this is a dramatic close encounter of the south china sea kind a chinese coast guard vessel accused of entering indonesian waters offering protection to trawlers fishing illegally. china close quote close to our 532 this is interesting because quoting you over. there. yes i do not mean to say you are in. the exchange in december but released no comes amid weeks of escalating tensions in the region. or the one. on the other. what. 6 appears to show chinese fishing boats in indonesia's economic zone. so leave them and go away leave them and go always there and highlights china's ongoing efforts to lay claim to the vital shipping lanes and fishing waters here not only in these tiny quarries i ought to get you to leave these territory. and be joining the foreign ministry played down the diplomatic road through although you knew china and indonesia have a strategic partnership in which friendship and cooperation is the main stream and the difference is just a small part. since the mid ninety's china has stepped up its operations in the south china sea. building on reefs even going as far as

there is a dramatic close encounter of the south china sea kind a chinese coast guard vessel accused of entering indonesian waters offering protection to trawlers fishing illegally. china close got close to our 532 this is interesting because quoting you over. there. yes i do not mean to say you are in. one of. the exchange in december but released no comes amid weeks of escalating tensions in the region. for the one. under. what. 6 appears to show chinese fishing boats in indonesia's economic zone. so leave them and go away leave them and go away and highlights china's ongoing efforts to lay claim to the vital shipping lanes and fishing waters. terry if these tiny party i order you to leave these territories. in big joining the foreign ministry played down the diplomatic row who you knew china and indonesia have a strategic partnership in which friendship and cooperation is the mainstream and the difference is just a small part. since the mid ninety's china has stepped up its operations in the south china sea. building on reefs even going as far as to plant a flag in the seabed neigh

hyper graphic surveillance missile in the china sea, the hylan island, hong kong, and my question is very simple. seeing the land grab that we've had in the south china sea, with china and the buildup, that was going on back then. and my question is, why doesn't the u.s. toll an island again, jack uprig, it would cause an absolutely chaos from the psychological point of view, and just operate 30 marines off it, and the helicopter, and to me, it would tie up the matelands and the fortune of them, and the jet of watching this little outpost in the south china sea. >> that's not a bad idea. there are, there's a whole range of things that the united states could do but is not doing right now. that one could certainly be considered. i don't see why not. but to give you, to just expand a little bit on that, the defense of taiwan is an area where this administration has improved over the record of its predecessor, but it's come this far, but that leaves between here and the other side of the room. we're not doing that. there are all sorts of things that the administration could do if vice president pence, vice president pence's suggestion about a whol

urging japan to increase its investment in indonesian islands close to disputed waters in the south china sea the indonesian government has been seeking to reassert its authority over the tuna after a recent standoff with chinese ships nearby last year japan agreed to fund a new fish market on the island during a joint press conference indonesia's foreign minister told her japanese counterpart the government was keen for japan to top up its investment in fisheries and. designed by clowns supervised by monkeys that's just one of the study think boeing employees as they worked on the 737 max ally newly released internal memos from real staff were aware of problems with the jets and the simulator training being developed for them and tried to conceal the information from u.s. aviation regulators one says they would not allow their own family to fly on a 77 maps plane has been grounded worldwide since last march following 2 deadly french. those hands up is canceling all of its flights to and from tehran for the next 10 days germany's flag carrier says it's because of the uncertain security situat

this admiral is entrusted with an enormous treasure fleet constructed -- which explores the south china sea and the indian ocean. look at those ships in the upper right. see the massive one? that is the scale of his flagship which is 500 feet long and has a crew of 600. you see the toy boat next to it? the flagship of christopher columbus, the santa maria, which 100 years later in 1492, christopher columbus sailed the ocean blue, that is what the europeans were sailing to explore the world, the chinese were sailing massive ships. by the way, that treasure fleet, that economic juggernaut of the 1400s looks like china's strategy, there's a lot to learn on his ability to organize. >> jump a little further forward to the time of the spanish armada. sir francis drake saves england, defeats the spanish armada. he is known as a pirate, a rapist, he enslaves, burns cities, burns indiscriminately. the darkest character of these admirals. he is a patriot and also a pirate. how many of you have been into the world on the ride pirates of the caribbean based on sir francis bacon? here is my favorite red

because unlike say for example vietnam which has been very vocal in its opposition to china's south china sea claims you in the philippines they haven't been as vocal in their opposition why is that. you know the other said really wants to do a more aggressive stance and they cannot afford to do it or not for a. would be developing my drumming. or. dramas because we cannot afford. i'm a hilly the philippines and that this is very dangerous. spratly. islands. provençal islands. the local government of philippines just knew. them. and so it would be reckless move. if. sent out to slick. small vessels only to get a bloody nose and. the response might not be. contained if i get to move. because of the so many. american ships here there might just also want they've had one. they're defending the philippines is. full of. out of control i mean. it was. at this time. is of no use. we would just be friendly to some you know improve trade and commerce. and let. heliot. but there's no moral order to take it a bit. and. they were changing and we need in the daily. expense of their lives with us. operatio

