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China warns warships COMBAT READY as US nuclear bombers blast over overhead

CHINA has warned its biggest warship is now combat ready as US nuclear bombers swooped

on the disputed South China Sea.

The People's Liberation Army-Navy confirmed its aircraft carrier strike group – led

by 67,500 tone Liaoning – is now ready for war.

China's defence ministry said the force, which contains warships and submarines, now

has "combat capability".

It came as tensions continue to rise between Washington and Moscow over the disputed waters

of the South China Sea.

Hours after the announcement it was confirmed two US B-52 bombers had flown overhead near

Chinese bases around the Spratly Islands.

China has been constructing manmade islands around the region, turning them into stationary

aircraft carriers bristling with missiles.

Chinese forces have been boosting their navy power amid fears of a clash with the US over

the South China Sea.

Beijing claims the waters by right, despite a UN ruling in 2016 deciding the disputed

region does not belong to China.

Liaoning can carry up to 40 aircraft and is also armed with defensive missile systems

and 2,000 crew.

It is a former Soviet Union vessel – originally named Varyag – and was sold to China half-finished

by Ukraine back in 2000.

US forces regularly carry out what they have dubbed "freedom" missions around the South

China Sea.

The flights by warplanes and cruises by warships are designed to show China they will not be

denied form the region.

Two US vessels were involved in a showdown with Chinese ships last week in what was branded

a "serious incident".

Chinese foreign ministry officials have branded the US as "running amok" in the region.

Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said: "China won't be scared by any so-called military

ship or aircraft, and we will only even more staunchly all necessary steps to defend the

country's sovereignty and security, to protect the peace and stability of the South China

Sea region.

She hoped the United States could clarify whether it thought sending "this type of offensive

weapon" to the South China Sea counted as militarisation.

US defence secretary Jim Mattis said Washington would "compete vigorously" if challenged

to by China.

However he added they are hopefully for a "results oriented" relationship with Beijing.

Last month, China's air force landed bombers on disputed islands and reefs in the South

China Sea as part of a training exercise, triggering concern in Vietnam and the Philippines.

Satellite photographs taken on May 12 showed China appeared to have deployed truck-mounted

surface-to-air missiles or anti-ship cruise missiles at Woody Island in the disputed sea.

China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and the Philippines all have competing claims

over the South China Sea.

This week Britain said Royal Navy warships will also sail in the region to send a message to China.

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EU to launch retaliatory tariffs on U.S. imports starting from July - Duration: 0:40.

The European Union has revealed its plan to impose retaliatory tariffs on U.S. imports

such as oranges, jeans, and motorcycles starting from July.

The decision comes in response to President Trump's decision to slap tariffs on steel

and aluminum imports from Europe.

The vice president of the European Commission said the formalities should be completed this

month.

The EU has also taken its case against the U.S. to the World Trade Organization.

The "rebalancing" tariffs on about 2-point-8 billion euros worth of U.S. imports could

increase to a 3-point-6 billion euros if the WTO rules in favor of the EU.

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Singapore's FM to visit Pyongyang ahead of North Korea-U.S. summit - Duration: 0:22.

With the Singapore summit just around the corner,... the host city-state's foreign minister

is to make an official visit to North Korea for two days starting Thursday.

Singapore's Foreign Ministry says Vivian Balakrishnan's visit is at the invitation of his North Korean

counterpart, Ri Yong-ho.

Their talks will largely center on preparations for the historic summit.

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North Korea, U.S. talks to be held at Capella Hotel on Singapore's Sentosa Island - Duration: 2:33.

As we inch closer to the big day, preparations for the Kim-Trump summit are picking up steam.

More details are trickling out, including the venue for the eagerly-anticipated meeting:

The five-star Capella Hotel in Singapore.

Lee Seung-jae reports.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders revealed in a tweet on Tuesday that the talks

between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will be held at

the Capella Hotel on Singapore's Sentosa Island on June 12th.

The White House official also thanked the Singaporean hosts for their hospitality.

The post came just around a day after Sanders confirmed that the two leaders had agreed

on the time of their first meeting.

"And I can also tell you the schedule for -- tentatively -- for that first meeting will

be on June 12 at 9 a.m. Singapore time and take place June 11, 9 p.m. east coast time."

The Capella Hotel is where high ranking officials from the U.S. and North Korea have been holding

working-level discussions on the upcoming talks.

The hotel is also one of two places local and foreign experts had been suggesting the

talks could held at, along with the Shangri-La hotel.

The Singapore government issued a public order establishing special zones around both hotels,

so access to the areas will strictly be controlled from June 10th to the 14th.

Speaking to reporters at an Oval Office event on Tuesday, U.S. President Trump said that

plans for what will be the first meeting between a serving U.S. president and a North Korean

leader, are well on track.

"North Korea looks like it's moving along very well, a lot of -- a lot of relationship

being built; a lot of negotiation going on even before the trip.

But it looks like it's coming along fine.

We'll see what happens, but very important.

It'll be a very important couple of days."

The upcoming Kim-Trump meeting was called off by the U.S. President late May

before being put back on last week after a top North Korean official delivered Trump

a letter from Kim Jong-un.

President Trump said that he expects a positive result in discussions with North Korea but

spoke of the possibility of additional meetings to follow for the two sides to reach an agreement.

Lee Seung-jae, Arirang News.

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Cavuto: US Amb. to NATO on potential trade war between US and allies - Duration: 17:55.

angry at us among our colleagues there and they want to know why it is we're

targeting them and treating that more roughly than we are China but Lisa

suffice it to say that this is already prompted a very nasty phone call between

our president and the leader of Canada and now there talks about him wanting to

bilateral negotiations not only with the leader of Canada but while he's out at

the leader of France and this of course before the big summit with the North

Koreans let's just say a double powwow FB ends blake berman at the white house

with what we can expect this is going to be an interesting opening act my friend

the g7 getting into more interesting by the day neil who would have thunk it

right president Trump's set to go to Canada later this week for the g7

meetings trade will loom incredibly large over this one and now we know of

two different bilateral meetings that will take place president Trump set to

meet with the French president Emmanuel macron and the Prime Minister of Canada

the host nation for this one Justin Trudeau I'm told that a phone call

between the president and the French leader that they had recently could be

described as tough and there is a separate report out this morning that

describes the latest phone call between Trudeau and the President as testy now

briefing reporters over here at the White House earlier today ahead of the

g7 summit the president's top economic adviser Larry Kudlow he tried to

downplay some of these trade tensions the meeting of the finance ministers as

you know Neil last week got contentious enough to where some refer to it as the

g6 plus one as in the u.s. being the outlier but Kudlow like in the current

environment too just one big family that right now is kind of sort of just having

