Joe Weisenthal

migrate closer to the Chinese sphere or perhaps even merge back into China organically?

And is that something that U.S.

policy, do we feel that we have to prevent that if that's sort of where the democratic action in Taiwan goes?

Do we know, like, younger Taiwan, is there a reason to think that, like, I don't know, I have, again, I haven't looked at polling of, like, how Chinese voters under 25 go, what do we know about them?

Okay.

Just real quickly on cutting off imports.

Are they good on oil?

We know they have this big oil stockpile.

War would be extremely oil-intensive process.

They've electrified a lot of cars.

I doubt their military as nearly as- I think they're good on oil.

It's close enough.

I find this conversation to be like very alarming and, you know.

Obviously, and it should be very alarming.

I guess the good news, if there is any, is that we have spent the last year, several years deepening our friendships with the rest of the world and building up our allies and establishing that open non-China trading bloc.

At least.

Oh, wait.

No, we're literally we're literally doing the opposite.

But it does seem like we're kind of not doing any of this, right?

I mean, not only not doing any of this.