you've got taiwan, the south china sea, where china is trying to develop its sphere of influence.united states and its allies, they are concerned, and remember that there are members of the trump administration who believe that china poses the greatest threat to the world. >> john: anna coren in beijing for us. thanks, anna. >> maurice: now more of the top stories from around the world in tonight's "evening news" roundup. u.s. prosecutors call it hacking for hire. they have charged 12 people in china with that crime today. some worked for a private hacking company that allegedly got paid by the chinese government. they are accused of targeting u.s. government offices including the defense intelligence agency. >> john: cbs news has learned the trump administration has stopped sharing intelligence that could help ukraine target russian forces. defensive intelligence is still being shared. this follows the cut off of new military aid as the administration pressures ukraine to end the war with russia. >> maurice: and the alleged mastermind of a deadly terror attack on the u.s. militar

only just reason fi us bomber aircraft joint philippine fighter jets to patrol disputed south china sea sho. in the 1st such display, since donald trump made it back into the oval office. the mission involve is practicing how to intercept hostile aircraft. the exercises focused on encompassing operational coordination, improving add domain awareness and reinforcing agile combat employment capabilities between the 2 air forces. and only a few days ago, a parade in thailand. mark the kick off of cobra gold 2025. it's been dumped. the largest exercise in mainland asia and the longest running international military exercise in the world. a whole host of us regional allies from japan to singapore are taking part. we share a goal with this region to prevent war by remaining ready together. and that is on top of all kinds of bilateral fi, lateral multi lateral drills. the pentagon regularly holds in the asia pacific. so what is it preventing that war? like general clark put it, or fueling pension? perhaps that's a good question for beijing, which has understandably, also been flexing. it's bil

only just recently us bomber aircraft joint philippine fighter jets to patrol a dispute in south china sea show in the 1st such display. since donald trump made it back into the oval office. the mission involved practicing how to intercept hostile aircraft. the exercises focused on enhancing operational coordination, improving add domain awareness and reinforcing agile combat employment capabilities between the 2 air forces. and only a few days ago, a parade in thailand. mark the kick off of cobra gold 2025. it's been dumped. the largest exercise in mainland asia and the longest running international military exercise in the world. a whole host of us regional allies from japan to singapore are taking part. we share a goal in this region to prevent war by remaining ready together. and that is on top of all kinds of bilateral fi, lateral multi lateral drills. the pentagon regularly holds in the asia pacific. so what is it preventing war like general clark put it or fueling pension. perhaps that's a good question for beijing, which has understand to be also been flexing. it's billed tree musc

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it will be a green light for president xi to go after taiwan in, in in asia, in the south china sea.and i think again, at the end of the day, this is going to make america weaker. >> i asked the commerce secretary, howard lutnick, about this, about what the administration is doing here in regards to russia. he talked about how basically it's trying to bring putin to the table. this is what he said. i want to get your reaction. >> we've given $300 billion to ukraine. is it difficult to see what side we're on? give me a break. i mean, this concept of people getting confused is absurd. the president is on ukraine's side, and he said it. he said, i'll give them more military aid. he said it, but he said he'll do it if he can get to peace. and he needs peace, and he needs president zelenskyy to say, i want peace. and he wants putin to say i want peace. and then the president will bring them together and you'll see the greatest peacemaker, because he knows you got to hit both sides in order to get to the middle. >> a couple of things to note. after that interview, the president decided to

why would you give, in effect, a green light for xi to expand china's interest in the south china seay to our allies of 70 years? oh, don't worry, we got you back. and again, go back to this intelligence. this is a sharing process. are people going to really share intelligence with us, our allies, if they think we're going to cut them off? or frankly, if sometimes that intelligence is not kept secret? >> let me ask you about immigration. donald trump last night said that in order to fix the immigration issue at the border, the crisis, as he calls it, all you needed was a new president. you didn't need legislation. no legislation is necessary. you just needed a new president. that got a lot of big cheers from republicans. you were saying on fox news, i believe it was yesterday that donald trump has done a good job at the border. so do you agree with that assessment that donald trump is the only thing that's needed to change the circumstances at the border? >> i think it is good that we're at a 25 year low in terms of border crossing. my words yesterday, yeah, they were not great. let m

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optimistic with china cutting under sea cables and they have a gray zone short of military action close to it all around taiwan. i don't think china is showing down on it's exertion into the south. i fully expect beijing to step up efforts especially after last friday's debacle in outreach to europe and there is not as much play space in europe as there was five or six years ago there is a lot especially since we see the trans atlanta relationship splinter. i would like to see things better but they could be worse. we'll see more coming from the national people's congress on the 5th. so let me stop there. >> how do you see the new trump administration different from the biden administration and different from the previous trump administration and how china is reacting. >> with the biden administration had a pretty straight forward policy managed competition. it viewed the u.s. competition from values to military security. and it said, you know china is our most consequential strategic challenge. i don't think we yet have as clear a statement from the trump administration about how the administration as a collective whole views china. i think there are many different opinions wi