after the house speaker kevin mccarthy met with taiwan s president in california. house foreign affairs chair michael mccall leading the delegation in taiwan, warning that china better think twice before launching or even considering launching an invasion. so being here i think sends a signal to the chinese communist party that the united states supports taiwan, we re going to harden taiwan, and want them to think twice about invading taiwan. our correspondent there has traveled to taipei, taiwan, with the delegation, beating them there along the way. what are they saying to you today? hello. good morning to you both. look, things are getting very seserious around the island rigt now after two public shows of support from congress. this is angering china. we have learned now that there are three chinese ships that have encircled taiwan, and on top of that the chinese have announced that they will stop and inspect any ships in the taiwan strait for the next three days. t
in the south pacific, the marshall islands, haiti, guatemala, belize. they re in the united states, met with the leader in california, but the fact they were not welcomed to washington by president biden, that was a shame. there are ways to support, doesn t need to be military action, but at least getting them the equipment, having a tax policy that befriends them, supports investment here from their country, so they don t have to rely on china for trade as well. those are ways to help them. i think it s important, because it s not just about taiwan, right? communist china is a major threat to the world. when you look at what they re doing in terms of building at various countries ports, the way they are having what you
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named them confucius institutes out of our universities, attempting to purchase farmland, put ccp police stations in our city. those are things that the republican party is working to stop. it s time for the democrats to join us. donald trump and, you know, climate change are not the biggest threats that the united states faces. it s time to be real about the seriousness that china poses, particularly the fact we rely on them for pharmaceuticals, for tech, so many important things we can t function without. we need to stop that reliance on china and work with allies like taiwan, poland, like-minded countries, where we share values, and bring our supply chain home where we can, and other parts of the world where we can. can we get a comment from you, within we and we won t plat
unfortunately on communist china. third thing is actually just a bilateral trade policy that doesn t double tax taiwanese investments in the just. jonathan ward is a u.s.-china scholar. this sound bite explains it well. listen to the top portion of this comment. taiwan is the berlin of the new cold war, a place where much of the contest may play out. ideally we ll be able to maintain deterrents, the importance of the situation we re in right now. i don t think that means scaling back our diplomatic engagement with taiwan, but i think it means increasing our military presence in the region. the comparison to berlin, the comparison could be appropriate at some point, if not already. there are 12 countries that recognize taiwan. it s not an impressive list. it s st. lucia, paraguay, palau,