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Again, text PDB to 989-89-898. It's Monday, it's afternoon. It's Monday. It's afternoon bulletin. Welcome to the PDB afternoon bulletin.

I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage.

All right, let's get briefed.

First up, Japan is putting missiles within sight of Taiwan, and China, there's a surprise, is furious.

We'll tell you what Tokyo is planning and why

Beijing is escalating its response. Later in the show, scuba divers off the Welsh coast

stumble upon what appears to be a Russian tracking device. We'll tell you what they found.

But first, today's afternoon spotlight. This morning, the diplomatic dust-up

between China and Japan just got dustier. For weeks now on this show, we've been tracking the

growing tension between Beijing and Tokyo ever since Japan's new prime minister, Sanae Takeichi,

made the remark that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan would threaten Japan's survival.

That single line from a brand-new prime minister set off alarm bells in Beijing and marked the

clearest public link that's been made between Japan's security and the fate of Taiwan.

Now the rhetoric has turned into something much bigger. Tokyo has announced

that it plans to deploy a surface-to-air missile unit on Yoraguni, the tiny Japanese island

that sits just 68 miles from Taiwan's coast. That's close enough that on a clear day, you could

actually see Taiwan's mountains from the shoreline.

Oh, it's kind of like seeing Russia from Alaska.

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