instead we should move to a policy where we make clear if china attacks taiwan, we will come to taiwan's defense, as much as we pledge to do with japan and south korea. i know that your group as a whole was not able to reach a consensus. i wonder if each of you would be willing to say what your own view is on which course is wisest. let me ask mike to start. admiral mullen: i'm not sure. i think the fact we not come to consensus is instructive. my own position on that, and this comes out of visiting taiwan a year ago march, that ambiguity has worked well and there is no incredibly clear indication that we should change that policy at this particular point in time. i worry quite frankly that if we move to strategic clarity, we move closer to the possibility of war. that is just my personal view. i also think the decision or the policy discussion with respect to this is probably a little bit overhyped in terms of making a difference one way or another. one of the reasons i think this study is so important is there is a lot of information about this incredibly complex situation embedded in

ask frequently in taiwan. in fact, some people here in taiwan argue that the world comfortably is between the united states and china. and therefore, taiwan should thoughts the bullets from these 2 giants and we use stay neutral. but i think the real situation doesn't happen that way. the real situation is that high one has been pressing by china. and the united states is trying to provide support to taiwan. so these are the 2 constants and we are leading under these 2 constants in their port. a very important thing is what i want to continue to consolidate. it's the relations with the united states on the one hand and trying to prevent war from happening on the other hand. and in our relations with china, i can show you that the current government has been recognized international the for being responsible player. we want to maintain the peace and stability in this area by maintaining the state is cool, and it's all believe that the state is close to the best interest of all parties concerned. and i think thi

support to taiwan. so these are the 2 constants and we are leading under these 2 constants and therefore a very important thing is what i want to continue to consolidate is uh, a relations with the united states on the one hand. and trying to prevent war from happening on the other hand. and in our relations with china, i can show you that the current government has been recognized international, the well being responsible player. we want to maintain the peace instability in this area by maintaining the state is cool and it's all believe that the state is close to the best interest of all parties concerned. and i think this is also the position held by the united states, canada, u. k. and major european countries, and we will continue all of these path to prevent china from thinking that they can take, tie one over quickly and tie one will not serve as a provider. but at the same time, we will not budge to the chinese pressure. you've talked about asking your full support. um, you said in prob last week

ask frequently in taiwan. in fact, some people here in taiwan argue that the work comfortably is between the united states and china, and therefore taiwan should thoughts the bullets from these 2 giants. and we use stay neutral. but i think the real situation doesn't happen that way. the real situation is that high one has been pressing by china and the united states is trying to provide support to taiwan. so these are the 2 constants and we are leading under these 2 constants in their port. a very important thing is what i want to continue to consolidate. it's the relations with the united states on the one hand and trying to prevent war from happening on the other hand. and in our relations with china, i can assure you that the current government has been recognized international the for being responsible player. we want to maintain the peace and stability in this area by maintaining the state is cool. and it's all believe that the state is close to the best interest of all parties concerned. and i think thi

why isn't taiwan ready now? you have plenty of warning, but china is determined peacefully or forcibly to re unite to with the people's republic as they put it. why? why onto ready? now, if you look at a modern war, we don't just look at the side of the aggressor, their military capabilities and the equipment they f. if you only look at the other side, you might feel that the try not has a overwhelming power over tie. one in tiwana stands noches. but if you have a chance to look at ty, once defense capabilities, i don't think that the war can happening in that easy way for try not to take tie one over easily. we have but lots of events, missiles in our minute terry. ready are determined to defend ourselves, and i think the people also determined to preserve the freedom and sovereignty that we have in there for putting all these factors together. you won't be easy, we're trying to launch a war against tie one and pick, tie one over very quickly. and other than tie was preparedness, other major countries. they als

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the, the main island of taiwan at the narrowest point of the taiwan strait lies 130 kilometers from the chinese mainland. and 100 kilometers from you're not going to japan's western most inhabited island. for a long time, taiwan was at the mercy of china or of japan. after 1945, it became entangled in cold war conflict. when the portuguese arrived on the island in the 16th century, they were struck by the beauty of its nature. they named it for the most up beauty in portuguese. the the today, taiwan has a democratic government and maintains that it is an independent country. but it face is growing intimidation from china, which claims that taiwan is a province of the people's republic of china, the c t c h. jones. so this is the 14th and then boston judy of the be in class. we're trying to read the quote down down chance to get to it so, so you'll need to jump to the for job. so we owe teacher a tie one central. we need to function the change in these carefully chosen words from ty, one's 1st female president, citing one allude to the threat that china opposes to taiwan. the archipelago

