and that includes freedom of navigation in the south china sea. it doesn't want countries to have to choose between china and the u. s. but it wants nate, but wants these waterways to be open because this is an important trading root. roughly 5000000 people in yemen. on the brink of starvation, the conflict, no closer to peace. according to the un, it's on the sexual general for humanitarian affairs says 2 thirds of the population relies on aid to meet that daily needs. the u. s. shantarian appeal for nearly $4000000000.00 is only about half funded. more than 20 people. 20000000 people in yemen, need humanitarian and assistance and protection that's about 2 thirds of the population . and it continues to be quite an astonishing figure. but out of all those needs, there is perhaps one over arching humanitarian priority, and that is to stop the famine. to day about 5000000 people are just one step away from succumbing to famine and the diseases that go with it. 10000000 more are right behind them. famine isn't just a food problem, it's a symptom of a

there are also several countries in the region that have competing claims over the south china sea. and it's increasingly turning into a security flashpoint, partly because china has grown more 13 in its claims. and partly because china views the freedom of navigation operations conducted by the u. s. navy, in the south china sea as provocative. now come la harris, his visit is intended to signify 2 countries in the region that the u. s. is committed to keeping a rules based international order and in keeping the south china sea open. now part of the u. s. policy will be about strengthening ties with countries in the region. so the u. s. can be seen as a counterweight to china's growing influence. now how is china viewing this visit? while china's officials in one news agency portrayed at harrison visit as a drive to contain china. and it also describes the u. s. approach as outdated cold war thinking intended to create division and confrontation. now one of the things that harris will have to contend with during her visit is answering questions about of gonna start collapse and answ

and china's actions in the south china sea. as being a threat to the sovereignty of other nations. now we know that china has laid claim to a vast parts of the south china sea. it's not the on the claim and there are other countries in se, asia and tie one also claiming other parts of the south china sea. and china's actions in the last few years have been a lot more assertive in staking these claims, ranging from building military and relations on islands. and i live in the south china sea to increasing confrontations with other vessels at sea. no, she didn't name these actions, but she did talk about china's actions being really confrontational. and what she mentioned was that the though isn't here to make nations choose between the us and china instead it once it's committed to having a free and open region. and that includes freedom of navigation in the south china sea. it doesn't want countries to have to choose between china and the u. s, but it once need, but once the waterways to be open because this is an important trading route. and then she also talked about how the u. s.

busy last countries to send warships right there to the south china sea. so for more discussion on this, we bring in political commentator and former us naval intelligence officer, john jordan. john, good to see you. i know you know this region very well. so i wanna, i wanna talk about exactly what's happening here. you know, we'll, indian germany sending naval ships to the south trying to see what will that accomplish if anything, will this essentially intimidate china? is that, is that really the, you know, the move here if you do significant, john, and there's really a couple of different parts to this. first of all, the british sent in their new aircraft carrier queen elizabeth with f. 35 jets on it. and now you have germany doing the same now can germany in england really project military force in that region? not really. what it does do is send a message to beijing is that future attempts as my dad would call it, to turn south china sea into a lake aren't going to be tolerated. that's a hugely important trade route. the most important from there to t

the h m, as queen elizabeth, enters the south china sea. it calls the ships to visit, quote unquote, colonial and warrens that attend intrudes on chinese claimed islands and reeves it will be expelled. what exactly does that mean? whole lot of nothing. because there's not much the chinese can do about it unless they're willing to actually engage in direct military conflict with england, which phasing is not going who prepared to do. they're not going to be able to expel what are they gonna be turning around and kick it out when china says things like that, a lot of it is for its own domestic consumption, right? because the chinese companies powers and communist party is an autocratic regime and they have to say things to appear struggling to appear righteous. and that's why these throw terms like colonial around the british haven't had any interest in it really in that part of the world. since they seated control of hong kong per treaty in 1997. so that's just really a domestic fluff for the chinese public. do you think, you know, you know,

