there's the taiwan strait. it's a key trade route for both beijing and taiwan and, and also for everybody else. almost all the world's biggest container ships passed through here to the north, the me out coast rate. it runs between taiwan and these japanese islands. ended the south. the bashi straight, it runs between taiwan and the philippines. for china, these 2 straits on either side of taiwan are key strategic gateways to the pacific ocean. at a time, one is in the middle of the chinese co slot, which is a very important this is victor gal. he's a former chinese diplomat and vice president of the center for china and globalization. amazing, think tank some say is close to the chinese communist party. how well island faces the pacific directly. and it's about how it is, okay. if i buy a foreign country, for example, it interrupts the continue a t of the chinese coastline and also prevents the chinese excess directly to the pacific ocean. the us says it has no troops permanently stationed in taiwan, but the i

in the us, in china over taiwan. and of course there's more news and analysis on our website, dw, dot com. and of course you can download the dw news app unlike look. and thanks for watching and bye for now. the why do having does not get drunk. why do grab a tasteful waves, squeeze all bodies. how much was it? do we need to put a stop fund praying for help find the on fis gets much on data. we use science, outtake talk channel. chinese soldiers preparing for battle. this is what beijing wants to show the world. with each military drill, china is drawing ever closer circles around taiwan. china has a clear goal to gain control over the island. so china will surely be re unified. are you willing to get involved militarily to defend taiwan if it comes to that? yes, that's a commitment we made. the united states is building up its military presence in the region and is practicing how to think chinese ships we're not going to come to an agreement over taiwan. wait till the unification to get you peacefully. i hope not pe

there's the taiwan strait. it's a key trade route for both beijing and taiwan and also for everybody else. almost all the world's biggest container ships passed through here to the north, the me out coast rate. it runs between taiwan and these japanese islands. ended the south. the bashi straight. it runs between taiwan and the philippines. for china, these 2 straits on either side of taiwan are key strategic gateways to the pacific ocean. at a time, one is in the middle of the chinese co slot, which is a very important this is victor gal. he's a former chinese diplomat and vice president of the center for china and globalization. amazing, think tank some say is close to the chinese communist party. how well island faces the pacific directly. and it's about how it is, okay. if i buy a foreign country, for example, it interrupts the continue a t of the chinese coast line and also prevents the chinese access directly to the pacific ocean. the us says it has no troops permanently stationed in taiwan, but the islan

troops to defend taiwan. >> joe biden said he would, told my colleague at "60 minutes." >> taiwan doesot want troops. what taiwan is asking for is joint military training and to partner with us so they can make weapons to defend themselves. they want intelligence sharing. look, i'm the wife of a combat veteran. the last thing we want to do is just keep thinking about sending troops. if anything we want to prevent war. the best way to prevent war from china is to start arming taiwan now and making sure that they're ready. >> when you were campaigning you said when president trump left office, china was militarily stronger than before. they've only increased that in terms of their nuclear development and their expansion of their military. you said trump did not put us on a stronger military foothold in asia and did not stop the theft of american technology. he had moral weakness in trying to befriend president xi. if this is the threat of this century, how can you say he is the commander in chief you can support now? >> because i look at what happened under the harris administration. you

you were just in taiwan for the first time. >> yes. >> former president trump said taiwan should paythe u.s. is no different than an insurance company. how concerned were taiwanese officials about that comment. >> i think it is important that americans know what i saw. i met with the president, the vice president, we met with the intelligence officers, the life of a taiwanese every single day, of all, they have 30 million cyberattacks a month in taiwan. they have aggression from air and sea by the chinese every single week. i i wanted to see if taiwan were victims, waiting for a handout, or what they were saying and i was so impressed, because they're not waiting for help from anyone. ten years ago, their chinese investment as 84%. today their chinese investment is 11%. they are proactively not investing in china. their mandatory military service starting at 18 years old, they started at four months and now they increased it, you have to serve at 18 for a year. they have -- while cutting that investigation, they are getting ready militarily. they're doing joint training with america

