Eyck Freymann

They can do cyber attacks against Taiwan critical infrastructure.

They can blank the country with propaganda, the island rather with propaganda.

There's so much things that China can do to put the pressure on and try to drive wedges between Taiwan, the United States and Japan.

And in those moments,

What is the U.S.

political strategy?

Yeah, we have a military strategy if they turn to an invasion, but what is the political strategy if the markets start to panic, if we think we may need to get our American citizens out?

And these are the scenarios I argue in the book that we haven't yet fully thought through.

Well, we don't know.

We have to speculate.

One reason is that the People's Liberation Army, the PLA,

I think it's fair to say up until recently, and probably still now, lacks the ability to take and hold Taiwan by force.

Back in 1949, after Mao took over the mainland, the first thing he did was he told his generals, now give me the plan to take Taiwan.

And they studied it and they concluded, sir, it can't be done.

This is one of the hardest waterways in the world.

There's crazy tides.

There's enormous waves.

There's 50 mile an hour winds.

There's typhoons.

There's fog.