number two, mainland china so it's happening in hong kong and taiwan and the south china sea. i would be glad to talk about and answer questions on high hong kong and taiwan but i want to direct your attention to the south china sea because we don't pay enough attention to what's going onug even though it is extremely important and reflects a new tactic that's the thing we are dealing with that comes to new tactics with its aggression and so what's happening at the south china sea is an example with the gray zone tactic so it means it's about the territory without using military so basically it enables the country to expand its territory without having to fight a traditional war. that's what we call the gray zone tactics in the south china sea so 90% of the trade going with china and including malaysia, philippines and vietnam shares claims on this body of water. there is a historical dispute and this is also an area with huge oil and gas deposits. it's a huge deposit of resources, so all the countries share this body of water. what china did was under the first administration

spot near mainland china so it's about what's happened in hong kong and taiwan and out of the south china seas. i would be glad to answer questions about hong kong and taiwan but i want to direct your attention to the south china sea because we don't pay enough attention to what's going on although it is important. to reflect a new tactic that's the thing dealing with the communist party. they have new tactics so what's happening at the south china sea is a trial run of the tactic. it means that it's without using military. basically it enables the country to expand its territories without having to fight a traditional war that's what they call the gray zone tactic when it expanded in the south china sea. so it is a very strategic body of water in southeast asia. it's a major trade route so 90% of the trade going into china goes through that and china and several countries including malaysia, philippines and vietnam share claims of this body of water. sometimes the claimant overlaps. so there are historical disputes over what area is yours versus mine. this is also the area with huge mineral a

in regards to security and control of the south china sea. in the south china sea, we know that beijing continuance to coerce to intimidate and to make claims to the vast majority of the south china sea and beijing actions continue to undermine the rules based order and threaten the sovereignty of nations. well this is she discuss with singapore leaders, holiday gift shopping and climate change, rather than focusing on the vis afghanistan, and the speech sitting and singapore. the stories that we are now hearing about. the caution that if you want to have christmas toich for your children, it might now be might that be the time to start buying them? because the delay may be many, many months. now, china is appealing to the us saying the us and our allies committed right violations in afghanistan should be punished. so it seems like, well, harris is going around trying to take a little jobs, a china, china went straight to the juggler and took it to the top governing body of the world. so i don't know if this is more odd than awkward, but guess

are coming under pressure from china. several southeast asian countries also claimants in the south china sea and the south china sea is where china is laying claim to large parts of now the u. s. has regularly conducted freedom of navigation operations and to this and misconduct harris, she talked about the u. s. commitment to having freedom of navigation in the south china sea. now this she's also going to on tuesday, lay out the future of you as tides in the region at a policy speech on tuesday. now this visit is important because it really, i think they want to bring home the point that this is an important region. and common le harris said, so in hey, in the news conference that this is already in the pacific is now an important region. and it's going to play an even more important role in the future. lawrence, thanks very much loans, louis this. joining us live with that update. tropical storm only is battering a stretch of the northeast and coast of the united states, just hours after being downgraded from a hurricane. millions of people are getting ready for flash floods, violent wind

. vietnam is a clayman country to the south china sea. but by far the biggest and most assertive claimant is china, which has laid claim to large parts of the south china sea and has built military installations as well as engaged in confrontations with fishing vessels in the area . harris in a speech delivered in singapore, on tuesday, a tuesday, china of collision and intimidation, and said its actions not only undermine the international rules based order, but also threatened the sovereignty of nations. but she went on to say that the us is not asking nations in se asia to pick sides. but rather the u. s. is here to stand with its allies and that it's engagement in the region is about advancing shared interest. those interests include trade and the economy and working together to combat the pandemic. and the us wants to broaden the scope of its engagement with countries in the region to strengthen ties with felton's asian countries to counter a rising. china. harris also has to convince southeast asian countries of us as commitment to t

