gerry: a final question on taiwan do you really think the u.s. is prepared to go to war with china to defend taiwan's independence? >> militarily prepared, probably not. >> to think the american people would be willing to go to war with china over taiwan. >> is a good question but if we remember what happened with imperial japan when the uses same strategy to advance from the first island which taiwan is a centerpiece in the second island to projected power we know what will happen, the c line in the south china sea are some of the most critical in the world and that's why we projectile the way that we do it goes back centuries to protect the economic prosperity and nobody wants war but we get war women get weakness and that's what i'm afraid with joe biden. gerry: another fascinating conversation thank you for joining us coming up simone biles withdraws the tokyo lipid games criticism and praise this week, my thoughts on why both responses are completely unjustified. that is next. >> i thought it was best if you took over into the rest of the jo

gerry: finally we've been very focused on china's language with regard to taiwan and the u.s. has repeatedly committed to support, do you think the u.s. is in a position is it effectively deterring the possibility of the chinese from taiwan. >> our intent is to develop a sufficient force of the appropriate allies in the credible belief among the chinese that will use the force, that would add up to deterrent effect, i do think we have the right forces and i think it is down to a razors edge and will be a significant advantage, when you pick about a conflict with china in the east china sea with japan were in very good shape because of the japanese allies, i think it a conflict with taiwan were gonna need to invest in taiwan's ability to be a porcupine it's very hard for the chinese to digest, we still need to do work and develop a taiwanese capability so there is enough time for the states air force to arrive. gerry: we are out of time but my great thanks to admiral mark montgomery, it's fascinating, i will be back next week with more in-depth interviews on the walle meantime,

and he called for taiwan to be brought back under chinese control. and he said china will not be intimidated by threats from abroad. observer. see his comments as a warning to western countries that have criticize beijing for both it's human rights abuses. and it's correct down on hong kong. the, it was a spectacle designed to impress, showing off the parties dominance. gentlemen square was packed with 70000 hand pick spectators. putting on a show of patry arctic fervor, the cannons roared $100.00 times. once a year, the chinese communist parties existence you see on the streets of beijing lawyer the gathered to enjoy what they could see of the celebrations. it's been 100 years since the party was founded. it is under 30. china has developed and people's lives have got better. of course i'm happy that there was a good word, echoing the message of president. she didn't ping, perhaps the party's most powerful leader, since it's found my dog. standing above my portrait and dressed in a suit to him and listened to the chairman, she praised the ccp for li

chinese is talking about reunionification of taiwan. are the bidens compromised? after the break the blm chapter black lives matter declaring the american flag is a symbol of hate. we have larry and leo. were the videotape of masturbation for first graders and 6 years old. we have an update on that uplifting story. straight ahead. >> sean: it looks like blm, black lives matter, is just the latest far left radical group to wage a war on the american flag. they have a utah chapter that spent the 4th of july trashing the u.s. flag and even declaring it a symbol of hatred. look at this facebook post from sunday which reas: it's a symbol of hatred. let's compare that to the tampa bay lightning won the stanley cup. congratulations to them. the islanders fans started this. i hope this becomes the norm. fans taking over the singing of our national anthem like they did the for the islanders semi-final and last night. congratulations to the lightning. watch. >> ♪ the rocket's red glare ♪ ♪ the bombs bursting in air ♪ ♪ gave proof ♪ ♪ through the night ♪ ♪

action defending taiwan. they are planning on reunification with taiwan and ask yourself, what weight to any of biden's words carry when they see his struggles, when they see his lack of mental acuity, alertness, awareness, and when they see his s lack of a clear foreign policy vision. here know what the reaction, louisiana senator john kennedy. all right, so you've got cyberattacks from russia, iranians enriching again. you've got russia and china providing the iranians arms and china is now saying yeah, we're going for reunification just like they shut down hong kong, it's about to get worse and if you mess with us we have 1.5 billion people and we will take out your military sites. what's joe going to do, senator? >> i don't understand president biden's foreign policy. he keeps talking about rule-based order.. i don't know what that means. nobody is opposed to rules-based order. that would be like opposing golden retrievers, but don't know what it means. the question he needs to be asking is what does amer

