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of the world have been pretty consistent from obama, even to trump and here to biden, of continuing these freedom of navigation operations, as they're called, sailing through international waters, the straits, the south china sea, et cetera. none of those operations are new. the frequency is about the same. what has changed is china's aggression in responding to them. and also things we've talked about on this broadcast before, flying surveillance balloons over the continental u.s. so it has ratcheted up. and there is, by the way, you get some of that criticism from democrats, not just republicans, as well, as to what can the u.s. do to project greater strength, while at the same time, and this goes to millie's comments there, not escalating. because there's great concern about, you know, what -- you're both measuring each ortther's reactions, right? and you don't want to get caught on some sort of escalation ladder, where you get within the
>> oh, well, people look at 150 yards and say that's plenty of time and space to maneuver. we have to remember. the "uss chung-hoon," talking about trying to stop a vessel in its length which you probably can't do with your car on the highway. and this would not be like a car accident. this is like two buildings colliding together. so it is very difficult. in the open ocean, we prefer to keep about 2,000 yards away from other transiting ships. maybe as near as perhaps 1,000 yards. but generally that's about as close as you need to come in the open ocean. the taiwan straits are 150 miles wide. there is no reason for ships to have to pass that close unless it is a deliberate provocation. >> i've been on ships during coordinated exercises with ships
The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) handled a provocative transit in the Taiwan Straits made by US and Canadian warships on Saturday, with a Chinese destroyer reportedly forcing the US vessel to alter course by cutting in front of it, showing determination and capability in countering the provocation, experts said on Sunday.
the area, are part of a larger chinese project. i think they're trying to warn the united states about keeping its commitments to taiwan supplying it with weapons and the like. we saw similar speech by the chinese defense minister at the shangri-la conference. and so requires a strategic response that shows that the united states, whether it is in the taiwan strait or the south china sea is not going to give up its rights to transit the straits, to have innocent passage for its naval vessels aand to show that china they're assertion of sovereignty over any part of the world that we don't recognize already as china, something we're simply not going to accept. >> and let me ask you about north korea. i'm sure you saw this, former president donald trump recently praised that country's dictator kim jong-un over the north korea
away quite quickly, sunshine coming through. the outside chance of a shower a bit later on and into the afternoon for north—western scotland, the northern isles might stay great, but also lots of sunshine, particularly in sheltered western areas. here we can see temperatures widely around 22, 23, may be as high as 25 stop don't forget the stiff breeze in the far southeast across the straits of dover. here it might feel a bit fresher. uv levels high, obviously with the sunshine now injune, so please take note. 0vernight guess what? we do it all again, that cloud nibbles back to the west, through the night, it will stay to the east of the pennines, perhaps, we can keep that great story going throughout the early hours of monday morning. monday will start off cloudy and a bit disappointing, further west a little bit of patchy mist and fog quickly lifting away, lots of sunshine coming through and gradually that cloud burns back, and
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diplomacy, to our economic well-being, and we need to rebuild the military. we need to have coast guard ships in the south china sea, our naval ships in the taiwan straits telling the chinese you can't just declare massive chunks of international water withs are yours because you're bigger and you've got the might to do it. so peace through strength is what will protect us, protect taiwan, but it'll also protect our other allies like the philippines and the asean countries, our partners in asia, from -- jason: yeah, there was some action off vietnam, even russia was involved in a contentious way with china. >> yeah. that was pretty surprising. it just shows how emboldened the chinese are. before they would have never infringed on russian rights. there's a russian-convenient that please gas bloc that's being exploited, and the chinese have sent their ships in there and acted like it was their territory. they would have never done that to the russians before, but i
long-term contracts like 80% of the australian lithium market. they're relentless, they're on the move, and we're not doing what we need to the to secure our future. jason: well, china's also on the move in the south china sea, you've got the taiwan situation. give us the latest from your perspective. >> what we're seeing, and has been going on for several years, china has declared the entire with south china sea -- which, you know, about 80% of world trade travels through, it's a massive swath of the pacific ocean, and chairman mccaul was right, he was talking about the taiwan straits which is close to the south china sea. but all this world trade goes through this area, and china declared based on, quote, historical rights, that they control the south south china sea, like it's like a lake that hoe of china, and they've -- tahoe of china. president obama said it's a red line, don't build the islands, and the chinese said it's for maritime safety. and instead they've militarized these islands, and they're in
A Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy flotilla led by the aircraft carrier Shandong reportedly sailed through the Taiwan Straits on Saturday, amid intensive PLA warplane and warship activities around the island of Taiwan following US delivery of Stinger missiles to the island.