and that never happened in taiwan. the legal history of, i don't know whether things would have gone this way elsewhere, which i think this is a go with. i don't, don't, does not. and the woman's in that whole woman. so say the, we now know that we can tell the government, you know, we're not doing it like that. oh, and you said this was this hold. well, just say the dicing, so such a new concept for young people to guide me is also you can phase on. so we also sunflower movement that showed us all power dollars as well that we the people that it so you have the real power means how does that sense? and the lia the, she's got a phone, you know, do my usual energy policies did not receive negotiations under my youtube and about putting on the obviously weren't taken out during signing when's presidency either had pointed use of this handful of students? because when you said they were just a few 1000 to start with, i feel pretty managed to overpower they were not only the time in these governments, but also china. it ca

how is china reacting to taiwan is military drills while seals, taiwan has begun, is a new exercise since monday on monday, though, we haven't seen and the official statements on page and yet, but on to china is mandatory has been showing as mandatory gestures before and tie one's annual exercise that just over the weekend before the true that at least 45 ton is airplanes and to tie one's ad defense identification. so and um, just 2 weeks before the time once exercise, um the china is mandatory, has stage a large scale access. i on his own just sending thousands of flight to as palmas, and act drones and warships to the, the ra surrounding taiwan and, and to conduct it's an exercise. and, and that kind of gesture is seen as kind of like a turing st. know to time want to try to do turn and then time of day time on from i'm not having this editor or to have a kind of like a gesture to flex his muscles. tensions between taiwan and china had been growing for years now. phoebe some say it's just a matter of time before those tensions boil over where things stand now as well. over the past few

so i think the thing to watch now is the 2024 taiwan presidential campaign taiwan will on the hold presidential elections in january of 2024. a lot of this is to influence the current campaign and to influence that election. a lot of this is designed in beijing to intimidate the chinese population to say, wow, we don't want to elect someone who is going to actually lead us to war. that is going to cause china to attack us. and so trying, even though it says it doesn't interfere, you know, in other countries um affairs and certainly doesn't see taiwan as a country. but it's certainly is trying to effect the election. and that's tie one's domestic political situation. what about china? what's going on in china? that is potentially giving g g paying the impetus to, to, to, to bluster a little bit or well, you know, that kind of be hard to say because a male in china is a government policies is quite opaque for goodness sakes, there, there it minister of foreign affairs has gone missing and now is being removed from any electronic evidence that he actually was a foreign minister that that's changed

what message is taiwan? trying to put forward the message is really clear as some experts in taiwan has told me, this is true is taken more seriously by the tanya as kaufman and it's kind of telling badging that taiwan is renting off at $0.02 and response on to a potential chinese invasion, but the experts also and i'm so sorry, size search act by such true shouldn't be seen by the world as an active publication because most of the exercises are focused on how to defend not how to initiate and attack. but as you mentioned, china is still, you know, sending word planes and worship around. so i want any happens really frequently nowadays. so it's such kind of materials to carry out by taiwan. like the goal is really to the curb aging. and from even considering carrying out a real invasion. and so how i was trying to make the price higher the so high that china as president sheeting pain when not, you know, want to pay the price was in the tie. one thing as land lessons from the one ukraine and that this will p

lee from uh she's in taiwan capital type pay. i asked her what message taiwan is sending with these drills? well, with the method just to really clear as some expert things one has told me this. yes, drills are taken more seriously by to finance government than ever before. and it's kind of totally stating that high one is renting office defense in response to, you know, the potential innovation from china. and the expert is also emphasized that it should be seen by the world as you know, like an act of she said it's not an act of publication because most of the exercises are focused on how to defend, not how to initiate in attack. so, but you know, like raging is still like sending worship and, and we're, we're playing around the high wind like we are like, yesterday they were more than 10 of them being detected and one day earlier they were over 20 of them. so it's like no try not to military ocean that happen very frequently nowadays. so taiwan is the ultimate goal of carry out such curios is really to be charged the aging of

a beach in northern taiwan is under attack.na have landed and are attempting to secure a beachhead. but taiwan's own troops are fighting back hard with infantry, armour and even attack helicopters. the invaders are being driven back. this, of course, is not a real battle. one day it could be and taiwan wants to show china and the rest of the world that it is ready. they have long been questions about whether taiwan takes the military threat from china as seriously as it should and whether it has the will and indeed the ability to fight if china ever sent its troops to land on these beaches behind me here. and since russia's invasion of ukraine last year. those questions have just become a lot more urgent. the invasion of ukraine has prompted the largest military and civilian exercises here in taiwan in at least a quarter of a century. there is a palpable sense from people here that the threat from china is real. and time to prepare is getting short. relations with china are really tense. actually, they are really frightening. s

