and taiwan. as we continue to grow our economic relationship together, a tax treaty represents the logical net move -- next move. advancing this legislation to president trump's desk is the right thing to do for american workers and our economy as a whole. i want to thank ranking member for helping lead this effort and introducing this legislation with me. today we are showing the world that american leaders are united in standing up for our workers and businesses. i urge all of my colleagues to support this bill, to help critical american manufacturing sectors, and protect our national and economic security. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentlelady from california is recognized. ms. chu: mr. speaker, i yield myself as much time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. ms. chu: i rise in strong support of h.r. 33, the united states-taiwan expedited double tax relief act. i want to thank ranking member neal and chairman smith for working on th

one area of| contention has been taiwan, how does donald trump see taiwan and fit it into his relationshipsound contradictory but they come together, one, the national security officials with donald trump understand allowing taiwan to be swallowed by china would be a grave threat to the us and its allies and so they are going to focus on building a defence capability to prevent china from attacking taiwan. at the same time a major concern for donald trump has been burden sharing our allies do enough for their own defence and i go to taiwan frequently, i was there the summer they are moving in the right direction but still not doing enough and we have seen donald trump give some statements saying taiwan does need to do more if they want to be protected. i think there will be an emphasis on burden sharing but also the pentagon prioritising the taiwan scenario. matthew kroenig. former pentagon strategist. thank you. vice president of the atlantic council's scowcroft center. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. let's look at some other stories making news. a policewoman in nor

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and jimmy says, i want to, you know, taiwan, i want to move to taiwan. taiwan's future. he really, really thought that what was happening in taiwan presaging what would inevitably happen the mainland. so he he moved taiwan moved the whole family set up again as in hong kong first he sits up next magazine, then he sets up taiwan apple daily. and he was very forthright that this was going to be a springboard to the mainland, that it was just a matter of time and not not too many years before taiwan would be a springboard to to, you know, an open, free media in the mainland and apple daily was going to be there and him but i mean it i mean think at least conversation with jimmy uso taken wh that we counter argument to people that somehow like send money to and others that you know chinese culture wouldn't allow a democratic process and here you had in taiwan a chinese culture the taiwanese still think of themselves as taiwanese properly so, but chinese culture and they had they produced a democracy yeah. no, it gave the lie to to what the chinese communist party was saying

now the 2nd thing is autonomy of taiwan. do my best judgment? need to be preserved for the benefits of the people in taiwan as well as for china as a whole. now eventually peaceful reunification which will be much better than any other form and one country to system or even one country to resist them. for example, can be figured out, and the americans worry about the supply chain of the 70 conductors, i think channel can be flexible enough to declare the whole island of taiwan as the because the free trade zone in china. and they will be guaranteed to, inc. and out for the semiconductor chips of all kinds. so i think we need to focus on really what's the most important matter that is the sovereignty and the territorial integrity of china. and the fact that there is only one china and taiwan being part of china on that basis. a lot of flexibility is an adapt ations can be worked out to satisfy the legitimate interests of many countries, especially the united states. because the united states care about free flow of chips and out of taiwan it, whi

now the 2nd thing is autonomy of taiwan. do my best judgment? need to be preserved for the benefits of the people in taiwan as well as for china as a whole. now eventually peaceful reunification which will be much better than any other form and one country to system or even one country to resist them. for example, can be figured out, and the americans worry about the supply chain of the 70 conductors, i think channel can be flexible enough to declare the whole island of taiwan as the because the free trade zone in china. and they will be guaranteed to, inc. and out for the semiconductor chips of all kinds. so i think we need to focus on really what's the most important matter that is the sovereignty and the territorial integrity of china. and the fact that there is only one china and taiwan being part of china on that basis. a lot of flexibility is an adapt ations can be worked out to satisfy the legitimate interests of many countries, especially the united states because the united states can about free flow of chips in out of taiwan. it which

