This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Bachelorette.

People's Republic of China, the charm offensive, the threats.

The threats are dominant at this moment,

saying when the President of Taiwan is making visits in the United States in these next

hours and days, and also visits to Central America,

one of the visits were told on the Artillery is a conversation with the Speaker of the

House, Kevin McCarthy, to take place in Los Angeles.

In consequence of that, China is threatening Taiwan.

Threatening Taiwan with even more aggression than we've seen before when Nancy Pelosi

visited Taipei were told in the financial time story that the decision was made on the

McCarthy side and perhaps on the Tsai Ing-wen side, not to have McCarthy go to Taiwan.

Instead for the meeting to take place in the U.S., this hasn't changed China's aggression,

still threatening.

I add to that the news from Matt Pottenger and his colleague John Pumphre that foreign

affairs.

She, Jin Ping, says he is preparing China for war.

The world should take him seriously.

I do, and so does Elbridge Colby.

Elbridge Colby is the author of the Strategy of Denial, America's Defense in an Age of

Great Power Conflict that turns a deal on what is to be done to defend Taiwan from the

obvious intention of the Xi Jinping to invade it and dominate it.

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