a moment we're talking everything through there may be disagreements I

regard this as much like a family quarrel I'm always

the optimist I believe it can be worked out but you know and I'm always hopeful

on that point markets appear to have liked those comments by the way Kudlow

also talked about what is happening with China saying that right now there is not

a deal in place on ZTE that both sides agree on and he says currently at this

moment meal there is not a specific trade deal in place with the Chinese

meal alright my friend thank you very very much so here's where we stand right

now on this back and forth over trade again this is courtesy of our friends

right now the Mexican saying they're gonna bring promising tariffs of their

Rome on a host of goods like pork and cheese and bourbon and produce the

Canadians getting ready with tariffs they say are inevitable because the

administration won't be flexible to Europeans through the EU saying that

they're looking on a slate of a terrace on on a host of goods that will cover

potentially up to three dozen different items billions of dollars worth of us

goods but if this was supposed to dissuade traders and make them think a

trade war was coming I'm going to allenham that's good I want you to take

a peek at this does this look like a market that's worried up better than 346

points 25 thousand 146 on the Dow and most of the those folks seem to be

thinking that this too shall pass will it let's get the read from Fox Business

Network so Ashley Webster former Clinton strategist mark pan and Fox Business

networks Charlie guess ferrino so Ashley it would seem at first blush looking at

that that one of the things that's going on here is calm down everyone this too

shall pass it will you know what Larry Kudlow should change his last name to

Larry Kudlow downplayed because every time we hear from him that's what he's

doing downplaying the latest spat I think it's interesting that conversation

with the with the Canadians is something that's absolutely upset the Europeans as

well Neil the justification for this fight back if you like from the United

States based on national security issues what's interesting is when you look back

at that issue Peter Navarro said let's put it this way

another economic adviser to the president he said there's not one single

company in the United States that can produce flat panel displays that are

used in military aircraft and things like night vision goggles he said that

is example of how the trade imbalance has

impacted us so much that even a national security item like that has to be

produced elsewhere in the world and that is an example of that imbalance as for

the Canadians and the Mexicans I think and after I think the market is

absolutely looking at this as this will get passed this was all part of the

negotiation eventually we'll have some common ground but it's a very

interesting process on how we get there from here it's going to be more more

headlines more rhetoric for sure I'm Charles Payne and my apologies jobs for

misidentifying you know Gabrielle always does that but let me get your sense

charles of what what is really going on here if the markets were where to

thought this was gonna happen they'd be selling off they're not and this has

been much the case even with the tit-for-tat with the chinese so is it

your sense that no blows will come to pass here and that the president will

get concessions he got the first hint of that from the chinese late yesterday

offering to buy 70 or so billion dollars worth of i think it was our geography

litems but your thoughts well I think a yeah the the market certainly sense that

President Trump is is going to get something huge here remember that the

status quo is what we've lived for what's forever so those are your options

the status quo we keep getting ripped off or we finally get a deal that opens

up markets around the world and treats American businesses fairly but I got to

say I think the big problem there is the media and particularly the financial

media I don't you know the talk of fear fear fear let me give you an example

yesterday the Business Roundtable comes out with their second quarter numbers

and a couple headline stood out to me Trump's trade policy a fly in the

ointment that could end the economic recovery that was from CNBC CEO scaling

back hiring and spending because a trade fair CNN well this is what happened

employment hiring plans just fill up a hundred sixteen percent from 2016 and up

36 percent from last year capital expenditures of twenty three percent

from a year ago up 56 percent from two years ago

so I gotta tell you even the elitists of the world are still enjoying this

economy and plan on investing and plan on hiring so I'd love to separate the

headlines from reality because we're in a hot economy and now the markets

reflecting that I'm wondering to mark rounded that so

really going on here that the undercurrents are pretty sound and the

words notwithstanding that's what's doing it I mean it would carried Bill

Clinton through a lot of difficult days in the end a strong economy a resurgent

market and then many seem to think it will repeat itself here do you buy that

well that's right 68% of Americans in the last Harvard caps Harris Poll say

the economy is strong and when we asked them 61 percent said they support using

tariffs as a negotiating tactic to get better trade deals

although 64% were worried about whether or not we'd have a trade war so

essentially the public is well we understand now what President Trump does

whether he's successful or causes a trade mess well we'll judge that on what

the outcome what the outcome is and remember from a democratic perspective

Democrats need to win back the working-class voters these tariffs go

right to the sweet spot of Indiana through Pennsylvania and so it's

important that Democrats try to win those voters back and not let the

president get the edge by appearing to do something for them that others were

not willing to do then again all bets are off right Ashley

if it will be sudden those times do go in fact that those same voters they're

paying a lot more for goods or in the case of armors getting a lot less with

their goods well i knows tax reforms and the more money in your pocket goes out

the window because consumers are gonna end up paying more because of the

because of the extra tariffs that i don't think will happen certainly it's a

threat that's hanging over us but certainly the market doesn't believe

that's going to happen and I think people take pride in the fact that since

1975 we the United States have always had the world's largest trade deficit

and nothing's ever been done about it we're pride but prideful now that we're

finally firing back in a trade war that's gone on for decades China joined

the WTO in 2001 the first thing they said was we're going to open up our

markets to the United States in the world guess what

still waiting you know this g7 conference Charles Payne is going to be

the one to watch ahead of the one that everyone else is preferring to watch I

think yeah you might be right there here's the interesting thing the stock

market peaked and January 26 when was that

that's when President Trump went to Davos

it would be one of those rich billionaire confab that the average

person would never care about the g7 probably could end up the same way

bombastic you know Trump's gonna go in there like a superstar with all the

swagger and we might get some deals done finally instead of the meeting to and

agreeing to meet again which they normally do all right guys I want to

thank you all very very much again those are the g7 attendees here they're all

our friends so you would think we need our friends while we prepare for that

meeting with the North Koreans why defense secretary James Madison outline

very very carefully the read from the US ambassador to NATO kay Bailey Hutchison

after this will the trade war have a have an impact effect on the security

relationship right now I don't see that we're looking for a reciprocal trade so

along the path going there certainly it would be a little rocky a little bumpy

at times that's so far I do not anticipate any

here at the arena alright that's the read for the Defense Secretary uh is

that something of kay Bailey Hutchison agrees with our US ambassador to NATO

ambassador thank you for taking the time is it your sense to that this will not

boomerang on us the trade tensions between a lot of our allies hurting our

security relations you know Neil in a group of 29 countries there are a lot of

disagreements on a bilateral basis there are disagreements within NATO on how we

do things but there is no disagreement on our goal our common goal of a

security umbrella for all 29 of us and I think the professional diplomats here

are very good and they do not bring up bilateral disputes or disagreements that

they may have we have good relationships with all of the other ambassadors and

we're able to talk through things so I feel very good about NATO staying very

United and together unity is the most important thing that we have and we do

have it so there aren't any of the concerns or as many as it were about

looked at everyone footing the bill or putting up at least the 2% toward you

know NATO and defenses that was in doubt a little more than a year and a half ago

