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