i think it's everywhere in taiwan. so when we talking about education i, i think it's very hard because this is a long term and very deep culture thing in our society don't be the trouble maker. so i think it's also good. our process, i'm pulling that out. don't worry about being a trouble maker because you are not and this is a very important statement for me personally. so that's um, so evidence, lack of the, like concrete evidence sometimes is, is the clue show a reason that the victims and provide the a mix up most of us how to use a can for that legal support. yes, i want to play you something. i'm not, is a reaction to the reactions that these me to moment have been has been, have a, this is when t songs perspective, i want you just like briefly to comment on it to see if you're in agreement. let's have a look. when they come out on social media, they can over well mentally supportive comments given on traditional mainstream media. the also get a lot of air time and a lot of reporting. and i think they have been

so it has a, been a very, very important lessons for taiwan. and it is also a test signal to be changed that taiwan is getting a separate passport. such contingency china has been increasing its military might for a long time. now tie, one more recently has been broken up. it's drug defenses for example, but it is still amino, isn't that when it comes to comparisons with paging, spell of the china has been expending is ministry actions and gestures and exercise. and such action has been, has become more frequent and specific over the past 2 years that we know for years that has been nearly a 1000 missile is pointed at taiwan from tiny soil. and recently, a foreign research found that on china is upgrading some of his shots range miss out on is south eastern coast, just opposite to taiwan. what, what was the medium range, a hypotonic missiles which could potentially target tie one more effectively and even the fade us be able to defend system. so that can be worrying for the time when he so thorough t's. and also china is really stepping up, is

she comes from taiwan's main island.and now loves her life on the matsu islands. the archipelago is located just off the chinese mainland, but is held by taiwan -- a remnant of the chinese civil war. when general chiang kai-shek's defeated troops retreated from china to taiwan in 1949, they retained control of these islands, as a first line of defense. the islanders tell us that chen chia-yin is now one of them. she's even taken over leadership of the community center. she takes us to a meeting she's organized there for people with dementia, and tells us more about what makes her adopted home special. >> many people in the matsu islands don't just own property in taiwan, but also on the chinese mainland. we can communicate easily in the same language. many have relatives on the mainland. when i came here, i understood that matsu belongs to taiwan, but ties to the chinese mainland are much closer. >> that's why they're glad that ferry service has resumed -- twice a day, the journey takes just 25 minutes. for three years d

taiwan is the communist party's most immediate target. if china invades, it will trigger the war that none of us want. we cannot let that happen. we and our allies should give taiwan everything it needs to defend itself. we should make sure the american naval presence in the taiwan straight remains strong. and we should let china know that an invasion of taiwan would not just he met with a few sanctions. it would mean a full-blown economic decoupling and would massively damage china. we should stand with taiwan without apology, because our security is intertwined. the actions i have laid out today were needed yesterday. they should be implemented tomorrow. sadly, president biden has shown he is not up to the task. a new president is needed, one who will do what is necessary to defend america. but there is one thing that needs to happen before the next election. in fact, it must happen now. the united states must help ukraine defeat the russian invasion. a russian defeat would be an enormous loss for china and a true victory for peace. the

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the united states has announced $345000000.00 in military aid for taiwan. is the 1st major package from the biden administration, drawing on stock piles of its own weapons for taiwan. the u. s. will send the air defense systems, firearms, and miss ives. package also includes training for the tie when these military type pay says the us aid will be unimportant steps and its defenses against china. beijing has criticize the deal china seas. taiwan is a break away province, which is part of its territory. josie marie, pest june, runs the project. taiwan is a pioneer at the university of tier in germany. i asked or whether the us is beating up a to taiwan in the hope of averting another ukraine scenario. well, somehow probably in the long run, the probably not in the direct line. you're just screaming here, the commitment to time and goes beyond that ukraine scenario. however, it's a clear symbol from the us to us alliances in the region, especially to taiwan and especially to japan. they are joining forces in defending time on him. and how do you think the mov

s. military aid package for taiwan. type pay says it's an important boost and defending itself against china. beijing criticizes the development. the next buys are welcome to the program. ukraine's president has visited front line positions as keith steps up. it's counter offensive against the russian invasion. below him is the lensky congratulated his troops on that special operations forces . day near the city of boston, moved the price of their work as a very powerful and effective. keith also says a key front line village in the eastern doing yes region has been liberated. officials admit, however, the counter offensive has been held up by extensive russian defences of bundling out the back of a nomic vehicle into the firing line. ukraine's military release as opposed to huge of troops attacking russian positions near the occupied eastern city of back. moot key says is false as a make the advances despite heavy resistance on somebody else. but it's further to the west that ukraine has their policy to break through.

