Joe Weisenthal

So I would not worry about that.

That has never been an issue.

As long as it was well articulated and showed some knowledge, et cetera, then you're fine.

No.

Did they like, you know, it's interesting because there's a few countries still wholly out there that recognize Taipei as the unified capital of China.

Most have like, most have switched.

There's a few random ones out there that are still like, they don't recognize the mainland, et cetera.

So I'm all, you know, a little factoids here and there.

I didn't know that.

powers markets right if you think about that that's true the thing that matters for markets it might be something much closer to ai and semiconductors and valuations entirely is cut right that's totally i mean evidently the world can go a few weeks and not grind to a halt if the straightforward moves is closed for a few weeks

I believe the reaction in markets would be, and just all around the world, and really everything would just be orders of magnitude differently if someone's like, no chips, no chips are coming out.

That would be such a bigger deal.

And of course, the question of Taiwan's role in the world, that would already have been a very big security question even prior to the now constant drumbeat obsession with AI chips, et cetera.

But it only magnifies why this is such a live issue.

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?