you know I think that what President Trump has done is really made a big

point and he's made it publicly and countries are coming through every NATO

ally really in 2016 did not increase spending but as of

today every NATO ally is increasing their own defense spending and in 2018

when the numbers are finished we'll have the largest increase in defense spending

by our NATO countries outside of the United States since the Cold War so I

think that we are going in the right direction

everyone is trying hard there are differences I mean look at Italy they've

had trouble forming a government Germany took several months to form a government

after elections so you have delays that and then you don't get budgets so I

think we are going in the right direction do we have more to do you bet

we do because we want the 2% to represent not just a number out there

but the amount that we need to have a significant deterrence against a real

enemy and that's what it came up in the Wales summit the number was 2% 2% is not

too much to pay for the security and freedom of your people and that's what

NATO believes and that's what we're going to achieve and we're going to do

it in good order I'm back to this trade tip whatever you want to call it

ambassador some are worried that it could escalate nothing is in place now

and Americans certainly don't see it yet and nor do foreigners that this could

come to fruition but if it does the president has long argued that these are

as much about our national security efforts as they are economic desire is

that they intertwine do you believe that I do think that the the tariffs are

certainly an issue I'm not going to say it's not something that people are

concerned about what we want is to solve the problem we want fair and level

playing fields we're talking now about EU cooperation and they're forming a new

Defense Initiative pesco we want to make sure that there is access to outside EU

countries to be able to bid on defense projects in NATO

just like we allow from the United States let me just tell you that

last year the Department of Defense spent over a billion dollars with

foreign allies buying their products for our defense purposes so we want that

same level playing field with EU countries when they're going out for a

procurement we want to do things together we can compete but we also want

the best products for our overall security and that's what we're trying to

get are you concerned and answered I know you have to play this diplomatic

layout given what you have to do as our liaison certainly with NATO but but this

is coming at a time in this dust-up with some of our allies and our friends when

we have to deal the Chinese and have to deal with the North Koreans and that we

could be alienating them at a time we really need them do you worry about that

you know I think every relationship has so many facets and there are there are

things that we have for instance we talked about Germany not meeting the two

percent but we have 300,000 troops in Germany what it may not be 300,000 I

think I misspoke it's 35,000 but it's that's something that's very important

in our bilateral relationship and we want Germany to do more but we respect

that they are doing a lot in Afghanistan there one of the framework nations in

Afghanistan so we want them to meet the two percent but there are other factors

all of these relationships are intertwined so yes there is certainly

some disagreement about the terrorists there's no question about that but what

what I think is the purpose here is to try to get a more even trade

relationship and have a true alliance at NATO

that does have some of our allies who haven't put up as much as they could

while they are giving in other areas to be helpful so we have to balance all of

this we cannot step back on the 2% that is what we need for the overall big

picture security but we know that many allies are also putting troops on the

ground advising in Afghanistan and we're working with the Iraqis as well for

advising them on how to get Isis out of their country and stabilize their

country so we're doing many things in different areas and we have to factor

all of that in indeed and that's sort of thank you very much for taking the time

I appreciate it hey thank you me all right at this

intersection between our national security economic security is also being

way to the United States Senate by Republicans many of them that said you

know what before you do any of this mr. president you might want to check with

us in fact one better you might want to wait for us to approve or disapprove

after this

you

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Breaking News Today⚠️World War 3 US and China relations SINK to 'real low' as tensions over Taiwan - Duration: 3:42.

breaking news today

welcome to USA breaking news today please subscribe and click notification

box to get all breaking news alert breaking news today US and China

relations synced to real low as tensions over Taiwan and trade skyrocket

relations between the US and Russia have hit a real low a political analyst has

claimed in a stark warning as tensions over the disputed Taiwan and trade have

pushed Trump and xi into a diplomatic freeze dot Beijing and Washington are at

each other's throats over a 75 billion pounds trade war after President Trump

introduced tariffs in March and China retaliated with more tariffs they ended

trade talks in Beijing on Sunday without any announced deals Gregg volleyer chief

global strategist at Horizon investment said I think we're at a real low point

this has been a pretty bad stretch I do feel pretty strongly about trade that

it's going to get worse before it gets better

Chinese officials refuse to commit to buying American goods without a trump

administration agreement not to impose further tariffs on Chinese exports the

Taiwan issue also marks one of the latest clashes between the two global

powers in a diplomatic row that escalated after US officials said

Washington is considering sending a warship through the Taiwan Strait which

separates Taiwan from mainland China Foreign Ministry spokeswoman hua

chunying said Taiwan is the most important and sensitive core issue in

the china-us relations she also noted the Taiwan question should be prudently

handled by the US in order to avoid harming bilateral ties and peace

stability in the Taiwan region Beijing considers the possible US warship

passage as a sign of support to Taiwan by President Donald Trump as China is

trying to isolate the self ruled island in a bid to reclaim control over the

territory relations between Beijing and Taipei have deteriorated since the

Communists came to power in China back in 1949 Beijing claimed sovereignty over

self ruled Taiwan and insist on an eventual unification of the two

sides under a single Chinese flag and has not ruled out the use of force to

achieve it dot on the other hand taiwanese president deciding when wants

to push for the islands formal independence the u.s. ended its official

relationship with taipei in 1979 in order to establish official ties with

Beijing but the Taiwan Relations Act passed by Congress in 1979 mandates that

the United States help Taiwan protect itself Wu Xinbo director of feudin

University's Center for American Studies said the u.s. feels the urge to give

Taiwan a hand right now when the region is facing mounting pressure from Beijing

and more countries are cutting their diplomatic relations with Taiwan tea ipi

has recently lost burkina faso her second ally in a month to china liu

yemen a Beijing based expert on cross-straits relations said Taiwan's

pro-independence power has no choice but to seek help from the US Japan or even

India he also added the US and China should end the growing antagonism over

the Taiwan question as it will be reunified sooner or later and it's not

for the u.s. to decide thanks for watch please share like comment this video and

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U.S. Nat'l Security Advisor mentioned 'Libya model' to disrupt talks with N. Korea: Source - Duration: 0:43.