other get out of jail free card i also don't think militarily we can dominate china near taiwan the way we use to or have that capability and therefore the scenario that would ensue is very complicated and therefore on the verge of that superpower potentially so i don't want to do anything to run the risk to run that type of scenario but with strategic ambiguity to be reconceptualized if it was a blockade with a cyberattack china has to know there is no going back to business as usual and we will respond is concerned it way and those economic punishments the chart presidency initiated or intensified would be small potatoes compared to the decoupling economically that has to happen if china was to attack with military force. some of that punishment strategy you could unwind if china word relent to end the blockade but we cannot be indifferent even if taiwan caused it. in that sense he is right the notion we might or might not respond militarily i'm not sure if we would respond to every scenario but in a broader powers since we would have to respond i think we surely would china shoul

what is the most concerning regarding taiwan? china can go get taiwan. russia deciding to use the money and the power they will have from this new pipeline to take the rest of ukraine? they took crimea. what is your take on all of this? >> i think the national security threat with the shortest fuse is out of afghanistan where the taliban was fighting an insurgency and now allowing al-qaeda to stay on their territory. we could have stay there had with troops. the director of cia testified to the fact that the united states will lack the ability to detect threats going forward. that's of great concern to me. the threat is from china. china sees us backing out of afghanistan and sees an opportunity there to increase their leverage. there is no question they have their sights set on taiwan. earlier this month at the anniversary of the chinese communist party ping said china will re-unify their nation. we need to collect intelligence on warnings of chinese threats to taiwan. more than that we need to deter them. we have not done that. >> that's a great point.

she's the research director for china, taiwan in hong kong. it freedom house, that's a washington based in geo. it's going to have you on the program, miss cook this massive spectacle on t ellamin square. knowing what happens there in 1989. what does this tell us about the power of the communist party to totally control the narrative? i think it says a lot about the aspirations of the part of the control, the narrative and melissa control chinese people. because i think a lot of the political feeder is also to demonstrate that, you know, whether you would want to salute the party or not the party can make you do that. and i think one of the things we see on social media, we're obviously on tenements. where is the level of censorship and control and full mentation, an amplification of nationalistic narrative, like what the party would like, but very fierce depression. of anybody trying to remember? well, the alternative and very bloody history of the chinese communist party in china. do you think people standing on that square to day people bor

taiwan calls it the largest air incursion every recorded. in this exclusive interview, taiwan's foreign minister tells cnn china is engaging in psychological warfare. >> they want to shape taiwanese's people that taiwan is in danger and cannot do without china. >> reporter: a battle between beijing and taipei, a fight for their hearts and minds. i'm flying to the front lines, across the taiwan strait to the small island more than 200 miles from the taiwanese capital just six miles from mainland china. this is the only place in taiwan that saw actual combat during china's civil war ending in 1949, many buildings bear the scars. the fighting ferocious. nationalist forces fended off communist troops, effectively shielding taiwan's main island, warding off a chinese invasion. >> translator: people often say only those who experienced war can understand its horror. we have the right to say loudly we want peace. >> reporter: long-time tour guide takes me under ground to one of the island's massive military bunkers, once top secret, now abanabandon

china is planting reunification with taiwan. we know about the crackdowns in hong kong, they are threatening any nation that will oppose them in any way. what is joe going to do with taiwan, going to stop iran, russia, and china from providing the iranians arms? these are not insignificant issues because of they see biden the way 57% of americans see him and 58% of independents and a third of democrats see him, that i'm guessing they are emboldened at this point. >> they see weakness, they see president biden say he was going to send our warships into the black c. watched him take the stand with him to hold him accountable. what did they come away after he threatened? they hacked more and what has biden done? we watched china take on hong kong when they said they would not. we watched 3 million people in hong kong carry american flags because they understood that america is more than a country. america is an idea. they understand what that stood for. the freedom of speech. watched it more than 32 years ago, 1 million college stu

