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All right. more pressure on the white house this morning after another round of provocations from china against taiwan. the chinese military carrying out drills in a province directly across the sea from taiwan. taiwan, of course, is democratically ruled, but beijing is stepping up pressure to force it to accept chinese control. the u.s. caught in the middle here. david culver is live from shanghai. david, we've seen air force incursions into air force defense zone. they are making a push to change the status quo here. >> reporter: if we go back to that video, christine, you were showing, this...

While having to walk a very careful line when it comes to taiwan. biden is concerned about the military move china making around taiwan, saying they are destabilizing and undermining regional peace. we are watching unprecedented military moves from china and taiwan. over the past few days a record number of chinese warplanes going into the taiwanese defense zone. taiwan hosting a military parade with a huge number or a huge amount of military hardware, much of it funded by the united states. during that parade, the taiwanese president saying she will continue to bolster taiwan's national defen...

Overnight, china lashed out at taiwan's president for a speech celebrating the island's national day. taiwan's leader said she will not bow to beijing after china flew a record number of planes into their defense zone. will ripley live in taipei with the latest developments. this is just one more step in what has been an incredibly intense few weeks. >> reporter: and the united states is really front and center in all of this, john. at that parade, we saw really huge numbers of american weapons. f-16s flying overhead. patriot missiles. they started to increase during the trump years. china of ...

But you do still get these kinds of crashes, usually smaller aircraft, particularly in the region. claudia, a real tragedy. if there is a silver lining, though, in this story, it is that six people pulled out of that plane alive. all of them now in the hospital, fighting for their lives. claudia? >> claudia: ryan, we are pulling for them as well. ryan chilcote in london, thank you very much. eric? >> eric: claudia, taiwan showing off its military might during celebrations for its national day today. thousands looked on as soldiers marched and tanks rumbled through the streets. growing tensions...

Jinping is under attack from other leaders because of his policies are considered to be failures he needs an enemy and is trying to divert not only the senior chinese leadership but the chinese people picking on taiwan. arthel: does this put the u.s. in a geopolitical predicament or a military conflict with china? >> certainly a potential military conflict because china is pushing us we have seen the planes fly through taiwan's defense zone tomorrow is taiwan's national day but we could see china do more provocative i tend to think they want for a number of reasons with the chinese have a way ...