Marco Rubio

Ultimately, it's featured prominently in President Xi's

mandate in the time he's been in office, he's made clear that what they call reunification, that's what they call it, is something that has to happen at some point.

We think it would be a terrible mistake to force that through force or anything of that nature.

There would be repercussions for that globally, not just from the United States.

And we kind of leave it there.

That sort of ambiguity is what I think has defined the way we characterize this issue.

And the reason being strategic ambiguity is we don't want to see conflict.

We don't want to see something disruptive happen because I think it would be very disruptive for the world and for both countries.

The pace of growth in the Chinese military over the last 10 years has no precedent, none.

I mean, just what they've done with their Navy alone over the last, they've put billions and billions and billions of dollars in their system.

So I don't think it's just limited to Taiwan.

I think they have ambitions to ultimately be able to project power globally the way the U.S.

does now.

U.S.

policy on the issue of Taiwan is unchanged as of today and as of the meeting that we had here today.

It was raised.

They always raise it on their side.

We always make clear our position and we move on to the other topics.

We know where they stand and I think they know where we stand.

We think it would be a terrible mistake to force that through force or anything of that nature.