threats taiwan's airspace. taiwanese fighter jets being scrambled behind me here are heading out into the taiwan strait to confront chinese aircraft that are coming across the strait and probing taiwan's airspace. this is now happening multiple times every day. these pictures are from chinese television, showing their fighter jets, and that down below is the coast of taiwan. just over the horizon, there is another game of cat and mouse. this man puts up a long antenna to eavesdrop on the radio traffic coming from china's navy. radio chatter that's the chinese navy talking to the taiwanese navy, saying, "your territorial waters, that you claim, do not exist," that the people's republic of china is the only legitimate government of china and taiwan is an inseparable part of china. "they tell us the taiwan strait is peaceful," he says. "then why are there chinese ships and harassing us all the time? "how is that peaceful?" back in taipei, the former head of taiwan's armed forces says china's tactics are designed t

has always been inhabited by the chinese ; throughout history, taiwan has returned, oddly enough, itrent powers, there was a little bit of the portuguese, a little bit of the netherlands, a little bit of japan and so on, but it always returned to the greater a single chinese family, and there is no doubt that this will happen again, the only question is when, and there are several layers to the statement of a possible biden, this is something... for some reason suddenly these three sources, which seem to be quoted by reuters, suddenly began to leak something, that is, something went wrong again in the sino-american negotiations, that they are trying to send some kind of black mark to xidin. secondly, i think that after all , sidinpin could say that he really , as a responsible leader, firstly of his party, his state, the army, of course, he could say that we are going to return, this is our policy, the terms are not defined, not twenty-fifth, not twenty-seventh year, but this can be interpreted. relations and the fact that today there was a telephone conversation between brown, the n

in order to convince the population of taiwan, taiwan, at the expense of propaganda, for the account of the corresponding intervention, that is, in these technological elections, so that the citizens of taiwan speak for the corresponding, that is, the party, the corresponding candidate, who has, say. yes, about chinese views, of course, we mean one simple thing, that is, one simple truth, taiwan is china, taiwan was in china, it was from the 12th century, so it was a part of hujiang province. and ah, the formosa that you mentioned, it is the portuguese, when they were there somewhere in 1600, some year there , they passed there, they called it beautiful, means the beautiful name of formosa, and this island, there were others there, there were also the austin company of ho-dutchmen, and there was a lot of things that made everyone else think that taiwan is something that does not belong to china, but i let me remind you that both mauttung and chiang kai-shek, when chiang kai-shek took away his kuomintang government and they went to taiwan, they both considered taiwan an integral part

from taiwan, rupert wingfield—hayes reports.vity. on the mirage, 2000 fighter jets from taiwan's rapid reaction squadrons. theirjob — to meet any incoming threat to taiwan's airspace. these taiwanese fighter jets being scrambled behind me here are heading out into the taiwan strait to confront chinese aircraft that are coming across the strait and probing taiwan's airspace. this is now happening multiple times every day. these pictures are from chinese television showing their fighter jets, and that down below is the coast of taiwan. just over the horizon, there is another game of cat and mouse. this man puts up a long antenna to eavesdrop on the radio traffic coming from china's navy. radio chatter that's the chinese navy talking to the taiwanese navy saying, "your territorial waters that you claim do not exist," that the people's republic of china is the only legitimate government of china, and that taiwan is an inseparable part of china. "they tell us that the taiwan strait is peaceful," he says. "then why are there chinese s

the tensions ratcheting up in the straits of taiwan cellphone, taiwan series, suspected military surveillance balloon across the highly sensitive medium line, dividing it from mainland china. so when his ministry official said the balloon passed southwest of the 4th city of ki long before disappearing. but it also being a large scale, the movement of military aircraft and ships type a is on high lots of chinese efforts to interfere in its presidential election on the 13th of january next year. in recent years, china has wrapped up in industry and political pressure on taiwan, which claims as it started tree. and earlier i spoke to the the eastern shore correspondent james church and i, austin. what more he could tell us about this balloon spotted over the taiwan strait as well as far as we know so far there. so a fair number of questions about the the specify the specifics of this pollutant when when is this information was fast distribution by the defense ministry? um it was, it was described as a surveillance balloon. later in the day here in taipei, we heard from the defense minister who t