for instance he said history would next taiwan. progresses china is getting weaker receive from its crumbling economy that is true. also the people in taiwan are developing an identity that separate from china. in a recent pew research survey, 67% of the people on the island said they were primarily taiwanese. only 3% said chinese. in the younger age cohorts 18 -- 24 the numbers were 83% taiwanese, 1% chinese. she she and ping knows that. that's w why keeps on talking about inevitability because it is not inevitable. that's why he has to say it is. mark: and got a big military if they decide to attack taiwan, there's going to be a massive devastation at a minimum. he does have the capacity to take over the geography appeared to take over the island. not perhaps the culture. and so i wanted to ask you this. what historic claim does china have over what was, i've been looking into this a little i cannot find any. what historic claim to the even have to taiwan? >> they don't have much of a claim at all. the cheating dynasty ruled taiw

and the fact that there is only one china and taiwan being part of john on that basis. a lot of flexibility is an adapt ations can be worked out to satisfy the legitimate interests of many countries, especially in the united states because the united states care about free flow of chips being out of taiwan. it, which in my view may be a very legitimate consideration. if president trump, who likes to be a president to engage in a lot of 1st goes to tie one, will china be able to live with that? no, i think if that happens, the diplomatic relations between china of the united states will be broken 1st because the china will never allow any country in the world into the united states of america to have relations with both china on the one hand and taiwan on the on the if you want to bets on taiwan since the united states has been on tie while the national is the government several times in history, then you need to walk away from china. that's the, a quick pro cold situation. i don't think any real need to all the united states want to solve it. you as relations with china

and trump may not care about the taiwan straits, but the taiwan straits care about, you know, him, right. they, they, they care about, you know, the united states and the south china sea might be an even bigger flash point. then the taiwan straits. although intrinsically they are linked together. so, i mean, again, there's only 3 types of, of us, of foreign policy and political lead. they all want war with russia, china, e, ron, they just prioritize which of those 3 wars they want more. well, i mean, they had in 2025, which one is which one is on the top of the totem pole? i would have to say e, ron, but china comes close behind and russia hasn't gone away. george? yep. what, what's your, what's your ranking? i think i think it's the russian. 5 any around in china? ok, we still got 30 seconds. go ahead. george. as well. i think it so because russian work is the ongoing want and, and therefore, because i think this is going to be the subject of, at least for the 1st 6 months, maybe even the year of the trump administration. i've tried to deal with this uh, ukraine issue that's i think it'

taiwan issue. any effect on like buying him. he refused to make any commitment to coming to taiwan is assistance in the event of an invasion. so i think it's going to be, he's going to wage a serious a economic war against china. and particularly he's going to wage a war against china throughout the world. you know, he's going to track down the countries that are doing deals with china. you know, some of this is going to stop black mainland extorting countries that are assigned onto china, including, including friends and allies. exactly. you know, just you sign on through this with, with china, you know, you've been a, you know, the china is going to build a portfolio or railway for you. you got a field, the ross of the united states. i think that's always good to wait wage. this war against china market, the last pontificating words without giving a prediction. go ahead. yeah, i don't. i don't think we should completely write off military conflict with china as, as the tariff or will escalate the

officials in taiwan blaming a chinese ship for cutting an undersea internet cable near taiwan harbormonth. service was minimally interrupted. it sent a message about the vulnerability of tie wasn't's internet infrastructure. the latest in a string of sabotage efforts in china. a commercial ship was accused of deliberately cutting data cables in the baltic sea. nato providing enhanced deterrence. china reported building d-day style barges as fears grow of a chinese invasion of taiwan coming. joining me is york space system executive chairman, former pentagon intelligence senior executive, charles beam. it's so disturbing. your reaction to all of this? >> hi, maria. first, thanks for having me on. and yeah, it is incredibly disturbing but it should be no surprise. if we remember the intelligence committee declassified a lot of things about two years ago, saying they had specific intelligence that the president, xi jinping, specifically told his military that he wants to be ready for a land invasion of taiwan in 2027. and the reality is that he may or may not do that but he wants his mi

xi claimed this, quote, people on both sides of the taiwan strait are one family.one can sever our family bonds. taiwan's president pledging to strengthen his country's defenses by boosting its defense budget. want to bring in gatestone institute seen year fellow and author of plan red, china's project to destroy america, gordon chang. telegraph those comments from xi jinping. what was he really saying? >> what he's really saying is that the quote, unquote, reuni reunification which should be unification, because china has not ruled taiwan. that's not inevitable. people of t taiwan don't considr themself part of the chinese family. 67% of the people on the island say they were primarily chinese, 3% said primarily chai -- primarily taiwan ease, 3% said primarily chinese. i think xi jinping realizes that as time progresses, taiwan is developing an identity separate and apart from china which is why xi jinping talks about inevitableity all the time because knows that it isn't. cheryl: the chinese state sponsored actor who hacked the u.s. treasury department targeted t