and the chinese in gauging military naval conflict in the south china sea for that reason. moreover, the chinese strategy is very different. what they're trying to do is where the little tiny islands i talked to my dad about an hour ago, they build the little tiny air fields which are militarily, particularly useful. they're trying to do is turn this in, kind of a de facto chinese lake. little by little they'll still one the entire beach, one grain, a fan of the time. and they're trying to do it just incrementally, make chinese dominance in the area. a defacto fact of life and what these deployments are saying, why england, the germany largest member, the you and in the are saying are saying not so fast. we're not going to see that. we're going to continue to have these freedom navigation exercises because these are international waters. yeah, we'll see where it goes. john jordan, always great, have any on thanks for the inside. appreciate it could see if we continue to follow news near the pentagon where an officer was stabbed at metro bus station and later died at a local hospital.

well, this is indian germany or the last countries to send war ships right there to the south china sea. so for more discussion on this, we bring in political commentator and former us naval intelligence officer, john jordan. john, good to see you. i know, you know, this region very well. so i want to, i wanna talk about exactly what's happening here. you know, we'll, we'll, indian germany sending naval ships to the south trying to see what will that accomplish if anything, will this essentially intimidate china? is that, is that really the, you know, the move here is hugely significant. john. and there's really a couple of different parts to this. first of all, the british sent in their new aircraft carrier queen elizabeth with f. 35 jets on it. and now you have germany doing the same now can germany in england really project military force in that region? not really. what it does do is send a message to beijing, is it? future attempts, as my dad would call it, to turn south china sea into a lake are going to be tolerated. that's a hugely important trade route. the most important from

intentions as well. >> we've watched president xi make a commitment that he wouldn't go to the south china sea yet he's done so. >> what you see going on in the south china sea, harassment, intimidation, they want to call that piece of water theirs. they have no international right to it whatsoever. they have planted some artificial islands and now they claim that's part of china. maria: given the strategic value of this region, the militarization of the south china sea is not a move the trump administration has taken lightly. >> president trump laid down a strategy to expressly push back against that, what we call our indo pacific strategy. there's a commercial component, a diplomatic component to it, but there's also a military component to it, to make sure that we guarantee for america that these sea-lanes remain open. maria: the chinese communist government is also taking advantage of its influence in developing countries by using them to build military bases, and they are setting those military bases around ports across the world. >> the chinese just opened up a base, a military base at t

vice president has said beijing is using coercion over its territorial claims in the south china sea.peaking in singapore, kamala harris directly targeted china, saying its claims of the are unlawful. she said there should be no doubt on u.s. interest in asia. v.p. harris: our engagement in asia and the indo-pacific is not against anyone country, nor is it designed to make anyone choose between countries. instead, our engagement is about advancing an optimistic vision that we have for our participation and partnership in this region. vonnie: in singapore, the number of locally transmitted covid-19 cases jumped, after 59 any infections were linked to a dormitory for foreign workers in the north of the island. daily case numbers of 94 are the highest for more than two weeks. this comes as singapore looks to shift away from a so-called zero tolerance avenue. the u.s. is reportedly pressuring israel not to allow a group to win a tender to build two light rail lines in the tel aviv area. a business website, calculus, says the topic will likely come up thursday when the israeli prime minist

worried about china's growing influence, particularly its efforts to claim large parts of the south china sea. this is also where the u. s. navy has retained the been carrying out freedom of navigation operations, something that china views as a provocation. none us president joe biden is not the 1st to want closer ties with the region. us. president barack obama had his pivot to asia policy, which was essentially about rebalancing foreign policy away from the middle east towards asia down. so for the us, part of it will look like strengthening ties with countries in the region, particularly those with competing claims in the south china sea against china. because these countries, many of these countries are coming on to increasing pressure from china. so strengthening ties. so that the u. s. can be viewed as a counterweight to growing chinese influence. now come, la harris is expected to not only put out the layout, the future of us ties in the region, but also to talk about the need for an open and free indo pacific region. now, how is trying to viewing this while we know that china's offic