whether that's the taiwan government or the taiwan military. they have to prepare for the possibility because china is, has fairly said they will not renounce use of force towards taiwan service. the possibility certainly exists and it could happen at any time. so thanks for coming in the program, ensuring your views, but it's always good to see ross political wrist unless with a view on asia. russ feingold, a all right, so this how the early we can use a shipping off for now. nothing is going to be here in thirty's with all the latest off that's do hope you can join her. then this is your 247 or 2 and the the, what about the home square? see? because if i did it here is my oldest divided even my gum. wading through that all the point where you slows, ma'am. just fine. and then one, yes is a good. know. so there's 2 to schedule. you know, that's the nature shows. boy, did you see the kind of of got.

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and not for the taiwan strait. this a 100 kilometers. so a stretch of water that separates taiwan from china as its own territorial voices. we've seen other countries just for context conducts these types of transits through the taiwan straits over recent months. the u. s. and kind of their conduct, this type of translated with, with relative frequency. so what we're really trying to see in some nationally, these other countries trying to achieve by doing this is dissuade china from taking any type of mid attraction against taiwan. but also to remind china that this was the way, the time of straightening. absolutely critical. one for international trade. and what's the way which threw some hoffen global container ships pos to reach it, and what kind of reactions to expecting well in the lead on. so this trends and we already had from the, from the chinese, for our ministry warning against the transit from taking place. they said that this was an infringement upon china, silver and cnn editorial in the global times

they will consider attacking taiwan. i know my colleagues and i agree taiwan is an alley to the people, and nations of good around the world. they want to work the united states, they want to help as they did, taiwan, as taiwan did in april 2020 when they provided free personal protective equipment to our nation. at a time when it was scarce. communist china, on the other hand, would rather cover up a deadly virus, wasting weeks, resulting in the deaths of untold hundreds of thousands if not millions. they are more worried about their reputation. that is an atrocity, it's appalling, and we need to recognize the fact that the existential threat to the united states of america is china. at every turn they work to undermine us, and i for one have had enough. i thank my colleagues, i thank chairman mccaul for support. i urge adoption of my amendment. i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from tennessee. so many as are in favor say aye. those opposed, no.

the raf passages likely to enrage china which claims taiwan on the straits as it's also on the programs allow them to approach invoice the west about bombing ukraine. the russian president says, allowing keith to use long range weapons against targets inside russia would put native been direct. deposit is a patient and the will is comes as us and which means is meet to discuss the complex and one of them there. and drug mode is main rivals if to leave the prison off in country. well, a scratch and fail by india supreme court. after months, behind falls a month he says, often disagree motivated chargers will find that boss 300 is really the i feel good and welcome to the program. will start here in germany. we have prosecutors say they have foiled a plot to kill soldiers in the southern states of bavaria. with arches of the titans of 27 year old man accused of finding an is mr. attack in the city of holes . the suspect allegedly intended to use the michelle to carry out the attack against members of the german military prosecutor to say, he was motivated by a radical islamist ideology. a

i briefly mentioned about taiwan. i disagree with the perception that the camp david summit is directed at north korea. its commitment to work closely with the united states and japan. south korea is committed to contributing in maintaining peace and stability. if you want to know more about what south korea would do, i think this commitment says a lot about what kind of contributions they would make. >> thank you so much. i want to come back this way, if that is all right. i think the question on public opinion is right up your alley. >> i feel like a school kid with homework. [laughter] >> thank you the question. according to a recent poll from february, the question asked about the united states. 80.4% said yes, i love the united states. another question about south korea. 4.1% up from last year. it is good. 44%. 44% of them said yes. there is a lot of room for improvement. my colleagues in japan would do their best to make it 80%. i do not think we do enough research asking questions of the japanese. do you see am

actually sailed the navy warship through the taiwan ship. all of this is kind of connected in the big geopolitical way. >> hi. >> good morning. listen, i have a couple of things i would like to know. one of them is about this china exploiting the u.s. government. first off, i think our military has better development when it comes to c computer chips than y other country. since you are the editor for the "washington journal," i want to know why reporters and tv hosts have never asked donald trump three different things. one is, what did he have out there on the east coast? >> mr. taylor associated with the washington times, not our program. i don't know if your line of questioning is conducive to what we are talking about. since you could not do that today. they are helpful to understand each other and build our knowledge. do you think that that sentiment is prevalent even if they publish this report? >> i moderated an event earlier this week. i spoke with him. >> there are other republicans. there are some democrats that aren't. some very h

