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Into the taiwanese identification zone, that is seen as provocative by taiwan and its allies. a lot of that is business as usual, linked to these sorts of anniversaries where we see an uptick in rhetoric, but there is also a sense that possibly the political and strategic balance is shifting, the politics because taiwan and china in many ways have never been further apart, many ways have never been furtherapart, china many ways have never been further apart, china growing increasingly authoritarian and taiwan a modern democracy, but as china grows more authoritarian it is growing stronger, mor...

Now, was it more about the tone or was there actually something new in what he was saying? >> i think it was more the timing that it is coming after the display of chinese air force might flying into the chinese identification zone over the past week. a lot of the rhetoric surpass the area which has existed for ages. taiwan is a breakaway region. it is part of china. >> it reiterated the position that they will one day come back under beijing's rule even though the party has never once had a day of control of taiwan. he insisted that this was the will of the chinese people. he also urged peopl...

Latest development will ripley joins us from taipei. will, you and i were talking about this yesterday. now we're seeing another four incursions by chinese aircraft. give me a sense of how worried taiwan is, but also its allies here. >> reporter: well, there is a palpable sense of relief that at least this is a slower day because you have to keep wondering how many days are they going to keep escalating the number of planes. so at least for now the numbers that have been reported publicly are small, but the day is young and we know these operations happen by day and by night. but, look, the tr...

Happening now on the part of china? . ., , ., china? on october one, the peeple's — china? on october one, the people's republic _ china? on october one, the people's republic of - china? on october one, the people's republic of china l people's republic of china celebrated the 72nd anniversary of its establishment and so the warplanes was going on to taiwan and events identification zone, the number 77, unprecedented unto this point and historic, the second is because china has been very upset about the strengthening relationship between the united states and taiwan and that has been an ong...

Surprised to hear about it. then the jgeneral response is, ugh, again. china has been doing this for quite some time. taiwan's ministry of national defense started announcing this basically last year and this is now two consecutive days with the two highest numbers of planes in taiwan's self-declared identification zone, since they started announcing it publicly. 39 planes on saturday, 39 on friday. that's 77 told war planes. and if you look at the list of the hardware that was in the skies. and we don't know the totals for sunday yet. you had more than six dozen chinese war planes, 368 fighte...