nations convention. all that we go up and smoke of china's is allowed to something control the south china sea. i think you will see nato conducting freedom of navigation controls -- patrols. i think it's a very short step to seeing that nato mission in the south china sea. the short answer to your question is nato regional and global is it has to be both in today's world. patrick: nato 3.0 is both regional and global in scope. this strategic concept identified climate change as the defining challenge of our time. this marks a change of the last time nato updated its guiding principles. tell us about how nato is framing climate change. it threatens every -- o

both the us and china accuse the other of provocations in the south china sea. ut the us and surrounding countries — brunei, malaysia, the philippines, taiwan and vietnam — disagree. and a us carrier entered the south china sea this week. china responded. translation: "china's position on this issue is consistent and clear. the united states once again sent an aircraft carrier to the south china sea to show off its muscles. we can clearly see who is the biggest threat to peace and stability in the south china sea and asia. both sides see each other as the aggressor at the moment, would you think this leads relations? the south china — think this leads relations? the south china sea _ think this leads relations? tue: south china sea is think this leads relations? tte: south china sea is one of the areas of contention for sure, it is disputed, as you said, the chinese see it as their territory or jurisdiction, and the american see it as an international waterway that they need to make sure it stays open. they conduct these excursions which they call freedom of navi

in the south china sea, china is building up its capabilities, and of course china's conductivity, 130countries have china has the largest trading partner. in the g7, they are introducing global infrastructure project. hashem: the war in ukraine has changed dynamics in the region, we are talking now about geopolitical realignments. president biden is saying the united states will have permanent u.s. army base in poland. i assume this would be a nightmare scenario for russia. vladimir: i would like to say this would not be to my mind the nightmare scenario because yes, you are right that dynamics have changed, but because this is a military conflict basically. the ground realities are not just in the military books. so i think russia is ready for that. what is more important actually that whatever the outcome of this russia-ukrainian conflict could be, i am not sure that in this cold war which will be prolonged, that in this new cold war, i am not sure the west will be the victorious side. not just like in the post-soviet union. hashem: if sweden and finland join nato, then the end alli

has sent its aircraft carrier to the south china sea to flex muscles. it is clear to us all who poses the biggest threat to peace and stability in the south china sea. the president pressed a lot for these calls and white house officials didn't give us a heads up what would be on the to do list. >> so clearly tensions over taiwan, tensions over china's aggressive behavior t indo pacific and tensions and the war in ukraine. i would expect all these things to be part and parcel of the conversation. >> something you did not hear the white house say there when pressed to go over the president's priorities for this call, pressing xi about the origins of the covid pandemic. president biden has said in the past he wasn't going to rest until china came clean with the world so they could get info about the last pandemic and try to stop the last one. we will get a read-out on the call soon. >> thank you for that. retired four star general jack keane fox news analyst and what do you make of the u.s.s. ronald reagan moving into the south china sea and any preparati

high-ranking officials overseas, including taiwan, that china is actively arming itself in the south china sea. in full growth spies are building up their nuclear arsenal, they threaten both this region and many others. we must uphold our commitment to our allies in asia and contain china, both parties are unanimous in your opinion. we must do it. let's note where the leading cia analyst worked yes, he headed the cia department in moscow in iraq and pakistan where the relations of the united states with moscow with cancer and with pakistan are fucking, from everywhere the americans would be forced to have more such analysts don't you think that we really need to support such analysts. well, i think, yes, your fund should support,

it is china that is militarizing the south china sea, conducting espionage operations, building out a nuclear arsenal. they are tlenting the region and beyond. right now we need to up our commitment to our regional allies in asia.

or actions in the south china s sea. the influence they exert within east asia. all of those things are quite important. it's not clear to me that this particular tool that's been used which is placing tariffs on hundreds of billions dollars has any influence one way or the other. a bun mch of studies have found it's been born by u.s. consumers, american consumers rather than the chinese. i agree. could idea to be tough on china. we have a lot of policy objectives here. i have seen very little evidence that this particular method of being tough on china has made any progress one way or the other. these were put in place by former president trump and they were in conjunction with a broader strategy that included this so called phase one china deal, china trade deal that china did not keep up its end of the bargain on. you know, there are other objectives to consider but i'm in the sure they weigh heavily one way or the other when talking about inflation. >> the tariffs are one of the only things that the united states has

