Taiwan

“If I'm China and I want to create a problem in in in that area of the world specifically a Naval problem in that area of the world. I, in the South China sea, I would probably want to utilize TikTok in order to influence the minds of Americans in a anti-US pro…”

“We obviously have China watching very closely because my fear is Taiwan will be next.”

“Well, under Trump, we were, we actually sold them the most of any president, and hopefully we are continuing to allow them.”

“The third thing though, and I said this again publicly, it was important to see the Taiwan, for the Taiwanese to see what an inspired, well-led defense, a territorial defense of their country can do, in this case, Ukraine, because that will be very important i…”

“You ask any Chinese leader, Taiwan is part of China. So what's going to, how's, how's that going to play out? I've never met and I've met a lot of Chinese citizens and leaders. Every one of them says the same thing.”

“Where we've already made a decision that we're going to try to wean ourself off semiconductor dependency on Taiwan, I guess in this case, I'm skeptical it's going to work”

“And I think it's dangerous, therefore, for president Biden to suggest as he did in Vietnam and as he just did in San Francisco, that because China has economic problems, she is less likely to invade Taiwan.”

“We will go to war with China if China makes a move against Taiwan, not because one of our ships accidentally bumps into theirs.”

“Immediately, right off the bat, the estimates are that you would lose 10 trillion dollars of value in the global economy if there's a conflict over Taiwan. Global depression on levels we haven't seen since the 19 thirties.”

“And Taiwan can't fire first. In fact, we will tell them that you can't fire first on the Chinese because you don't want to be the one that will quote unquote provoke the war.”

“What's different now, and particularly from China, is in the last couple of years, you had the emergence of this new threat vector that is called Volt Typhoon, which is the Chinese military breaking into organizations, but instead of stealing trade secrets, in…”

“And if he wants it to be accomplished on his own watch, I think that's going to be the window in his mind, at least 28 through 32. And beyond that, I think, you know, I don't think he's penciled the date certain in the calendar. It's going to be conditions dep…”

“That gives them a huge platform to bring in the massive number of troops that you need to invade this place, Probably at least 600,000 minimum, probably closer to a million realistically to occupy this island of twenty four million people.”

“When you get to the island, you realize that this beach invasion that everyone talks about is basically not doable. The beach beaches are very small. As I mentioned, the waters next to them are very shallow. More importantly, they can be completely far control…”