Ankur Desai

China's reputation would be in the toilet.

China would have international sanctions on it.

I mean, not to mention the fact that the Chinese government has to explain to its own people why we're...

killing our brothers and sisters from that rogue province in order to get them to join the family again.

That's a bit of a hard sell if there are all these dead people on the beaches, not to mention all the dead soldiers from the PLA.

It would be an awful thing for it to happen.

And so this is what the Taiwanese government's trying to do.

They're not thinking we can beat the PLA.

They're just thinking we can have such a solid defence that the cost will be so high

that the Chinese government won't go ahead and do it because it just wouldn't be worth it.

Well, Donald Trump didn't seem to care at all.

He was asked about this.

He said, oh, I'm not so worried.

I've seen these exercises before and was totally downplaying it.

Of course, what he's not taking into account is that these are not the exercises of years gone by since 2022.

The exercises have really ramped up on all sides of Taiwan with many more ships, many more planes.

I mean, this time round, we're talking about destroyers, the rocket force, land-based missile launches, land-based rocket launches.

I mean, you know, it's a vast exercise.

These are not the exercises of 20 years ago.

They are becoming more and more significant.