Officials at the U.S. State Department believe National Security Advisor John Bolton made

controversial remarks during a recent TV interview in a bid to to deliberately disrupt talks

with North Korea.

According to CNN,...

State Department officials believe Bolton tried to 'blow up' the North Korea talks,...

by suggesting last month that North Korea follow the "Libya model' of denuclearization.

Sources say that there has been "considerable tension" between Bolton and Secretary of State

Mike Pompeo,... after Pompeo angrily confronted Bolton of the Libya comment.

The National Security Council denies there was any such confrontation.

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US Vows to 'Confront' China Over Weapons on Disputed Islands - Duration: 8:56.

On this episode of China Uncensored,

the Pentagon says the Chinese regime is crossing the line

when it comes to the South China Sea.

But...what does that actually mean?

Hi. Welcome back to China Uncensored.

I'm your host, Chris Chappell.

This is the South China Sea.

The Chinese Communist Party claims nearly all of it.

And they've gotten more and more aggressive

over the past few years.

They've put troops on islands in disputed territory.

And when they ran out of islands, they just built more of them

by dumping some sand on submerged reefs.

Which is pretty smart if you think about it.

Like if you run out of cake,

you can just make more cake.

And then build runways and missiles and stuff on them.

Ok, so that analogy doesn't exactly work.

But the point is, the Chinese Communist Party

has been building more islands,

and then putting missiles on them.

And a lot of countries are concerned that the Communist Party

might eventually use military force to restrict everyone else

from navigating through the region.

And this finally pushed the US Defense Secretary

to say something about it on Saturday.

He was speaking at the Shangri-La security summit in Singapore.

"China's policy in the South China Sea stands in stark contrast

to the openness of what our strategy promotes.

It calls into question China's broader goals."

That's a diplomatic way of saying,

"What you're doing is extremely uncool,

and we know you're up to something."

The Defense Secretary also reminded everyone

that Chinese leader Xi Jinping had made a promise in 2015

when he was visiting the White House

that the Chinese Communist Party would not

militarize the Spratly Islands.

But as he told a reporter,

"We have seen in the last month they have done exactly that,

moving weaponry in that was never there before."

Moving in weaponry like this.

And this.

Plus anti-ship cruise missiles here, here, here and here—

with a range that covers a huge chunk of the South China Sea.

And where cruise-missile coverage might be patchy,

they brought in nuclear-capable bombers,

like this one seen landing on Woody Island.

What I'm saying here is,

the Chinese Communist Party is trying to have its cake,

and eat it too.

By building more cake.

And with military-ready airstrips it built on these artificial cakes—

sorry, islands—

in the Spratly archipelago,

Chinese bombers can now hit targets

in several Southeast Asian countries.

That includes the Philippines and Vietnam,

both of which are objecting the loudest

over China's increased military presence.

Both have territorial claims in direct conflict with China.

This is the territory Vietnam claims,and this is what the Philippines says belongs to it,

and this is China's claim,

everything in the nine-dash line—

about 90% of the South China Sea.

That's how Chinese Lieutenant-General He Lei put it.

He was in the Chinese delegation

to that Shangri-La security summit.

He Lei also blasted Mattis' quote unquote

"provocative remarks."

He said those who are "shouting about

'the militarization of the South China Sea'"

are the ones militarizing the South China Sea.

Which is his own diplomatic way of saying

"whoever smelt it, dealt it."

Real mature.

Well Lieutenant-General He,

you should know that whoever denied it,

supplied it.

He Lei also toed the Party line that

the "various islands in the South China Sea

and their related waters are sacred territories of China

acknowledged by history and international laws."

But the thing about international law is,

well, it's complicated.

I'm fairly sure Lieutenant-General He Lei is referring to

the international law that says a country is entitled to

territorial waters up to 12 nautical miles off its coast.

Except there's this other international law he forgot about:

That is, how the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

ruled in 2016 that there was "no legal basis

for China to claim historic rights" in the South China Sea.

But ok, the Chinese Communist Party says one thing.

The International Tribunal—

and most other countries—

say another thing.

That itself doesn't prove who's right about

China's historical claims.

The real issue at hand isn't the historical claims.

The real issue is that the Communist Party

is militarizing islands that are close to Vietnam,

the Philippines, and Malaysia—

and that it may soon want to control other countries'

ability to navigate commercial ships through the region.

And the Party's increased aggression

is what prompted Mattis to say that when it comes to

guaranteeing freedom of navigation in the South China Sea...

"We are going out of our way to cooperate with Pacific nations...

but we are also going to confront what we believe

is out of step with international law—

out of step with international tribunals

that have spoken on the issue."

So how exactly is the US going to confront the Chinese regime?

One way is that American ships will maintain a, quote,

"steady drumbeat" of naval operations around the disputed islands.

Including doing more "freedom of navigation operations."

These are missions meant to underscore

the rights of other countries to operate

in international waters and airspace.

And they also are a signal to China

that they don't have territorial rights there.

The US is also encouraging other countries—

like Vietnam and the Philippines—

to do their own freedom of navigation operations.

And it looks like France and the United Kingdom

will be joining the US as well.

And you'd think that France

would just let them eat cake.

The US is also reducing military cooperation

with the People's Liberation Army.

The Pentagon had earlier invited Chinese troops

to join the 2018 multi-country military exercises near Hawaii.

But now, the Pentagon has withdrawn that invitation.

So what do you think about the US taking

a harder line on China's militarization of the South China Sea?

Leave your comments below.

And before you go, it's time for me to answer another question

from a China Uncensored fan on Patreon.

Lee Lhasa asks...

well, his main question is...

"Do you find yourself frustrated

by our governments and the media,

many whom are seemingly forever selling out,

remaining silent and cowering to China?"

Great question Lee.

There's definitely a lot more I think

the media and governments around the world could do,

but actually,

I've been more encouraged than I ever have been before.

The EU, the US, Australian,

and even Canadian governments

have in the past few months,

become more aware of the threat

posed by the Chinese Communist Party

and have been taking active steps to combat it.