the world in terms of how to treat taiwan. is u.s. going to show any pushback on any moves, for example, are i don't know what he is doing in terms of hong kong krichts cp invades hong kong throwing freedom fighters in jail we get a paper from biden administration, telling us that business should be concerned about doing business in hong kong. that is it? . terribly disappointing the beginning of administration i gave them a little bit of time to get their house in order but doesn't appear they are serious in responding to this to threat to republic from chinese communist party, the actions they've taken to date started in an anchorage china held a meeting with our secretary of state suggested that they are more marlly equivalent this wasn't a sufficient consequence policy on china ought to be you bipartisan this isn't a republican or democrat challenge this is american challenge the challenge of our times you talked hong kong we know whys happening in the west in xinjiang right here at home trying to buy strategic assets insi

of china so long as china doesn't do anything to enforce it, because taiwan is a u.s. ally, and a great ally, the chinese government probably won't invade, but they have been conducting a relentless pressure campaign in order to make taiwan's government more pliable. that includes sending their fighter planes into taiwan's air space all the time and interfering with their attempts to buy covid vaccines from the rest of the world. our government needs to send china a message that we won't let taiwan twist in the wind and the easiest way to do that would be to send them millions more doses of the vaccine in addition to being a true democracy, taiwan also has a vibrant business community, one that is dominated by taiwan semi-conductor which is arguably the most important company in the world right now. one of the major players in the secured 10 million doses of the pfizer vaccine from germany. taiwan semi makes most of the chips used for the internet of things and automobiles they're committed to building a jiggi gig gigantic foundry in arizona. so why not help them out w

the chinese state media, they are now publicly boasting a three-part plan to invade taiwan, and in case you don't know it's america's top ally in the region. in a long belligerent speech, china the chinese hostile dictator said he's committed to the hostile takeover of taiwan and also vowing that any country that stands in china's way will "have their heads bashed body against the great wall of steel forged by over 1.4 billion chinese people. the media is ignoring this and they have teamed up with russia and they are now supplying dangerous weapons that they are using in proxy wars all over the middle east. now they are voicing great concerns over iran's nuclear program as a country will now soon again begin to produce enriched uranium and a massive violation of obama's previous and precious nuclear deal. billions of dollars, cargo planes, cash end of the currency. no word on how biden plans to respond to any of theseus situations, just like it appears there is a plan of action against the kremlin. what's a joke do? up to 1500 businesses were targeted this time. the republican national

china is now openly talking about reunification with taiwan, if america dares to help our ally. it covers many in the latest cyberattacks from russia, and we showed you how russia and china have now aligned themselves and teamed up to fight iranians. it clearly none of these hostile actors fear or respect joe biden and neither does the taliban. as america draws no forces from afghanistan we have taliban extremists, they are moving in andov moving in quickly and nowe see they are seizing u.s. weapons and supplies ind the process and now the question is why on earth would we ever leave munitions and weaponry behind like this knowing the taliban would get a hold of it. it's simply madness. they know they will be no consequences for their actions under this administration.dn it's so bad that today biden was even asked if you trust at the taliban. >> mr. president, do you trust the taliban? >> president biden: is that serious question? no, i do not trust the taliban. >> mr. president, what you say your answer? >> president biden: that's a silly question, the answer is no. >> sean: th

she's the research director for china. taiwan in hong kong in freedom house. that's a washington based in geo. it's good to have you on the program. ms. cook this massive spectacle on t. m and square knowing what happens there in 1989. what does this tell us about the power of the communist party to totally control the narrative? i think it says a lot about aspirations of a part of the control, the narrative and melissa control chinese people. because i think a lot of this political feeder is also to demonstrate that, you know, whether you would want to salute the party or not the party can make you do that. and i think one of the things we see on social media, we're obviously on tenements. where is the level of censorship and control and full mentation, an amplification of nationalistic narrative, like what the party with like, but very fierce depression. of anybody trying to remember? well, the alternative and very bloody history of the chinese communist party in china. do you think people standing that square to day people born after 989? do you think many