. >> that takes us to be taiwan question. you staked out an interesting position on taiwan. the traditional american position has been strategic ambiguity. we don't say it will or we won't , the argument for that being if you say you are against taiwan, you encourage the taiwanese to take reckless actions and if you say you will not defend them, the chinese will take reckless actions. you have said ambiguity is not the sweet spot anymore. you have to say explicitly we will defend taiwan. why and why not is that dangerous? >> it is not dangerous because it is a unilateral determination on our part. it is not diplomacy going back to nixon and kissinger. it does not change anything about what you might call final status. our view is simply it is up to china and taiwan to work it out. we just don't want it to be coercive. we don't want either side to do unilateral things. i think this discourages the use of force and let's china no that we will do what we tell taiwan. this is not licensed. every one of our allies in the region assumes we will be there for taiwan. if we are not,

taiwan. what became known about the secret conversation between china and the united states. if they invade taiwan. we'll blow up their chip factory. complete reset. sponsorship of the kiev regime is coming to an end. why did beijing put an end to the congress dispute? what's your plan? without a budget, the ending is obvious. and according to the laws of the pack. the irreconcilable yulia tymoshenko has a new lease of life. and poroshenko and yatsenyuk smelled zelensky’s blood. what's next? i ask the president to offer the country a plan b. victory watch right now, hello, this is the meeting place on ntv, the place where everything becomes clear, i am andrey norkin, my colleague ivan trushkin, we are working live, well , there are, one might say, a few days left before the end of the current year, we are usually in this is the time we begin to somehow sum up the results of the outgoing year, talk about forecasts for the next one, well... i must say that, of course, we have now been hit with

taiwan has an election any month. would not be surprised if we see more muscular stuff by chinese aircraft or naval vessels basically telling taiwan because you've got a new sheriff, we are still the bigger sheriff. there will be a little bit of that going on. >> so you think xi will play out his pressure on taiwan in indirect fashion for the foreseeable future. >> yes. the one thing -- if we could change it -- it would be a dramatic shift in the u.s.'s ability or willingness to come to taiwan's aid. the most significant election is ours in november. a lot of countries are looking at, what does that mean for u.s. willingness to stand by its allies and partners? every one of them is asking that question. if you are vladimir putin, you want to see what happens here, there's no chance of anything negotiated over the last year in ukraine, i think china wants to see what happens here in november and they can recalibrate what they do or don't do vis-a-vis taiwan. >> you are a registered republican for a decades. i don't kno

we've got to deter china from going after taiwan.ought to do that by defeating putin strategic objectives in his invasion of ukraine, and we need to do that by shoring up taiwan's ability to defend itself and our posture to be able to defend taiwan, if necessary, militarily by her own presence in the region. so that's the deterrence message. i think though we spend too much time focusing exclusively on the big threat, the sort of cross straits insidious invasion. and i think we underestimate the extent to which xi has enormous number of tools to put extra pressure on taiwan, , cyber attacks, interference between taiwan and the mala, going after taiwanese business in china, the kind of things that xi did after nancy pelosi's visit to taiwan, closing off the airspace and the sea space for greater time to do exercises, thereby disrupting taiwan's ability to trade, raising questions about the reliability of its supply chains, increasing interest rates all the rest. there's a married of tools that xi has at his disposal to put pressure on

well, you know, the situation with taiwan is specific, because on the one hand, taiwan is the largesth chips for the united states. xie is now the largest factory located in taiwan, it is a taiwanese factory. accordingly, there is nothing to replace taiwan in this regard and any conflict around taiwan, especially if it goes into some kind of hot phase, if this is hypothetically imagined, although i subjectively view this with a significant degree of skepticism, it will lead to the collapse of the semiconductor industry, and accordingly, in general, will cause a very serious crisis for the world economy , since if we lose semiconductors, we, i mean everyone , will have to reproduce the technological base of the sixties, seventies, which developed before the advent of microelectronics; accordingly, we will be faced with extremely serious problem, comparable to a major global conflict, in this sense , in the same way, i think the united states understands this very well and is acting very carefully, the situation in taiwan will probably be more like some kind of strategic step-by-step co

attempted invasion of taiwan. so we need to fix that problem something we've done a lot of thinking about how the chinese look at the taiwan what's your assessment of how are looking at us deterrence and capability these and to mike's point credibility now right i i think they they are believe that american armed forces may not you know make an immediate response if there is a uh attack took place. so probably for the first 48 hours, i'm arguing we'll wait and see. see what's the situation over there. so that's very critical for the landing force to make a determined moves and, uh played important role so that as the the chinese calculation. but again at that point at this point uh. attack of taiwan is not the first choice because the like, you know mike mentioned here the risk caused and the possible war with america. that's what the chinese leader to be worried about because the award decision in china is for that not for the national interest or security, but for the party control anything. you know we can all

