and china _ adventures in the taiwan strait. and china is— adventures in the taiwan strait. china is not saying anything about russia going to india for they're eloquently doing this little dance here, _ eloquently doing this little dance here, but— eloquently doing this little dance here, but i think china can understand why russia would be nervous — understand why russia would be nervous about nato's expansion given the fact— nervous about nato's expansion given the fact that in 1962, when russia put missiles in cuba, it nearly led to a third — put missiles in cuba, it nearly led to a third world war. i think there is an— to a third world war. i think there is an accommodation that one should not get _ is an accommodation that one should not get too _ is an accommodation that one should not get too carried away. it's convenient for them to cooperate. that's all we've got time for, i'm afraid. susie and ali, thank you very much for your time. quite a mixed bag as usual. that is it for this hour. susie and ali will be back again at 11.30 and we'll look at more front pages an

this is the reality of this is the status quote in the taiwan strait. the taiwanese people's commitment is to defend the status quote, defend our democracy, defend our democratic way of life. fmr. secretary esper: at the time beijing was also offering taiwan one country, two systems and clearly the fraud they perpetrated on hong kong has opposed -- has exposed to that is not a viable path, for the reasons you mentioned. a big concern here is, will china attack? some are concerned it could happen within a year. we have folks that dod speculating may be within five years. henry kissinger not long ago said it would not happen for at least a decade. what is your ministry of national defense's assessment? minister wu: our way of looking at this issue is not when the chinese will attack, but to evaluate their intention and capability, and a possible event in china or across the taiwan strait that will trigger chinese action. i think the chinese intention is clear already, whether it is xi jinping or senior chinese government officials. they continue to focus o

aggressions in the taiwan strait. one who has worked on these issues a quarter-century and seen taiwan progress it is a treat to discuss these matters today. we have the perfect guest to help enlighten and guide us on these matters. minister joseph wu has served in a variety of high political role throughout his career. previously he helped with the office of the president, national security council, and the democratic progressive party. as i mentioned minister wu is a champion of the u.s.-taiwan partnership. it is my honor to welcome him here to discuss democracy, the china policy, taiwan status, p.r.c. bad behavior, trade agreements and more. minister wu, joseph, welcome. >> thank you, mr. secretary. it is my distinct honor and pleasure to share with you this morning. >> thank you. i would like to start by asking you about the mccain institute's namesake. last year the president of taiwan was awarded the john mccain prize for leadership in public service by the halifax international security forum. it seems senator m

was just on the korean peninsula and china sent the second largest aerial armada against the taiwan straits than ever before. china is continuing to act in a menacing and threatening way toward taiwan. north korea fired 7 missile during the month of january alone. weakness arouses evil. whether it's north korea back to firing missiles or the military provocations of china in the taiwan straits or the south china sea, whether it will be the russian military moving into ukraine, we are learning once again the lesson of history. the free world is secure when america is strong and the world understands that we are willing to use that strength to defend our interesting around the world. >> sean: we are getting conflicting reports that the full russian invasion may be on the way. an update from the senator from the florida. and a breaking development into the criminal probe into president trump. 2 prosecutors resigned today. and alan dershowitz watching the situation in ukraine. senator rubio will update us next. are you taking a statin drug to reduce cholesterol? it can also deplete your coq10 l

>> a little about that i totally agree with cliff xi jinping is part of looking over the taiwan straitbly a matter of time before he starts. but the point here as at this point, 33 years after the fall of the berlin wall america simply does not have the wherewithal. does not have the desire, the wherewithal or even the moral courage to actually fight multiple conflicts on the mobile stage at the same time. china is by far the biggest threat to the united states by far. and to that extent what's happening in russia in ukraine while tragic this footage is horrific it's terrible step is on the geopolitical chest board from the chinese threat it really is. gerry: coming up with all of this war in the back and president biden gives us first state of the union address next week. what will he say about the crisis abroad and at home? crisis abroad and at home? we will talk about that dad, we got this. we got this. we got this. we got this. we got this. yay! we got this. we got this! life is for living. we got this! let's partner for all of it. edward jones welcome to allstate. ♪ ♪ here, safe d

