Joe Weisenthal

We can survive a few weeks without a fraction of the – a certain fraction.

Whereas if we – the chip flow were to be disrupted on that level, it would just be –

Yes, much bigger deal.

What do you tell us the genesis of this book or the origin of it or how you got interested in this particular topic?

Prior to the KMT having fled the mainland, the Civil War and all that, what was understood to be the status of that geography called Taiwan?

And to what degree going back even prior to the Civil War, et cetera, what was its relationship to mainland China?

Quick question.

I know basically nothing about Taiwanese domestic politics.

Am I wrong, though?

I feel like I read somewhere it's like the KMT, the – and they were the revolutionaries.

Aren't they the more dovish of the parties in relations with Beijing?

And aren't they the party that seems to be a little bit softening of the stances of the future and maybe uniting the two sides a little bit?

Am I wrong about that?

No, that's absolutely – How is that possible?

The entire thing.

So they just see themselves as a distinct nation.

This is really interesting and important.

And I hadn't thought about this dynamic.

I mean, I guess it sort of makes sense to me that like if I were like the leadership in Taiwan, I don't know if I would be like that thrilled about our main company.

opening up fabs in arizona etc but i guess it sort of makes sense like okay you know we the u.s is a pretty important partner but what i'm wondering you know like in a future scenario so going back to reagan and it's like we're not this doctrine we're never going to put pressure on you to like accept a bad deal what if over time organically