taiwan.they see very clearly that there is no chance that trump will defend taiwan and the way he has telegraphed he will not help ukraine defend itself. i don't think there is a question that if taiwan is the priority of the chinese regime that they would prefer a trump presidency. china is no doubt trying to influence our decisions iran is trying to influence our elections. russia as we've already spoken of is trying to influence our elections. but speaks to the need to be able to stand up for a robust domestic defense. i'm glad the vita ministration is taking this seriously. i wish her something the republicans democrats cared about was my republican colleagues cared about defending from floor and influence it does not seem to what they care as much about because they see they might be getting the benefit from that influence it. >> on taiwan obviously donald trump has suggested to my colleagues at bloomberg businessweek that taiwan might need to pay for its own security. joe biden is been

the state of the news life from funding to german navy vessels have sailed through the contested taiwan straits, seventies, defense minister. since i made the journey through international waters. the raf passage is likely to enrage china, which claims taiwan on the strays as it's also on the program flooding it. food 2 and one's the west about being ukraine. russian president says, allowing keith to use long range weapons against targets inside russia with put nice folks in direct participation in the will. which comes as us and purchase needs meet to discuss the conflict of the factory workers at boeing. go on, strike, adding to the us play makers was we'll find that by 96 percent of them voted to walk out the . i'm so glad you're welcome to the program jim and prosecute the site. i filed a plot to kill soldiers in the southern states of bavaria. both arches of detained the 27 year old mom accused of planning an is limits to attack in the city of health. the suspect allegedly intended to use the miss jackie to carry out the attack against members of the german military prosecutor to t

this is all over taiwan. in total , nearly one million tons of garbage have accumulated in these centers, which causes pollution of water bodies, loss of wildlife and even causes fires. in taiwan, more than half of these wastes are recycled and the remaining 20 tabs are incinerated. many of these facilities are more than two decades old and need renovation. when these centers are closed, the tabs will pile up again. taiwan's national government about 40 million dollars to build more incinerators and help to local governments are assigned to deal with the current situation . we told the local authorities that they should plan to solve the problem of zabaneh mountains within 3 years . despite the high rate of waste recycling in taiwan, human rights groups warn that the amount of waste production, especially the production of plastic tabs in taiwan, is very high. they say that the people of taiwan are very dependent on the use of disposable food containers in the time of corona. and this bad habit increases the

absolutely supports ukraine, and taiwan can be a source of supply of technology for ukraine, and taiwana country with a very influential lobby, let's say, among those republicans, american, favor that we are so looking for, and taiwan perfectly understands that if russia will solve the issue of ukraine's statehood, then taiwan will be next, it does not completely bypass us, only at some moments when zelensky is already seriously offended by shizen pin'. the question arises, not to go to taiwan for someone, then this china, the great chinese illusion appears again, and it all fades away, and what i get from this is that if you have a level of relations with taiwan, you can manage this level, it is managed conflict in relations with chinese partners, for example, when mr. sebiga tells a friend wanyi: you know, here we have the speaker of the verkhovna rada going to taiwan with a trip. but if you do not hold this summit of your friends of peace, the vice-speaker will go instead of the speaker, then comrade wangyi will seriously think about whom he should invite to such meetings, so as not

the taiwan straits has international waters. again, a testament to just how split screen really these 2 sides of viewing this issue. steps chose to entice the space where to civilians, a building and an engineer that made history by successfully completing the 1st commercial space. walk. each of them spend about 10 minutes outside the crew dragon capsule. responsive space, x is palarez. don't mention this is the moment jared isaac men and sarah gillis made history back at home. we all have a lot of work to do, but from here to look for the surface of the we're doing the 2 private astronauts have now joined the elite club of those who have completed a space walk outside of their protective craft. until today, astronaut from only 12 countries have managed the feet and now one company joins their ranks space x. this is a major step forward in terms of space travel for humans. it also brings with it incredible risks because there are a lot of the technology is new. a lot of it has not been fully tested in outer space to free breed.