you south china seas and east china seas. i mean, just look at the job graphy chinese aggression in the south china sea is prevented by country what a, the 10s of thousands of miles away from that. right. how can this be, where is the water here? yeah, glen, go ahead of it because i mean the countries or at loggerheads, but at least even in demons. absolutely. right. to point out a lower level than probably should be it's not it wasn't appropriate. and i think that obviously the chinese that, that as a slight here, but there is a reckoning on both sides. that it either we continue the spiral down with unintended consequences or start facing after the fact that this is going to be a long log ahead. if we want to avoid them a serious conflict including a military. com, go ahead. yeah, no, i think there's a recognition that they need diplomacy, but again, what, what are the toner achieve and how much rooms for maneuver is there? because us has been there, opened that it will have the same format in purpose for diplomacy towards c

there's no reason to confront china in the south china sea . most of the stories, adverbs in zang, about the way goes ah, out, now propaganda, without evidence, without evidence. in fact, in certain, jang, there was a problem with the i think it the what the call the east turkestan. freedom movement which the us state department described as one of the most extreme terrorist organizations. so china has a terrorism problem in, in that province, whether, whether or not china is being able to handle secessionist problem. the same that the soviet union has had and many other countries of head. but there is no evidence whatsoever. but there is the kind of suffering that has worthy of the description genocide, that term genocide i should remind you, came from the lips of mike pompeo, who described himself as a liar and most of the so called evidence has come from a researcher now associated with the jamestown foundation in washington called adrian sans if you look at things is all his so called documentation, it's documentation used by amnesty and ma

and yet, in the south china sea, we know that beijing continues to course, to intimidate, and to make the vast majority of the south china sea. these unlawful claims have been rejected by the 2016 tribunal. beijing's actions continue to undermine the rules-based order, and threatened sovereignty of nations. the united states stands with afghanistan and our partners in the face of these threats. and i must be clear, our engagement in southeast asia and the indo-pacific is not against anyone country, nor is it designed to make anyone choose between countries. instead, our engagement is about advancing an optimistic vision that we have for our participation and partnership in this region. and our economic vision is a critical part of that. the economy of the united states is growing faster than it has in nearly 40 years. wages are up. employment is up. consumer demand is up. and we believe that our growth should not stop at the water's edge. that it can also, and it will also benefit our partners. our economy shares so much with southeast asia, from supply chains to a steady flow of two-

economic concerns like the global chip shortage as well as security cooperation especially the south china seang assertions of sovereignty there. take a listen to what vice president harris said earlier today. >> we need to find ways to pressure and raise the pressure frankly on beijing to abide by the united nations convention on the law of the sea. and to challenge its bullying and excessive maritime claims. >> reporter: china's ministry of foreign affairs countered those comments, we heard from a spokesperson saying that china firmly opposes the u.s. of deploying maritime law forces and disturbing regional peace and stability. and also on the agenda today in vietnam the coronavirus pandemic. just yesterday china soowooped donating vaccines to vietnam. and today vice president harris announced an additional gift of 1 million vaccines made by pfizer. the united states had already donated 5 million vaccines by moderna. heire harris also launched a centers for disease control office in vietnam. and the trip went ahead despite concerns about a mysterious illness. the trip was delayed three hours

vast majority of the south china sea. >> many here are asking what does china think of all of this, those words were meant to be heard in beijing and they were. in fact the foreign ministry there doing a press conference and we know that spokesperson saying that the current event in afghanistan clearly showing people what the rules and so-called order of the united states mean because talking about the rules based order is something that the vice president kamala harris did, there has been a chinese response, and obviously it was a strong position to take and it was meant to be that way. moving on, i can tell you that have not kamala harris was due to take off about 20 minutes ago in sinsingapore, but it has bee bit delayed. it has been raining all day and i wonder if the weather has played a part. >> manisha tank, many thanks. >>> and we're following a major development in the january 6 capitol attack. sources say that they will seek phone records of several people including members of congress. the committee is preparing notices to several telecom companies requesting that they sa