allies like taiwan will be watching closely, as china steps up its military activities across the taiwan straitthey didn't succeed in deterring putin, they're going to ask themselves can we on taiwan really count on the united states in a crisis. >> reporter: after the u.s.' disaster withdrawal from afghanistan, ukraine presents the latest test on the u.s. capability to maintain global peace and security and the outcome may further convince china and russia of an emerging new world order that both have long sought. jake, even before president putin's arrival here in beijing, state media pushing the strong friendship between the pair, even sharing a letter from putin to the chinese people and blaming countries like the u.s. for politicizing sports, even as these two leaders are expected to use the optics of the opening ceremony in just a few hours to take a strong geopolitical stance. jake. >> yeah, two authoritarians coming together at the olympics. david culver in beijing with the latest installment of "behind china's wall." thank you. >>> the opening ceremony of the beijing olympic games is j

the geopolitical conditions are right, maybe when the light and weather data is suitable in the taiwan straitadimir putin pulls off invasion of ukraine, you could see xi jinping go for the jugular in taiwan. maria: that was arkansas senator tom cotton with me on this program last month predicting when he expects xi jinping to invade taiwan. i'm back with former secretary of state mike pompeo. not only are we now watching for the potential of an invasion of taiwan by xi jinping, we are also now waiting to see if the vladimir putin will invade ukraine. your thoughts on the state of affairs? >> maria, let me add two more, we have watched him begin to his increases capability by firing longer and longer range missiles and he was going to conduct nuclear testing as well and none of us should forget americans are headed back to vienna to negotiate with the iranians this week. we gave them sanctions relief and told them take what you want and they give us nothing in return and they have already rejected that and will ask for more. there are four fronts where this ministration is completely lost the

that i think with the geopolitical conditions are right when the weather data is suitable in the taiwan straitn pulls off an invasion of ukraine you could see jinping go for the jugular of taiwan. >> that was arkansas senator tom cotton with me on this program last month predicting when he expects xi jinping to invade taiwan back with former secretary state mike pompeo. not only are weight now watching for the potential of an invasion of taiwan but xi jinping, we are also now waiting to see if putin will invade ukraine. your thoughts on the state off a affairs? >> well maria it let me add two more we watch deer meat begin to increase it his capability as well by firing longer and longer range initial sync is going to conduct nuclear testing as well. none of us should forget americans are headed back to vienna to negotiate with the irradiance this week. we gave them sanctions relief, we sit here, take what you want to give something in return they've already rejected that for the going to ask for more. there are four friends, four fences administration isde completely lost the deterrence model

. >> i think with the president needs to do is send two destroyers to the taiwan strait.nese are flying fighter aircraft into taiwanese airspace, he needs to show strength and he doesn't need to coordinate anything with xi jinping. there is a great fear that we are going to force people into an alliance, russia and china into some axis. but they are already there, they are already cooperating. as far as i'm concerned the president needs to show strength and he's failing to do so. >> shannon: of the lead up just hours before as we knew these forces were amassed and we had every indication that putin was going to move forward across ukrainian borders, former secretary of state now climate envoy john kerry sat down with the bbc and this is what he talked about being his primary concern. >> so i hope president putin will help us to stay on track with respect to what we need to do on climate. >> he's worried about admissions, the same john kerry who will take a private aircraft wherever he wants to go, he's out there talking about climate change. i have to tell you if you live

and it's not just china and the south china sea and the taiwan strait.but we just have to look east right now to what's going on on the russia/ukrainian border and the potential for significant activity there as well. >> yeah, i'm glad you brought that up, admiral. i was going to ask general martin to give the committee his assessment on probable russian activity regarding the ukraine over the next few months and what further invasion into the country would mean for america and its allies, especially the first ground war since the end of world war ii. >> congressman, thank you. what i'll tell you is, we're in the business of making sure that never happens. and so to do that, we need predictable, adequate, timely and sustained funding over time. and in order to do that, we've got to have soldiers who are ready today for tomorrow's challenges. who knew that we would be conducting the neo operation out of afghanistan last year? who knew we would be in ethiopa this year? who knew we would be doing operation allies welcome? those are all expressions of the ar

