Ray Dalio

So when you ask questions like...

You know, how do you get better?

And then we deal with the mechanics of that.

Like, okay, how do you get financially better off?

And how do you be good with each other and not be threatened?

I mean, it's just, if you look at it that way and you understand the mechanics, it is what it is.

That's how reality works.

And then how do you deal with it?

very good contact, so I have close contacts on both sides.

And so I'm just wanting to say, rather than just throwing out an opinion, my opinion is that

There's a political situation in the United States that it's really the issue of how much the United States pushes the issue in Taiwan that makes it risky.

Because there's a...

uh a move for uh of let's say hawks or um some uh to um defend uh taiwan or so let me just give you the facts if there is a i'm going to give you a little history okay please um

Taiwan was part of China.

And around 1840, foreign powers came into China, and they wanted to trade and do things with China, and China didn't want to do that.

And so around that time,

They had the opium wars.

You may have heard that in history in which the Chinese at the time said, I don't want trade.

You don't have anything that I want.

And then they brought in opium that the Chinese wanted so that they would have this trade and whatever, and then militarily won and took over large parts of China, took control of that.