Amy Hawkins

As Trump and the US are seen to be less supportive of Taiwan, it has an effect on public opinion in Taiwan.

And as people feel less confident in the idea of US support, there are polls showing that the number of Taiwanese people who would be willing to accept some kind of

one country, two systems model increases slightly.

I mean, it's still a minority of people, but if people in Taiwanese feel less confident of the idea of getting US support, then they're less willing to say, we should proclaim Taiwanese independence, we should fight China, because without the US support, you know, there's no way Taiwan could fight China.

Yeah, I think probably China is well aware that if you take Trump out of the picture, you have a kind of bipartisan consensus in Washington that China is a threat.

And you get China hawks from the Republicans, from the Democrats, these quite loud voices who want to...

push to have more restrictive policies on China.

And Trump, like you say, erratic as he is, has shown some goodwill towards China.

And although they do not welcome his unpredictability, his instability, the chaos he's unleashed on the world, I think they have a US leader who is more amenable than most to China's global ambitions.

I think China wants to get to a point where it can, A, be powerful enough that any US leader will

wanting a good relationship with China no matter what, and B, that it doesn't need the US as much anymore.

Well, an interesting 36 hours ahead for you.