through the taiwan straits in more than 2 decades. the german vessels we understand were taken pots and military exercises with allies, invoices of south korea transiting to other exercises. jude's take place and engine easier in the coming weeks. the john, the defense, when that's the one common thing on this transit said, that this wasn't as smooth as in foss, this pos for these vessels to say to these next drills. i'm simply emphasizing that he believed that the time on straight was an international voices that international was his international voices and the context. so this is a course that china has been applying much more pressure to taiwan militarily over the past couple of years, but particularly in the maritimes, remain china of course, believing that the taiwan straits has its own territory. awards is given the silver and the claim that it has over taiwan. internationally. we have seen other countries take uh, transit of this nation of the us and kind of there are countries that have undertaken similar types of missions i

and what now makes up russia's far east sea of taiwan. it was signed over to japan in 1895, and in 19 looking 5 at the end of the 2nd model was handed over the how big the chinese government partners discuss this live. that wasn't nelson, long as the vice chancellor of the side of high center for room park and international studies and then found like club excellent nelson. as always, you're the best person to talk to about this. what do you make of the comments by the time when he's lead? uh, what was his motivation here? or i think it's extremely irrational, improper. i'm totally senseless and brown place for that. like that makes sense or comment because it doesn't seem to understand the history of this very little knowledge of what international politics the un charlton and it's an international law is all about top one has been part of try the same action times but was taken by imperial japan, in 1895 when the late string daughter state was forced to side an alt, equal agreement, but off to japan was defeated in the 2nd world war. an

— taiwan.ce on our website. we are expecting comments from hezbollah later. the hezbollah leader, hassan nasrallah, is to make an address tomorrow, according to a statement from the iran—backed group. and we have a live page online with the very latest developments and analysis from our correspondents on what we know about the pager explosions. you will find that on the bbc news website and app. let's turn to the deadly flooding that's hit central europe. at least 21 people have died in the czech republic, romania, austria, and poland. there are warnings in italy for heavy rain, strong winds and floods. the clear—up operation is underway in the polish city of niisa, where more than 40,000 residents had to evacuate to higher ground. unusually heavy rainfall has caused extensive damage across a huge area, with the storms set to move onto italy next, with flood alerts in place for most of the country. sarah rainsford reports from poland. meanwhile, the authorities in hungary and slovakia are racin

also keeping a close eye on what's happening in the us as taiwan. in recent years, washington has become increasingly engaged in the in the pacific region. what tensions with aging are on the rise, the ruling government and taiwan is hoping for continued support from the new us president, whoever it will be that is concerned about the erotic nature of trends, policies towards that source, taiwan. he was re propelling this now by costs and consensus. so the more focused on is when it comes to china right from the beginning of his 1st time in 2016. that is shifted somewhat. more recently because assessment interviews a trunk has given way he has so suggested that the u. s. has no more than an insurance company for taiwan, and that's time one is to pay more for its defense when it comes to harrison. still a lot of the car seat is the signal that she intends to keep it pretty the policy of continuously when it comes to the, to not just policies towards taiwan and china, but the brought it in the pacific and not has important implications for the securit

to defend taiwan.are democracy and they make the decision to whether we enter the war overseas to that's important for everybody to know whether they can commit to anyone depending on the circumstance of the moment and it's in the interest of the american people. >> one of the few areas republican colleagues bipartisan agreement and competing with china and a lot has been reflected in losing this administration putting in strategic technology. do you see a need to be wrapped up even further? >> let's explore the premise. it is true the mainstream to abandon ukraine, there's not a lot of support for nato but large numbers of republicans the support aid so we have a much bipartisan majority for mainstream elements of biden's foreign policy whether support for israel, nato or ukraine. of course, we have woken up far too late to the mistake under democratic republican congress is for decades to believe integrating china into the world economic order would best protect security interest and advance the caus

