THEY SAVED THE DAY.
SQUIRT AND MAY.
MEANWHILE TENSIONS IN EAST ASIA
AS WE HAVE BEEN REPORTING.
TAIWAN REPORTING THE LARGEST
INCURSION TO DATE BY CHINA IN
AIR SPACE FLYING CHINESE
AIRCRAFT IN TAIWAN AIR SPACE.
25 WAR PLANES, 25 WAR PLANES
ENTERED IDENTIFICATION ZONE
MONDAY DAYS AFTER WARNING FROM
THE UNITED STATES.
JOINING ME RIGHT NOW IS FOX NEWS
SENIOR STRATEGIC ANALYST GENERAL
JACK KEANE.
GENERAL, GOOD TO SEE YOU THIS
MORNING ON THIS VERY SERIOUS AND
REALLY WORRYING STORY AS WE
WATCHED TAIWAN AND WHETHER OR
NOT WE ARE GOING TO SEE A BIGGER
INCURSION THAN THESE -- THAN
THESE AIRCRAFT GOING IN AND THEN
I WILL POINT OUT TO THIS JOURNAL
OP-ED, THIS JOURNAL STORY THIS
MORNING IN THE -- IN THE NEWS
SECTION, CHINA’S MESSAGE TO
AMERICA.
WEWE ARE AN EQUAL NOW.
YOUR THOUGHTS ON WHAT WE ARE
SEEING OUT OF CHINA AND WHETHER
OR NOT WE WILL SEE MORE IN
TENSIONER OF TAIWAN?
JACK: WELL, YES, MARIA.
YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.
IT’S LIKELY IT’S GOING TO BE
MORE BECAUSE THAT’S BEEN A
PATTERN FOR WELL OVER A YEAR.
2020 WAS THE LARGEST INCURSIONS
OF TAIWAN’S AIR SPACE IN 2021
AND INCREASING IN 2020, THIS IS
MOST AMOUNT OF AIRCRAFT, 18
FIGHTERS, FOUR BOMBERS,
SUBMARINE AIRCRAFT, ET CETERA.
THIS IS SIGNIFICANT IN THE SENSE
OF PRESIDENT XI CLEARLY IS
SENDING A MESSAGE.
NOW WHO IS THIS MESSAGE BEING
SENT TO WHEN HE KNOWS FOR A FACT
THAT INTIMIDATING AND COERCING
TAIWAN WILL NOT FORCE THEIR
CAPITULATION TO GIVE UP AND JOIN
MAINLAND CHINA.
HE KNOWS PRESIDENT WON
REELECTION ON THE BASIS OF NOT
DOING THAT.
ALL THEY DO IS STIFFEN TAIWAN’S
RESOLVE.
WHAT’S THE MESSAGE IS ABOUT?
I THINK IT’S TWO THINGS.
ONE TO THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION.
I THINK THEY WERE QUITE PUSHED
BACK BY THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION
WHEN THEY TOOK A SIMILAR STRONG
STAND SUPPORTING TAIWAN AND ALSO
ON ANTI-CHINA STAND THAT THE
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TOOK.
YOU SAW THAT REFLECTION IN THE
VERBIAGE THAT THE CHINESE
MINISTERS WERE USING AT THE
ALASKA TALKS BETWEEN THE CHINESE
AND THE UNITED STATES.
THE SECOND MESSAGE, I THINK,
ALSO IS TO THE CHINESE PEOPLE,
AND THAT IS, I THINK, PRESIDENT
XI CLEARLY WANTS TO ABSORB
TAIWAN.
I THINK HE HAS IT IN HIS MIND TO
EVENTUALLY DO IT BY FORCE IF
NECESSARY AND HE’S ALSO
CONDITIONING HIS DOMESTIC
AUDIENCE THAT THERE’S PROBLEMS
HERE AND HE’S RAISING THEIR
AWARENESS OF THAT IN THE EVENT
THEIR CONFLICT DOES TAKE PLACE.
BUT I DON’T BELIEVE THIS IS
EMINENT AND CERTAINLY NOT BEFORE
THE CHINESE OLYMPICS BUT THE
LIKELIHOOD IS INCREASING, MARIA.
MARIA: ALL RIGHT, SO YOU DON’T
SEE IT HAPPENING BEFORE THE
CHINESE OLYMPICS.
IT’S A GOOD POINT THAT YOU ARE
MAKING.
WHY WOULD THEY WANT TO DO THAT
IN FRONT OF THE WORLD AS THE
WORLD APPARENTLY GETS READY TO
GO SEE THE OLYMPICS IN BEIJING.
BUT HERE IS WHAT THE JOURNAL
WRITES THIS MORNING, MR. YANG,
THE FOREIGN ASSOCIATE FROM
BEIJING, XI JINPING’S TOP
FOREIGN POLICY AID DELIVERED A
SURPRISE, A 16-MINUTE LECTURE
ABOUT AMERICA’S RACIAL PROBLEMS
AND DEMOCRATIC FAILINGS AND
CHINESE OFFICIALS WERE TO MAKE
CLEAR THAT BEIJING SEES ITSELF
AS AN EQUAL OF THE UNITED
STATES.
HE ALSO WARNED WASHINGTON
AGAINST CHALLENGING CHINA OVER A
MISSION BEIJING VIEWS AS SACRED,
THE EVENTUAL REUNIFICATION OF
TAIWAN.
SO CLEARLY THAT CAME UP IN THAT
MEETING BUT WHAT I’M TRYING TO
UNDERSTAND IS WHY THE
CORONAVIRUS DID NOT COME UP IN
THE ALASKA MEETING, GENERAL.
