Eyck Freymann

So China can manipulate the market and supply chains to impose economic pain on us.

And we have to be ready for that, which is, again, why we should be focusing more on these crisis scenarios.

We have to deter the crisis, not just the war.

Thanks for having me on.

This is a strategy to prevent a devastating war with China, something that I think should be a goal uniting Democrats, Republicans, everyone in between, and a strategy to preserve an honorable peace in the Taiwan Strait, but also in the region as a whole.

Something we can get into on this show is that Taiwan's fate is just connected to the fate of the broader region.

The United States does not support Taiwan independence.

We have a longstanding one-China policy.

It's decades old.

It's served us well.

It's helped to deter war in the past.

That's true.

And the one China policy is funny.

It's a bit like a magic incantation because we talk a lot about it, but the substance of it is sort of always shifting and evolving.

But that's okay because there really is no such thing as a status quo in the Taiwan Strait.

There never has been.

There's a military balance.

There's a diplomatic balance.

The idea of the one China policy is that on the whole, we support peace and stability in this region.

We don't take a position as to how Taiwan's status is ultimately decided.