and if we talk about international law, then by all standards taiwan is china. this is also the opinion of the un. 181 and 193 member countries of the organization, among them the usa, the european union and japan. but at the moment of global redivision of the world, the hegemon, as never before, decisively closes its eyes to international law and uses its satellites contrary to logic and any norms. after all, today dominance in the pacific ocean. this about influence in the world. remember what you were told when you decided to open a business, bionic prostheses, it's very difficult, but you didn't listen, because you do everything wrong, go on, open a free business account at alfa bank and get a premium business card with 10% cashback on everything. alfa bank. the best bank for business. again recognized as the best by independent experts. credit savings card - free forever. apply right now. work sovito, it's easy to find your place. there are many vacancies, and i just chose the best, the sweetest one. and i'm on i think only about work, salary. and i don't w

-taiwan relationship. as a member of the house permanent collect committee on intelligence i understand how vital the u.s.-taiwan relationship is for both america's and taiwan's national security. taiwan is a democratic firewall, partner, and global leader on semiconductors. the united states congress must stand firmly with taiwan and resolutely against the chinese communist party which aims to delegitimatize our long-standing bipartisan relationship. chinese university played an instrumental role in the chinese communist party's strategy to intimidate taiwan and interfere in its governing. let me offer one example of many. earlier this year the certainty for strategic and international studies reported that researchers at moon university suggested that beijing develop plans for a quote, shadow government, that could take over taipei in case of a, quote, reunification. the code word for invasion. they are essentially write wreathing a day after invasion plan for the c.c.p. that's disgraceful and discouldn'

the case of china and taiwan for us is concerned that china is urged to unify with taiwan one they don't. us doesn't feel that that is absolutely necessary. oh, but what of their fear is if china requires taiwanda and they control the see why is that communication? in the end, the shipping routes from the, from asia, japan as well as a lot of what and then the, that's just the fear then china dominates the region and that, that the undermines us the gemini. so the, that's the problem there. and therefore, i propose a compromise in which the can federal a system, taiwan, china work together considerably backed by the international community. and this would be a totally different way to approach the whole region with help solve some of the tensions between the philippines and showing that will result in a to see and other things like that. so. so there's ways to compromise here. if both sides are willing to compromise ended, and that's why obviously you try because china is becoming the major peer competitor as the americans put it. if we have to work with china primarily before this war,

if, for example, the prc really does begin a serious blockade of taiwan, after all, it is an island,hen, well, let's say, a crisis on taiwan, energy, and, frankly speaking, financial, is practically inevitable. therefore , it seems to me that taiwan specifically wants to bring the situation to a crisis, so that later they can complain about the aggressiveness of the prc. by the way, it is simply impossible not to notice the main line of western propaganda to escalate the taiwan issue. the raeytors were the first to spread the odious statement, the british board and telegraph picked it up, their journalist suggested that china attack russia, supplemented the propaganda selection of the times with joyful exclamation taiwan from. real claims, that is, here we see the typical one-sided rhetoric of the west on biting russia, dividing power nothing new, and if we talk about international law, then according to all norms taiwan is china, so thinks including in the un, 181 of 193 countries of the organization members, among them the usa, the european union and japan. but at the moment of glo

of taiwan in eastern europe but also [indiscernible] type a representative office. second, they just terminated the relationship with taiwan and definitely major candidate running for the president so [indiscernible] thinking about reveal the relationship to china wants to win this kind of disappointment [indiscernible] >> are we going one by one? >> whoever wants to go. >> ok i can react to that, i can react to that. definitely i do not see a trend of countries changing recommendation in favor of taiwan. i do not expect [indiscernible] actually if we look at the numbers and that we look at the actual trend we would see it as the other way around, you know? yes away would not be very optimistic that taiwan is on the outside but is true you know that china is losing attractiveness as a partner, you know, in some cases because of the lack of [indiscernible] but not to the extent of changing i do not think so no. >> we have a couple of more responses to the question. >> from south african perspective i would say i have the impression to some extent we have there is two

