Erik Prince

largely, well, maybe half, 60, 70% Han Chinese in Taiwan, but you have Han Chinese culture on freedom, which has been enormously successful, enormous wealth generation.

And the fact that Taiwan is the size of one large Chinese city, but it is such an irritant because it's the antithesis

to the monolithic Chinese Communist Party where what they say goes with no question.

100%.

On top of the fact that China was not always ruled by emperors over the last couple of millennia, they would come together under a dictator, and then they would, after a couple hundred years, they would fragment apart, and there's, what, 54 different ethnicities residing within China, different languages, different faiths even, and, you know, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Islam.

I'd say it's in our interest to help them go back to a bit more of a fractious, less consolidated entity.

What does it mean for the chips in your F-250 pickup truck or phones or anything?

Everything.

As important as the Arab oil embargo was to the world market in the 70s, gas lines in the United States, remember when they shut it off after the 73 war,

Imagine that level of hegemony times five.

If you can get it at all.

Here's the easy corollary.

You done?

No.

Okay.

I went on too long anyway.

No, no, it was great.

It was a great thought.

I don't want to interrupt it.

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