they actively monitor the movement of american aircraft carriers in the south china sea, they say thatilos do not come to their senses, they can temporarily. travel to taiwan strait military exercises and close the sky, that is, her plane. it simply will not be able to land on the island in these conditions, even the usa itself is surprised. why washington needs all this the white house the pentagon state department, the intelligence community are concerned that the chinese will see the pilosi visit now a couple of months before the party convention and less than a month or almost a month before the un general assembly meeting before this and all others major international summits, which are expected and president xi and president biden will take part, which will be sung by well-known provocateurs for both challenges in the chinese direction. in the ninety-first year during a visit. in beijing , she unfurled a banner in memory of the dissidents who died there years earlier. for beijing, this is a very painful topic with the pilots , they could not do anything. but the journalists filmi

territorial waters to change, the american one passed near the persel islands there south - the china sea was very outraged by this fact, the americans said that china , a continental state, cannot influence where we should go here, it is not an island state. therefore, these are waters on which we can walk. there are a lot of americans, i think so. well, if they came to the baltic sea, they would go, well , they passed through the korean sea to the china sea. for some reason, the black sea could not be entered in such a way that the russians would tense up and their flotilla without the flagship of the black sea. moscow, please, the russians actually caught up with a lot before the invasion of ukraine their ships into the black sea, and not only from the baltic, some warships drove there , but also the pacific fleet, as if for training, we have now seen for four months what kind of training it really is some ships would indeed be very seriously affected by our, first of all, coastal e defense, but here uh, well, the situation is such that the western world and the same nato and uh, the u

holding a live fire and operating in the south china sea speaker pelosi weighs that potential visit. chang joins us. senior fellow and author of the coming collapse of china and the great u.s. china tech war. the thinking of president she and china. they are confronting a possible visit by the house speaker. do you think that nancy pelosi should go to taiwan? >> she absolutely has to go. if she does not go will at this point, if she does not go, she will be emboldening the worst aspects, elements in the chinese political system because she will be showing everybody that chinese intimidation tactics work. there are violations -- there are relations that will get even worse. the point is right now she has to go or relations will get worse. >> what blowback would there be from beijing? >> china could do any number of things. if she goes, she will be arriving by plane. they could try to turn her plane back, try to declare no fly over taiwan. a lot of people say, well, you know, the chinese will not shoot down nancy pelosi's plane. i can agree with that, but when you put aircraft in close

are observing china and exercising more and more power and demonstrating more power in the south china sea. this all already came to a head in the mid ninety's, which in the end is so china actually sending rockets into the sea off the shores of taiwan. now we're nowhere near that box that visit of nancy pelosi, the speak of the house. we can completely independently take decisions of the president, although she is from the same party that could well escalate tensions. and if she backed down and decided not to go, that could portray the united states as weakens. so a very difficult diplomatic territory, both between the 2 countries, but also amongst the democrats here who do phase mid term elections this fall. and michelle, i stress the, what containment? earlier the u. s. a said, the china needs to be contained. where does that fit into this conversation? well, let's look at the economics say it is yes, china trying to expand its power in the south china sea and further a field through its belt and road policy. and the u. s. leading an initiative and to oppose that an investment initiativ

s. destroyer in an area of the south china sea that it claims as its own. beijing said the u. s. s. penfold pass me the parasol islands which china occupies, but also claim by taiwan and vietnam. the u. s. 7th fleet said unlawful and sweeping claims in the south china sea pose. a serious threat to the freedom of the seas. a veteran hong kong progestin known as grandma wong has pleaded guilty to charges of unlawful assembly. alexander one has been detained on several occasions . she was known for waving a british flag while taking part in the 2019 protest movement. those are you headlines inside stories next? ah hey, 2000000000 people on earth by november. that's the forecast from the united nations . not global population growth is slowing down, and many societies will start getting older. so how do we deal with the challenges ahead? this is in my story. ah hello there and welcome to the program. i'm the star theater. now the world's population is growing, but at had slowest pace in 70 years. that's the conclusion of you and place a scribble. population forecast. we are generally