i have also worked to strengthen taiwan's military readiness through the taiwan security act. congress must keep their eye on the c.c.p. and build on this progress. for now, i will be heading back to my home in sunny california, but while my time in congress is ending, i will always look for ways to serve the country that i love. i always t

that's true taiwan. that that's true in moscow, too.you know as you saw all the people showing to vote honoring navalny. you see that all around the world africa, south america obviously australia. i think reagan say the fundamentals support democracy. that's what real people want. i think if reagan were here, he'd say that, we need to cultivate. but he'd be very optimistic about future because he thinks he's talking about real people every throughout human history. i'm very confident that he would be optimistic. as long as we to stand up for freedom and democracy, do not in to totalitarians anywhere that the most arms we have are sending messages that bombs and bullets are about rhetoric than they are about actually fighting. and if we are strong, then that will produce both peace and a free democracy. thank you very

in the taiwan straits, we see probably in the coming. yeah. or there might be a resolution in the conflict, the new quade. and is clearly a shift when you look at the, the, the team a chosen by then. we are going from a team of by trucks story. we're going from a, a t mail from of by then which was very rooster for big to a team selected by truck, which has a much stronger focus on china. so this is, uh we, we could imagine that the gcs in hand stations in the region, and also mainly related to width of stairs to taiwan. because ultimately, it is going to be of about the, the patient that of a similar to what happened in ukraine. they would use a title along the same as they used to clean fight for a shot to the last to clean and fight. i was fight china to last time when these yeah, i'd like to sort of pick couple up point you made about the fact that this is coming . obviously, just a few weeks before donald trump comes into office and we are expecting him to be much more, a sort of readily aggressive against the chinese. this is the 2nd wil

move to establish full diplomatic relations and will you abrogate the mutual defense treaty with taiwan, and as a corollary would you provide to mainland china with the military equipment if the chinese were to ask for it? pres. ford: our relationship with the people's republic of china is based upon the shanghai communique of 1972, and that communique calls for the normalization of relations between the united states and the people's republic. it does not set a time schedule. it does not make a determination as to how that relationship should be achieved in a relationship to our current diplomatic recognition and obligations to the taiwanese government. the shanghai communique does say that the differences between the people's republic on the one hand and taiwan on the other shall be settled by peaceful means. the net result is this administration and during my time as president for the next four years we will continue to move for normalization of relations in the traditional sense, and we will insist that the disputes between taiwan and the people's republic be settled peacefully as w

taiwan, 98% of internet traffic moves on those tables. they need to shift to satellite internet.r elon musk because he has such significant factories in mainland, china. they have looked at amazon's property. what they need is own system get more much cheaper nowadays. but, yeah, the same is true across the pacific that communications our ability to see this is what china plans to do. it tends to blind us early in the conflict cut off our ability and will. >> laura: this is why the space force and space superiority is critical and musk is all over that as well. christian, as always, thank you. coming up, the left is only happy when they are controlling what you do, everything you eat. where you go. whether you travel by car. and what they're excited about tonight. we'll tell you. i saved a few bucks and got some cheap, ♪ ♪ >> laura: i know you have liberal friends. i have liberal friends. they are down in the dumps with trump coming bang to the white house. we have to have compassion. they do have some things to celebrate. >> are we ready? here we go. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. [cheers] >> l

from abandoning, for going for taiwan rather than estonia? had to be keep the united states in? but there is no european thinking on how to address these conflicts. rush: thank you. that is very reassuring. [laughter] obviously, you need to write more foreign affairs articles on the subject, and the person who could authorize that is shannon o'neill. >> editorially independent from the rest of the council. rush: i don't have to be so careful. let me ask you, shannon, broadly how is the region looking at the china-russia relationship. more specifically, how are latin american companies -- countries thinking about some of these new institutional arrangements meant to challenge western-led institutions, as well? shannon: i will start a bit with russia and china in the region. they have been historically on more parallel tracks and tightly combined. russia came in predominately on the security side. richard brought up the cuban missile crisis. that is the big entry. still russia has had long-standing ties with cuba, with venezuela, nicaragua, many other authoritarian regimes, supply

