nothing unusual about this. let them to speak to its schedule, as i said clearly at the top there is absolutely no reason for beijing to react differently in this regard. thanks, hi, john. i have a question on the summit of the democracies. iraq is the only arab country participating. more adhere to democratic values. summit for democracy gives us a chance to speak at a multi-lateral platform with many nations about what we are all doing to enhance transparency and accountability and abide by the consent of the government, and we are delighted that iraq can participate, and we ll see what the next one looks like and who gets invited to attend and who participates. but we would hope that all democracies as they look at the outcome of this week will want to follow suit. also in israel, you see the attitude of prime minister netanyahu disrespentful of the president? i mean, he s known to not have a good relationship with democratic presidents, including president obama, he
questions, is the white house ready to sit down with maduro s government to try to solve the political crisis in venezuela as suggested today? we are interested certainly in interesting continued discussions here, but i m not aware of any formal meeting. and about the john: we are going to jump out there as john kirby, the national security council spokesman continues to take some questions. a couple of big items he talked about, the upcoming summit for democracy which kicks off tomorrow, also talking about the taiwanese president s visit to the united states, scheduled to meet with speaker mccarthy in los angeles a week from today saying no reason for china to overreact, and then talking about tiktok as well, because today is the day, sandra, the deadline for government employees to take tiktok off
cybersecurity is a major issue. china wants to be a bully here. they understand what s going on. and that s why when you talk about even that the taiwanese president coming to meet speaker mccarthy. china will not and cannot john: are democrats just freaked out about the fact they could lose all the gen z voters if they ban tiktok? i think they are afraid of a backlash for sure and it s hard to explain this if you don t believe china has the opportunity to influence your constituents. this is a national security issue of the highest order. they are moving out, remember, xi met with putin and basically said 100 years ago there was a great event which is the revolution for the communist party and the precursor to the soviet union. he s saying it s going to happen
or says, and the great thing about a deep friendship is you can be that candid with one another. thank you. i hear you saying there s no need for china to respond and yet they have threatened retaliation if the house speaker meets with the leader of taiwan. so, what is the administration bracing for? we what we hope to see here is a normal, uneventful transit by president wang, that s what happened before and no reason to be any different this time. i will let beijing speak for itself, i m not going to speak for speaker mccarthy. no reason for the chinese to overreact. we saw what happened when former house speaker pelosi visited taiwan, there was a very robust backlash in response from china. so, wouldn t it stand to reason