Natalie Winters

But you see their opposition introducing legislation to neuter that to basically zero dollars.

I think it's around 10 million, but I'm sure they would love it to be zero.

And they want that and they love that because that's what their Chinese Communist Party overlords are telling them to do.

And within the legislative yuan, which is their equivalent of Congress or Parliament, the KMT, so the CCP proxy, has a majority or plurality, I guess, of 52 seats.

The DPP is at 51.

And TPP, the sort of third party, is at eight seats.

The United States has expressed to President Trump that they want Taiwan to pass this budget.

They desperately need it.

And meanwhile, the Chinese Communist Party obviously does not want it to happen.

So...

you bring all this together it's quite clear that we are seeing in real time like even the cnn article picks up flash points in the global struggle for sovereignty between the united states of america and the chinese communist party and the chinese communist party is rolling extremely hard

And it's very concerning.

And, you know, we'll get into it at some point down the road.

But this special defense budget really, I think, is becoming a test sort of first round or first instance where you're seeing, you know, the Chinese Communist Party sort of running roughshod over the United States and getting what they want through various means of political hybrid and in some cases, you know,

kinetic warfare.

And I will stop my rambling there because we've got the one and only Mike Howell who joins us to talk about, I guess we're talking about warfare.

We'll throw lawfare in there too, though I think the Chinese Communist Party came up with that as part of their three warfares doctrine.

But Mike, speaking of lawfare, all things Ed Martin.

I know you guys have been tracking everything going on with him closely.

There's a lot of reports.