Kristi Noem

China hasn't supplied soldiers.

So it's not, I guess you can say it's not all in.

But apart from that, it's all in.

And yeah, I think the Chinese understand that they're going to lose Iran unless they can intimidate President Trump into not continuing the airstrikes.

The whole issue is going to be what passes through the Strait of Hormuz.

And if you have, for instance, all of these hundreds of ships trapped on both sides of the strait, if they can't get through, there's going to be a lot of pressure on the Oval Office.

But I hope President Trump actually resists that because this is really the battlefield for the world right now.

We win in Iran, which we can.

It's within our control.

We have enduring peace throughout the globe.

Yes, they have been buying American LNG, for instance, in the past, but they've been diverting those cargoes to Europe.

And so they have been taking very much in the way of American energy.

That could very well change if you have a desperate China.

But more important, we need to sell to our friends because Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, for instance, are even more dependent on China than oil coming out of the Strait of Hormuz.

And we need to support them before we support China.

OK.

Well, people talk about Taiwan because people say, well, you know, the United States tied down, bogged down, whatever word you want to use in the Middle East.

And so they'll go after Taiwan.

I don't think that's the case.

And the reason is that the Chinese military right now is incapable of