because unlike say for example vietnam which has been very vocal in its opposition to china's south china sea claims you in the philippines they haven't been as vocal in their opposition why is that because the other said the little one still. stands. and they cannot afford to do it. for a. would be dropping my drumming. or. dramas because we cannot afford. good i'm a hilly the philippines and so on but this is very dangerous. spratly. islands. provincial islands. the local government of being just new here or near them. and so it would be reckless move. if. sent. to slick. small vessels only to get a bloody nose day we response might not be. contained if i get to move. because of the so many. american ships here there might just also want a good one. defending the philippines is. full of. out of control i mean. it was. at this time. more us. we would just be friendly to some. improve trade and commerce. and let. heliot. but there's the moral take it a bit. one. leg any other story. the war disorder is changing. and we need in the daily at the expense of their lives with could be as. many cal

but i would caution that we have seen in the south china sea a chinese promise to president obama thaty did. when we asked about it, they said putting missiles on things on the islands doesn't count as militaryization. the devil will be in the details of the agreement. cheryl: we'll have to read the agreement today. i want to bring in dominic tavello. we're not going to get the actual text of the agreement until it's signed. that's about midday. market reaction r, what are you expecting? >> we saw it yesterday. i think the market was expecting a lot more. this should not have surprised anybody. this administration decided from day one they're going to hold china's feet to the fire, hold them accountable. part of this is targeted tariffs, as you meet certain goals, we'll get rid of the tariffs. none of this should be a surprise. cheryl: of course this is going political. it hasn't been signed yet. you've got senator chuck schumer, dnc issuing a statement they're frustrated and disappointed by phase one. what do you think of the democrats' reaction in all this. >> this is an election yea

because unlike say for example vietnam which has been very vocal in its opposition to china's south china sea claims you in the philippines they haven't been as vocal in their opposition why is that. not the other said the little one still. stands. and they cannot afford to do it. for a. would be dropping my drumming. or. dramas because we cannot afford. good i'm a hilly the philippines and very dangerous. spratly. islands. provençal islands. the local government. just knew. them and so it would be a reckless move. if. sent out to slick. small vessels only to get a bloody nose and. the we response might not be. contained if i get to move. because of the so many. american ships here. just also want a good one. defending the philippines is. full of. out of control i mean. it was. at this time. is of no use. we would just be friendly to some. improve trade and commerce. and let. heliot. but there's the moral take it a bit sad. and. there were just so did change. and we need in the daily at the expense of their lives with going to. operations understand that a cost of doing business is buying and

where historically the pacom, pacific command, would end roughly just shy of going west of the south china sea. so secretary mattis extended that and had a much broader view to looking at all of the relationships within the area of responsibility. so he expanded that, because if you kind of looked at the gray area where centcom and pacom meet, we didn't have enough focus and energy against the purity of southwest asia, east of pakistan, per se. so from a military standpoint, so that's where we extended the indo-pacific and have a much broader view. with respect to, i'm sorry, the second question. >> for the army, is it really fair to say this is the priority region, for the dod writ large and air force and navy, one can understand the argument. for the army, it looks like you have more forces in europe than in asia and you have more activity, more kinetic activity in the middle east. it looks to me like the army has three -- >> this is what i would call the accounting within the combatant commanders. there are more assigned forces in pacom than in any other theater. the challenges, a lot of th

was weak we watched russia's 2014 occupation of the crimea china's island building too in the south china sea and it's brazen attempts to coerce american allies undermine to deterrence so if the an eye. it states dislikes you it can pressure you economically diplomatically isolate you or brutally assassinate you know this is geopolitics in the age of deterrence mask is come and ask this idea of supremacy that we we have you know this is you can call it american supremacy that we can do whatever we want and it's up to us to decide who is a threat or not this is it really really disturbing and very dangerous i think and it's not normal here does come in alex for somebody who is running the state department this is extremely disturbing and i'm very disappointed that medical political class is not speaking out against this. crazy idea that we can go ahead and just kill anyone we don't like it doesn't mean people are not guilty of things but if we take a distance of this. approach to every nationality to every country we are going to have that really of the mess and i want to. still to come a crim

cyber capabilities, and the --position of the capability you can put it down somewhere in the south china sea, and those have the effects to change any area denial capabilities. it basically has the inverse effect. aat it can do is become ground seed element, suppressing enemy air defenses. ort then could flow in ships airplanes or others, along with being a deterrent, which is the ultimate goal. we do not need any more gunfights. we don't want anymore. but if they come, we will be ready. dr. o'hanlon: thank you. let's go to you. please wait for a microphone and identify yourself if you could. we will start in the fifth row, this gentleman here. john: john harper with national defense magazine. thank for being here, mr. secretary. yourentioned fms sales in remarks. can you talk about specific capabilities or systems you want to encourage u.s. allies in the pacific to invest in, and by u.s. equipment? sec. mccarthy: any and all, to start with. the timeline is to purchase 60 strikers. they have the first 15. we are going to flow the rest shortly. chinook helicopter sales. we are selling a lot o

chinese and indonesian vessels face off now the south china sea into the shark uses china of violating its sovereignty around an iron chain but china says it's done no such thing what is behind these tensions plus china causes tensions in taiwan as well ahead of presidential elections over the weekend to be visibly island where chinese influence is not often seen.

