This is John Batchelor. I speak to the Vanderberg Coalition's defense policy, Maven, and Lord,

commenting on her recent visit to Taiwan, but most especially what she perceives as the aggressive

language used by Xi Jinping at the most recent summit with the President of the United States in Beijing,

about keep your hands off of our

Taiwan here Anne explains and what it would mean if Taiwan is mulled by the Chinese

aggressor more of this later no it's it's a great question and I think that I want to

pull apart a little bit of

Xi Jinping's rhetoric that we saw from the last week. In particular, the metaphor of, you know,

Taiwanese independence and cross-strait peace are like fire and water. So basically saying that

they don't go together. And one of the things that was sort of lost in translation during the summit was when

Xi Jinping said, you know, don't get involved.

It was language that was a lot more aggressive.

It was basically like, you're not allowed to come in here and mess with what we're doing.

So I think that that's sort of very bellicose threatening us,

saying that it's not really our place to get involved, should be taken into context,

while simultaneously understanding, as you mentioned, that 90% of chips are made in Taiwan.

We've had significant investment in our semiconductor and chip industry over the past few years,

but it takes a long time to really stand up the ability to make chips. Even with the

process that we've had, we're still sending them to Taiwan for finishing. And I know that,

you know, sometimes you talk about chips and semiconductors,

people's eyes kind of glaze over. I'm no, I'm certainly no technological list. But really,

these chips are necessary for every component that touches our economy. They're important for

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