violated the sovereignty and security of china, seriously undermined the peace, stability of the south china sead seriously violated international law and norms of international relations, and somewhere the notices of the ministry of defense of china according to the representative of the southern command of the people's liberation army of china, sea and air the nviak forces accompanied the ship and monitored its movement until it left this area. well, now we are waiting for an official explanation from the american side regarding this incident . we continue to cover the results of the last large-scale air alert over the entire territory of our country in zaporizhzhia. they report that the infrastructure of the city has been hit. the victims are reported by the zaporizhzhia regional military administration, two incoming enemy missiles were recorded in the regional center, they hit one the company of the city of a-a promises to later detail the city mayor of zaporizhia anatolia smokers adds that there are really victims today one of the infrastructure objects of the city was fired upon in zaporiz

even hide it, especially the next line of defense of this defensive alliance will lie in the south china seae china has already been identified in the final documents. this summit in madrid , which ended the other day, is the main systemic long-term challenge. french self-propelled it’s time to rename the caesar artillery mounts , russian ambassador to france alexei meshkov said on the air of our tv channel. he suggested calling them neurons after the roman emperor, who is remembered in history for his despotism and exorbitant cruelty. uh, already far advanced towards the delivery of immersion, to which we repeatedly, uh, turned ours to me, but to our french colleagues. well, you know, uh, hmm, the thesis that they promote, uh, these programs of theirs are the protection of, uh, the civilian population, as they say. o, actually, it’s time to rename the french targets not in caesar, but in neurons, because they just hit the civilian population, kill women, children , destroy, uh, the cities of the low republic and the luhansk people’s republic, therefore the french do not run. uh, ahead of th

unscheduled exercises, 280 kilometers from the island. tensions continue to escalate in the south china sea with taiwan launching drills of its own. all of this as beijing says, it considers a below sea visit to be a red line that the u. s. should not cross you do. we have repeatedly made it clear to america, our stern position against you was house speaker nancy pelosi is potential visit to taiwan. if the u. s. insists on going its own way and challenging the red line of china, it will surely be met with forceful responses. if the u. s insists on taking its own course. the chinese military will never sit idly by and it will definitely take strong actions to ford any external forces interference in while a commentator for china's global times wrote that the chinese military would have the right to intercept any you as fighter jets. that accompanied philosophy is plain and even shoot them down and they don't respond to calls. but despite the threats u. s. media and politicians continue to argue that policy can't back down now, because that would be a big win for china. we can not allow chine

that tensions are rising in the south china sea.'s just south of the taiwan in washington does not rule out that, of course, this may be due to the visit of the speaker of the house of representatives of congress to the region. well, let's look at this region of the south china sea. now let's figure it out. why are the military on both sides talking about the growth of tension. here here every side. e your maritime claims. for example, how brunei outlines its interests further so its borders. sees vietnam is already easy. see the intersections. further, little asia claims the philippines consider just such a maritime zone there are already several controversial points in its responsibility. and of course, china now sees the boundaries of its maritime space. so, given taiwan. as a result, there are many disputed points between all the states of the region, plus washington, there are interpretations of maritime law. where the american fleet can go there, where there is none and the united states uses this uncertainty to their own inte

s, as sawyer and an area of the south china sea, it claims beijing said the u. s. has been fold past due to the potter cell islands, which china occupies, but are also claimed by taiwan and vietnam. the u. s. it's 7 feeds said unlawful and sweeping claims in the south china sea pose a serious threat to the freedom of the seas. travel chaos is expected across europe . airlines have been forced to counsel thousands of flights due to strike action and staff shortages. the decision to limit the number of departing passengers to 100000 a day at london's busiest airport he throw is said to make matters even worse. where we challenge is more from malaga in southern spain. what we have for going on at the moment is the 2nd day of for 4 consecutive days of strike action by ryan air, cabin crew in spain. they are going to be doing that this week. they're going to be doing that next week. and the week after, and on top of that, you have a strikes from easy jets or crew as well. and other low cost airline. they are going to be striking for 3 days, friday, saturday, sunday, this

s. destroyer in an area of the south china sea, it claims beijing said the u. s. s. penfold passed in a the parasol islands which china occupies but also claimed by taiwan and vietnam. the u. s. 7 fleet said unlawful and sweeping claims in the south. china sea pose a serious threat to the freedom of bessy's. the that in hong kong activist, known as grandma wong has been jailed for 8 months. the 66 year old pleaded guilty to charges as unlawful assembly. she has been detained several times and is known for her waving a british flag while taking part in the 2019 pro democracy movement. adrian brown, his mother. well, grandma wong is the nickname that was given to her by young protested during the demonstrations here in 2019 a wong whose real name is alexandra wong, has been a political activist now for more than 10 years, but she really rose to fame during the unrest in 2019 because she used to wave a large british flag at many protests. and of course that was to the authorities, a flagrant provocation because of course, britain was a former colonial ruler here. and