And many individual journalists

have been doing great work as well.

For example,

I meet Buzzfeed's Megha Rajagopalan recently

at the Oslo Freedom Forum

and she's done some amazing reporting on

the Chinese regime's persecution

of the people in Xinjiang.

I think the biggest problem right now

is how businesses approach China.

I feel like a lot of them ignore the warnings

of government and intelligence agencies around the world

because they're more focused on the short term gain

the China market offers.

So who cares about the long term consequences!

Except sooner or later,

those short term gains will catch up to

the long term consequences.

And when that happens,

I think we're going to see a lot of change.

Thanks again for your question Lee.

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China trying to avoid trade accountability offering to buy as much

as 70 billion dollars of US farm and energy products if only the Trump

administration would drop fifty billion dollars in tariffs on Chinese exports

the offer doesn't come anywhere near closing Americans 375 billion dollar

trade deficit with China and the White House says it's still enacting the

tariffs by mid-june president Trump's new tariffs on steel and aluminum

imports bringing jobs back to America case in point US Steel Corporation which

today announced the planned rien de onís at its plant in Granite City Illinois

u.s. steel plans to hire another up 300 employees after hiring 500 back in March

joining us tonight is the CEO of US Steel David Byrd David great to have you

with us and this president is truly making a difference for your industry

isn't he yes he is thank you very much Lou we're delighted to be here we're

delighted to see that demand has increased significantly and so we're

able to open up not just one blast furnace at Granite City Illinois but two

blast furnaces and as you said that's 800 people will have back to work and

we're putting them through the paces now and they're responding exceptionally

well and we should be able to turn on that first blast furnace later this

month and then the second blast furnace in October so we're absolutely excited

for our team and for our customers so that we can provide mined melted and

made in the USA steel yeah in you know your company your trade style is iconic

America and to think what US Steel has gone through over the past several

decades is extraordinary and it has required Donald Trump to basically step

up and say to the world you're out of your minds we have such trade imbalances

across the world he is the only voice in leadership

in the world in the Western world talking about trade imbalances and

restoring rationality to the international trading system and the and

the left and the if you will establishment right are just clucking

like you know their nadir wailing gnashing their teeth is if he is the one

prescribing a destiny that should make every American shiver instead of the

destiny that we have been living for thirty years well president Trump does

have it absolutely right he needs to trust his instincts you know the reality

and steel we've been in a trade war for over thirty years

yeah and you can imagine it takes a courageous president like this to get

people to this to the table to have a discussion and actually force some

resolution here meanwhile we're doing the right things for our workers here in

the United States and of course special thanks to Commerce Secretary Ross and

Peter Navarro who have been fighting the good fight every step of the way

absolutely certainly the president's leadership that's made a difference with

two three two yeah it's it's it's amazing to think what this president was

saying in 2015 about American made American jobs in the fact that the

United States has played chump for so long in point if most Americans don't

realize we have not had a trade surplus in this country for over four decades I

that you know that's just irrational and we've had both Republicans and Democrats

