Eyck Freymann
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But our allies, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, would feel the squeeze much faster.
So our coalition...
as currently set up, doesn't have the advantage in a long-term contest of extreme economic war.
And it's not just about oil.
It's about everything else.
They have stockpiles of cotton.
They have stockpiles of chips.
They have stockpiles of everything plausible that they might need.
Taiwan doesn't have that.
Japan doesn't have that.
So this is the risk, that they take us up to the brink,
We are forced to contemplate what the long term economic war looks like.
We realize that if they can last for 12 months and we can last for three, that's not a game we want to play.
And we fold.
And then if that is established, they can coerce us.
And this is not just about Taiwan.
This goes far, far, far beyond Taiwan.
This is about our entire alliance architecture in the region.
And frankly, this is about our hemisphere too.
It's a really important question.