he lays a historic claim to virtually the entire south china sea. in late 2017 tensions escalated when china opened military bases on the sprightly islands and stationed missiles and warplanes. there. the u. s. saw this military build up as a breach of promise. is rather you'd bother me by she is your day when he was at washington, he was asked, are you going to notarize those allison soto, see? he said no record. do we usually visit with john year we usable? well, we have militarized those islands in the south, tennessee. it just will. that doesn't go very well. the scene going whoo, said to him is the coolest of several months which we saw construction is appearing on new artificial islands. so everyone was wondering alcove. why, why, what are they empty? give especially little by little she gen paying built a military base in the south china sea to this end several reefs and this bratley islands were developed into naval air bases and the parasol islands militarized. these developments go against international court decisions such as the ruling of

would have assets in the region if needed, so the aircraft carrier "ronald reagan" is in the south china sea with its wing of aircraft on board. there are other aircraft in the region, other ships, satellites that can be moved into place to keep an eye out for any chinese military moves. you know, right now, the pentagon is adamant that they do not expect hostile action from the chinese. they just don't see that in the cards. but that said, what is so interesting, just a short time ago, my colleague oren lieberman and i have been told that chinese warships are already shadowing that aircraft carrier "the ronald reagan" in the south china sea. it is a typical move by the chinese. they often shadow or trail u.s. ships in the region. but china very much sticking now clearly to its standard play, to go ahead and do that, the u.s. sticking to its standard play, to keep its ships and aircraft in the region, nobody is backing off. u.s. officials are saying don't look for hostility. what they do worry about is miscalculation, with so many ships, so many aircraft out there. they don't want any inadve

he lays a historic claim to virtually the entire south china sea. in late 2017 tensions escalated when china opened military bases on the sprightly islands and stationed missiles and warplanes. there. the u. s. saw this military build up as a breach of promise is whether you'd bother me by she is your day when he was at washington, he was asked, are you going to notarize those allison soto, see? he said no record. do we usually visit with john year we coaches along well, we have militarized those islands in the south, tennessee. he just ill that just gone very well. the scene going whoo! said to him is the coolest of several months which we saw construction is appearing on new artificial islands. so everyone was wondering alcove. why, why, what are they empty? just give, especially little by little she gen paying built a military base in the south china sea. but to this end, several reefs and this bratley islands were developed into naval air bases and the parasol islands militarized. these developments go against international court decisions such a

. >> chinese warships are already shadowing that aircraft carrier the ronald reagan in the south china sea, the chairman of the point chiefs mark milley has been tracking all of this and he says that chinese dangerous aggressive if you will actions in the region are way up. up >> laura: how close is china taking aggressive military action against the united states or our allies? >> i think everyone looking at the intelligence has to believe that china is much closer to moving against taiwan -- why wouldn't they? joe biden has been backing up since day one trend. he backed down to the taliban in ukraine, he offered zelinski a ride out of ukraine and he backed down repeatedly to china. part of what deterred this was the strength of the trump administration to take on china directly, to look at the intelligence and say clearly what they intend to do is to replace us as the world's superpower and the result of the biden administration has been to undo all of the good work we have done the counter china and china's aggression around the world. why wouldn't president xi be more aggressive? i thi

china closes the water area for exercises immediately in several areas of the south china sea.reasons, unofficially, in order to prevent the aircraft carrier ronald reagan, deployed by the united states from singapore, from approaching the island, which they consider to be their own on the official page of the eightieth chinese army on the social network. fuck, short record beidzhan. get ready for war. chinese newspapers are making headlines saying the defense representatives of the action are the best language and these actions just reinforce the words of sisimpin that he addressed the bidens during the last telephone conversation central television read out the latest chinese. the warning is verbatim, resolutely defending china's national sovereignty and territorial integrity is the firm will of more than one billion. 400 million. it is considered their opinion that playing with fire should not be violated, self-immolation will result. i hope the american side. biden clearly sees this, he seems to have seen it, because he confirmed that washington’s position has not changed a