in that White House who have basically conspired against the working man and

woman in this country a middle-class families workers in in middle-class

wages as you well know I have been been dropping not rising until this president

took office yeah you're you're absolutely right I

think it's it has it been intentional by previous administrations but it is it's

been the absence of acumen the understanding of what's really going on

here right because what we want is a level playing field that's all we want

you give us a level playing field and we can

compete with anybody in the world and you know I can remember back in the 70s

when people were saying exactly that and then the 80s they were saying that and

by the 90s it was too damn late we thought but it turns out in 2016 we

weren't too damn late President Trump arrived on the scene just in time and

it's that's absolutely true because you know this steel industry is vital to the

national defense of this country and it's not just the military it's building

the roads and the bridges and taking care of our society if you don't have a

strong commodities industry you really can't make things for manufacturing and

we know how these bad actors have behaved some of them even allies that

they basically take the business away and then they jack up the prices and

they kill the they kill the industry and then jack up the prices so we know what

game is being played and this president understand what games being played and

now we got the customer demand coming back to the good old USA and our steel

workers absolutely thrilled to be part of this if it burnt we are delighted

that you're with us and hope you'll come back soon to talk about the continued

success of US Steel and this great country of ours thanks so much well

thanks for having us thank you very much up next here the Dems and rhinos are

relentless in their pursuit of amnesty for illegal immigrants why is that well

have a latest for you on the daca discharge petition in Paul Ryan's House

of Representatives you know it's right next to K Street the Koch brothers Wall

Street the Business Roundtable straight ahead all of that and more

we'll be right back

DIMMs and rhinos in the house are just a handful of signatures from forcing a

vote on amnesty for illegal immigrants Fox News chief congressional

correspondent Mike Emanuel with the story in that house some GOP moderates

are trying to break up gridlock on immigration

two more Democrats signing on today so organizers are just three short of the

218 signatures needed to force votes on immigration bills June 25th as House

Republican leaders try to find a GOP solution we're very close on a couple of

different fronts that really boil down to how are we going to handle the doctor

recipients president Trump weighed in on immigration first thing this morning on

Twitter separating families at the border is the fault of bad legislation

passed by the Democrats border security laws should be changed but the Dems

can't get their act together started the wall attorney General Jeff Sessions

issued this warning to those considering coming here illegally we don't want to

do this at all if people don't want to be separated from their children they

should not bring them with them that's we've got to get this message out

you're not given in the energy the acting head of Immigration and Customs

Enforcement offered this advice to lawmakers if you wanted to a fix on

doctor let's talk about the overarching issues of earlier immigration and let's

fix that so we don't have a doc every 10 years it's not clear that immigration

would be brought up during August since McConnell has said he's only interested

in taking up a bill President Trump would be willing to sign but cutting

short recess could have the effect of forcing some cooperation on legislation

and nominees Lou I appreciate it very much thanks so much

president Trump threatening to veto any such legislation Mike Emanuel thank you

and on Wall Street Stocks close mix the dow down 14 points the S&P up - the

Nasdaq up 31 buy them on the big board 3.4 billion shares the

States the world's largest oil producer asking Saudi Arabia and OPEC to raise

their oil production by a million barrels a day to help fight rising US

oil prices think about that one think about that one we're one of the

world's largest producers now and we're asking OPEC to kind of boost things up

so that I I have to tell you a reminder listen to my reports three times a day

coast to coast on the salem radio network up next no Eagles no problem

president Trump celebrates America after canceling the Philadelphia Eagles White

House visit Rebecca Rose woodland mark Simone join me here next stay with us

we'll be right back the Philadelphia Eagles in their their owner Jeff flurry

trying to pull what the White House is calling a political stunt leading up to

the team's White House visit President Trump turning of the event on its head

canceling their visit today and instead holding a celebration of merit of

America where he remind us why well I all those folks should be standing and

singing the national anthem instead of as he put it huddling in their locker

rooms we said and to remember the fallen heroes who never made it back home we

stand to show our love for our fellow citizens and our magnificent

Constitution well following the cancellation by the president

Philadelphia's mayor oh what a piece of work he is Jim Kenney called President

Trump of fragile egomaniac and not a true patriot

Kenney apparently thinks he would recognize one of your if he saw one

joining us tonight defense attorney Rebecca Rose woodland and wor radio

talk-show host mark Simone great to have you both here I start with what in the

world is Laurie thinking the Eagles I mean they're it's really it's becoming

the city of Philadelphia it's it's not it's unbecoming of our country they're

taking a political stance if they have an issue with the president

that is not the way to do it no other mechanism you have an issue you go and

vote next time there is a presidential election you do not force team a team a

group of people who want to Super Bowl a city a state that's so proud of their

team to then not have the celebration they're entitled to by playing games

it's not appropriate well they're not entitled to if the president is state

says we're not going to play well because they played games and this this

route to me is remarkable that the NFL has just sort of saved itself like Roger

Goodell who I've criticized throughout for two years actually doing a smart

thing and then he's got this cute Lurie the owner pulling the stunt with his

football team it's fascinating these owners are

billionaires that run the multi-billion dollar businesses and they're totally

intimidated by these dopey players they can't sit them down and say you're an

employee the stadium is our office you can protest all you want can't do it

here in the office we're running and we give you plenty of money and a free time

so why don't you go do the road test and you can what's one thing to protest the

flag this has nothing to do with Donald Trump you're protesting the White House

yeah it's a part of America it's crazy NBA stars Steph Curry LeBron James

you know bran may be getting curry may be beating his brains in on the court

right now but they're together in fueling this anti-trump thing in the NBA

hey where does this gonna stop with these athletes I don't know if they

recognize that by not standing for the national anthem what you're doing is

insulting veterans people who stood up for our freedom the national anthem is

not directly related to the president it's the country as a whole it's

democracy it's Jesus just I don't understand how give me a distinction

again mark is right you want to protest either protest in the voting booth

protest in a different way not with your group not when you're playing a sport

and not against the entire of America the veterans tonight we've got the eight

primaries mark what do you think is going to happen are we going to see the

blue wave they'll all of the savants now are saying

no blue wave Oh another big huge blue wave Oh though they're leaderless they

have no issue except they hate Trump their rudderless the DNC has no money

this is but they want open borders that want high crime they want illegal

immigrants to cross the border at will and by the way don't worry about a job

in California they want to give you 500 in stockton california they want every

citizen to have $500 a month guaranteed income you got the law yeah that's a

great I a strict background checks on guns but if you want to cross the border

no background check we don't care who you are I mean it's starting to sound a

bit like Bernie Sanders campaign where everyone was going to a college

education no and although that was lovely economically it's not feasible I

mean we have to work within the tax structure and the money we make on the

Terek structure these things sound great but they have to be funded yeah they

happen somebody has to make some money at some point and have to create a

product and a service it's called life unless you know they want to just revert

to the jungle to the primitive State it's it's money you've got record low

unemployment in nineteen states you're not gonna have a wave doing that kind of

successful economy yeah I mean you've got the markets exploding the economy is

growing and and and then you've got folks on the Left who think that

everything should be handed to them they want dependency at any cost

but so long as the cost is paid by someone else so as we look at this I've

got one last question here does Paul Ryan survive his lame-duck miss very

quickly I just know I think there's no getting rid of this guy it's it's like a

cold that keeps coming back it's Paul Ryan thanks so much we appreciate it I

sure hope that Rebecca's right in mark is wrong

tonight's quote of the evening for those NFL players who defy the president our

national anthem Ralph Waldo Emerson said men are respectable only as they respect

that's it for us tonight thanks for joining us

good luck

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shannon shannon bream listen your distaste for cute fluffy things is

disturbing

great thank you our President Trump keeps up with at least one of the

Kardashians the former FBI deputy director wants immunity and just how far

did the Obama administration go to get the Iran nuclear deal done this is

special report

good evening and welcome to Washington i'm shannon bream in for bret baier

First Lady Melania Trump was with her husband the president this afternoon for

a briefing about the hurricane season earlier in the day the president

unleashed a rhetorical hurricane ripping into the media for its coverage of his

wife this afternoon the president was in a forgiving mood chief White House

correspondent Don Roberts has that for us tonight good evening John

Shannon good evening to you a White House official tells Fox News that the

recent spate of presidential Pardons and commutations is just the beginning that

President Trump is actively considering another half dozen with dozens more

being reviewed by White House staff they were had a season last year like no

other in terms of the power the level two hurricanes the fires along the west

coast President Trump at FEMA headquarters today for his annual

briefing on the upcoming hurricane season but it was his powers of

presidential pardon that took center stage today the White House announcing

President Trump is commuting the sentence of Alice Marie Johnson last

week Kim Kardashian called on the President to ask him to pardon Johnson a

great-grandmother who has been jailed since 1996 and a nonviolent drug charge

while the commutation fell short of a full pardon the White House praised

Johnson's rehabilitation in a statement saying Ms Johnson has accepted

responsibility for her past behavior and has been a model prisoner over the past

two decades I'd like to sort of maybe say and pay some respects some of the

people here today I have a list because we have to start with our great first

lady Melania thank you Melania at the president's

side today during the FEMA briefing first lady Melania Trump the first time

she has been seen on camera since a medical procedure May 14th that's but

she's doing great we're very proud of what she's done a

fantastic job as first lady the people love you people of our country love you

so thank you honey the first lady was out of public view for 22 days prompting

speculation and many media outlets that something was amiss ahead of today's

appearance president drop hammering the speculation tweeting the fake news media

has been so unfair and vicious to my wife in our Great First Lady Melania

during her recovery from surgery they reported everything from near death to

facelift to left the White House and me for New York or Virginia to abuse all

fake she is doing really well secretary Nielsen what do I say about

you President Trump today also spreading a little love around for cabinet members

