Ray Dalio

that is trying to take a free country, a free people, and in a, you know, aggressive way take over them, and that we need to defend liberty and protect them from that, okay?

I just want to emphasize it's more complicated than that in the way that I said.

And also, it's like...

From the Chinese point of view, it's part of the American containment strategy, which means China has grown and it's become a higher percentage of world economy and so on, and it's expanding.

And it's like Taiwan is the lid on this boiling pot.

If you want to know what really happens,

watch it the way I describe it.

In other words, is it unprovoked or is it provoked in the way I just described it?

Now, again, I'm a very realistic person.

I'm not an ideological person.

I'm not trying to, okay.

I'm just like, how does reality work?

And what's the move?

What's the next move?

And I'm just trying to describe that reality.

I'm not taking a side in it.

It's just like two sides in a chessboard.

And I'm just looking down at the chessboard.

In your mind, we think, what do you want?

And the reality is, when you look at the neuroscience and psychology, that there are different parts of your brain that want different things.