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it's not went away in china and we see lots of interesting developments taking place in the south china sea and that's a growth, we have seen the international system change and china assessing itself and that's a post-war context. >> chris, do you have anything to add? i think that was great comment? >> no that was comprehensive. andrew does a great job of capturing. >> i thought that was fantastic and kind of takes us to our last question here which in a sense one of the questions that we have gotten from our audience. you know, what implications does the cold war have for today's military for global affairs and i think it goes along with this idea that you just mentioned with so many nations still communist governments and did the cold war really ever end or has it become less prominent. did it just shift in ideology, you know, did the cold war just really kind of end with the soviet union and now we are dealing with something similar but, you know, different name. >> so i will try to tackle that that 8 russians were sent out of belgium, brussels, sent packing for being intelligent offic

china is actively arming itself in the south china sea.ilding up their nuclear arsenal, they threaten both this region and many others. we have to stick to our commitments to our allies in asia and contain both sides of china. unanimous in their opinion should do it, that this great uh analyst. he just spied uh in iraq all uh and in pakistan and where the united states relations with iraq russia and pakistan they just don't have more of these analysts this is the point of view. ah, very representative. this point of view reflects the mood in the so-called foreign policy estelesh, you understand, that is, the professional community of intelligence officers of diplomats military and, uh, they also use the term deep state for that. that is, these are people who are not elected, but all their lives they are engaged in these political games, economic games, sometimes a real war for the money of taxpayers, and as a rule, the elected ones serve for this. uh, elected politicians. and that the most important thing for this entire community is not t

we've seen declarations of sovereignty over the south china sea.nd emphasized especially over the last decade, that china has conducted what i would consider an irregular war against the u.s. on many fronts and it's just becoming very obvious, i think, to more people. neil: you know, colonel, i was talking about ray dalio, a very successful investor i had a chance to get on fox business, which if you don't get, you should demand and you're colonel. having said that he talked about how easy it is for a series of seemingly arcane events to combine into something disastrous. for example, the assassination of archduke ferdinand that led to world war i and a series of complicated relationships and ties. could the same happen here? there's been such brinkmanship and provocative action of china in the south china sea and the u.s.s. ronald reagan is in that neck of the woods right now. it wouldn't take much for something to get dicey. what do you think? >> there are a lot of trip wires out there, neil. clearly kim jong-un is threatening his seventh nuclear

about the use of force against china if beijing were to continue its provocative actions in the china sead china has been trying to take away the senekaku islands n the east china sea with its military maneuvers in japanese territorial water. this is a china that wants to lash out. it has nothing to do with taiwan and speaker pelosi. that's an excuse. >> should speaker pelosi go to taiwan given all of this? >> i think that she should. we are in a position where there are no safe options, and if she were not to go, we would embolden and legitimize the worst elements in beijing showing intimidation worked, which means there would be a crisis in the not-too-distant future, probably would be a bigger crisis. beijing believes the u.s. is in terminal decline. i don't think they're right, but the point is what they think is important and that's extremely dangerous. president biden has the unenviable task of re-establishing deterrence. >> how much does the u.s.' reaction or lack thereof after the coupling of china and russia after the invasion into ukraine play into the bluster, the aggressivenes

a few weeks ago the chinese invoked a vice is in the south china sea in the philippines.ing out it might be taiwan but it might be some place else. this is an extremely dangerous regime at this point. >> morgan, i want to play this clip from the white house because the spokesperson was asked to respond in what the white house thinks about this. listen to this and i want to get your response. >> i know you're asking specifically about the rhetoric that we're hearing from china, but as it relates to the speaker's, the speaker's travels, something that we're just not going to speak to. right now that's a hypothetical. >> hypothetical? the wheel's out on the second in line to the presidency of the united states and the white house can't stand behind her? >> yeah. so, listen, there's a couple things going on here with the press secretary. first, i understand that you don't want to confirm the speaker of the house's travel until she's wheels down in taiwan. totally get that. i've been there a million times. the problem is that president biden already let the cat out of the bag,

says that china is persistently trying to change the status quo around the senkoku islands in the china sea. japan controls the islands. china and taiwan claim them. the report says china is a major security concern for the region and the international community. the document also says that stabilizing the situation surrounding taiwan is important for global stability. it urges the international community to tackle the common problem of attempts to change the status quo, and adds that japan will keep a close eye on the taiwan situation amid increasing tension. the white paper describes north korea as a grave and pressing threat, citing frequent launches of ballistic missiles this year, including icbms. it says that the north may take further provocative actions. >>> lawmakers in india have elected the country's first president from one of its tribal communities. about 4800 federal and state lawmakers voted. election officials confirmed on thursday that the candidate won the election over a candidate fielded by opposition parties. she is from an indigenous tribe in the state of odisha. they