on the front lines of disaster response and throwing a big bone to his embattled

EPA Administrator Scott Pruett administrator Scott Pruett thank you

Scott very much EPA is doing really really well and you know somebody has to

say that about you a little bit you know that's good Prewitt long under scrutiny

for lavish spending and security demands was most recently under fire for asking

an aide to contact chick-fil-a about a possible franchise for his wife and for

asking an aide to look into whether he could buy a used mattress from the Trump

International Hotel people are really impressed with the job that's being done

at the EPA thank you very much Scott today two top aides to prove it at the

EPA announced that they were resigning Mellon hop who is the aid that Pruett

asked to try to procure the used mattress from the Trump Hotel announced

she is going to be leaving on Friday according to published reports Huck got

tired of Pruett throwing her under the bus

and seeing her name in print the other official to be leaving is reportedly

Sarah Greenwald top attorney there and one of Pruitt's

closest advisors both Greenwald and Huck were at the center of the recent

controversy over pay increases at the EPA that ran afoul of White House

guidelines Shannon John Roberts live for us at the White House thank you John

normally it's the FBI on the side of prosecutors offering deals to potential

criminal witnesses tonight the former number-two man at the FBI is seeking

immunity for himself Andrew McCabe wants the protection in exchange for telling

Congress what he knows about Hillary Clinton's emails also tonight the new

report taking issue with the former head man at the bureau and how he did his job

chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge has details on these

astounding developments good evening Catherine what like you said in the

Inspector General's report puts director Comey's leadership style under the

microscope with the Inspector General exploring whether Co he went beyond his

authorities in July 2016 when he publicly discussed the Clinton email

investigation and recommended against criminal charges a responsibility that

fell to his boss at the time Attorney General Loretta Lynch Comey has since

explained that Lynch is Arizona tarmac meeting with Bill Clinton

just days before Hillary Clinton's FBI interview from his handling classified

information was a game changer in addition to other intelligence that

implied Lynch would not let the email investigation go too far that

intelligence is not public and it's reliability unclear on Fox the former

director seemed to choose his words carefully about Lynch well actually I

think we're both telling the truth I never went to her and said Loretta I

think you should recuse yourself my problem was she had already announced it

publicly that she wouldn't and that she would accept my recommendation and so at

that point what do I do and I decide at that point I got a step away from her in

a separate development Fox News confirms that former FBI deputy director angel

McCabe who worked directly under Comey wants a special status if he testifies

on Capitol Hill it's called use immunity and it means

McCabe's testimony cannot be used against him in a criminal prosecution

the inspector general found that McCabe lied under oath and made a criminal

referral to the US Attorney here in Washington DC for lying to federal

investigators this morning a senior Senate Republican on the Judiciary

Committee recommended against a deal to secure McCabe's testimony we really need

to get to the bottom of what half FBI during the years where apparently

misconduct going on which i think is really important is the finest law

enforcement agency in the world and we need to clear the air and so I

think giving Mr McKay problems through immunity would be a mistake

cabe's lawyers said quote McCabe is willing to testify but because of the

criminal referral he must be afforded suitable legal protection adding that if

he were unable to get such a deal McCabe quote will have no choice but to invoke

his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination testimony is

scheduled for Monday before the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the lead on

the Inspector General's report but that date could slip yet again Shannon yeah

we'll wait and see Catherine thank you very much Rudy Giuliani says the special

prosecutors team is trying to frame the president Giuliani made the comment

about robert muller during an interview in israel a group of 13 highly partisan

Democrats that make up the Muller team excluding him are trying very very hard

to frame him to get him in trouble when he hasn't done anything wrong

Giuliani also says the Moller team cannot come to grips with the fact that

collusion did not happen members of the US House can go ahead with their summer

vacation plans the House Majority Leader says the August recess is still on even

as senators plan to work through most of it exactly what those senators will be

working on well that's still undecided here's chief congressional correspondent

Mike Emanuel Majority Leader Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell may have

bought himself more time to check some items off his list of priorities we need

to confirm more of the present same and judicial nominees we need to take up

regular appropriation bills we need to tackle legislative priorities like the

water infrastructure bill the farm bill the defense bill and many others so the

Senate will remain in session in August but at least one GOP senator has a

priority of his own keeping president Trump's trade policies in check because

they're utilizing it in this unprecedented way what we've asked is

how you can continue to do all the things you're doing and negotiate but

once you complete the work you have to submit it to us for approval because

tariffs and revenues are the responsibilities of Congress not the

executive branch and the Democratic leader tipped his hand on how he wants

to spend August now that the Senate is in session this lang to his base why

don't we get something done on the issue that numerous polls say is the

number-one priority of Americans health care we Democrats our entire caucus

believes this previously unscheduled session time can be put to good use

president Trump applauded McConnell's call to keep the Senate working saying

on Twitter great maybe the Democrats will finally get

something done other than their acceptance of high crime and high taxes

his praise may have fallen on deaf ears with House Majority Leader Kevin

McCarthy who said he has no plans to keep the house open telling reporters I

understand why the Senate needs to finish their work we've been doing our

work and the man whose job McCarthy is eyeing wants to thread the needle on an

issue that threatens to derail the GOP I feel good about the kind of

conversations we're having our members are earnest and sincere in trying to

understand each other's perspectives we have a big big big swath of views within

our conference on this issue and I really do believe that there's a sweet

spot here to be clear McCarthy is not attacking McConnell he's merely noting

the house has passed hundreds more bills and he too blames Senate Democrats for

obstruction but with some of the items on the to-do list controversial they

might just turn out to be a long hot summer in Congress Shannon all right

Mike Emanuel on Capitol Hill thank you Mike the interim head of the Consumer

Financial Protection Bureau is disbanding three boards whose members

include consumer advocacy groups it's part of a broader overhaul of the agency

by White House budget director Mick Mulvaney who says the organization is

too powerful and has overstepped its mandate to stay about lending

abuses the Dowell search 346 points today to close back above the 25000 mark

the S&P 500 was up 24 Nasdaq finished ahead 51 President Trump is touting his

own influence and high Republican turnout in primary elections held

yesterday in eight states much of the focus of course was on California where

the state's unusual jungle format could have locked out one party completely out

of the November races correspond Peter Doocy is in Del Mar tonight with an

update California's gubernatorial primary

didn't have a blue wave instead a Republican Riptide make California the

Golden State once again with that familiar sounding slogan after a strong

finish that put him on the ballot Republican John Cox is channelling

President Trump while Democrat Gavin Newsom is tweeting to him urging the

commander-in-chief to go further than just congratulating the candidate he

helped with an endorsement with this quote pleasecome campaign for him as

much as possible voters will have a real choice

this November between a governor who's gonna stand up to Donald Trump and a

foot soldier in his war but Cox is correcting Newsom and it wasn't Donald

Trump that passed the sanctuary State Gavin you did that for weeks

California's airwaves were blanketed with campaign commercials but turnout

was still a soft 21.9% 3% lower than the 2014 gubernatorial primary some voters

ran into trouble because a printing problem in LA County left 118 thousand

residents off the rolls at 1500 precincts in some of those it was as

many as a few hundred it wasn't just a long night for the LA Registrar it took

hours to learn the Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein who failed to win the