but severe tropical storm info is making its way to the south of japan towards taiwan. it's expected to strengthen and bring with the really wet and windy weather to taiwan by the end of the week. the other is tropical storm chem parker, and that's moving its way across one gung province in china to the south of hong kong. we are expecting some really flooding rains and damaging winds. so we'll keep an eye on these as they make their way further in land. and as we move to south asia, it's a very wet picture across india. this was seen in mom by we had land slides and flash floods. they're off to $200.00 millimeters of rain fell in 6 hours. we are expecting more of that rain to in on date that western coast. strong winds as well all the way from my her rush track down to carola, but trying to looking slightly dryer, much of the wet weather can be found to the north east. really, we really going to see some torrential rains affecting parts of me and mom and thailand, we could see some flash flooding there. natural weather, update. sponsor cut on airways. the stories that

his bomber jacket they had to take off a patch that had taiwan on. john in the fast and furious made a great mistake of calling taiwan a country. he had to apologize to the chinese over that. let's put this into context. if during the cold war imagine if dan and chevy chase had to apologize for fighting the russians in spies like us or roger moore and other people that played james bond. you take your pick of films where hollywood had balls during the cold war to take on russia. now they will bend over backwards for china. >> spies like us. i am glad you called that out. that's a good motive. -- movie. we are about to celebrate independence day. you lost your legs in the u.s. military. what does the flag mean to you and your family? >> well, when i look at 15 stars and 13 red and white stripes i see the opportunity to wake up every day and make today better than yesterday. it doesn't matter if yesterday you lost two legs and a finger, in america, you get to wake up tomorrow and decide for yourself that today is better than yesterday. this weeks bette

now they want taiwan too and president xi called for complete reunionification and it seems like our government has no talk, no nothing this frankly is insane i know president trump was ham-handed in his policy towards china but he told xi that taiwan is off limits. don't even think about it. i don't hear the talknow to be fair, the moment biden was sworn in he sent a carrier group to the south china sea but the white house isn't articulating a clear policy japan has been more forceful about using the military and the constitution does not allow them to deploy troops overseas. china does have the ability to put the political squeeze on taiwan if they think biden won't respond in kind. the chinese are bankrolling opposition parties in taiwan because the government is too pro independence for their taste. what can the biden administration do right now, today? i want them to come out strongly, biden and xi explaining the flyers stop, attempts to choke taiwan's economy won't be tolerated any longer it is america defending a trusted ally is that a real policy? it is a darn start it is tim

some people doubt if taiwan will fight. i think they will fight and will hold that long enough for assistance to arrive from the west but a lot of questions there of course. cheryl: i want to bring in joe concha into this. joe, remember the chinese threatened us, they threatened the u.s. because of our dealings with taiwan, in particular financial dealings. joe: exactly. and the question is, i guess, what do we do in these situations? and i'm curious to ask christian as far as you talked about retaliation before against the chinese or against the russians for that matter for the cyber a attacks. what does that look like if i'm the average guy sitting at home and i hear retaliation, that's obviously not militarily because that wouldn't be a very good thing right now, particularly considering where we are in the world. >> right. it becomes difficult because the russians and chinese can attack us almost any way they want including attacking hospitals and holding servers ransom. we can't do that really. we have to conduct ourse

things that all chinese leaders would like to dominate the south china sea, with greater pressure on taiwan with great pressure on japan, the east china sea stand up and go sort of toe to toe with the united states. many chinese leaders didn't do that because china wasn't powerful enough. well now by all, now they had the military capability. now, now they have the economic cloud. so she is really in the chinese mold in that respect. he's different because china is different or should i crack a thank you very much for this analysis. today marks the launch of the european union's digital covert 19 statistical system. it's supposed to make traveling across the block easier by linking up the various existing apps approved by member states. certificate can be used on a smart phone or printed out and shows if someone is fully vaccinated as immunity or received in the recent negative test results. but it's also shaky stop airlines warning this system is not yet ready for roll out. and a search of the delta various could lead to authorities curtailing it's use do that because what about he got now

she's the research director for china, taiwan in hong kong. it freedom house, that's a washington based in geo. it's going to have you on the program. ms. cook this massive spectacle on t animal square. knowing what happens there in 1989. what does this tell us about the power of the communist party to totally control the narrative? i think it says a lot about aspirations of the part of the control, the narrative. and melissa control chinese people because i think a lot of the political feeder is also to demonstrate that, you know, whether you would want to salute the party or not the party can make you do that. and i think one of the things we see on social media, we're obviously on tenements. where is the level of censorship and control and full mentation, an amplification of nationalistic narrative, like what the party with like, but very fierce depression. of anybody trying to remember? well, the alternative and very bloody history of the chinese communist party in china. do you think people standing on that square to day people born after