charge the military, lithuania, together with taiwan , continue to help ukrainian defenders to bringtory closer. nowadays, they have passed on portable batteries. what such devices are useful at the front from the mouths of the military, later in the plot. charge the victory lithuanian fund blue and yellow. together with a partner from taiwan handed over portable batteries to the ukrainian military, they were developed and manufactured in taiwan, in accordance with the requirements of our military. now everyone is a normal person in the world, well, there should be some ukrainians, well, this is not only ukraine, oh, this is too much, we are very indebted to taiwan and the people and friends of taiwan. which is now there, this is this, this is this, this is this, this is a unique extraction for ukraine. 12 units of air defense and the main intelligence headquarters are now equipped with such batteries, so our defenders can not worry about the lack of electricity during missions. it does not need an outlet, and you can go anywhere in the dugout, in the trench, or in the position. with

they were developed and manufactured in taiwan, in accordance with the requirements of our military. now everyone is a normal person. it's nice to be a little ukrainian, well, it's not only ukrainians, oh, too much, you are very grateful to taiwan and people and friends taiwan, which is currently being produced there, is a unique production for ukraine. 12 units of air defense and the main directorate of intelligence are now provided with such. batteries, so our defenders can not worry about the lack of electricity during missions, it does not need an outlet, and you can go anywhere in a dugout, in a trench, or in a position with a machine gun with a searchlight, you do not need to look for an outlet, and you can plug to charge your devices, drones or searchlight, yes it is 220, no need there in... look for a socket in a tree there, and these portable batteries are not afraid of moisture or abnormal temperature, they can work even at -40°, so you should not be afraid. only to our enemy, when you are in the fields, and you need to charge the things that bring our victory closer, the t

to the ukrainian army. portable batteries, they were designed and manufactured in taiwan, according to the requirements of our military. now everyone is a normal person in the world. er, well, there should be a little ukrainians, well, it's not only ukraine, oh, it 's much more, you are very grateful to taiwan and to the people and friends in taiwan, who have produced this and that, this is this, this is a unique production for ukraine. 12 units of air defense and the main intelligence headquarters are now equipped with such batteries, so... our defenders can not worry about the lack of electricity during missions, it does not need an outlet, and you can go anywhere in a dugout, in a trench, or in a position with a machine gun, with a searchlight, you don't you need to look for an outlet, yes you can connect to charge your devices, drones or a searchlight, yes it is 220, no need to look for it in a tree there. outlet and these portable batteries are not afraid of moisture or abnormal temperature, they can work even at -40°, so only our enemy should be afraid. when you are in the fie

wants to annex taiwan. if it is for the sake of territory, the integrity, why doesn't it take back the lines occupied by russia that was signed the treaty of? i good and that's how it was lead. yeah. was referring to of 18. 58 treaty of i goon. in the which sign assigned over a vast tract of land to moscow in what now makes up russia's far east. speaking of taiwan, it was signed over to japan in 1895. i didn't 194845 of the end of the 2nd world war. it was handed over to those running the republic of china and not government late to flag the chinese mainland to setting up the next island the islands territory. a vice chairman of the shanghai sent a full written pack of international studies. nelson wong. some of the comments by the time one is lead to contradict history. it's extremely irrational, improper. i'm totally sense less than groundless for that. like that makes sense or comment because it doesn't seem to understand the history of this very little knowledge of what international politics the un cha

now, biden administration like previous ones has been slow walking arm sales to taiwan and taiwan hasr batches of weapons and we have not delivered. and we have not delivered by you a conscious decision by american presidents to try to appease beijing. that of course is a strategy that has completely failed so right now it's not only taiwan, it's japan, the philippines, india. china can strike anywhere and clearly xi jinping has been giving out the signal that he wants to start a war someplace. there are always aaggressors but the real problem today is we have leaders of the great democracies are not doing what what is necessary to deter the a aggressors and that makes the situation so fundamentally dangerous. cheryl: are you concerned about china holding military drills in the disputed area of the south china sea? that was yesterday. >> this was really particularly provocative because they followed just after you few hours of talks that the united states had with china about that very topic and of course you have china and russia with joint exercises at the moment as well and basic b