Welcome to another episode of Sidelined Sanity with me, Michelle Tafoya.

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It's about a topic that can feel overwhelming. It can seem very far away and it can seem to people that it doesn't

really, it's not going to affect my life. But it is in many, many ways that you don't even realize,

but you will after you listen to our next guess. What's going on between China and Taiwan and where the United States fits into this is

really important to your daily life, not to mention the moral implications of what a war

or an invasion might look like.

Are we prepared to help Taiwan?

What are we prepared to do to stand up against China?

And what could this mean to your daily life?

You know, we think about world wars in the past and they seem behind us.

We know that they're not.

We know that they're not.

And anything involving China would be massive. So we turn to an expert.

Jimmy Quinn is the national security correspondent for National Review, which is a nice place to be working and someone who knows his stuff forward and backward.

He's been with us before.

And today we're going to talk about what these recent visits between the United States and Taiwan mean in this whole big picture.

And how do we stand?

How do we measure up to China militarily?

Are we ready?

When do we need to be ready?

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