I MEAN, THIS IS A
HEAD-SCRATCHER, PRESIDENT BIDEN
HAS BEEN PUTTING THE CORONAVIRUS
AS ITS NUMBER ONE PRIORITY AND
YET WE KNOW BEIJING AND THE CCP
HID THE VIRUS, CORNERED THE PPE
IN THE WORLD, ALLOWED THE
CORONAVIRUS TO ESCAPE ITS
BORDERS, NO MATTER WHERE IT CAME
FROM, ALLOWED IT TO ESCAPE ITS
BORDERS AND GO ALL AROUND THE
WORLD AND KILL MILLIONS OF
PEOPLE.
I SPOKE WITH THE FORMER NATIONAL
DIRECTOR OF -- NATIONAL
INTELLIGENCE ON SUNDAY MORNING
FUTURES, HERE IS WHAT JOHN
RATCLIFFE TOLD ME ABOUT THAT.
JOHN: THE BIG WINNER IN THE 2020
ELECTION WAS JOE BIDEN, WAS ALSO
CHINA AND THE FACT THAT JOE
BIDEN IS NOT OR HIS DIPLOMATS
ARE NOT ADDRESSING THIS ISSUE
DIRECTLY WITH CHINA, I THINK,
REALLY REFLECTS THAT EVERYTHING
THAT THEY’VE SAID ABOUT CHINA
ABOUT BEING TOUGH IS -- IS JUST
THAT.
IT’S RHETORIC AND -- AND THE
POLICIES ARE REALLY AN ATTEMPT
NOW TO -- TO WHITE-WASH OVER
THIS ISSUE BECAUSE THEY DON’T
WANT THE POLITICAL NARRATIVE OF
CHINA BEING THE BAD GUY AND LET
ME BE REAL CLEAR ABOUT THIS,
MARIA, REGARDLESS OF THE
ORIGINS, WHETHER IT WAS
NATURALLY OCCURRING OR AN
ACCIDENT LAB, CHINA LIED TO THE
WORLD.
ONCE THEY BECAME AWARE OF THE
TRANSMITTABILITY OF THIS HUMAN
TO HUMAN TRANSMISSIBILITY AND
CHINA MISREPRESENTED AND LIED AN
SUPPRESSED SCIENTISTS AND
DOCTORS AND JOURNALISTS AND
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
OFFICIALS BECAUSE THEY DIDN’T
WANT TO BE BLAMED FOR THIS.
AND AS A RESULT, THEY ARE A
DIRECT AND PROXIMATE CAUSE OF
MORE THAN HALF A MILLION
AMERICANS WHO DIED IN THE PAST
YEAR AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
DESERVE ACCOUNTABILITY AND
ANSWERS TO THAT AND JOE BIDEN
SHOULD BE GETTING THOSE.
MARIA: GENERAL, WE ARE NOT
GETTING THEM AND ALL WE SEE ARE
MORE TESTS FROM BEIJING.
LOOK WHAT HAPPENED TO THE EPIC
TIMES IN HONG KONG.
FOUR MASKED MEN WALKED INTO THE
EPIC TIMES WIELDING SLEDGE
HAMMERS, LAWMAKERS INCLUDING
DEVIN NUNES, RICK SCOTT
CONDEMNING ATTACK ON EPIC TIMES,
THIS IS THE FIFTH TIME THE SITE
HAS BEEN VANDALIZE 18 MONTHS
AFTER I INTRUDERS SET FIRE TO
THE SAME FACILITY.
THEY KEEP BARGING INTO THE
PRINTING WAREHOUSE AND SMASHING
MACHINERY, GENERAL.
JACK: YEAH, WELL, WHAT’S
HAPPENING CERTAINLY IN HONG KONG
IS PRESIDENT XI HAS CRUSHED
THEIR DEMOCRACY.
WE HAVE SEEN THAT HAPPEN AS A
RESULT OF NATIONAL SECURITY LAW
WHICH IS PEOPLE’S CONGRESS
PASSED.
BUT WHAT’S STILL THERE AND --
AND A GOOD THING IS SOME
MESSAGES OF THAT DEMOCRACY IN
THE FORM OF A FREE PRESS AND THE
EPIC TIMES REPRESENTS THAT.
SO WHAT DOES THE -- IS THE CCP
DOING, THEY HAVE THEIR GOONS
GOING OUT AND VANDALIZED IN THE
PAST.
THIS IS THE REASON WHY JIMMY
LAI, GUEST ON YOUR SHOW
REPEATEDLY, MULTIBILLIONAIRE
FROM HONG KONG WHO HAS BEEN
PROTESTOR OF THE CCP, CRACK-DOWN
IS TAKING PLACE IN HONG KONG.
HE’S IN JAIL, NOT BECAUSE HE WAS
A PROTESTOR.
HE’S IN JAIL BECAUSE THE APPLE
DAILY WHICH HE PUBLISHES HAS
BEEN SIGNIFICANTLY CRITICAL OF
THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY
REGIME.
SO THE SOME OF DEMOCRACY ARE
STILL THERE AND THE CHINESE
COMMUNIST PARTY ARE CRUSHING IT
AS BEST AS THEY CAN AND THAT’S
THE REALITY OF WHAT THEY ARE
FACING WITH PRESIDENT XI.
I MEAN, HE’S UNCOVERED WHO HE
REALLY IS.
MARIA: YEAH, WHAT I’M REALLY
INTERESTED IN SEEING IS WHAT OUR
POLICY IS GOING TO BE ABOUT ALL
OF THIS, GENERAL.
WE WILL HAVE TO WAIT ON THE
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION.
GENERAL, ALWAYS A PLEASURE TO
GET YOUR TAKE ON ALL OF THIS.
IT’S VERY IMPORTANT STORY.
GENERAL JACK KEANE.
NEXT TIME WE’VE GOT TO GET INTO