Erik Bethel
👤 PersonAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
To give you an example, a month and a half ago, what's his name?
He Weidong, the guy that the Chinese military leader that runs the Eastern Theater Command was demoted and he was sort of removed from office.
He was actually pretty good.
And so the China scholars are like, okay, good.
They're not ready for Taiwan because He Weidong is gone.
And so let's just deescalate things.
And it's just so foolish.
Let's plan as if this is going to happen and be prepared for it, both as a whole of society, our cyber, Taiwan's cyber.
I mean, our infrastructure is not immune, by the way, from cyber attacks, to say the least.
Are you talking about our power grid?
100%, yeah.
If it involves moving ones and zeros, it's vulnerable.
I mentioned salt typhoon.
You could probably Google volt typhoon, and the Chinese are embedded in our grid already.
So I think we just – my point is – They built half of it.
Yeah.
I mean, the large transformers in our country –
So let's just prepare.
So we have to think about, you know, how do we prepare for this economically?
What are defensive and offensive things we can do?