trees of taiwan and china. it was flying as an altitude of 21000 feet. and the defense ministry says an arrow through it was the taxes. it quote disappeared somewhere where we're not quite sure exactly what, that's really all the detail that we have so far reports as have been pressing as high ones defense ministry throughout the day on this. i've been in touch with the defense industry myself to also some clarification on the details of this. and they say that no brings the issue any more information about this. we also have other kind of clarification about where this disability might have disappeared, but there was no further information about this sort of business, of course, bringing back memories of um the electronic bible and it was shut down of the united states. so it is here that timeline is also set to hold the general election in january. james, is this incident on the ministry jets crossing the media in line connected to the upcoming fold as well? i think it's fair to say this is all positive about

translation: they tell us the taiwan strait is - tell us the taiwan strait is peaceful, he says.assing us over time? how is that peaceful? backin time? how is that peaceful? back in taipei, the former head of taiwan �*s armed forces is china's tactics are designed to intimidate the alan permane voters and send a warning to its allies. i think china is sending a very strong signal to the united states, evenjapan, this is our area, our territorial area so i can do whatever i want. but they also in the meantime can use this kind of aggression to make taiwanese people scared and make taiwanese people capitulate. i5 make taiwanese people capitulate-_ make taiwanese people capitulate. is polling day approaches. _ capitulate. is polling day approaches, there - capitulate. is polling day approaches, there is - capitulate. is polling dayl approaches, there is little sign the intimidation is working. at this rally supporters of the front runner to untie taiwan �*s presidency said they would rather fight than capitulate to beijing. i’m than capitulate to bei'ing. i'm very wary * than capitu

we have pledged to protect taiwan in case of military action by the mainland.e possible the pro—independence movie or party will prevail, not the kmt which very much supports reunification but the pro independent group, democratic group that's prevailed over the last many years and nothing has happened so it's important and i think all sides know as long as the rhetoric does not inaudible there are no overt actions for independence then the mainland is content to let things progress and hope that there will be eventually reunification but that's something that the people of taiwan and the mainland need to decide without influence and interference by outside forces but again the united states is ready to protect taiwan in the inaudible military action by the mainland but again, nobody wants it. , ., ., , �* wants it. growth in china isn't what it once _ wants it. growth in china isn't what it once was. _ wants it. growth in china isn't what it once was. we - wants it. growth in china isn't what it once was. we know i wants it. growth in china isn't i what it onc

fulfill taiwan's defense needs? would add to that, is there anyway to characterize how much more difficult if at all that is given the continuing demands by ukraine and out of israel? adm. grady: taiwan is one of the biggest recipients of foreign military sales. 45 billion for the last 20 years. 35 billion of which has been provided. the question it is a good one because without a budget, you come to the end. what we are trying to do with taiwan is establish their own capability to defend whether it is leveraging a whole of nation perspective, how they think about mobilization and help think about asymmetric warfare. how they think about their own indigenous industry. the supplemental is really important. that is our effort to try to get past that. you asked can we do that. there is a similar challenge in ukraine. we have about 4.5 billion left until the end of this year. i will end on that point by saying the secretary has been very clear and i believe the alliance -- it is an ironclad commitment to ukraine. courtn

china -- taiwan has an election in a month. i would not be surprised if we see more muscular stuff basically telling taiwan just because you have a new sheriff, we are still the bigger sheriff, and i think there will be a little bit of that going on. >> you think xi will play out his pressure on taiwan in the near future? >> yes. we could change it, but to change it would be a dramatic shift in ability or willingness to come to taiwan. by the way, every one of our allies and partners is asking that question, as well as if you are vladimir putin, you want to see what happens here. i think china wants to see what happens here in november and -- what's it called? unaffiliated. whatever it is. no party affiliation. i hate it. i did not leave the republican party, the republican party left me. >> what happens to our alliances in a second trump term? >> that is their biggest question. any question who is dependent on us, they could try to maintain it. they might say donald trump if he were to win, how much more do we have to pay? you

and the taiwan relations act in we will continue to do what we need to do to ensure that taiwan has what it needs to defend itself. that will continue through the election, before the election and beyond. >> are you confident at this point, right now there so muchh focus on helping to train up ukraine and equip ukraine and there's increasing focus on getting anything that israel needs for the war there. are you confident that with that high optempo the u.s. can still send taiwan what they need in a timely enough manner a central invasion of china? >> i am. it's another pin diagram problem. you look at what's required to support ukraine and what would be required to support our in israel and taiwan the top of that. not necessarily the same things and we are able to work her way through that.we we have the construct that we do his combatant commanders that should allow us to command and control those three things all at one time. some part of our campaigning process which is central to the national defense strategy. it's challenging sure but the secretary said you how to build a walk

