David Sacks

And what are these kind of motivating factors that might make that happen sooner?

Are we taking the right course of action, do you think?

I guess the big question for you is, what's the strategic imperative to keep Taiwan from falling under direct Chinese control for the United States?

And are we taking the right actions to hedge our bets, if you will, against that happening?

Meaning on-shoring of semiconductor manufacturing, but also maybe from a defense perspective and positioning perspective, you can share a little bit about whether we're...

If you think about China projecting influence around the world, how important is it for them to continue to do that?

There was recently an objective, I think, of a GDP growth in the 5% range, 4% to 5%.

Four and a half to five, which is a record low in recent history for them.

Is it imperative for China to continue to extend geopolitical and economic influence around the world to grow its economy?

you know, going back to the framing of the rising power, do they still need to do that to keep people happy at home?

Or is China going to be able to maintain happiness at home in a multipolar world where China and perhaps the US and perhaps some other countries share influence around the world?

Let's shift around to what some have described as the longer-term playing field, which is near the Arctic.

Some have argued that much of the recent push for Greenland by the United States is driven by the military threat coming over the Arctic from Russia and from China.

I'm wondering if you could just help frame for our audience, why is Greenland so strategic to the United States?

And is this effectively a proxy for defense against China and Russia?

And why now?

Let me push back just on that point.

What I have heard is that there's rising socialism in Western Europe, growing concern that over time, as socialism becomes more of the mainstay in the governing models in Western European nations, those nations fall more under the influence of China.

And as a result, if you think about the influence that China could then have on Denmark and on Danish foreign policy, if the United States doesn't secure what it needs for the long term, and it may not know what it needs for the long term physically in Greenland today, we only know what we need today, that we're at risk of China having outsized influence over Greenland tomorrow.

And that that's the real reason for the big push today