koshkin and denis sokolov to lead from the united states the united states was sent to the south china seae nuclear aircraft carrier ronald reagan, he left with singapore escort ships and in the near future may enter the taiwan strait about the targets, the pentagon does not report, but it is already known that taiwan will soon be preparing high alert mode in alexander balitsky's report? the mythical attacks of mainland china are entering an active phase and are no longer limited to air raid sirens. in the bay of the yilan military base , taiwanese ships are hitting imaginary chinese from the air at 16 attacking a mock chinese submarine, for which, dressed up on occasion in camouflage, the head of the country's administration, tsai , thanks his subordinates from the bowels of the dark wheelhouse of the captain's bridge, i thank all the brothers and sisters from the ground group action just you all have shown ability. taiwan's determination to defend good work. this work was certainly appreciated by the american guest at the white house with congress. after all, they are pushing taiwan into

north korea, or illegally named islands in the south china sea by china. sanctions take a lot of work. they will not be employed overnight. even with turkey, which by the way is trying to play mediator between ukraine and russia, they, too are very reliant on russian tourism. so it is very difficult for them to go all the way and put in the really tough sanctions. >> has russia had any diplomatic success in limiting europe's attempt to isolate russia? sergei lavrov is doing a tour of africa at the moment after reaching a grain deal in the middle east. >> i think russia may not necessarily have been able to leverage its relationship with populace parties. that is not surprising because they have always s -- overestimated their ability to create fractures in european societies. i distinctly remember speaking to russian academics a year after the annexation of crimea and they were telling me they were shocked germany and many european sanctions -- european countries sanctioned russia. but outside of europe, russians are doing quite a good job at creating and

we understood as did centcom the challenges to the south china sea.ht there and at home. if we did both things, we could convince the people of china as director wray said, this is not about ethnicity. this is about a chinese communist party leadership that is intent on global domination. we have to protect the american people from it. >> trace: china responds by saying u.s. is threat number 1. 10 seconds, sir. >> we threatened no one. we're looking for capacity to do exactly what prime minister abe was speaking about. we want freedom and opportunity for everyone. we want that for the chinese people, too. >> trace: thanks, secretary. >> thanks, trace. >> trace: more of "the story" after this. -drill noises] alright, limu, give me a socket wrench, pliers, and a phone open to libertymutual.com they customize your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need... and you could even save $652 when you switch. ok, i need a crowbar. and a blowtorch. [teddy bear squeaks] [doug sighs] limu, call a mechanic. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. li

. >>> and search and rescue operations are resuming this the south china sea after a ship broke in half and sank, more than two dozen are missing. in a 21 month study,y, scientists proved that rid- x reduces up to 20% of waste build up every mononth. take the pressure off with rid-x. >>> search and rescue operation has resumed after a ship sank in the south china sea. three crew members have been rescued but the fate of the remaining 27 people who were on board is unclear. the ship was caught in a typhoon and broke in half before it sank. the typhoon has been downgraded now to a tropical storm after making landfall battering parts of the mainland. a tornado associated with its outer band spun through one city ripping off roofs and up rooting trees. >>> from asia to the u.s. where it is the start of the fourth of july holiday weekend, heavy rain could dampen some celebrations. joining us now is derek van dam. heavy rain and lightning as well. >> yeah, looks like mother nature could be creating its own fireworks this weekend depending on where you are located that is of course. we have a

at the same time, they're going after the east china sea, the senkakus. this is chinese assertion. oing to be india. a lot of people are hearing the chatter that china will renew its pressure in the himalayas. which means in the south and the east you'll have controversies that china's provoking. >> and china is also very interesting in latin america. >> it certainly is. next month, they have these exercises. china, russia, iran, about nine other countries. they're going to participate in these large scale drills and you have the red electoral wave in latin america for the last couple of years. just last month, you had a leftist elected as president of colombia. this is a region that's going towards china and we americans have ignored the importance of latin america and the caribbean. >> absolutely. and these exercises are going on sponsored by venezuela. >> by venezuela. >> gordon chang, i thank you so much for being with us this morning. appreciate your time. >> thank you, jose. >>> coming up, loved ones of three of the highland park victims will gather today for their funerals. h

