Joe Weisenthal

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

a new generation of sort of more sympathetic, like mainland voters, like they grow up, they look at the world, they see maybe the U.S.

sort of looks like a belligerent power sometimes, et cetera.

They look at China and it seems, oh, it looks like they're doing a lot better.

They're not as poor as they used to be.

They look pretty stable, et cetera.

Like could Taiwan just sort of