china has held military exercises outside of taiwan after an aircraft landed in taiwan. that is according to the global times. the paper said the drills and the waters should be seen as a warning and determined to the u.s. and taiwan. it reported more complex military exercises will likely be staged in the future. angela merkel toward flood ravaged parts of western terminate as cleanup efforts continued, she called the situation frightening. the death toll is up to 180 as rescue efforts continue. her visit came a day after her heir apparent with some laughing while terminate's -- germany's president made remarks. in timeline, -- in thailand, police fired water cannons at activists marching to protest the government's handling of the coronavirus upgrade. the protest came despite restrictions on public gatherings of more than five people. cases have exceeded 400,000 and daily fatalities are breaking records. mexico says it wants to restart diplomatic and commercial ties with north korea. the country's foreign minister made the statement at the un security council meeting.

a telephone is full cost to bring heavy rains to taiwan and coastal china this weekend. authorities have put some reasons on high load. the warning comes days after reco flooding and essential trainees chinese province killed at least $51.00 people. a major cleanup operation is underway and the worst hit city of john jo. other cities in the region are under red alerts as rescue teams. a search for survivors. us emergency services a more than 5 and a half 1000 square kilometers ablaze across the country. thousands of people have to evacuate the homes. the fire season is being made worse by long and severe drought. and the u. s. government is giving up on us on a $100000000.00 and emergency assistance. some of that money will go towards helping those displaced by the recent spike and violence. that's all the bonds been seizing more a territory as american troops are pulling out president joe biden. and his african counterpart spoke on friday. fighting has assured i should have gone in the u. s. will provide development assistance in the future. now, when the taliban war, there will be no p

the good news i would say in a speech is when he did speak about taiwan, he didn't lay out a timetable, he talked about peaceful reunification. and talked about the main thing was that taiwan not declare independence and if that didn't happen there weren't specific threats. so as muscular as the speech was, a lot of red meat should we say, it didn't set new worrisome language out there on taiwan. >> ed luce, listening to the speech or reading accounts of the speech, it's the sort of speech that you would expect a politician to give on the 100th anniversary of their party. obviously china is a special case but i wasn't shocked by language that said china will never be preached to again, never be told what to do again. it's exactly -- tell me, maybe i'm wrong, i heard nothing there that sent alarm bells off only because he seemed to be speaking to a domestic crowd. >> yeah, there's that and also the fact that we got used to this more robust, more aggressive face of china to the world. so we've had several years of xi jingping and wolf warrior diplomacy being the norm with china. he didn'

as that rain is also swooping into taiwan. a run of rain for shanghai and our heavier pulses of rain toward the north of china, unsettled across the korean peninsula and some showers, tokyo and osaka on saturday. next we're going to go to southeast asia, look at this, some heavy rain pulling through northern vietnam. this will impact noise. we've got our southwest monsoon steering brain into loose on island in the philippines. so the american river, we know dangerous water levels and we continue to watch that further to the south. we'll see some spells as sunshine, but we do have rain for bank car coachman city called them poor singapore. right through to jakarta on saturday. there's an update on the south west monsoon. we're getting a bit of a breather for the west coast of india. the danger zone has now shifted further to the north end to the ease of for states like what spend golf and will. and this one in pakistan where we've got some fierce winds toward the southern portion of the country impacting karachi sponsored pay c