another blatant provocation, the passage of an american destroyer near the nansha islands in the south china sea same time, even the taiwanese already understand that by warming up the second front, the united states itself excludes its direct military participation in the conflict . taiwanese reporters asked the american military head-on questions. ignorance so will or not in the us help you guys, please leave your questions to themselves and this is very similar to how washington acts bolton's words about us participation in coups in beijing well, they remembered in his mail that this former high-ranking us official spoke about his experience in planning coups d'etat in other countries, without remorse and very proudly demonstrates that the overthrow of the power of other states has already penetrated into the bone marrow of american foreign policy, and therefore they put their little taiwan on soft power in china, and in beijing 436 m in long, taiwanese, street a sign with the name of which was once written by the honorary chairman of the party here with his own hand, the sign was removed dur

perceived as an encroachment on their independence, so the american ships that came to the south china sea are already being monitored by the beijing fleet. matveeva it is difficult to imagine a better way to harm the already lame relations between the us and china than what nancy pelosi came up with, the taiwanese theme for both beijing and washington, like a red rag for a bull, both have long been balancing on the verge of an open conflict around the island, the visit of the speaker of the house of representatives to taipei is the first such trip since the nineties. could be a point of no return. beijing has repeatedly warned that this is a bad idea, and revealingly so. how his rhetoric changes. here, in the chinese foreign ministry, almost every day briefing for reporters and every time he was speaking tougher and tougher a few days ago began with the first chinese warning of china's stance on a possible trip. nancy pelosipe to taiwan definitely. it will be a violation of all agreements between beijing and washington on the taiwan issue, question the us commitment to the principle of on

we see lots of interest in developments taking place in the south china sea. all of that, again, is a direct outpour. we are seeing the dynamic system training in fluctuate, and china increasingly inserting itself. that's all within a post cold context. >> chris, do you have anything to add to that? i think that was a great comment. >> that was really comprehensive. i think we could probably take another question. he did a great job of really capturing. >> no, i thought that was fantastic. you know, kind of takes us to our last question here, which innocence is one of the questions we got from our audience. you know, what implication does the cold war have for today's military, for global affairs. i think it kind of goes along with the idea of, you know, you just mentioned so many nations still with communist governments. did the cold war ever really end, or has it become more, less prominent? did it just shift an ideology? did the cold war just really, kind, and with the end of the social union, and now we are dealing with something similar, you know, in a dif

. >> meanwhile the uss ronald reagan its group have moved into the south china sea with the pentagon not commenting on the movements. the white house has not explicitly advised pelosi not to visit taiwan, but they are reassuring beijing that the administration's policy has not changed in any way. arthel? >> arthel: griff jenkins live at the white house, thanks. we will have more on the speaker's trip when former state department senior advisor christian whiten joins us later this hour. >> eric: just 100 days to go before the midterms, and there are many races to talk to you about, races both in missouri as well as arizona, key primaries taking place there on tuesday. the border security and immigration, major issues down south. meanwhile, several g.o.p. candidates in missouri are running for the chance as you can see retiring senator roy blunt there. we have team fox news coverage in all these races. hillary vaughan is in missouri. let's start with alicia acuna in phoenix. hi, alicia? >> hi, eric. there are two big g.o.p. primaries here, one for the u.s. senate, the other for the gov

under way for more than two dozen crew members after their ship broke in half and sank in the south china searday. cnn's lena wang has more on this developing story. >> reporter: a search is under way for more than two dozen crew members after their ship broke in half and sank in the south china sea on saturday. authorities say the ship sank around 183 miles southwest of hong kong after being caught near the center of typhoon chaba saturday. multiple helicopters were deployed to the scene and this dramatic footage shows the rescue operation from hong kong. it shows a crew member being pulled up on a rope into a helicopter from the sinking ship. three crew members were rescued but the fate of the remaining 27 people on board remains unclear. we've learned from authorities that there were three casualties from the shipwreck. three men aged 32 to 47 were receiving treatment at the north landau hospital and are in stable condition. typhoon chiba had made landfall 3:00 p.m. time saturday. the search and rescue center said it had coordinated seven rescue vessels as part of the operations as well as