has always been dominated by the chinese, throughout history taiwan was returning, oddly enough, itetherlands, it will happen again, the only question is when, and here regarding the statement of a possible sidenpin biden, there are several layers, the first is that why- then suddenly these three sources , which seem to be quoted by reuters, suddenly began to leak something, that is , something went wrong again in the chinese-american negotiations, that they are trying to send some kind of black mark to sidinpin, second, i i think that after all sidinpin could say that he really... as a responsible leader, this is not the year twenty-seven, but this can be interpreted in two ways, firstly, that it could be much later than the twenty-seventh year, or maybe much earlier, then there is when such a need arises, yes, when that day comes, then the entire army of the people will be ready to return this territory, but in fact here, of course, it is obvious that china is capable of this, there are many factors here, there is a lot to discuss for a long time, but really really some chinese...

and exercises to strengthen its preparedness against taiwan.n island democracy china's communist rulers claim as their own territory, despite never controlling it. even unveiling a blueprint plan for one day integrating taiwan, all on the verge of what could be its most crucial presidential election ever. three political parties battling for the hearts, minds, and votes of nearly 24 million taiwanese. last month a nail-biting political showdown playing out live on screens across taiwan. rival leaders storming out, flinging accusations, the clock ticking toward a crucial registration deadline. two opposition parties seen as friendly to china failing to find common ground, paving the way for a three-way race. the ruling party seen as tough on china, taking the lead in early presidential polls. >> china policy will always be the single most important issue in taiwan's presidential elections. >> reporter: taiwan's ruling party promotes peace through military strength, prioritizing partnership with the u.s. over economic opportunities across the str

china can enjoy democracy and freedom just like us. >> the taiwan strait must be stable and taiwan mustfe. this is my top priority. >> a real important principle is we have to think of a way to have dialogue with china and not just always tell them no because after no, there is no other step. >> the world is watching as taiwanese voters choose their new president, and their decision could determine the balance of power and prospects for peace and stability in this region in the years to come. >> elections in taiwan tend to be inflection points for the cross-straight relationship. they have seen over the history of taiwan's presidential elections heightened periods of tension leading up to and following it. >> what makes this election different is this is the end of an era. regardless of who comes in next, we will be going into uncharted territory with a new president. yvonne: you can watch the global premiere of "taiwan decides," a special report on bloomberg tv saturday at 8:00 p.m. in hong kong. it is it's also available on our youtube channel. you got to check it out, guys. we've bee

trump, if you read american newspapers not only on the topic of ukraine, taiwan, the middle east and democracy. on his own, on his own, yes, his rise to power and so on, in himself he’s nothing, so to speak, it’s clear, but, but as a president, that ’s why i think that why trump is considered such an anti-iranian president, look at what happened in his time, when he left for election, and trump , as a businessman, understands that the merchant’s word betrayed him once, no one would believe him anymore, he attracted to his side the american religious rights, and the religious rights and mainly protestants, evangelicals, for whom the interpretation of some books of the old testament was, most in fact, neoconservatives even earlier , so to speak, even of the left wing, were spoiled precisely when support for the state of israel and israel became a religious idea in most american protestant communities and trump, when he took on mike pentz as vice president, a man who was extremely popular among the religious rights, so to speak, he certainly couldn’t allow this, i would say, such a root

host: taiwan? caller: taiwan, yeah. the republicans, i don't know what they think. they always throw in the border thing. they have not had an answer for the border for ages. the speaker, i don't know what we are going to do with who we have now. two know what's up or down. -- he don't know what's up or down. putin, he is going to start a domino effect. host: talking about what message this sends to china as many national security experts believe they are threatening taiwan. there is money in this international aid package for taiwan security as well. bob virginia, independent. -- in virginia, independent. caller: you look nice this morning. i think joe biden's polls are down because he will not do nothing about the border. he needs to step in and agree with the republicans on this deal. all these people that are coming into this country have no place to go except new york and places where they freeze to death. we have to do something to slow this stuff down. they should be putting money down in these countries to help those people in their own countries and they ar