100th anniversary of the ruling communist party, irreversible rise, he got complete reunification of taiwan and want anyone who tries to bully beijing will face broken heads and bloodshed. we are back with dan henninger and bill mcgurn. dan, i think some of us thought with the soviet union in the 90s, that was the end of communism as a serious threat around the world. the communist party of tyler has managed to to survive and even prosper, how has it managed to survive despite the fall of communism elsewhere? >> it managed to survive through total control and disturbing waivers to party numbers. i can remember about 20 years ago i went to a conference about the future of the chinese financial system and thinking at the time most of the officials that i dealt with or met with were in their 30s and 40s, some of them described as having their parents been victims of the cultural revolution and one came away thinking for younger generation would rise and find an alternative to the communist party. i was completely wrong about that. they rose in the communist party and benefited from it and part

military aircraft landed in taiwan in the last two months. the paper said the drills should be seen as a warning and deterrent to the u.s. and taiwan. it is reported more complex exercises will be staged in the future. global news 24 hours a day on air and on bloomberg quicktake, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i am yvonne man. this is bloomberg. kathleen: president biden and global leaders across the pacific held a virtual meeting to discuss how the world can best emerge from the pandemic even as nations grapple with a deadly resurgence of virus cases. one leader was notably absent. president xi jinping. joining us is our editor. xi sent a prerecorded message. tell us about it. tony: there was some expectation that there would be a face-off between biden and xi at this meeting. that did not happen, that it gave biden his chance to lay out the u.s. position. in terms that sound familiar to china, even though xi was not at the meeting. there has been so much on the table in fact that could have di

>> well, taiwan, first of all. by the way, the idea of china taking over taiwan anytime soon, i think, is out of the question. i don't think that'll happen. so taiwan is one area. korea's the other area. so these smaller asian countries are doing can very well. and, of course, as you know, taiwan is really the center of the semiconductor development in terms of semiconductor development. so i think many, many opportunities outside of china. if. maria: all right. mark, real quick, you just said it's out of the question. why are you so sure? you don't think china makes a run for taiwan anytime soon? >> >> is simply because i don't think china would like to have a militarying confrontation, and that's what it will mean. not only because the u.s. will be in, but taiwan itself. maria: okay. yeah, all right. great point. mark, it's good to see you this morning. thanks very much. >> thank you. maria: mark mobius joining us this morning. much more ahead. coming up, the white house responding to china as the country continu

. >> taiwan. >> a lot of people are concerned about that because if you keep going down this road and this level of aggression in our ca capital markets, but it were to extend beyond that you've talked about this many times. >> previous presidents -- i want to make sure you understand i will do something drastic if you touch taiwan i think people are testing biden. i think the russians are testing biden with their cyber attacks, and i think the chinese are testing biden with what they do first financially and then it will be -- >> you discussed prospect, the possibility could it actually happen that they would make a move on taiwan of course the chip making capability there is such a key to the overall world economy. >> people think it's going to be military they're just going to squeeze the economy. look, we've always had sovereignty and the government agrees with us, and we've got a new government they wouldn't do it with troops. it's not like the eighth army, which is building bridges is suddenly going to take over. >> back to the stocks and you know, i have another source here tha

and it would allow she she penk to peacefully reunify with taiwan. saying that he would crush any notion of taiwanese independence which then of course the military intimidation and cyberattacks that could paralyze infrastructure all at once. that is where that all comes into play. so it really is a multi pronged threat that they feel that he there are facing here on the island of taiwan and they believe a lot of that threat is coming from mainland china. >> fascinating reporting. thanks so much for that, will ripley in taipei. >>> the organization for economic cooperation and development says 130 nations including china and i said i can't hindia have endorsed plan for a global minimum tax rate. president biden welcomed the agreement as a step towards ensuring that companies no longer pit countries against one another in a bid to push tax rates down. french finance minister offered this -- >> translator: i welcome this major progress, it paves the way for a new international tax system as france has been asking for more than four years. it is an am b

same time our military bases were being threatened by the communist chinese and the reunification with taiwan was being talked about and -- you know, if these things were happening and if donald trump leveraged a billion dollars to get a prosecutor fired who was investigating one of the trump sons, i don't know, i would imagine that conflict of interest investigations would begin. would you imagine the same? >> well, sean, that story sounds awfully familiar. i think somebody actually did do that. and i think if you look at it and the american people are smart enough to know that if this was any republican, this would be a massive political scandal of one that we've really never seen. and don't forget, right before the election, this was supposedly russian disinformation. it wasn't just biden who said that. it was over 50 top intelligence and military officials who also said it. and i think at some point you have to ask yourself where these former officials and the bidens and the biden campaign, where they colluding with russia? where they colluding with china to help cover this up using the f