if we are weak, we will get more of the same in the taiwan strait and the middle east and the koreaninsula and elsewhere if we are not colorful -- careful. host: let me go back to arms for a second. you were talking about the need for antitank missiles. why is that the best weapon to provide right now? why not and even stank -- and even rooms -- why not a tank? why not get an f-35? guest: frankly, i would like ukraine to have everything possible. i was citing two examples that the minister has asked for. i published an article in defense news, detailing the many other types of weapons we should get them. many of the service members listening will understand, you have to get the weapon system to the country and then you have to train people how to use it and you have to forward position it. that is why i was saying that is fine, pursue diplomacy. plumas he will likely fail. let's help get those weapons now. -- diplomacy will likely fail. let's help get those weapons now. i believe we can send those weapons across the border into ukraine. m1 a1 tanks, there is not enough time right now

a chance to flex our muscle and make sure china does not see an easy picking look across the strait at taiwan. in addition the united states is doing what it should with nato trying to unify the partnership and move troops into the region. the final thing is voicing what is happening on the ground and making sure great reporters like your staff and folks out there get the truth out to people. there is a lot of propaganda and the best way to burn through the lies is with a lot of truth. alicia: putin hates nothing more than being embarrassed especially on the world stage. things are not going as well as he had hoped or expected. how concerned are you that a putin backed into a corner. >> i'm concerned with his behavior. but there are foreign ministers in the kremlin who are not on board with this. there are russian soldiers who have seen through this scheme of maneuver. they are allowing the soldiers to call home to their mothers. that's an effective technique to cap this bear at the knees to make sure they don't get aggressive. putin has gone the this wrong from the get-go. i think those in t

as told the other day, how is this a distraction from china looking across the strait of taiwan?onathan: good morning to you all, this is your price action, down hard by more than 2%, on the nasdaq by more than 3%. 99.70 seven on wti, up more than 8%. in europe, that's gets your percent. bond yields are much lower, banks are too. the euro stoxx 50 bank segment, that industry down by 8.5%, a brutal morning for european financials. tom: let's bring up that haven board, a board of what the pros are looking at. we start as john mentioned with oil. i want to frame $105 barrel brent crude and inflation-adjusted over the last decade, maybe 15 years, is $118 average so we are getting up to the pain we knew years ago. to move quickly, i would also note euro swish showing significant swiss strength. a 102 print would be original. jonathan: and with the end move stick as well. as we go through this and this is something picked up on, it starts global and becomes regional and then it is local. the bank of japan unlikely to raise interest rates anytime soon. as we step away from this and the

conduct a cyber attack to distract us as they consider the idea of rolling ships across the strait and taking taiwanlook at both of them as potential actors in any cyber attack to distract us from ukraine or operation against taiwan and we are not prepared to stop either of those because there are too many places you can attack u.s. infrastructure, financial markets and other things, we simply can't stop a cyber attack, but could respond to one. >> todd: putin wanted to do this for decades, begs question why now, president trump weighing in, listen. >> i always heard the worst thing that could happen, drive those two countries together and it really started with obama and energy. he drove them together because one needed the energy and the other needed the money. he drove them together and biden put them -- i kept them ark part and now biden, looks like it is a great love fest and that is a very bad thing, the fact and you can probably add iran, too, they are including iran also. >> todd: your reaction, jim? >> jim: president trump is right, nothing bad happened during president trump's term, same w

. >> on the military side, shep, this is a situation where taiwan is separated from china by a strait it's not a land border so this would be a significant amphibious landing or troop airlift from china i just don't think with all of the new capability that the pla has, it's prepared to execute that action now. >> we have to look forward, though, because we know that's what vladimir putin has been doing since he captured crimea, which enabled all of this. we can go back even further. what he says what he wants is the whole country, he wants the government, he wants the country to be part of russia if it is, then he moves his own weapons and his own soldiers near the borders with nato allies at that point, the united states and nato has to respond. now we're tied up with nato here why wouldn't china, if it so wants to take taiwan, use this point where the united states is all tied up with a conflict in europe and make its move on taiwan where would that sort of a scenario leave us? >> that's a dire scenario, shep. to your point, one that we should be really focused on. look, i think do

