This is CBS I on the world with John Bachelor.

Here's John Bachelor.

Joined by my colleague and friend Gordon Chang at Gordon G. Chang, anticipating a major event in the life of democracy,

a new president to be inaugurated in Taiwan, that republic, that capitalist state, that is

vital to the success of the planet because of several of its manufacturing hubs. I mentioned T.S.M.C for starters, the irreplaceable

fab that creates the conditions that we now understand to be artificial intelligence. Without Taiwan, there's no AI, without

AI, there's no growth in the American economy right now. And Gordon and I welcome

our colleague Stephen Yates, chair of the America First Policy Institute's

China Policy Initiative. Steve, it is not news to you, but it may be helpful to the

public to understand that China will create problems over these next days

anticipating the inauguration of the new president in Taiwan on Saturday the

20th of May in Asia Time that would be the 19th here. So we're looking at

disruption what scale of disruption can you anticipate good evening to you Steve?

Well good evening John Well we can never assume that we have

knowledge of where this will go because ultimately decisions are made in

Beijing and that is a famously non-transparent place for decision-making.

But we can at least assume that they are going to make every effort to try to shape the

information environment.

If they have a large number of international delegations that will be going to the

inauguration which probably makes it less likely that some kind of dramatic physical

activity against Taiwan will be undertaken.

But if you look at what happened when former Speaker Pelosi went to Taiwan

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