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News of the test launch comes only days after the president of ukraine said his country's intelligence service uncovered plans for russia to attempt a coup in ukraine sometime this week. moscow denies that even as it appears to be amassing troops along its border with ukraine. sandra? >> sandra: china's decision to o to play a fueling aircraft into taiwan's defense zone is raising concerns about the steps china could be taking to expand its reach in the region. taiwan says 27 chinese planes entered its air defense zone over the weekend, including nuclear capable bombers. alex hogan is in londo...

Bombers in to the defense zone. and the defense minister says he believes that china will be able to launch a full scale attack on the island by 2025 and that military tensions between beijing and taipei are the worst they have been in more than 40 years. and if conflict does take place, the big question is will the united states come to taiwan's defense. last night during cnn's town hall president biden seemingly answered that question. >> all right. thanks so much, blake essig in tokyo. the boston celtics enec enes kanter is again being critical of the treatment of uighur muslims. >> right...

America's longstanding policy of strategic ambiguity toward taiwan. but beijing heard that -- what biden said and the stakes couldn't be higher, as china sends a record number of warplanes into taiwan's defense zone, including fighter jets and nuclear-capable bombers. thanks for joining us tonight. i'm kate bolduan. "ac 360" starts now. good evening. we begin tonight with breaking news, and unanswered questions in the fatal shooting with a prop handgun on the set of an alec baldwin movie that wounded the film's director and took the life of the director of photography, helena hutchins. it ha...

Against taiwan. natasha, what have you learned? >> so china and taiwan -- taiwan emerged as a major flashpoint because china ramped up aggression to unprecedented level against taiwan, a democratically governed island which the u.s. supports in recent weeks. with more than 52 chinese aircraft flying into the defense zone. the united states has always -- not always but for a very long time had strategic ambiguity. we're not going to say for sure whether we would come to taiwan's defense if china did in fact, invade. china wants to see taiwan identified with the mainland. now the question that i...

Abroad? >> you know, it's interesting. we talk about the power of the united states, and the military used to talk about being the tip of the spear. i would also argue that our diplomats are the tip of the spear and some of our news people are, and so are our business people. but the real strength of the spear doesn't lie in the tip. it lies in the shaft, the weight and strength of the shaft, the ability to put power behind what you do. countries around the world can watch the united states, and they can sense if we're divided. they can sense that if we are not willing to come behind the polic...