Captain Jim Fennell

And we're in a tough position right now.

And fortunately, President Trump is now responding appropriately to say, hey, I still have tools.

I have economic escalation dominance in certain areas, semiconductors and in financial services.

that I can push back and not take this from Xi.

And so unlike what happened in 2012 with Barack Obama in the South China Sea, when China sees Scarborough Shoal and then he built those islands and we did nothing and we kind of cowered and looked the other way and the Chinese Communist Party recognized there's nothing there.

What's the old saying from Lenin?

You know, you put a bayonet in, and if you don't feel anything, you keep pushing.

Well, that's what happened in 2012.

They put the bayonet in in the South China Sea, and there was no resistance from the United States of America.

Well, now our president is resisting.

There's no question that's part of their doctrine.

We've seen them do that, as you mentioned, in India in the war in 1960s.

and with Vietnam.

They've done it in the South China Sea in 2012 timeframe, 2015 timeframe.

We see them do this, but it's also part of, they're on their, what they call their great, their strategy of called the great rejuvenation of China.

So they're on a timeline.

I've talked for the last two decades about this decade of 2020 to 2030,

is the key decade, the decade of concern, where they're going to make a decision on what to do to achieve their national reunification.

And that means moving into not just take Taiwan and other places geographically,

but also to dominate the world in the economic arena.