only does china have the amphibious ships to get across the strait but can they pull in commercial vessels to ship troops across? and how can taiwanake itself difficult to be invaded? we talked about the porcupine strategy, hard to swallow. that has been the focus of taiwan's defense policy and u.s. cooperation to try to improve taiwan's ability to defend itself, but as we said, you have to be ready for a range of different scenarios. there is also the question of kind of how much of chinese actions against taiwan would be pre-planned or pre-meditated. certainly in general they want to take back taiwan but in terms of planning a war, it could be premeditated over a longer period of time or it could come as a result of china using aggressive military maneuvers that results in an accident and then there is political and military escalation that becomes uncontrolled, so china has to -- but also taiwan -- has to decide to fight a full-scale war on pretty short notice. being prepared to respond any time is another critical element to this challenge. host: let's talk to lettie calling from texas on the democrat line. good morning. calle

ca decapitate ukraine, may be i don't need an mva beas invasion across the straits, maybe i can just do decapitation in taiwanually changing the strategic and it, u.s. forces t rearming and guarding europe at a time when we really do also need to focus on the threat fro china in the pacific and around the world. >> you buy a indivisible thing where it's a distraction over the past four years with president trump and russian collusion might have for the effort we are seeing right now in ukraine? >> yes, no question. this distraction of the russia hoax really did or any chance t engage with prudent food and. them sorry, when we rewrite the history were going to look back at the russia hoax and how that had one of many factors leading to the tragedy we see in ukraine , but yes, the russia hoax was a factor and the tragedy we see in kyiv today. >> thank you for coming on. it's a late night and we appreciate you staying up with us. it is day two of the war on ukraine from russia, and we are told that russian tanks are jus miles away from the capital. continuing coverage of this breaking news story. a must in your

taiwan. if that means putting the u.s.s. ronald reagan and carrier battle group in the straits, so be it.around it one way, the next the other. i think we have given him the ability to hit it. >> gillian: two china policy does not seem like something president xi would be thrilled about. thanks for your time, appreciate it. >> john: to say the least, i don't think he would like it at all. but you have to think, well, if he gets away with this in ukraine, i'm going after taiwan. >> gillian: people forget what an outside impact the united states military has around the world. a lot of national security experts have been saying it's only because of what happened in afghanistan, the botched withdrawal, that putin amped up the troop deployment to ukraine's border in the first place anyway. everybody is watching all the time every move the u.s. military makes. >> john: i've read some papers if china wants to go head to head to the pacific fleet, it would not go well. and the crime crisis, listen here. >> it is not compassionate to let vulnerable kids grow up in war zones because democrats feel

only does china have the amphibious ships to get across the strait but can they pull in commercial vessels to ship troops across? and how can taiwan difficult to be invaded? we talked about the porcupine strategy, hard to swallow. that has been the focus of taiwan's defense policy and u.s. cooperation to try to improve taiwan's ability to defend itself, but as we said, you have to be ready for a range of different scenarios. there is also the question of kind of how much of chinese actions against taiwan would be pre-planned or pre-meditated. certainly in general they want to take back taiwan but in terms of planning a war, it could be premeditated over a longer period of time or it could come as a result of china using aggressive military maneuvers that results in an accident and then there is political and military escalation that becomes uncontrolled, so china has to -- but also taiwan -- has to decide to fight a full-scale war on pretty short notice. being prepared to respond any time is another critical element to this challenge. host: let's talk to lettie calling from texas on the democrat line. good morning. caller: hi. goo

today's "new york times," there's a story that says both sides of the taiwan strait are closely watching ukraine's crisis. in other words, the people's republic of china, mainland china, as well as taiwan, the independent democratic state right across that thin band of water known as the south china sea. here's what one of the representatives of the -- of taiwan said in this article. he said, if the western powers fail to respond to russia, they do embolden the chinese thinking regarding action on taiwan. so this is not just about ukraine, this is not just about europe, this is about america's credibility and that of our friends and allies around the world and our willingness to stand up for our values and defend our freedoms. if our adversaries see that the u.s. responds merely with pass pass -- pass civility or words they will see opportunities for them to exploit. that will risk further geopolitical stability and it would inevitably diminish america's leadership in the world, the global order of which which he -- which has been termd an anchor of a coalition of freedom-loving nations.