seems like an escalation in tone and other actual activities, flying bombers and jets around taiwan, a series of things that they have done that have surprised people even inside the biden administration. where this is going is harder to tell. if we're dealing with a temporary set of rhetorical comments, that is one thing. if we're dealing with china on a road to real aggression, we'll probably rue the day we didn't do something in 2021 instead of observing this. >> mike pence gave a terrific talk and he blasted america's cozy ties to china and especially focusing on the business and entertainment industries. watch. >> beijing has exploited america and coerced athletes and entertainers into not only withholding criticism from the regime but actively singing their praise. i call on the biden administration to increase the number of chinese companies prohibited from american investment by at least an order of magnitude. >> laura: gordon, should any u.s. company be invested or working with chinese companies that the this point given everything that we know? >> absolutely not, laura. bei

i think they're going to do something on taiwan. what i'm curious about how the world will respond when it does? >> i think you're absolutely right, neil. what we're seeing, this celebration is something chilling on a scale that i would compare to the rise of fascism in the 1930s and i think you're absolutely right. he is planning to make good on those threats one way or another. i hope that we will find the backbone and the will and wisdom to deter that, to delay it, deter it, look for any way to make sure that does not happen. my great fear is that if china goes ahead, and i think the time frame is after the olympics in china next february, which should have been canceled by the international olympic committee but have not been. we're going to in some capacity. look to the sochi model with putin. after the sochi olympics he grabbed crimea. my fear the world will say it is not worth going to war with china over this. the truth is we must stop it. neil: if you think about it, go back to 1936, when germany hosted the olympics we know

on it, the fast and the furious, however many of those, he accidentally made the mistake of calling taiwan a country, he apologized endlessly in mandarin to the chinese over that. let's put this in context. if during the cold war imagine if dan ackroyd and chevy chase had to apologize for fighting the russians inspires like us or roger moore and other people who play james bond if they had to apologize for taking on the russians, or you take your pick of films where hollywood had balls during the cold war to take on russia but now they will bend over backwards for china. jason: spies like us, glad you called that out, that is a good movie. i haven't watched that in a while. we are about to celebrate independence day. you served our nation in the military, lost your legs. what does the flag mean to you in your family? >> when i look at 50 stars and 13 red and white stripes what i see is the opportunity to wake up every single day and make today better than yesterday. it doesn't matter if yesterday you lost two legs and a finger. in america you get to wake up tomorrow and decide for your sel

this is the weiwuying, taiwan's brand new national art centre. the centre has been built to become a fixture on the international performance circuit. so this might look like a big empty warehouse, but we are actually backstage at one of the more intimate auditoriums here. it can seat around 1,200 people. the centre will stage its own performances and host international touring productions. the weiwuying has four main stages — an opera house, a concert hall, a playhouse and a recital hall. pipe organ plays this splendid venue can seat over 2,000 people. after rehearsal, organist tony liu kindly offered to show me the pride of the concert hall. wow, tony, that was amazing. yeah, thank you so much. what does it feel like to play such a magnificent instrument? yeah, it's very exciting because i can make any kind of music in here. and... the high pitch here. ooh! like birds. and the very, very low, we do have very, very low pipes. 0h. you can hear the entire house vibrating. how co—ordinated do you need to be? how many keyboards are there here? t

xi jinping pledged to build up china's military, committed to the reunification of china and taiwan, and said social stability will be insured in hong kong while protecting china's security and sovereignty. >> triumphant, xi jinping declared china's communist party had achieved its goal of 100 years and was well on its way to achieving its next. >> we are now marching confidently toward making china into a great, modern socialist power in all respects. >> the impeccably choreographed ceremony with a massive crowd of party loyalists not only served to show china's might on the world stage but that of its ruler. his quest for power is now a well-known legend. born into an elite political family, he saw his fortune's sink as a small child when his father al out-of-favor. the young man persevered and eventually made his way into the communist party. as a senior provisional official, he became known for his tough stance against corruption before taking up the top position in shanghai, china's economic capital. since becoming president in 2012, he has steadily increased his grip for power.