state party's endorsement would be challenged by the more progressive state

senator Kevin de Lyonne it also took a while until results in Orange County's

expensive primaries began to trickle in and when they did Democrats were

relieved to have seen candidates claw their way onto ballots everywhere

including districts they risked coming in third place too low for the November

ballot the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee says it's data-driven

investments to California will continue to pay dividends in November and Beyond

talk like that doesn't impress one incumbent one with a healthy margin last

night Republican congressman Dana Rohrabacher Republicans are defending 10

House seats here and found out late last night they've got something new to offer

voters who are also hearing from a very energized Democratic base and that is

the opportunity to vote for the first Republican governor to elect the first

Republican governor in this state since Schwarzenegger Shannon

well everybody agrees he's got an uphill battle but we've seen other things

happen Peter Doocy thank you very much for your reporting out there in

California Northern California voters have recalled a judge from office after

he sentenced a former Stanford University swimmer convicted of sexual

assault to a short jail sentence instead of to prison Santa Clara County Judge

Aaron Persky is the first California judge to be recalled since 1932

Republicans in Montana have selected a candidate to go up against one of the

incumbent Senate Democrats considered most beatable this fall but it's not

gonna be easy of course my Dan Springer reports again

tonight from Helena Montana this is going to be one of the most competitive

races in the nation Jon Tester is vulnerable and President Trump has

made winning Montana a priority right after his narrow victory in the

Republican primary Montana state auditor Matt Rosendale turned his attention to

two-term incumbent senator Jon Tester the populist Democrat and former Rancher

is trying to keep his seat in a state that handed president Trump a lopsided

victory over Hillary Clinton two years ago hoping to maintain his majority and

I'm on ten as a possible pickup the National Republican Senate committee

issued a statement saying Rosendale will be Montana's next senator because voters

deserve strong leaders who put Montanans first everyday instead of just paying

lip service in election years tests camp was just as quick with its opening

salvo highlighting his deep family roots in Big Sky Country

compared to Rosendale 16 years Matt Rosendale is an East Coast developer who

looks out for himself Marilyn Matt uses Montana to boost the

outside interests that are funding his Senate campaign it's an attack line used

by Rosen Dale's primary opponents but it may not be his biggest weakness Montana

has a history of putting colorful personality over party rows and dales

low-key style showed at a victory speech with only a few dozen supporters

Rosendale has to find a way to connect with voters in Montana in the 2016

election when he ran statewide for state auditor Trump won the state by 20 points

Rosendale wanted by 7 points the great equalizer and wild card could be

President Trump he has targeted tester in this election and would likely boost

Rosen Dale's chances with a campaign visitor - without a single poll

conducted yet Real Clear Politics has this race leaning Democrat but there's a

long five months to go shannon dan Springer in Montana

thank you up next did the Obama administration purposely misleading

Grisanti to get the Iran nuclear deal done first here's what some of our Fox

affiliates around the country are covering tonight Fox 35 in Richmond as

police arrest a soldier who they say stole an armored personnel carrier from

a National Guard base was chased for more than 60 miles by police officers

couldn't stop this vehicle it actually drives on tracks like a tank so they

ended up escorting it sirens blazing ahead and behind before the suspect

finally stopped near Richmond City Hall Fox 2 in San Francisco where voters

approved a ban on selling flavored tobacco products city Supervisors

unanimously approved the ban last year but it was put on hold after tobacco

company r.j. Reynolds collected enough signatures to put it on the ballot and

this is a live look at Detroit from Fox 2 the big story there tonight Michigan

voters will decide whether to legalize the recreational use of marijuana a

citizen initiated measure was not approved by the republican-controlled

legislature before the 40 day deadline passed yesterday and

that means the ballot initiative will get a public vote in November that is

tonight's live look outside the Beltway from special report we'll be right back

it's just a bird

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Now for a look at stories making headlines around the world….

Tensions between the United States and China are escalating once again after two B-52 bombers

flew over the hotly contested South China Sea.

For more on this and other international news we turn to our Ro Aram…

Aram… how has China responded to the flyover?

Well Mark…

Tuesday's B-52 flights over the Spratly Islands elicited a defiant response from Beijing's

foreign ministry.

The so-called "freedom of navigation" exercise came just days after U.S. Defense Secretary

James Mattis accused China of "intimidation and coercion" in the South China Sea.

Speaking at a regular press briefing on Wednesday, spokeswoman Hua Chunying fired back at those

claims…

"I hope the U.S. could clarify the dispatch of the B-52 bomber, an aggressive strategic

weapon, to the South China Sea.

Is it militarization?

Is it to safeguard the freedom of navigation?

If someone fully-armed shows force or stakes out at your doorstep from time to time, won't

you raise your vigilance and enhance defense ability?"

The U.S. and China have frequently blamed each other for causing military tensions in

the South China Sea - a region where Taiwan, Brunei and the Philippines among others all

have competing claims.

Hua urged the U.S. to stop stirring up trouble, adding China was not scared of America's military

muscle.

"I have several pieces of advice to the US.

Firstly, stop hyping up the so-called Chinese militarization.

Stop talking lies.

Secondly, stop stirring up troubles in the South China Sea.

It is risky to be a bully and dangerous to stir up troubles.

Thirdly, China will not be deterred by any military warships or planes.

We will take all necessary measures to safeguard our sovereignty and territorial integrity

as well as peace and stability in the South China Sea.

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The Pentagon said Tuesday's flyover was part of a training mission from its base in Guam.

It has repeatedly claimed it has the right to conduct "freedom of navigation" operations

in the region.

While Mattis had said the exercises would continue, he added that the U.S. will continue

to pursue what he called a "constructive" and "results-oriented" relationship with China.