the drills test taiwan's defences in case of an attack from china.year's tests were set to simulate a response to an attack on its main airport and a china—led blockade. one such drill is ongoing, despite the expected typhoon. i spoke with bbc�*s rupert wingfield—hayes who has been given exclusive access to one of these exercises. tell us more how the jewels are simulating and how extensive they. —— the drills. yeah, you can see from where i'm standing on this rooftop overlooking taiwan's international airport that the typhoon is doing a lot of interference with the military exercises here, the winds are getting very strong. we have just seen in the last half—hour a mock attack on the airport behind me here using attack helicopters and assault helicopters landing troops here on the runway behind me, simulating an attack by china across the taiwan strait and landing here trying to seize the international airport. in the last few minutes you can see the troops moving around on the ground, taiwanese troops repelling that simulated attack. a gun battle h

taiwan got it right. and yet the w.h.o. excludes taiwan. the w.h.o. should be ashamed of themselves, should let taiwan in. taiwan is also excluded from interpol. why wouldn't you want taiwan to help fighting crime around the world? you absolutely would. this bill would require the state department to report to congress every year any efforts by the p.r.c. government to undermine taiwan's organizations and report on any p.r.c. government effort to undermine taiwan's relationship wore countries. this will be critical for holding perform r.c. accountable for their contributions to the international community. thank you and i yield back to representative connolly. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from rirnlg is recognized. mr. connolly: we reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. mr. barr: i reserve the right to close. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserved. the gentleman from virginia -- from kentucky reserves. the gentleman from virginia is recognized. mr. connolly: i thank the speaker. again i want to

taiwan's independence war is also incompatible with peace in the taiwan strait, like fire with water, words or actions advocating strengthening us-taiwanese military contacts and sales. already taiwan will only lead to an escalation of tension in the taiwan strait and an increase in the risk of conflict , provoking beijing to respond, the states are looking for new ones. in the anti-ocean region , anthony blinkin personally flew in to open the us embassy in the kingdom of tonga, with a population of just over 100,000 people, but one of the main american bridgeheads should be australia, with which the states are now in their second week of holding the largest joint exercise in history. whom these maneuvers are directed against, no one has hidden. we are witnessing the growth of chinese influence in the region. from our point of view, china's behavior is becoming more and more problematic. this is especially true of the illegal militarization of the south china sea, with the states themselves already in the coming years. with canberu nuclear submarines, and now they also promise to help

taiwan is also incompatible with peace in the taiwan strait, like fire and water, any words or actionsing strengthening american taiwan military contacts and selling weapons to taiwan will only lead to an escalation of tension in the taiwan strait and increase the risk of conflict provoking beijing to retaliate states are looking for new anti-chinese allies in indonesia pacific region. so to open the us embassy in the kingdom of tonga , which has a population of just over 100,000 people, i flew personally. anthony blinkin, but one of the main american footholds should be australia, with which the states have been conducting the largest joint exercises in history for the second week. against whom no one concealed the maneuvers directed by this we are witnessing the growth of chinese influence in the region from our point of view, the behavior of china is becoming more and more problematic. this is especially true of the illegal militarization of the south at the same time, the statue will be supplied with nuclear submarines to the canbera in the coming years, and now they also promise t

we will have a full report on taiwan - have a full report on taiwan shortly, but also there habits ofvisit, assuming that is also with training in mind. it visit, assuming that is also with training in mind.- with training in mind. it is, it's a rather— with training in mind. it is, it's a rather large - with training in mind. it is, it's a rather large exercise | with training in mind. it is, i it's a rather large exercise in australia. and it is designed to make sure that logistics worked properly in the event of conflict. this is certainly another lesson from world war ii and that is that although australia is a long distance from china, it was also long distance from japan and australia's pearl harbour, so to speak, was on february, 1942 when the japanese bombed jar wind, the far northern city in australia, in order to prevent support from there. against japan's overall offensive. in the south pacific. i japan's overall offensive. in the south pacific.— the south pacific. i was you about new _ the south pacific. i was you about new zealand - the south pacific. i was you| about new

