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Conducted naval drills east of taiwan. cnn's paula hancocks has been monitoring the situation from seoul, south korea and she joins us now. paula, give us the reaction from taiwan to these latest chinese war planes. >> reporter: well, isa, taiwan reacted in the same way it always does have to react when beijing carries out these incursions, which is done frequently over recent years. it does have to scramble and it activates its missile defense system. it also gives verbal warnings. and taiwan is really criticized beijing for what it calls these gray zone tactics, for really putting the pressu...

Saturday? is that what this is about? >> reporter: laura, that is certainly the assumption. there is rarely a coincidence in this aerial incursions by beijing. they have done frequent flights in the air defense zone in taiwan. this was the biggest so far this year. among them there were 34 fighter jets and a nuclear capable bomber. taiwan did what it often has to do in these cases and it had to scramble. it issued verbal warnings, radio warnings. it activated the missile defense system. it really criticizes china for what it calls carrying out these gray zone tactics to try and put the pressur...

"countering russian gray zone efforts are not specific to just the u.s. defense department but must be part of a whole of u.s. government effort that leverages all elements of u.s. national power. russia's gray zone tactics are most effective when the target of those tactics is deeply polarized or lacks the capacity to resist and respond effectively to russian aggressi aggression. conversely, countries that are resilient against attempts to divide their populous or economic coercion or wield proxy forces, those entities can better handle subconventional threats from russia." meaning threats fr...

Pursued malign influence in all regions of the world to mitigate their inferior conventional capability. russia has a growing and demonstrated capacity and willingness to exercise maligned influence in europe and abroad including in the united states. quote, countering russian gray zone efforts are not specific to just the u.s. defense department, but must be part of a whole of u.s. government effort that leveraging all elements of u.s. national power. russia's gray zone tactics are most effective when the target of the tactics is deeply polarized or lacks the capacity to resist and respond ef...

Countries. they are using gray zone tactics in the ukraine. these are things that nato led by western europe led by the united states ultimately need to improve on. there's much room for improvement here but the outcome of the nato meeting means that all countries will be looking to grow their defense spending. that's just the first step. eric: what should nato do especially let's say for example dealing with ukraine? the first time as pointed out since world war ii since russia invaded a european country, what realistically can be done because it seems like nothing can be done. the building o...