Ambassador Robert Blackwill

He sure did.

Right.

And at each time, as we know, the State Department walked it back the next morning.

So I think we need to adopt what you and I will remember and others, Ed Mises' line about watch what we do, not what we say.

But I think we do have some evidence that Biden would go to war with China over Taiwan.

I think you're right that there is no such evidence with respect to President Trump.

It's especially true that to become traumatized every night at 2 a.m.

And he has said things like Taiwan has a little dot

when he tweets out is not a productive way to spend your time at 2 a.m.

on the coast of China, which stole all of our chip technology and so forth.

So would he go to war with China over Taiwan?

I think at least there's a doubt in his case, and

President Xi Jinping may want to test the hypothesis, maybe not with a. I mean, if I were sitting in his shoes and again, I don't want this to happen.

But it's still, nobody knows what an American president is going to do before he does it.

And this is a particularly, I might say, erratic American president.

Yes.

He can't, even with the perhaps footprints in the sand heading toward a quiet reaction to such Chinese aggression, he can't be sure.

And yes.

And yes.

although if I were more important, what I'm about to say would damage his standing.