region aimed at leveling the economic playing field with china but his remarks on taijuan garnered the most attention. president biden said the u.s. would respond military if china invaded taijuan. this morning, the white house is walking back those comments. a source familiar with the president s thinking tells me biden was speaking about providing weapons to taijuan, not putting u.s. forces into any conflict with china if it were to invade taijuan so similar to the position on ukraine. weapons, not forces. we ll have more on that in a moment. in switzerland, the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy has taken center stage to the economic forum suggesting m maximum sanctions against russia. they are continuing to encounter russia and their impacts on the war in ukraine. jeremy diamond is traveling with the president in tokyo and cnn business editor at large richard quest is attending the world economic forum in switzerland. jeremy, first to you. the news the white house
region aimed at leveling the economic playing field with china but his remarks on taijuan garnered the most attention. president biden said the u.s. would respond military if china invaded taijuan. this morning, the white house is walking back those comments. a source familiar with the president s thinking tells me biden was speaking about providing weapons to taijuan, not putting u.s. forces into any conflict with china if it were to invade taijuan so similar to the position on ukraine. weapons, not forces. we ll have more on that in a moment. in switzerland, the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy has taken center stage to the economic forum suggesting m maximum sanctions against russia. they are continuing to encounter russia and their impacts on the war in ukraine. jeremy diamond is traveling with the president in tokyo and cnn
region and this proved the efficiency of land based coastal anti ship missiles against the naval forces. of course, just deploying coastal missiles will not be 100% enough to cover all of the area to establish an efficient zone at the south of odesa but indeed they would be very, very beneficial and detour naval activities in the region. so the question is detour versus make a difference, right? they ve already established that russian forces could lose and lose badly there to sink the flag ship but the sea lanes remain closed. what would make the difference to allow ukrainians to reopen the port of odesa?
is it as simple as ukrainians sinking more russian warships? they can t sink more russian warships if they enter the effective range of the missiles. but they are applicable only for the surface assets. there are some russian submarines in the region, as well. they can also operate in the approaching waters of odesa. i think that the anti ship missiles in the course will be a detour errence against russia b think there must be more to afford and establish a solid anti excess, anti denial region. echoes of world war ii again, the possibility of submarines
of u.s. policy, but as you said, administration insisting that united states policy has not changed. now, before or after sbthese comments, the president had a headline event he announced an economic frame work, which according today biden administration officials could mark a turning point they believe in the united states economic relationship with the region. the united states and 12 other countries set to be linked through this economic partnership but unlike the chance pacific partnership, which president trump exited in 2017, this frame work as of now does not include the lowering of any trade barriers or tariffs so some experts wonder if it has to teeth to cut in which is the goal of this frame work. jeremy, erica? richard, to you in dabos. we talk about the attention on the world stage, president zelenskyy gave a keynote address at the economic forum. what did he say?