Xi Warning News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

words. critics say president biden's words not nearly strong enough. house speaker's nancy pelosi visit to taiwan adding tension between the u.s. and china. this is "the faulkner focus" and i'm dagen mcdowell in for harris. xi warning biden not to play with fire when it comes to taiwan. speaker pelosi's possible stop there. the speaker is set to leave for asia today and expect to hear from her later this hour. general jack keane criticizing america's passive approach to an aggressive china. >> the old paradigm we've used for years, which is self-censorship and self-deterring in our r...

also tonight, there's growing frustration inside the biden administration right now, as the kremlin refuses to engage with a u.s. offer to exchange brittney griner and paul weelan for a russian arms dealer. i'll speak with a key white house official john kirby. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." let's get right to cnn's exclusive new reporting on the u.s. justice department's criminal probe into january 6th. federal prosecutors preparing to fight in court to force former white house officials to t...

A new wave of covid-19. the worst since wuhan 2020. economic blow back from the war in ukraine is the last thing beijing can afford. american officials have warned china will pay a price if it circumvents sanctions to help russia. or helps militarily. >> china has to make a decision for the themselves about where they want to stand. and how they want the history books to look at them and view their actions. and that is the decision for president xi and chinese to make. >> president biden right now hoping to get xi to take on the role of peacemaker. interesting to compare the read outs from bot...

They are playing up that xi pressed biden on taiwan, which china considers part of its sovereignty. xi warning biden that if the taiwan issue is not handled properly, erin, he says it won't be good for u.s.-china relations. >> all right. thank you very much. david culver, fantastic report there from china tonight. out front next. russians beginning to feel the sting of sanctions but are other countries about to suffer, too? as ukrainian workers abandon their firms to fight. >> guess where -- where all the farmers are. they got guns in their hand defending their land. >> and from the tennis cou...

Look at them and view their actions, and that is a decision for president xi and the chinese to make. >> reporter: president biden hoping to get xi to take on the role of peace maker. interesting to compare readouts from both sides. u.s. side stressing it was mostly about ukraine with biden warning xi of consequences should china help russia. state media in china playing up that xi pressed biden on taiwan which china considers part of its sovereignty. xi warning biden if the taiwan issue isn't handled property, it won't be good for u.s./china relations. coming up, two million ukrainian refug...