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Here's your host, Devon Nunes.

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Jerry Hendrix, retired Navy captain.

And Jerry, I think it's important, Taiwan's in the news.

China has long wanted to take back over Taiwan.

It used to be the old, the original Chinese government.

Flood from there, walk us through that whole history.

World War II, after World War II, communist takeover.

And then the history of Taiwan, which I believe was called, I think was named Formosa.

Formosa was the name originally given to by the Portuguese.

Back when they sailed to Asia, I think they were the first ones as I recall.

Let's talk about, kind of, give us just a quick history of the Chinese Taiwan relationship.

And then where we stand now, because the Chinese are doing a lot of saber rattling both with military exercises.

And with sought economic power and spying and everything else.

Well, first of all, I think it's important to give, like you said, this brief history.

First of all, Taiwan is not as close to China.

As a lot of people think they kind of look on a map and they say, oh, Jesus, it's kind of like England.

Just off the coast of Europe.

But it's not actually, it's four times the distance away from China as England is from the French or the Belgian coast.

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