jeff kingston is director of asian studies at temple university, japan, a grass roots organization given crash courses to tie when he citizens on civil defense. what does that tell you about ty, ones, preparedness well tells me that they're learning the lessons of ukraine and also under scores. the queued military gap between china and taiwan. china has a 1000000 soldiers. taiwan has 88000. so after 2 decades of double digit increases, military spending on china side, i want this year has a record increase of 15 percent. but overall it's defense. budget remains around 20000000000 dollars, 110th of what china's is. so we used the government really doing enough because analysts of described mandatory service in taiwan. o chiz are the a few months as poll and their right of when they ended conscription 2018. that was a big turning point of the short training period that people undergo. they don't actually handle weapons, it's more conceptual. so yes, i agree with those analysts to believe that that is insufficient. and that's why i think the chip tycoon has stepped in, say, look, we need te

jeff kingston teaches asian politics at temple university in japan. >> the pandemic has given them a golden opportunity to crack down and limit people's freedom of movement. >> it's helped xi jin ping turn china into no one is allowed to criticize the government or especially its leader. he faces no challenges at this party congress. four y later this week the congress will rubber stamp an unprecedented five more years in power. as for taiwan, that's the island president biden has said the u.s. will help fend off a chinese takeover. . >> elizabeth palmer, cbs news, hong kong. >>> the equipment will be ■used to bolster police. they're up against powerful gangs who block the flow of critically needed humanitarian aid. >>> straight ahead on the cbs weekend news. draft dodgers. we meet some of the men fleeing putin's war. >>> plus the billionaire rocket man ready for a new adventure. >>> meet the musicians on a mission to use their sound as a voice for justice. >>> this week, nato and russia will separately hold exercises of their nuclear forces. it comes at a time when rising tensions o

jeff kingston teaches asian politics at temple university in japan. >> xi's inclinations are for politicalnd the pandemic has given him a golden opportunity to crack down and limit people's freedom of movement. >> reporter: it's helped xi jinping turn china into a highly efficient surveillance state. facial recognition technology watches citizens wherever they go. and no one is allowed to criticize the government or especially its leader. he faces no challenges at this party congress. four years ago, xi jinping engineered the abolition of term limits. later this week, the congress will rubber stamp an unprecedented five more years in power for him as china's leader. as for taiwan, that's the island president biden has said the u.s. will help fend off a chinese takeover, xi jinping said that china is committed to what he called reunification, if possible peacefully, if necessary by force. elizabeth palmer, cbs news, hong kong. >>> the u.s. and canadian forces have delivered tactical and armored vehicles and supplies to crisis-torn haiti. the equipment will be used to bolster police. they're

jeff kingston lectures in asian politics at temple university in tokyo. what makes xi jinping tick?porter: there are clues. his parents were communist elites. but in the 1960s, his father was denounced during mao's cultural revolution. and young xi was exiled to a poor village for re-education. >> i think he was very much influenced by his childhood experience and seeing the politics of the cultural revolution and how it suddenly could, you know, hit you even if you're a privileged family. >> reporter: but xi came back and climbed the party ranks until he got to the very top. >> what we see as a much more aggressive, assertive, saber rattling hedge mondayic policy, he sees as a patriot policy consistent with his vision of a great china. >> reporter: for xi, a great china includes taiwan, and he told delegates he'd take control of the island, preferably peacefully, but he would not renounce force. xi's facing headwinds, though. a real estate crash, growing u.s. military presence in the region, and even internal dissent. there was a rare glimpse of that last week on a beijing overpass