here and there are very strong words and she said that china's actions in the south china's actions in the south china seahey pose a threat to the region. she also talked about the livelihoods of millions of people who depend on the billions of dollars of trade that flows through the sea lanes every day so she was very vocal on this. basically pledging that washington will stand with its allies to maintain a free and open in the specifics of this is a big part of the speech would also she stressed that countries you don't have to choose between the world's two superpowers. this has been seen as something of a diplomatic charm offensive, this five day trip. trying to combat china's growing influence with the perception that the us relevancy has diminished. that seems to be a big part of it and so a lot of the speech earlier today was about the us�*s commitment to the region. what else can we expect from her tour? well, we are expecting her to meet with supply chain leaders so of course this issue of the supply chain and making sure that the us has its national security interests covered has been a major pa

and including as it relates to the south china sea. we need to find ways to pressure and raise the pressure frankly on beijing to abide by the united nations convention on the law of the sea. >> we have received a response from china to those comments by the u.s. vice president. the ministry of foreign affairs spokesperson saying china firmly opposes the u.s. of deploying maritime law enforcement forces, meddling in regional affairs and disturbing regional peace and stability. also on the agenda for kamala harris is the coronavirus pandemic. the united states announced that it will donate an additional 1 million doses, this time of the pfizer vaccine, to vietnam. also harris launched a regional office of the cdc or the centers for disease control, and this is the help that vietnam really needs right now. cases are rising, only 1.8% of the total population there has been inoculated. >> they need so many more and of course we have so many in the united states and a third of the population not wanting to take them. it is very frustrating s

busy rundown with a lot of topics to get to among in germany in india sitting worships to the south china sea. really up in the pressure on china and raising more contention over china's territorial claims. there germany deployed one of its frigates, the baron on monday to sail through the south trying to see the really the 1st time actually since 2002. in a statement, germany's navy said, quote, together with its allies, germany wants to show more presence in the endo pacific. clearly berlin is sending a message to beijing. the united states, the u. k. japan, australia have also expanded her naval presence and activity in the pacific. all sort of counter china and now india is also jumping in on the action, sending a task force, a for war ships to the south china sea, as part of a 2 month deployment. that will include exercises with the us, japan, and australia. india's task force of ships includes a guided missile destroyer guided missile frigate and an anti submarine. what's called corvette ships will also work and bilateral exercises with naval units, from singapore, vietnam, indonesia, a

i think one important thing is how much of our global economy flows the south china sea? >> right. >> so that's going to impact not just u.s. and the p.r.c., it will impact what's important that we got to pay attention to what's happening in the south china sea in particular. >> a question about afghanistan. are you concerned about the ongoing airstrikes in afghanistan and the possible civilian casualties? or other problems because there's not as many u.s. troops on the ground there and are the strikes less safe for less pre-- less safe or less precise, perhaps? >> one of the things that we always try to pay attention to this minimize any type of casual kissel van casualties that we execute. we take great care and that's what we're trying to do before we do any strikes. and i'm not necessarily concerned. i'm concerned by making sure we're paying attention to it, but i trust the professionals of our environment and how they operate. and if they have any doubts, then they question whether -- because we're responsible when we do this and we great -- take great pride to make s

in the south china sea, we know that beijing continuance to coerce to intimidate and to make claims to the vast majority of the south china sea. these unlawful claims have been rejected by the 2016 arbitron tribunal decision. and beijing actions continued to undermine the rules based order and threaten the sovereignty of nations. joining me now, this gas is billed moscow, her fan investigative journalist been fond now, then we know that president bite enjoying this emergency call between g 7 leaders on tuesday morning, which was actually coordinated by u. k. prime minister boris johnson. and it was johnson's comment about russia and china that were surprising. what to the up to a. yeah, they were somewhat surprising and i think somewhat realistic, which is essentially saying, look, the situation in afghanistan has deteriorated pretty quickly. it's been, i think shocking to most of the world to actually see again a thin fall in a matter of weeks to the taliban. a fighting force. we should remind folks only 75000 against an african trained army of 350000. that you get a couple days for t