and the world i want to show you what taiwan has off if he goes to taiwan, the chinese item, particularly the best, the we can ever do. after games on taiwan a, nobody go near those. hey, but use flesh not all the democrat henchmen and a good boys to be. donors are delighted. some of them are creeping back. some of the big corporate donors of started to get behind the big don, let's say, would be cash funds. but one in particular, pro lizard boy could also look as look, the coke as look, has decided to kind of cosy up if you like. after is thanksgiving meeting at the big guns a compound in florida. he's changed his ways, particular about freedom of speech. he's a big fan, all of a sudden, you know, cause, you know, even the long tweeted, you know, this is cool. this is good news. basically, facebook are now gonna open the floodgates, meaning we're all going to be that say what we want to point the fact that the world, so look at what's behind the bush. it gave you. i told him, you know, just laptop is a fake. it was, i mean it was real, but zach suppressed the stories for me. other journa

if china makes t a move taiwan n the philippines or make a move ofhe defense, all of a sudden, u turncet and nothing comes out or your lights go outc whertue your phones don't work. there was critical infrastructure. there is nothing new as capability. israelis use this against the planiranians once turned off gas pumps in tehran. they caused a fire at a steel mill here to the question is why is china being permitted to sort of did gai this against us and y it has gained credibility? the penetration is very deeptrat here.io >> laura: i think what is new is the fact that our infrastructure, despite our spending billions and billions of dollars and trillions on our ourrity apparatus and military is this vulnerable. and "the wall street journal" is alsoal reporting, by the way,in christian, some national security officials involved in the investigation believe the telecom hack is so severe in thr network so compromised that the u.s. may never be able to payot with certainty that chineseed hackers have been fully rooted out. so, agai we can, everybody spie everybody, christian, but this a

normalization of relations in the traditional sense, and we will insist that the disputes between taiwan and the people's republic be settled peacefully, as was agreed in the shanghai communique, of 1972. the ford administration will not let down, will not eliminate or forget our obligation to the people of taiwan. we feel that there must be a continued obligation to the people, the some nineteen or twenty million people in taiwan. and as we move during the next four years, those will be the policies of this administration. mr. valeriani: and sir, the military equipment for the mainland chinese? mr. ford: there is no policy of this government to give to the people's republic, or to sell to the people's republic of china, military equipment. i do not believe that we, the united states, should sell, give or otherwise transfer military hardware to the people's republic of china, or any other communist nation, such as the soviet union and the like. ms. frederick: governor carter. mr. carter: well, i'd like to go back just one moment to the previous question, where mr. ford, i think, confused

that doesn't mean that they will send forces to the taiwan straits, but there are many things in the regions that -- where they're located, beginning with europe, that can distract or complicate the u.s. military performance if there is such a war. bay: so, richard, you actually coined the term axis of evil, i think, in a foreign affairs article earlier this year. what -- you were talking about how china and russia are increasingly working with iran and north korea. i am wondering if you can just tell us more about this cooperation. richard: sure. my colleague and i wrote a long piece for foreign affairs to try to look in some detail at this emerging set of relationships among russia, china, north korea, and iran. even since we wrote that article and certainly since we started writing that article, we have seen this increase in dramatic ways. i think if a year ago most people had said, well, in 2024 you will have thousands of north koreans fighting on behalf of them, that's an unusual prediction but here we are. you see this axis of upheaval, they're really seeking an upheaval of thi

expect that the chinese communal will become increasingly aggressive on the asian mainland or in the taiwan strait? i wouldn't. there's no indication there be an immediate future. of course, in long run. they have indicated the as far as the kremlin has that communism is going to sweep the world and they're going to do their share of of encouragement. there's no indication of any immediate threat of greater aggression. but one may never can tell. you know, they're in really great economic difficulties. the food program has collapsed as all food programs, the communist bloc, you know, they've been able to produce food. they have run some things in industry. but even know mr. khrushchev the other day had to 45 years of communism had to call together central committee and find out why they couldn't produce an adequate diet for the russian people. are there important elements of soviet chinese competition in the far east? there doesn't seem be that one can see there are risks, you know, ideological risks and the russians have taken away all the technical assistance and although they do trade wi