flew north of taiwan today. less than a month from the nation l presidential election, the second time this month taiwan reported chinese balloons flying near its territory. china's defense ministry didn't say what the purpose is. we know this was a surveillance balloon that flew over the united states. is it the same thing in taiwan do you think that they're sending surveillance balloons there as well. >> taiwan said these were weather balloons. i think this was pressure. they did cross the median line which goes down the middle of the strait. but of course a weather balloon has instruments and they can be used for surveillance. the point is, i think this was more political than anything else's personally in this really important runup to the january 13 election. maria: i guess it's all about the election right now you in taiwan. that's a great point. china's foreign minister is holding high level talks you now with north korea's vice minister of foreign affairs, happening in beijing today. north korea fired a

francine: what do you think will happen with taiwan? rep. pelosi: we recognize china.ur visit did nothing to alter that. and we have communiques, laws that govern our relationship with china and our relationship with taiwan, which are very specific, and we are committed to helping taiwan defend itself should they be attacked. we don't want any change in status unless it would be done peacefully, but no aggression from either side. francine: speaker, we are seeing a downturn in terms of the economy in china which could impact the rest of the world. do think president xi is losing control of it? rep. pelsoi: we and other countries decided to ride this tiger, and we poured money -- we just bought everything they had to sell, we increased it. and then when their economy is in trouble, we were, like, oh, it has an impact on us, surprise surprise, surprise surprise but it is not -- we don't want any country to suffer economically because people suffer economically. but i understand this, it is a centralized economy. it is a one-man show. it is not anything about values, gove

and we are committed to helping taiwan defend itself should they be attacked.e don't want any change in status, unless it were to be done peacefully, but no aggression from either side. francine: speaker, we're seeing also a downturn in terms of the economy in china, which could impact the rest of the world. do you think president xi is losing control of it? mrs. pelosi: we and other countries decided to ride this tiger, and we poured money. you know, they just -- we just bought everything they had to sell. we increased their -- and then, when and then when they their economy is in trouble, we're like, oh, look, it has an impact on us. surprise, surprise, surprise, surprise. but it's not -- it's not a -- we don't want any country to suffer economically, because people suffer economically. but understand this. it's a centralized economy. it's a one man show. it isn't anything about values, governance, integrity, certainly nothing to do with democratic freedoms. i'm not even talking about a democracy. i'm talking about establishing a democracy. but we're talking

how is this decision seeing from where you are in taiwan? it's absolutely, well, i mean, one of the key things is something that's discussed very often within taiwan security establishment this, i guess, appreciation that the face of taiwan is now much more discussed in jet japan security establishment. something that was a phrase that was developed by the former jumping department decisions operate was that at a time when use contingency is a japanese contingency. and that's something that japan's prime minister stream your case you to has it has extended and is trying to, it appears to integrate into this new understanding of what's japan's, the defense capability should look like. so from the time needs to expensive, obviously there's a lot of kind of the discussions with capt. riley and underground is because of the unofficial nature of relations between taiwan in japan. but it's something that taiwan under us, of course, we'll be looking at it in a positive lights. right. well, thank you so very much. the james chapter as it is of cours

to support taiwan. some of the other things we need. courtney:courtney: i want to ask one -- i was free to ask questions from the audience. as chair of the jay rockefeller which you said you wanted to talk about -- in this is a smart audience but if you can explain what it is. what are your -- thinking and operating jointly? which occurs at the physical level? this is from ben nicholson. courtne do you want me to read those again -- do you want me to read those again? adm. grady: the joint requirements oversight council. it is in title x. with the service chiefs at the table. interesting proposition for them. they wear two hats when they come with me. we deliberate and decide on what are the joint requirements for a joint fight? they come to me as their service vice chief. it is a pretty effective organization. let me talk about what we have been doing to make it more effective. we have kind of taken the way it works and transitioned from kind of this idea -- the service is bring me technology. we rubberstamp it and they can buy it. we

well, you know, i think here, well, we're definitely no worse than the guys from taiwan, and...zens, well , i think maybe we need to step up our diplomacy a bit. , can add some more people, who can more convincingly explain the situation that is happening in our country to our partners, well, there are many changes, i think that it is necessary here, look, there are powerful countries, well, let's just have the united states, they, they think that taiwan is important, important place, and they are ready to help. to help significantly, the europeans support such help, well, for europe, russia is more dangerous than china, for example, but for us , there is a reason for such slowness, maybe i think that this, you know, does not happen, that everyone is bad, we, everyone here is a ragtag person on white, on white horses, that something is wrong with us, what exactly, i think that we need to sit quietly inside and figure out what we are doing wrong, about... i think that this is also diplomatic work, and inside there are certain laws that we should adopt in order to be considered a