Retired Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery

It's more strategic unpredictability with a president that is intentionally unpredictable.

I think he revels in it.

So it'd be anyone who tells you, I know the answer to that.

And he's not named Donald Trump senior.

He's probably doesn't know what he's talking about.

Yeah.

100%, I think like the cross-strait invasion, kind of the really big war, what we call the most dangerous scenario, for sure that's in the future.

What I worry about is there's another kind of game China can play called the most likely scenario, which is cyber-enabled economic warfare, where they use cyber tools, disinformation, economic tools, diplomatic tools, military fakes, not attacks, to pressure

the Taiwan society.

They try to break societal resilience in Taiwan.

And they had not, and previously had not done a great job building that up.

They're working really hard on it now.

We're trying to help them.

By the way, we're vulnerable to this.

That kind of attack, I think you're, I'm going to give you almost the same timeframe, late 2027, early 2028, when Taiwan's having its next election to try to increase the pressure to drive, to ensure that the current president who China does not like, like Chin Teh, to ensure that president like Chin Teh does not win a second term.

Freedom travels on rails.

VR.

On a joint journey.

Yeah, you know, there's a big change going on.

After the Russian illegal invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Japan kind of had a wake-up call that, hey, authoritarians might actually do what they say, and they might put people at risk.