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Speaker 1: Is this time different for Taiwan? Elizabeth economy is definitive
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Speaker 2: There's no doubt, you know. She Jinping has said he
Speaker 2: wants the Chinese military to be prepared to take action
Speaker 2: by twenty twenty seven. That doesn't mean that they're going
Speaker 2: to launch any kind of military invasion in twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 2: He's just put that down as a marker for when
Speaker 2: he would want the military to be prepared to take Taiwan.
Speaker 2: So I'll just say I was in tai in mainland China,
Speaker 2: just came back Saturday, and one of the things that
Speaker 2: our delegation heard was from a retired senior foreign policy
Speaker 2: official that China is not prepared to wait two hundred
Speaker 2: years and that it is prepared to take any form
Speaker 2: of military action. So I think, you know, the the
Speaker 2: heat is is, you know, it's only getting hotter for
Speaker 2: Taiwan at this point, and.
Speaker 1: Of course with Taiwan, it is about the short termism
Speaker 1: of the American political process versus a long term belief
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Speaker 1: Beijing and Washington.
Speaker 2: I think, look that there's still a sense within China
Speaker 2: that President Trump can be very unpredictable. They see some
Speaker 2: openings with President Trump, and I think the recent phone
Speaker 2: call that was initiated by Sijenping is evidence that, you know,
Speaker 2: Cijenping wanted to send a message about Taiwan, certainly that
Speaker 2: Taiwan is part of China and doesn't want the United
Speaker 2: States to wade into this you know, Japan, Mainland, China boujaha.
Speaker 2: But I think he was also probing to see whether
Speaker 2: President Trump might be willing to do something on Taiwan,
Speaker 2: especially in the wake of this, you know, US Russia
Speaker 2: negotiation over Ukraine and that initial peace plan that they
Speaker 2: put forth.
Speaker 1: Elizabeth Economy, Stanford University, and of course forever the Hoover Institution.
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