taiwan. and that actually is highly provocative to the chinese government in beijing. the chinese public. and, you know, by showing these acts of love toward taiwan may actually provoke exactly the kind of military attack. we really want to avoid. we have time for just one last question. so i'm going to ask it if it's okay and it's no, i i would love it to be from your book, but i'd your book is background it. i have to emphasize you must go out and buy because if you want to understand more about what we've been talking about susan really lays it out thorough research and understanding of history very quickly talking about politics in the united states is the republic to sweep the house and the senate. do you think there's a danger there will be more provocative statements about taiwan calling for taiwan's independence? if there is, what will that do? yeah, i mean, the problem ability of a mainland attack on taiwan go way up if there is a declaration of independence or any kind of position f

oura huge wake—up call to taiwan.e. a beach in northern taiwan is under attack. invading forces from china have landed and are attempting to secure a beachhead. but taiwan's own troops are fighting back hard with infantry, armour and even attack helicopters. the invaders are being driven back. this, of course, is not a real battle. one day it could be and taiwan wants to show china and the rest of the world that it is ready. they have long been questions about whether taiwan takes the military threat from china as seriously as it should and whether it has the will and indeed the ability to fight if china ever sent its troops to land on these beaches behind me here. and since russia's invasion of ukraine last year. those questions have just become a lot more urgent. the invasion of ukraine has prompted the largest military and civilian exercises here in taiwan in at least a quarter of a century. there is a palpable sense from people here that the threat from china is real. and time to prepare is getting short. translat

also taiwan practices. it's response to an innovation from china. soldiers simulate an attack on the islands main airport. shutting down commercial traffic using lessons learned from the war in ukraine. at least one person is dead and several others injured. afraid cargo ship catches fire off the coast of the level of the among across the welcome to the program. wildfires have left the trail of discouraged earth across the mediterranean creation of portugal. turkey and spain's canary islands have all suffered. the worst of desktop however is in al jerry were fires have claimed at least 34 lives. dozens of fires are also burning across southern italy, including the island of sicily, were temperatures have sword to above $47.00 degrees celsius. new fires have broken out on mainland greece, adding to those already earnings for days on several islands on roads. thousands of people have been evacuated and forests, and major reserves destroy. earlier i asked chris us are f us a pioneering greek climate scientist

because china has ambitions in, in taiwan and were taiwan, which is generally seen as a western ally, we're trying to convey but it would, we would have a kind of a similar situation that we have is russia. whereas they have to pull out the russian company that started the german companies out of russia. and if the same pressure suddenly happens in, in overtime want, that would be a major problem for, for german companies. how binding is this strategy going to be? that was so complex. i think, i think it will have, it will have authority in that it's going to have things like stress tests. people are going to have to assess risk. the government has said that it won't be allowed companies if, for example, taiwan is in beta, is it under the barriers in russia? you had germany bailing eyes, it's companies there. and they said, in this case, they're not that companies have to do. they have to do risk assessment and that they hope not to be put into a position where they have to be able to match. that, of course, doesn't necessarily will baylash. but yes, it's certainly in terms of and you

this almost full cost to move on to taiwan and china. and later this week, one person has been killed and several others injured in a fight over in a condo ship off the coast of the netherlands. but that's called scott says an electric car is the suspected source of the blaze. the vessel traveling from the border play the hoffman in germany to egypt was north of the dutch waste facing islands. when the fire broke out, the body is 5 minutes. that one said has announced he plans to step down and had pallets to his eldest son after almost 4 decades of authoritarian rule. on sunday, his communist party won a landslide victory in an election seen by wasting observers as raked russian defense minister. so gay show who is in north korea to mock the 70 s anniversary of the office. this that put fighting on hold. in the greenville troy laid rates in killed gang at monuments commemorating the war and to north korea's lead has come young is hosting both russian and chinese delegations for the anniversary of the use of pandemic isolation. russia as

taiwan's annual military drills have begun.his year, simulating a response to a possible attack from neighboring china. the weeklong exercises are taking place amid rising tensions in the region. beijing has held its own military drills around taiwan and its warplanes have made frequent incursions into taiwanese airspace. reporter: not far outside the taiwanese capital, blackhawk helicopters approach the international airport. antiaircraft missile launchers spring into action. the choppers find a place to land, and enemy troops leap out. they seize and take control of air traffic control facilities, but they are quickly defeated by taiwanese infantry. a soldier hoists the island's flag in victory, and the battle is over. halfway across the street on these are treated clear located pingel islands, the location of a major airbase, troops and tanks roll through and soldiers fire on offshore targets. in taipei, sirens blare across the city and civilians had for cover in the subway, as the traffic outside comes to a standstill. thes