the 1500000 people who fled across the south china sea were dubbed the boat people hundreds of thousands died the despair that drove the mom board and the survivors really hard to imagine. we never thought we would survive the boat trip so already when we arrived in malaysia it was a bonus you know a 2nd chance to life and as we got off the boat and the boat broke up 15 minutes after we got off so when you standing on the beach and you see that boat break up. you have no more complaint if everything goes after that. kim and her family lived in a refugee camp in malaysia until her parents secured entry to canada the start of a new life today she's one of the country's most celebrated authors her 3 best selling novels have been translated into 25 languages. it must have been a clash of cultures when you came to canada what was your most difficult challenge we have arrived not from our home we arrive from a refrigerator camp so basically you we became subhuman you know we lived in places that were not places and under citizenship we were stateless right and so you we arrived here and we cou

i tell my daughter that her fellow sailors can register to vote on her ship in the south china sea chain electronic poll -- the south china sea. we have come a long way from hanging chads. part of eric. the electronic aspect of data swaps. it is a great resource for voters, perspective voters, to do things like find out who their elected officials are. that information is powerful. it allows them to check the status of their absentee or vote by mail ballot. they can opt in by text alerts. whereiver there -- for their ballot is located. social media gets a bad rap. the internet has brought us together, but social media is telling -- is tearing us apart. it is a great tool to disseminate information to your stakeholders. certainly, sometimes sadly, refute information and disinformation. that is going to be a huge issue 2020. it is a great opportunity to use that technology to reach out to voters and stakeholders. i would be remiss not to mention the 800 pound gorilla. when you talk about things such as electronic poll books, having a backup register in the event of a power issue. having a

write where the characters are oceans the atlantic and arctic and mediterranean pacific in the south china sea. there is power in that because in each chapter i talk about the history of that region of the world in importance of the sea and that is the connection to the admiral the greatest strategist the navy ever produced creating this idea of a global navy the reason we have a powerful seagoing navy and marine corps is because of these solutions 70 percent of the planet is covered by water 95 percent moves on the ocean 70 percent of the oxygen you are breathing tonight comes from photosynthesis in the sea. the oceans matter that is the genesis of the book and we should have a strategy as we did 120 years ago. >> dealing with the chapters in this wonderful book sailing true north. because commanding richard nixon one of the millions of sailors thousands of ships so the other that i ask about is he was under nixon's command so would chester portrayed now to be familiar to people make it today? >> i think the real question is would he have made it out of the naval academy of today. [laughter]

was weak we watched russia's 2014 occupation of the crimea china's island building too in the south china sea and it's brazen attempt of course american allies undermined to deter us so this strategy for deterrence includes economic isolation of countries diplomatic isolation economic pressure as well as targeted killing of the foreign citizens so is this the new geopolitics deterrence is the phrase now being used to justify it all. russia has condemned germany and france and the u.k. for triggering a dispute mechanism over iran's alleged a failure to abide by the 2015 nuclear deal a joint commission now has 15 days to consider the complaint after which it could be referred to the u.n. security council. we have therefore been left with no choice given iran's actions but to register today our concerns that iran is not meeting its commitments under the j.c. and to refer this matter to the joint commission under the resolution mechanism we see no reasons for such a decision we don't exclude that you conceived actions of the euro trio will lead to a new escalation around the g. and will make it i

deterrence was weak we watch russia's 2014 occupation of the crimea china's island building too in the south china sea and it's brazen attempts to coerce american allies undermine to deter us so this strategy for deterrence includes economic isolation of countries diplomatic isolation economic pressure as well as targeted killing of the foreign citizens so is this the new geopolitics deterrence is the phrase now being used to justify it all but it's for taking us through all of these in new york. you know iran has said it's made arrests in the case of the accidentally done ukrainian passenger plane last week in which all 176 people on board were killed. this to our people it is very important in this incident that whoever was at fault or negligent at any level be identified anyone who should be punished must be punished. with tehran admitting its responsibility for the plane crash somehow fall and another part to blame for the incident the us flamed tensions in the persian gulf leading to collateral deaths nowadays the assessment of the russian foreign minister which was also shared by the canadian pr

questionable it is the defense strategy of matters on - - general mattis that china has to go with the south china sea and with that they have more freedom of navigation. and to take a more respectful line with the chinese. >> that's the right approach. >> trump gave a well received speech on the majority country a- iran it was minus the iran bashing. >> and it hasn't benefited any of them. and those diminishing returns are clear. >> and we need a book. >> talking about the administration and not the book. [laughter] and clearly not a fan of president trump. and then with the political people. and then to have successful post careers lined up. so why did they do this quex. >>. >> but trump did not hide who he was. >> in fact john kelly has said not only did he not know trump he didn't know anybody who knew trump. rex to listen is very religious and basically his wife said god is speaking to us and has a pla plan. but on the military side the commander-in-chief. >> but he was in the process of retiring. i think there is another important factor here and another interesting the second secret choice of d